Cathedral: News

Visit the Calander Section of this site for details about August Gigs!

Cathedral's latest release "The Bridge" has been voted one of the top progressive rock recordings released in 2007. The group signed with Musea Records several months ago. You can hear the "local" group perform for free on October 15th between 4:00-8:00 pm at the Bayport-Blue Point Expo 08. The group will be performing at the Power of Prog music festival this summer, The Utica Music festival in the Fall and The Patchogue Theater next year. Hope to see you there!

Dr. David Doig attended a focus group hosted by D'Addario at their location in Farmingdale NY. Many of the top music educators from the NY metro area attended the conference. The main topic of conversation revolved around the idea that D'Addario would like to become a "hub" for music lessons, providing teaching contacts for people interested in taking music lessons.

CATHEDRAL TO PERFORM AT POWER OF PROG FESTIVAL

Cathedral will perform on June 29th 2008 at the Power of Prog Festival in Clinton New York. We are excited to be a part of this concert series- the art center which was once a church should be an excellent setting for a Cathedral show and we'll be performing with many other fascinating groups. It should prove to be a very important festival for new progressive music!

CATHEDRAL SIGNS WITH MUSEA

Musea, the French progressive label (Anglagaard, Glass, Ange) has taken Cathedral aboard. After an informal meeting in Metz in October and some negotiations Musea will be distributing Cathedral's latest album, "The Bridge". The band is focusing all their energies on new material and upcoming performances. It's basically a partnering of two entities that love the past, present and future of progressive music and plan to do something about it. Something good is going to happen!

Cathedral has been offered an exclusive recording distribution contract with the French label Musea!

Guitarist David Doig from Cathedral is now hosting an internet radio station. The station is called "Acoustic Eclectic Dream" and is located at http://www.live365.com/stations/dave6325
The station will feature a lot of acoustic guitar music and also other "progressive"
music. The current playlist includes "The Secret"

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Talk about taking a long time to record a second a...
Talk about taking a long time to record a second album! After a 31 year break Cathedral return for the follow up to Stained Glass Stories. All of the original members are back with the exception of Rudy Perrone who is replaced by virtuoso guitarist David Doig. When you hear about these reformations your expections are automatically set pretty low since very few of them are successful. Cathedral actually pull it off!

The band took the core Cathedral sound (Mellotron is everywhere on this disc) and modernized it a bit - primarily due to current technology. It doesn't sound like it was recorded in 1976 - it has a rather crystalline clear sound. The album kicks off with the 13 minute three part "The Monsterhead Suite" which basically sounds like...Cathedral. In other words a taste of King Crimson, Gentle Giant, Genesis and Yes. The rest of the album follows suit. As you relisten to it you really pick up on a lot of the nuances that made Stain Glass Stories such a classic - but again I have to emphasize that this isn't a retro sound. For me the only downer is drummer Mercury Caronia's decision to use an electronic kit - a standard one would have been much more effective. Here's hoping we don't have to wait another 31 years for album number three - I might not be around!

CD Distributers, we are auctioning lots of 10 of these CD's on Ebay. Purchase these CD's at a great auction wholesale price and make $$$ reselling them.

Many of you have sent me emails like "I tried to download your songs from itunes but I couldn't find them". The wait is over! Click on the buy link of this site to go to either CD Baby to buy the CD or itunes to download it. THANKS!

They are selling Fast. we had orders for 370 CD's within one week of the release.

Fingers from WBAB homegrown will be playing "Satellite" from the new Cathedral CD "The Bridge" tonight Monday Sept 17th at 11:50 pm. If you miss it you can check it out tomorrow on the web at http://www.wbab.com/

The home page photo for this site is from the August 25th performance at the Boulton. There is another photo in the photo gallery. I will be posting several more within the next few days so check back!

Cathedral would like to thank all the friends, family and fans who came to Saturday's concert at the Boulton Center for the performing arts in Bay Shore. The show was a huge success (It was sold out!). The audience participation was outstanding!
Please join the mailing list so we may keep you informed about future events. We are planning concerts at IMAX and The Patchogue Theater in the not too distant future.

The full length CD "The Bridge" will be available through www.cdbaby.com or in download format from www.itunes.com on September 20th 2007. Please buy it and SPREAD THE WORD!

A Special Thanks to Rafer Guzman of Newsday for his Cathedral Redux paragraph which was published in the Aug 23rd edition of Newsday and the wonderful staff at the Boulton Center, Bravo!

CATHEDRAL REDUX. No, you're not having a flashback: Cathedral, the Long Island progressive rock band from the 1970s, really is playing at the Boulton Center for the Performing Arts on Saturday. Around 2003 the band reunited after a 25-year hiatus and eventually began working on an album, "The Bridge." Saturday's show is being billed as the band's "premiere concert." Check out cathedralprogrock.com.


Newsday August 22, 2007
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Yup! It's finally going to happen. After a year of rehearsal and recording, Cathedral has booked its first gig at The Boulton Center for the Performing Arts (located at 37 West Main Street in Bayshore NY,
Telephone 631-969-1101).
Tickets may be purchased online through their website: www.boultoncenter.com/home.asp Click on events, click on Cathedral (Aug. 25th on the calendar), click on tickets, click on the calendar (Aug 25th 8:00 pm),
click on the seating chart to select seats. Pay! That’s it! (You can print the ticket on your printer).

The 2nd Movement from Monsterhead Suite can be sampled by clicking on the Music Tab on the home page. The entire CD should be available within a few months. Give it a listen! The Monsterhead Suite was recorded at Ian London Studios by sound engineer Brian Unger.

Tonight! Februry 18 Cathedral's percussionist, Mercury Caronia IV, can be heard on a live internet interview with Mike Sutton. The interview will take place between 11:00 pm EST and 1:00 am EST February 19. Tune in to www.wxb102forever.com to hear Mercury discuss his former band Industry and his current plans for Cathedral.