NICK BARRETT & CLIVE NOLAN

I felt compelled to listen to this album time and time again .The very highpoints being the magical fusion between Barrett's acoustic guitar and Nolan's keyboard. The quality of sound is excellent and Barrett's voice can be fully appreciated in all it's colours being sometimes so moving . The songs are mostly from Pendragon and there are also some others from bands each of them had been part of like Arena , Shadowland. I fully enjoyed all the tracks . I found it a mesmerizing album and the chemistry between Nick and Clive contribute to this great job . Maybe here I found the most touching version of Paintbox (such a delicious song ) and Alaska (such a beautiful music and lyrics ). I think it's clear why I gave them 5 stars .

This is one (the only acoustic concert) of my favourite live albums of ever. I'm so fortunate to have the dvd+cd version!

In this album, are present some songs extracted from profilic Nolan and Barrett's careers. The tracklist contains, for the greater part, Pendragon's songs, where the two artists have played together, and the others are all Nolan's project comprised Strangers n a Train and the collaborations with Oliver Wakeman. All the songs, in this version, are so emotionals and capture from the first listening, songs like Paintbox, Mindgames, Nostradamus and The Black Knight seem born for being played only with acoustic guitar and keyboard. The concert's video is very good, optimal recordings accompany the music.

I agree what Roman said in his review "Maybe not a masterpiece of prog, but a masterpiece of acoustic concerts", absolutely an acoustic masterpiece

A Rush of Adrenaline DVD, I was amazed by this dvd, not usually a lover of music videos, when I put this on for the first tiime I found myself mesmerised, it captured me in a way that does not usually happen with music dvd's. The production quality is absoloutely superb, it's sharp and interesting, and never leaves you feeling "yeah yeah, next please!" which you do tend to get from live videos. I found it interesting to see the performance of Nick Barrett & Clive Nolan without the plugged in big sounds of the bands that they are usually play with. Far from feeling that something was lacking due to the absence of the band, this video shows that something extra, something magical was present. The first live perfromance of Two Roads (from Pendragon's 2005 album BELIEVE) was a treat, especially for those of us counting down the days until the Pendragon tour this spring! The live performance, shot in Poland as a support act to Gordon Haskill (K.C.) covers material from Pendragon, Arena, and from the various side projects of Clive Nolan, and spans 21 years of recorded material! For fans of barrett / Nolan work, and for folk who havn't met with them yet, this is a great DVD, and for those of you who maybe unsure, there are 2 free downloadable video tracks on the Pendragon website.......... go check it out for yourselves! www.pendragon.mu

Writing the biography in order to add this duo to this site, I discovered that Clive Nolan his parents were both music teachers, he started to learn piano at the age of 3, tp play viloin on the age of 8 and Clive even got a muscial degree, impressive! And I have always loved to listen to Nick Barrett because of his wonderful, often moving guitar play so I was very curious to this DVD from these two neo-progrock veterans. Nick Barrett & Clive Nolan play 15 compositions from the several bands they were or are involved with: Pendragon (10), Arena (1), Shadowland (2), Strangers On A Train (1) and the own song intitled Shadows Of Fate. From the very first moment on this DVD I was delighted about the chemistry between the wonderful acoustic guitar from Barrett and the keyboard piano from Nolan and they are so enthousiastic and driven, a big hand for this duo! I have to admit that I am not really into the music from Arena, Shadowland and Strangers On A Train, to me it sounds a bit too polished. But I love to listen to Pendragon, on this DVD I was carried away by outstanding renditions of Alaska and The Black Night featuring splendid, sometimes Spanish inpsired acoustic guitar runs and sparkling piano work, very compelling and musicially well arranged and performed! I wonder how many progheads will be pleased with the acoustic guitar - and piano music from Barrett and Nolan for the whole 85 minutes, for me it was sometimes a bit too much but this duo has delivered a pleasant DVD with some amazing work, interesting to check out.

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