by Prog Magazine | May 24, 2015 | Live Performances, Reviews
By Rachel Mann Birmingham’s come a long way since the days when it was all spaghetti junctions and concrete waste. Brindleyplace is the Venice of the Midlands and the Bullring outdoes Milan. Some things never change, though. Give brummies a chance to go to a...
by Prog Magazine | Mar 20, 2015 | Live Performances, Reviews
By Richard Thompson While they have always merited praise in the past, tonight IOEarth really do sound like the real deal. Their spacious and sendory-grabbing atmospherics become almost spiritual on a certain level, like the staggering title track of their latest...
by Prog Magazine | Feb 24, 2014 | Live Performances, Reviews
Classic Rock Presents Prog Magazine Live Review Peel by Richard Thompson There’s a genuine buzz around IOEarth at the moment and it’s easy to see why this Birmingham-based band, led by guitarist Dave Cureton and keyboardist Adam Gough, are gaining such...
by Fabrications HQ | Nov 20, 2013 | Moments - 2nd studio album 2012, Reviews
By Ross Muir Being the only one of its kind; unlike anything else. Belonging or connected to one particular person, place, or thing. Particularly remarkable, special, or unusual. Along with genius, the word unique tends to be over-used, especially in the world of...
by Musical Discoveries | Aug 22, 2013 | Live in the USA - 1st live album 2013, Reviews
By Russell Elliot The British progressive band IOEarth’s one hour and twenty minute set at the 2012 RoSFest has been captured on a richly produced full length album entitled IOEarth Live In The USA (IOEarth Music (UK) 0 632963 465185, 2013. With tracks that span...
by Fabrications HQ | Aug 20, 2013 | Live in the USA - 1st live album 2013, Reviews
By Ross Muir Even in this day and age of instantly available or accessible live material (not all of it official, sadly) and options to pick, choose and download recently performed sets from many an artist, it may seem strange to release a live album after only two...
by Dutch Progressive Rock Page | Aug 20, 2013 | Live in the USA - 1st live album 2013, Reviews
By John OBoyle So, RoSfest is a very prodigious festival that has hosted many great bands, being probably THE American prog festival to play. IOEarth can now lay claim to having played that festival and to mark the occasion the band recorded the show, which is...
by Metal Hammer Magazine | Aug 20, 2013 | Live in the USA - 1st live album 2013, Reviews
By Artur Chachlowski (Please note that this review has been translated using an online translator) As I write this text takes a long weekend in May. In the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, the Majestic Theatre in Gettysburg festival starts just RoSfest 2013 (May 4 occurred...
by Progressive Area | Jan 21, 2013 | Moments - 2nd studio album 2012, Reviews
(Please note that this review has been translated using an online translator) If you are looking for an album that goes beyond the usual, you’re right page. “Moments” of IOEARTH is the perfect album to take on this role. As for the combo, it is the...
by Progressive Area | Jan 21, 2013 | Moments - 2nd studio album 2012, Reviews
IOEarth’s debut was arguably one of the biggest surprises in recent progressive music, totally blowing away this seasoned reviewer, along with most of my PA colleagues, with an unexpectedly charming 2 CD set, too much material being an atypical circumstance that...
by Music From The Other Side of the Room | Nov 25, 2012 | Moments - 2nd studio album 2012, Reviews
By Zachary Nathanson Since they launched into the prog scene back in 2009 and considered by Classic Rock Presents Prog as “Best New / Unsigned Band” in 2010, IO Earth have finally come in full swing since the launch of their sole self-titled debut album,...
by Prognosis | Nov 25, 2012 | Moments - 2nd studio album 2012, Reviews
By Rob (Please note that this review has been translated using an online translator) IOEarth is a project of multi-instrumentalists Dave Cureton and Adam Gough. Releasing their second album after the 2009 same titled successfully debut By many chosen to be best new...
by DaMusic | Nov 25, 2012 | Moments - 2nd studio album 2012, Reviews
By: Eigen Beheer (Please note that this review has been translated using an online translator) Two years ago, did it come from Birmingham IOEarth the prog world surprised with their very ambitious, eponymous debut: two CDs full of symphonic and spacey prog rock with a...
by Prog Archives | Nov 20, 2012 | Moments - 2nd studio album 2012, Reviews
IOEarth’s self titled debut was a massive highlight of 2009, a sprawling epic of a work which gave the project founded by Dave Cureton & Adam Gough an excellent start to what I hope will be a long and fruitful recording career. Now, three years later, we...
by Progressive USA | Nov 20, 2012 | Moments - 2nd studio album 2012, Reviews
By Mike Flavin There has been a lot of buzz about the UK’s IOEarth over the past year or so, and listening to their second release it’s easy to see why; Moments is a truly remarkable recording, a creative work that draws the listener in for a musical...
by The Rocktologist | Oct 24, 2012 | Live Performances, Reviews
By Thomas Arena I knew NOTHING about this band, never heard a note of their music before, and now I’m left wondering why, what a surprising show! I was expecting something between a neo and symphonic act, still more song based than anything. Instead we got some...
by Metal Hammer Magazine | Mar 16, 2012 | Moments - 2nd studio album 2012, Reviews
By Artur Chachlowski (Please note that this review has been translated using an online translator) The British group IO Earth, and of the two albums – “IO Earth” (2009) and “Moments” (2012) a lot of (good) recently read and heard, but...
by Musical Discoveries | Mar 12, 2012 | Moments - 2nd studio album 2012, Reviews
By Russell Elliot (10 March 2012) In the creation of their second IOEarth album, Dave Cureton and Adam Gough decided that it shouldn’t be a follow-up to their debut. Entitled Moments (IOEarth (UK), 2012), the hour-long nine-track progressive masterwork embodies...
by Rock Journalist Malcolm Dome | Mar 12, 2012 | Moments - 2nd studio album 2012, Reviews
By Malcolm Dome IO Earth “Moments” Quote “In an era when there is so much inventive and challenging music, it says much about IO Earth’s quality that ‘Moment’s still stands out as a fulfilling, inspirational, joyous album, full of...
by Background Magazine | Oct 10, 2011 | IO Earth - 1st studio album 2009, Reviews
By: Henri Strik (edited by Peter Willemsen) I received many CD-releases in 2009, but none of them sounded as impressive as the debut album of IO Earth. This duo consists of Dave Cureton and Adam Cough, two musicians from Birmingham (U.K.). They have been friends since...