WHAT ... A ... SHOW !

Peter Hammill... a real and authentic artist ! PH has offered a really memorable spectacle in the best acoustic hall in Canada. He was never recognized to have a very beautiful voice, but this is precisely what he does with his voice that distinguishes him !.... But, wow, what a PRESENCE ! ...This was the 7 th times I had the privilege to attend one of his tour (first time was in 1974 when he was solo in first part of Genesis) and I realize he is just like a "grand cru" ... he improves with years! (In fact he delivered this memorable spectacle with a single glass of red wine close to him). The intensity and the emotion he delivered on stage, only with a Steinway grand piano and his guitar, are incomparable to any other musician or artist.

The deep silence across the hall all along his show (not even a fly!) testifies of a very special appreciation from the audience!

Really nice work Mr. Hammill, I hope . . . « this will ... come again ! »

PFM is scheduled for this year's NEARFest!

I just came from the PFM show in Quebec, i don't have words to explain how i feel, i think its the most beautiful prog show i ever saw. Grand Theatre is such a wonderful place to see these magnificent musicians playing with such a technique and emotions combined so well. I'm like drinking the nektar from cosmic rose. Fans were wonderful, the standing ovation before the long comeback was fantastic,  they ended the show with a real grande finale.

November 24, 2008 (by Robert Beriau) - Yesterday evening Premiata Forneria Marconi musicians pleased prog fans in Quebec City providing an other great performance. The tour aimed to promote the album ,«Stati Di Immaginazione» (State of Imagination) published in 2006, and helped appreciated the generosity, talent and the complicity of these experienced Italian proggers.

A show like we were accustomed to: no first part, no intermission and 2h30 minutes, and the show ended with a participation of the crowd on their usual «Celebration» («Photos of Ghosts», 1973).

But at the beginning, the show has taken more than 60 minutes before truly "lift-up", partly related that the last album has may not yet crossed the threshold of unconditional fans and also by bad compression settings from the afternoon "sound check" that made the volume too aggressive during attacks from allmost all instruments (even by classical guitar !)…bad decisions because this was the right place, in this hall designed for classical music, to provide an ideal quality sound. 

Special moments, however, marked the evening, which among other things with «Il Sogno di Leonardo» where we could enjoy the magical skill of Franco Mussida (guitars) and also later on the song tribute to the singer of AREA, (Italian group from the years 1972-1997), Demetrio Stratos who died in 1979. This song was played on bass by Patrick Djivas who played with Stratos in the very first years of AREA … nice emotion on this last one!

In short, an excellent sunday evening with PFM which remains one of the last flagship prog group from the '70s.

Grazie Mille Uomini ! (A Thousand Thanks Gentlemen)