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"The Reasoning" formed in August 2005 after Matthew Cohen (Bass) left the progressive rock giants, Magenta, in July 2005. He has played all over the world with Magenta including the USA, Mexico and Europe where they gained a large fan base and rave reviews wherever they went. He was also one of the key-promotors of ProgAid (where he met Rachel Jones ;-).
After he met Dylan Thompson they decided to start a new band. Zoe-Marie Davies was their first singer, but in July '06, replaced by Rachel Jones (ex-Karnataka) and Rhys Jones (also ex-Magenta) was the first drummer, but replaced by Steve Hughes (Kino, The Enid, Whimwise and Big Big Train) (September '06):

Dylan Thompson - Lead Vocals, Rhythm Guitar, Lead Guitar;

Matthew Cohen - 6 string Bass Guitar and Bass Pedals;

Lee Wright - Lead Guitar and Rhythm Guitar;

Vinden Wylde - Drums

the band Rachel Jones - (ex-Karnataka - ProgAid) - Lead Vocals and Percussion;

Gareth Jones - Keyboards Lead and Backing Vocals.

"BIG" Dave Parsons Road Manager / Chief Tech
Danny Mayo PR To The Reasoning.

Awakening ('08) is the the name of the debut album.
Track Listing:

1. Awakening
2. Chasing Rainbows
3. Playing The Game
4. Aching Hunger
5. Chasing Rainbows
6. Sacred Shape
7. Fallen Angels
8. Shadows Of The Mind
9. Within Cold Glass

Session musicians on the album are:

Liz Prendergast ( Blue Horses) - violins & mandolins(9)

Steve Rothery (Marillion)- guitar solo (9)

 

Matthew.
Matthew, Dylan & Lee.
Rachel.

Hey Nick,
So great to hear from you sir. ..... I am very busy with my new band, The Reasoning. We are currently recording demo songs for the album and things are coming on very nicely. I also have the original Magenta drummer, Rhys, on board with me too, so that is cool. We are doing a more rock thing but with prog influences/ We will be more like Coheed and Cambria, Amplifier and Pure Reason Revolution.

Matthew.

Good luck dear friend,
Nick!

Dylan, Matthew & Lee.
Gareth.
Vinden.

 

News 23th of April 2008:
Lee Wright left the band!
He needs more space or kids and family... and is unable to go on tour and fill in his father role.
Mmm that's a pitty. Lee is an excellent guitarist and a fine man.
But Matthew found a replacement for the Dutch tour, guitarist Jay MacDonald from the BlueHorses.

The Dutch Tour (May 2008) was wonderful
(Amstelveen, Heerlen & Hengelo):

Picture by Jaak Geebelen.

More info and pictures on this page.

Dutch interview by Michiel Scheijen.

So for all the Dutch fans an interview of Io-Pages you can find here &
Part II
Thanks to Io-Pages.

May '09.
We are delighted to announce that the DVD from last October’s show at the Robin 2 in Bilston (the very first of our “Official Bootleg” series) will be on sale in the official Online Shop here from Friday 15th May: at the special credit crunch price of only £6 (inc p&p)! To keep the price so ridiculously low there’s no fancy packaging, and although we describe it as a “Bootleg”, this is a five-camera edit, and the audio and video quality are both fantastic! Feedback from those who bought it at the April gigs has been phenomenal.

The film includes the entire set: Sharp Sea, Dark Angel, Fallen Angels, Aching Hunger, Chasing Rainbows, Shadows Of The Mind, Call Me God?, Absolute Zero, Breaking The 4th Wall, How Far To Fall?, A Musing Dream and Awakening. For those of you have not been able to see us live yet, it’s a great way to experience the intensity, passion and fun that is a TR gig!


Dark Angel ('09).
A fantastic new album, dark, heavy riffs and those 3 vocalist are amazing.
A double review of Dark Angel.


A fantastic trailer.
Release date 6th October and release party 6th of September; London the Royal George.

