ALL SOLSTICE STUDIO MATERIAL NOW AVAILABLE ON DIGITAL DOWNLOAD/OR BUY AT http://www.progrock.co.uk - including new 2-disc 'def edition' re-masters of Silent Dance, New Life and Circles...........................................
-Formed in 1980, when Blondie, the Specials, Joe Jackson and the Police were heading the charts, a folk-tinged prog. rock outfit like Solstice should not have stood a chance. Soaring guitar, fiddle and Denny-esque vocals were not at the top of A&R's most wanted list, but audiences felt otherwise. Extensive university tours and sell out nights at London's Marquee club, a front page of Sounds(unheard of for an unsigned band) and the expectations of a prog. rock revival led to appearances at Reading Rock and Glastonbury festivals and sessions for Radio 1's Friday Night Rockshow. Solstice made many appearances at free festivals incuding Stonehenge, their anti- commercial stance and mistrust of the music industry making sure they remained unsigned.
One album later, guitarist Andy Glass was otherwise engaged-both as concert engineer for Jethro Tull and guitarist for Bill Withers. When the album "Silent Dance" was re-issued, Glass reformed the band with Jethro Tulls drummer Clive Bunker and went on to record two further albums," New Life" and "Circles". Promotional dates were a great success and included Cropredy Festival-which was recorded and filmed as a live CD and is now available as a DVD. Solstice are now recording again and setting up gigs for 2007. The current line-up incudes award winning producer and drummer for Page and Plant, Pete Hemsley. Pete played on "New Life" and has an ambient album on Sony, " The Lords Garden", which includes re-mixes of Solstice tracks that have been used on soundtracks worldwide. Check out www.solsticewebsite.com for more info and loads of free downloads.
Sacred Run 2007
‘Kate Winslet’ (itunes & Amazon) – ‘Coolest Song in the World’ on Little Steven’s Underground Garage Radio Show in New York! Shows 360, 361, 362, 363, 364, 365, 366, 367…
When Solstice had me more than tapping my foot... Because I was a good little boy and laid off the drugs, I can remember an awful lot about Stonehenge Free Festival 1984, so in order to celebrate the 25th Anniversary, here's some of it, blogged over on my profile.
Hi, guys,
Just wanted to let you know that round 1 of the next People's Music Awards kicks off in on the 12th of July 2009!, and we are putting the call out to all new and unsigned bands to enter their best song into this years awards (completely free of charge)
Our Record Label is about to forgo business, and is trying to get rid of its stock before it does, so both our albums are now just £0.01 +postage, basically free from http://d67.bigcartel.com
Cross to Bear: Time for a story! Thunder is fierce and the rain is hard a girl with a secret etched upon her heart The mark of the cross deep and true and the story shall start....what would you do?
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