TOUCHSTONE

TOUCHSTONE ARE A FIVE PIECE UK PROGRESSIVE ROCK BAND FORMED BY ROB COTTINGHAM AND ADAM HODGSON. THE BAND HAS DEVELOPED IN MANY WAYS SINCE THE EARLY DAYS, AND MORPHED INTO THE PRESENT LINE UP WITH ANDRE P (MOO) MOORGHEN ON BASS GUITAR, ALASDAIR MELVILLE ON DRUMS AND VOCALIST KIM SEVIOUR. THE BAND DEBUT ALBUM AND FOLLOWING UP TO THEIR "MAD HATTERS" EP, "DISCORDANT DREAMS" WAS RECORDED AT OUTHOUSE STUDIOS IN JUNE 2007, AND RELEASED ON 10th SEPTEMBER 2007.

MIXING THE COMPLEXITIES OF PROGRESSIVE ROCK, WITH SOARING KEYBOARDS AND POWER-CHORDS OF MELODIC-ROCK TOUCHSTONE FORM PART OF THE GROWING UK SCENCE OF FEMALE-FRONTED BANDS THAT FOLLOW ON FROM BANDS SUCH AS MOSTLY AUTUMN, MAGENTA AND KARNATAKA, BUT WITH A HARDER, ROCK EDGE TO THEM.