Barclay James Harvest

“Turn of the Tide” confirmed that BJH had pulled off a fairly successful transition into the eighties as a slimmed-down lineup. Despite a few ugly misfires and some shortcomings, especially on the keyboard front, it was still a solid and…

The final day of ROA 2016 kicked off at 3:30 in the afternoon. Five acts were on the bill, but only four actually played: Barclay James Harvest feat. Les Holroyd, Slade, Erste Allgemeine Verunsicherung and Fargo. The headliner, eighties pop…

»Welcome to the Show« was a pretty 'sleepy' album by usual BJH standards, the sound of a cult band chronically short on fresh arrangement ideas, mostly taking the 'path of least resistance' when writing songs just to keep their devoted…

With "North," John Lees has managed to make the best Barclay James Harvest album since the end of the seventies, which is undoubtedly an achievement worthy of respect at his age.

Of all the BJH albums made in the post-Wolstenholme era, when the band operated as a trio, »Eyes of the Universe« comes out the most convincing, even if not all the songwriting ideas were exactly original this time and you could…

»Live Tapes« is, right behind »BJH Live«, the second-best official live document in the entire BJH catalog, catching the legendary collective at the peak of their concert powers, when they briefly found themselves in the unfamiliar role of…

The superb "XII" was the last album by the original BJH lineup, masters of symphonic-pastoral melody who made one of the most overlooked progressive rock bands of all time a defining presence of the seventies.

»Gone To Earth« was the legendary band's big breakthrough in Central Europe, and even though their best creative years were slowly winding down by then, they still had enough juice left to leave a handful of timeless classics on it.

"Octoberon" represents one of the most magnificent moments in the story of the legendary British progressive rockers Barclay James Harvest. The album's title is the product of a witty play on words, combining the name Oberon (the fairy king…

With "Time Honoured Ghosts," Barclay James Harvest stuck to their tried-and-tested and, until then, successful recipe: crafting their own vision of melodic symphonic progressive rock, built on plenty of pastoral and orchestral elements

"Everyone Is Everybody Else" was the first Barclay James Harvest album released on Polydor after the band parted ways with their original label, EMI-Harvest. For a band that was building up more and more recognition

"Baby James Harvest", the fourth studio album from British symphonic-leaning art rockers Barclay James Harvest, was originally conceived as a double concept album split into four parts, in which each of the &

Barclay James Harvest, known in their early years as symphonic idealists chasing the mysticism of Celtic moors, fields and forests, took an ambitious approach to their third album "And Other Shorts Stories" too, carrying on with the…

Author: Aleš Podbrežnik, Peter Podbrežnik Concert date: 09.07.2007Attendance: 67Ticket price: 9.000 Our eardrums, cranked to the max, hadn't even cooled down from the previous night's scorching action in Bled (John Lawton & Mary Rose,…

On their second album, Barclay James Harvest didn't skimp on the great musical ideas that made their solid debut stand out. What's more, with "Once Again" they cemented and deepened their distinctive

Barclay James Harvest were one of those bands that, despite a pile of excellent work marked mostly by exceptional sophistication, soaring melodies, gorgeous arrangements and lovely harmonies, were doomed to go without