Crimson makes its mark.

Hugh’s Archive Deep Dive: 16. Making a recent appearance in the archive and now looking like an art piece in its own right, the stencil plate used to spray paint the band’s name onto their equipment in the 1970s. Made from die-cut aluminium, it measures 14.5” x 9” and can be seen encrusted with numerous applications of black paint from its time in the hands of the Crimson road crew....

Europe 2003 Live On Nugs!

The Power To Believe Tour audio from Europe '03 is now available to stream exclusively in the @nugsnet app.   Visit: nugs.net/KingCrimson   Also available to download from dgmlive: King Crimson Europe 2003   King Crimson on tour in Europe, 2003 (photos: Bill Munyon).   Featuring King Crimson's Double Duo lineup of Adrian Belew, Robert Fripp, Trey Gunn, and Pat Mastelotto, this tour...

Stormy Monday Selection #71

Neuro Thela Talk. It’s a Mash Up Monday from Mr Stormy this week, as he plays with the multitrack tapes from the 80s Crimson recording sessions at Basing Street and Odyssey Studios. Taking elements from 1981's Discipline and the following year's Beat, this hybrid piece fuses signature riffs from Thela Hun Ginjeet, Elephant Talk and Neurotica, in what Sid Smith describes as: “a real Crimson...

On This Day 30 Years Ago:

King Crimson On Broadway. During Thanksgiving week in 1995, King Crimson began a five-night residency at the Longacre Theatre on West 48th Street in the heart of New York’s theatre district, playing Monday through Wednesday, taking Thursday off for the holiday, before returning by popular demand on Friday and Saturday.  The band had flown in a week earlier, in a break from their tour, for...

A Different Cadence

King Crimson 2025 mixes. Several listeners to the 2025 edition of In The Wake of Poseidon have drawn attention to a number of differences in the new Steven Wilson mixes, in particular the flute passages in Cadence and Cascade played by Mel Collins, who was making his first contribution to a King Crimson record. Describing this in his notes, Sid Smith wrote: “At the other end of the emotional...


Stormy Monday Selection #70

DinoCirkus. With a slight delay, here's this month's selection from Mr Stormy, who has ventured into different corners of the archive to bring us a unique take on the 1970 Wessex Studios recording of Cirkus, blended with 1994's Dinosaur from the THRAK recording sessions at Real World. From Sid Smith’s notes: “Both striking and slightly unsettling in places, especially when Gordon Haskell’s...

Poseidon and Lizard out tomorrow!

A reminder that Friday October 24 sees the release of new editions of In The Wake of Poseidon and Lizard.  King Crimson’s second and third albums are remixed in Stereo, 5.1 Surround and Dolby Atmos by Steven Wilson, with Elemental Mixes by David Singleton. They also include Complete Recording Sessions and new sleeve notes by Sid Smith. The Lizard Elemental Mixes are also released on 200-gram...

Canadian Tour problem solved.

For anyone who has experienced difficulties downloading the FLAC versions of the 2015 Canadian Tour, we are happy to announce that this has now been fixed.  We received a number of queries regarding the zipped files being incomplete when downloading the FLAC audio. The team have been hard at work to remedy this. These concerts were made available in higher resolution 24/48 audio, and the...

2015 Canadian Tour

As we approach the tenth anniversary of the Canadian leg of The Elements of King Crimson Tour, the 11 show run is now available to stream or download through our partnership at nugs.net/kingcrimson and here on dgmlive: King Crimson, Quebec, November 13, 2015    The 'Seven-Headed Beast' took on unreleased compositions and classic Crim favourites that were received by an attentive audience,...


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