Thanos Grigoriou of Phase speaks to NE:MM ahead of the band’s Music Lounge, Stockton gig on 16th May 2015 Our Editor was recently approached by a Newcastle based rock band ‘Phase’ about the possibility of featuring them on our blog. He tells me that he hadn’t heard of the band so looked them up on Wikipedia….
Tag: Syria
Phase Back on Track #5 ~ Transcendence
Transcendence emerged from the first batch of ideas that started accumulating; and for a while, there was just the first progression accompanying the first verse… Touching ground, held by an unseen bound / for western star drags me way to far / to find you my love, to build a connection above / feels so…
A Dim Western Star and the Red Crescent
It’s our five years anniversary of our concert in the Syrian capital, right at the heart of Old Damascus. Although we’ve been observing the situation there closely, despite the media’s intermittent coverage, from the very beginning; we’ve never used our audience’s emotional responses to unethically drag their attention on us, in the name internet micro-fame,…
A Psychedelic Journey, Under a Crescent Moon Phase
Rocking the Middle East Not so long before a pleasant surprise for the rock audience in Syria came to the surface. Namely, the rock trio of Greece’s Phase performed their proximately 2 hrs. set on the stage of Zodiac Pub in old Damascus. The event attracted attention instantly within the circles of rock culture, as it…