John Mitchel (Arena, IQ, It's Bites, Frost, The Urban) is busy with the mix of the new darker album!

A special edition is now on pre-sale. This will take the form of a 1,000 run pressing which will include the album plus a bonus DVD. On the DVD will be the "making-of", plus some on-the-road footage...and some little extras.
A double review of Dark Angel you can find here.


Crikey! I can't believe it has been one whole month since we last spoke! Apologies for that, but I do have a good excuse, honestly. For the past 30-odd days, I have been holed up in my studio with the band, beavering away on the latest tunes for our 2nd album Dark Angel. Everything is very exciting right now, and I love the material we have been coming up with. There seems to be a natural flow happening – with the music itself and also as far as our writing methods are concerned. On Awakening we were trying to find our feet as writers [and as musicians!], exploring the directions in which the music took us. This time around, however, the music has literally been flooding from within us…and it's taught us a lot about who we are as a group of writers and performers.

So far we have written about 13 tracks, although not all of these will make the final cut. I am very happy to confirm that we have a definite 7 in the bag which are ready to rock – and these will certainly define the album. There are several more writing sessions scheduled for this month – and by December we will definitely have completed tracks for this release – plus a great deal of additional material for future use, too!

For those of you who'd like a sneaky preview of a few "working" song titles, the following are for you [in no particular order!] –

1 - Dark Angel
2 - Breaking The Fourth Wall
3 - How Far To Fall?
4 - Sharp Sea
5 - A Musing Dream
6 - Call Me God?
The 7th track is called "Song 7" at the moment, so watch this space!


July '09.
Vinden Wylde (on drums) & Gareth Jones (excellent on vocals and keyboards) have left the band.
Vinden was a sollid drummer maybe not the most amazing drummer to watch, but he did a excellent good job and was a great guy to team up with.
Gareth added some great vocals to the band and you can say he had an absolute fabulous voice that will be missed in that sound the Reasoning layed down.
Pfoe it will be ahrd job to replace both...

The Chauffeur a DuranDuram cover will be released as single. A version of this was performed as a part of the band’s live set in April, but it has now been given a complete Reasoning makeover, and will be available as a digital download on 10 August from all major digital distributors.

September '09
After some hassling the new band is:

Tony Turrell (keyboards/vocals)(ex-Fish),
Rachel Cohen - vocals,
Matthew Cohen - bass,
Dylan Thompson - guitars and vocals,
Owain Roberts - guitar,
Maria Owen - vocals and percussion,
Jake Bradford-Sharp - Drums.

First show at the Globe Cardiff 21 November.

August '09.
The Reasoning released a single called "The Chaffeur", indeed a cover from DuranDuran. You can download it here at Amazon.
They did a gig at the Fish convention with the following new people:

Maria Owen - Vocals, percussion and mandolin
Scott Barnett - Acoustic guitar
Jonathan "Fred" Freeden - Piano
Jake Bradford-Sharp - Drums.




Mr. Steve Rothery had some fun on the Cambridge Rock festival with the Reasoning. He joined them to play "Within Cold Glass".
Owain Roberts, the new guitarist of the Reasoning made his maiden trip on this festival.


Owain Roberts (the new guitarist), Matthew & Steve Rothery.

A live review on this site (oct '08).

Adverse Camber ('10).
A new album. No futher news... sorry.

z-o-e

Apparently they're very busy; they released in July 2010 an acoustic album: Acoustically Speaking.
Within Cold Glass; The Thirteenth Hour; Aching Hunger; Dark Angel; The Nobody Effect; A Musing Dream; In the Future; Sacred Shape and Script Switch Trigger.


High Voltage Festival 2010 London Victoria Park 24-25 July:
Confirmed: Emmerson Lake & Palmer, ZZ Top, Asia, Foreigner, Uriah Heep, Focus, Wisbone Ash, Pendragon, Touchstone & The Reasoning! More info @ www.highvoltagefestival.com/.

Tourdates 2010.


Please visit their sites:
The Reasoning.
www.myspace.com/thereasoninguk.


 

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