The Crystal Palace plays Backstage at the Green Hotel Kinross on Wednesday 27th September at 8.00pm 2017 for Mundell Music.

Tickets £20. Buy Tickets HERE.

Reduced accommodation rates for the Green Hotel Kinross.

CRYSTAL PALACE hail from Berlin, Germany.

In their songs the band describe personal experiences or comment on general events in the world.

The band is also not afraid to make political statements on occasion and give an opinion to the odd state of things.

The band’s sound is characterized by melodic passages and instrumentally worked-out themes with traces of “Pink Floyd”, “Marillion” and “Porcupine Tree” to be found.

For any music fan with a sense for harmoniously balanced phrasing the band’s work is a musical experience second to none.

Well-known artists such as Colin Edwin (Porcupine Tree), Kalle Wallner and Yogi Lang (RPWL) guested on the band’s album „The System of Events“, which received rave reviews in various magazines upon release in 2013.

SUPPORT FROM ‘LONG EARTH’.

Long Earth came together by a series of fortunate but unexpected coincidences. Born from an agenda of no agenda, the principal from the outset was to create a musical adventure with no preconceived plan of the final destination.

Mike Baxter (Keyboards) came from an exemplary background of having been at the forefront of the Glasgow music scene, playing notably with Shoot The Moon, Glaas Claas, Identity Crisis amongst many others. It was during Mike’s tenure with Identity Crisis that, despite moving in converging circles, Mike played with Gordon.

Gordon Mackie (Bass) has a background in music spanning more than 40 years. During the ’80’s he provided the bottom end and drive for Cry Wolf and seminal Glasgow prog rock band Abel Ganz. Moving into the ’90’s, and a move east, saw Gordon hooking up with Mike in Identity Crisis.

Ken Weir (Drums & Percussion) was the foundation not only musical but also in terms of timeline of Abel Ganz. During his time with the mighty Ganzers, Ken was there from the early days of Milgavie Town Hall through to and beyond the Gullible’s Travels days – featuring a line up changed to Paul Kelly, Hew Montgomery, Gordon Mackie and himself. To further build on this, Ken’s wee sister Connie has made a massive contribution from the kick off and indeed produced all our artwork! A Weir cottage industry no less!

Neil Mackie (Vocals & Guitar) is, surprisingly enough, Gordon’s brother. Due to Gordon’s influence, Neil learned bass and performed with a number of Central Scotland covers bands from the ’80’s onwards. His notable claim to fame was supporting Nazareth in 2002. In 2004, Neil moved to guitar & lead vocals as a new challenge when he formed The Shine. As side projects, Neil has written a catalogue of original material which he felt was unsuitable for The Shine and needed a vehicle of its own. In 2014, for the first time ever playing together, Neil invited Gordon to join The Shine.

Renaldo McKim (Lead Guitar) joins Long Earth at the latter stages of the recording of the base tracks of our debut album “The Source” – just in time to weave his special brand of magic through the material and in plenty of time to start planning our next stage in the journey. Renaldo has an enviable reputation both as a recording and performance artist, latterly with Suicide Underground during which time he played with Bruce Levick of Comedy Of Errors and Grand Tour. The circle is complete!