Reviews

2002

• Rewireviews.com gave The Church a great review of the Milwaukee show.
• New Zealand Herald's review of AENT
• Blue Tint Magazine has an excellent review of the Church's House of Blues show in West Hollywood, California. Nice pictures too.
• Blue Tint also review AENT.
• Rolling Stone reviewed After Everything Now This

1998

• The Hologram of Baal tour has an extensive collection of fan reviews and pictures. Maybe some video soon too...
• Rolling Stone October '98 reviewed Hologram of Baal - 4 stars !
• Steve's Majorca show was a quiet affair, but Evelin was there !
• Steve's London show was sold out and lots of reviews were written.
• The rerelease of the Under The Milky Way single was reviewed by "Rave".
• The Irish tour was warmly received, if the reviews on the Seance list are anything to go by.

1997
• Fan reviews of the 1997 Australian tour are coming in steadily.
• Steve Kilbey reviewed an album by Soundtrack Of Our Lives. It's interesting to see how he reviews other people's work.
• Bass Player magazine's October edition had a short article on Steve's bass-playing style.
• Steve's performances in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane were attended by members of the Seance list. Photos of the various gigs are included with each reviews.
• POPSided Magazine printed a review of all the Church's albums; a kind of retrospective.
• Another MATS review from The-I
  
• A review of Magician Among The Spirits by Guitar Player magazine starts off 1997's collection :-)

1996

• The Australian MATS Tour is now over. This page has many reports from wired Church fans :) Anthony Horan has reviewed the concert for InPress magazine.
• Jack Frost In Perth. This review is from the West Australian - thanks to Natasha for sending it in.
• Jack Frost played the Continental Cafe in Melbourne on the 3rd and 4th of March. I went along (as if I wouldn't) and sent this report to the Seance list straight away. I just got the photos back today (26th March) so here's the final product.
• Nathan O'Neill reviews Steve's performance at a live rendition of the Loudspeaker album.

1995

• Performance of Sometime Anywhere is reviewed in either X-Press or the Review liftout.
• Sometime Anywhere gets a very good review from a Western Australian magazine (either X-Press or Review liftout).
• Drum Media give the guys a bit of a drumming themselves.
• Record Collector - Record Collector looks at "Almost Yesterday", the recent compilation album
• First Irish performance was reviewed very favourably by the Irish Times. Thanks to Fergal for sending this in !
  
  1994
  
• Fake - Rolling Stone gives Fake a good review
• Rolling Stone SA Review - Rolling Stone give 3.5 / 5 to Sometime Anywhere
• Musician - Musician Magazine compare The Church to Pink Floyd
• Green Guide - The Green Guide look at Sometime Anywhere
• Sometime Anywhere is reviewed by Goldmine. "A mood setter" they say.
• Pulse - Pulse listen to Sometime Anywhere
• Q Magazine - "Q" gives Sometime Anywhere 3 / 5 and forget when Starfish was released
• Otago Student Mag. - This influential journal gives Sometime Anywhere 7/10
• Chicago Tribune - Sometime Anywhere gets 3 / 4
• The Riverfront Times of St Louis certainly liked Sometime Anywhere !
• Promo Sheet - The Arista promo sheet for Sometime Anywhere
• Koppes In Concert - Monica Butler was at a Melbourne performance by Peter's band The Well
  
  1992
  
• Rolling Stone reviewed Priest=Aura and didn't seem too impressed.
• Entertainment Weekly give Priest=Aura an A-
• Guinness Encyclopaedia - A biography of the band plus album list.
• Music Express enjoys Priest=Aura
• Who - Who magazine reviews Priest = Aura

  
  
  1991
  

• Vox magazine gave Jack Frost 9 out of 10 !
• Jack Frost gets a three star review from Rolling Stone
• Short Discography from Trouser Press Record Guide. Description of all Church and solo albums up to '91 (GAF, Rhyme, The Well, Remindlessness, Jack Frost)
  
  1990
  
• Concert Review - Toby Creswell reports favourably on a Sydney concert
• Melbourne GAF - Steve Tauschke reviews the Melbourne leg of that tour
• Marty solo show - Reviewed by Bill Curry of the Raleigh News.
• "Without depth ?" The New York Times comes not to praise Caesar...
  
  1988
  
• BoB 1988 - A summary of solo works up to 1988
• 1988 Summary of The Church up to Starfish as printed in Goldmine magazine. Thank you very much for your permission to use your two articles, guys !
  
  1987
  
• From The Vault 1987 - A detailed review of The Church up to (not including) HindSight
  
  1986
  
• Heyday gets a slight critical review
• A Greek book, New Rock Vol 2 (EMI) mentioned The Church and gave a brief bio. The accompanying picture is new to me too.
  
  1985
  
  
  1984
  
• Rolling Stone reviewed Remote Luxury - three stars.
  
  1983
  
• New Rock and Roll 1983 - Up to and including Seance. Also includes biog of Ignatius Jones

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