Flying Colors just started sessions for their 3rd album this week, according to Mike flying down to Florida.
Also, both Stan and John have been writing with Ted and Alan for the next Spock's Beard album, so that might come out next year, too (with their new drummer).
On the Swedish/Flower Kings front, I'm not sure what Roine is up to these days after his busy year with the Steve Hackett Band, releasing Anderson/Stolt, and a new 70's-era Kaipa band album. I'd love to see him reunite the Flower Kings proper and make a new album (since it's been a few years since Desolation Rose). With Neal, Mike, and Pete all busy with other projects and bands, I'd hope Roine goes back to HIS home band and releases something new.
And lastly, Big Big Train have been working on the follow-up to Folklore, which was originally going to be an EP titled Skylon, but they wrote way more material for it, so now it's going to be a full LP titled Grimspound (which follows an odd pattern of alphabetical album names - English Electric, Folklore, Grimspound - and when joked about on the BBT Facebook group, Greg Spawton says their new big album after Grimspound, a 2-disc concept album, is actually titled with an "H" for the time being. Weird!).
-Marc.
Topic: 2017 albums (Read 1424 times)
