Issue 456

BDO: Youth Group

"We've been driving around in a twelve-seater van, and there are five Youth Group members, three redsunband members and all of the crew as well, so we're totally choc-a-block," explains singer/ guitarist Toby Martin, regarding their recent co-headlining tour with Sydney trio theredsunband.

Unitopia
The Garden
Inside Out

'The Garden' is the second album from Adelaide progressive rock band Unitopia, following 2005's highly regarded 'More Than A Dream'. In a real coup for the band, they have secured worldwide distribution on Inside Out, the largest progressive rock label in the world and home to the likes of Spock's Beard, Flower Kings and Pain Of Salvation among many, many others, and I'm very pleased to say that the locals stack up exceptionally well in such esteemed company. A sprawling double album that is very ambitious in scope, 'The Garden' is epic, diverse, grandiose, musically brilliant, lyrically complex and just a tad self-indulgent. In short, everything a good prog rock album should be.

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