Kalle Wallner announces solo tour dates through England for May 2025

Kalle Wallner
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RPWL and Blind Ego guitarist Kalle Wallner has announced a short run of live English dates for May 2025.

Wallner, who released his first ever solo album Voices in 2022, has put together a touring band under the banner of Wallner, featuring some of the cream of UK prog talent, including Ghost Of The Machine vocalist Charlie Bramald, Andy Edwards on drums (IQ, Frost*) John Jowitt, bass (IQ, Frost*, Jadis) and Rob Grucutt (guitar and keys, (Rain, Tim Bowness).

“We’re currently discussing the songs we will be performing, of course we will focus on my career, but with a band of stars like this I have told the guys I want to also play some of the songs from their histories too," explains Wallner. "I have always wanted to do something like this, it’s going to be so much fun for the audiences and for us too."

Wallner will play:
May 8: Kidderminster 45Live
May 9: London 229
May 10: Abingdon The Northcourt
May 11: Southampton The 1865
May 12: Leicester The International

Wallner will return to The Northcourt for Prog For Peart festival in July.

Jerry Ewing

Writer and broadcaster Jerry Ewing is the Editor of Prog Magazine which he founded for Future Publishing in 2009. He grew up in Sydney and began his writing career in London for Metal Forces magazine in 1989. He has since written for Metal Hammer, Maxim, Vox, Stuff and Bizarre magazines, among others. He created and edited Classic Rock Magazine for Dennis Publishing in 1998 and is the author of a variety of books on both music and sport, including Wonderous Stories; A Journey Through The Landscape Of Progressive Rock.