Rocking Horse Music Club

The Last Pink Glow

The new album available 9th May 2025

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Circus of Wire Dolls

The critically-acclaimed & award-winning concept album from 2022 is still available from:

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About Rocking Horse Music Club

 

The Rocking Horse Music Club is a songwriting and performing collaboration formed by producer/songwriter Brian Coombes, singer/songwriter Justin Cohn, singer/songwriter Patrik Gochez, Brenden Harisiades, Mike McAdam, Myron Kibbee, and Eric Wagley, all session musicians at Rocking Horse Studio. Guitarist Andrew Rotunno joined the band in February 2024.

The band’s eclectic style blends progressive rock with elements of baroque and chamber pop, gospel, fusion, indie folk, and art rock. The line-up for the 2025 version of the band includes:

Justin Cohn: vocals, acoustic guitar

Brian Coombes: keyboards, vocals

Brenden Harisiades: bass

Myron Kibbee: guitars

Mike McAdam: guitars

Andrew Rotunno: guitars, vocals

Eric Wagley: drums

In addition to the core band, Rocking Horse Music Club has also featured frequent contributions from its talented friends, including Rick Black (keyboards), Juli Finn (guitar), Jon Finn (guitar), Bobby Rice (drums), Jeremy Harman (cello), Wesley Thurber (trumpet), Richard Gardzina (sax), Jenna Yagjian (violin), Kate St John (oboe & english horn), Brittany Laine (vocals), Michelle Coombes (vocals), Caroline Carter (vocals), Evelyn Cormier (vocals), Eric Smith (percussion), and co-producer Josh Kimball (guitar & programming).

The band has released three albums: Every Change of Seasons (2018), Which Way the Wind Blows (2019), and Circus of Wire Dolls (2023). The albums have featured special guest appearances from Steve Hackett (Genesis), John Helliwell (Supertramp), Greg Hawkes (the Cars), Kenwood Dennard (Brand X), Noel McCalla, Chris Difford (Squeeze), David Cross (King Crimson), Tim Bowness, John Hackett, Amy Birks, Sing Gospel, and others.

The band’s debut single, Everywhere is Home, received an Independent Music Award in 2019. They received a Best Supergroup award from New Hampshire Magazine later that same year.

The band toured the UK in 2018, including a performance for the British Prime Minister. In 2019, the band performed their tribute to original Genesis guitarist Anthony Phillips at two sold out shows at Trading Boundaries in East Sussex UK.

The band released its critically-acclaimed and award-winning rock opera/musical Circus of Wire Dolls in 2022. Among other accolades, Circus of Wire Dolls received Album of the Year honors from ProgRadio.com. The band returned to England for two successful performances of Circus of Wire Dolls at Trading Boundaries in March 2023.

Rocking Horse Music Club’s new album, The Last Pink Glow, will be released on 9th May 2025. The album features a guest appearance by Genesis legend Tony Banks. The band will return to England for shows in November 2025.

The Band Members

The members of the Rocking Horse Music Club have had illustrious careers in the music individually and collectively.

Brian Coombes is an award-winning producer, songwriter, musician and owner of Rocking Horse Studio in Pittsfield, New Hampshire. In addition to his work at Rocking Horse, he has also produced projects at Abbey Road in London, Sun Studio in Memphis, and Fisher Lane Farm in Chiddingfold (England).

Prior to Rocking Horse, Brian was a founding member of Tristan Park, a progressive rock band that was signed to the British record label, GFT. The band recorded four albums and toured extensively in Europe and North America before going into hiatus in 1998. After Tristan Park, Brian recorded a album with his wife, using the name Waking in the Blue. That album features guest appearances from Ian McDonald (King Crimson) and Chris Difford (Squeeze).

Brian has received various honors for his production work. In 2015, he received a “Producer of the Year” award from the New England Music Awards. In 2014, he received two Emmy award nominations from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

Justin Cohn is a singer/songwriter from rural New Hampshire. His music blends elements of folk, rock, pop, and soul into songs about love, truth, and heartache. His debut ep, All Aglow, was released in 2016, produced by Brian Coombes. As a solo musician, he performs regularly throughout New England. He is currently working on a new solo album.

Eric Wagley, Brenden Harisiades, Mike McAdam, Myron Kibbee, and Andrew Rotunno are all involved in various music projects beyond Rocking Horse Music Club, including studio session work, songwriting, production, and live performance.

 

Rocking Horse Music Club 2025 (left to right): Brenden Harisiades, Andrew Rotunno, Myron Kibbee, Brian Coombes, Mike McAdam, Justin Cohn, and Eric Wagley. Photo by Wesley Thurber/Ends of the Earth Innovations.

Discography

 

The Last Pink Glow (2025)

The Last Pink Glow is an interpretation of Jack’s Kerouac’s unfinished novella, The Haunted Life.

As one of America’s most influential writers, Jack Kerouac is best known as the father of the beat generation and for his novels On the Road, The Dharma Bums, and Big Sur. He has made a particularly profound impression on multiple generations of musicians; John Lennon, Bob Dylan, Syd Barrett (Pink Floyd), David Bowie, Van Morrison, Fish (Marillion), and members of the Doors and King Crimson have all cited the author as a primary influence on their writing and philosophical outlook and have paid tribute to him musically over the years.

The band worked directly with Jim Sampas, the literary executor of the Kerouac Estate on this project, often using Kerouac’s words from the novella as lyrics in the songs.

The album features a very special guest appearance from Genesis legend Tony Banks, who co-wrote and performs on the song The Haunted Life.

Musically, The Last Pink Glow continues Rocking Horse Music Club’s penchant for eclectic, genre-defying albums, blending symphonic progressive rock with elements of americana, blues, electronic, and orchestral music. There are darker and more aggressive moments on The Last Pink Glow that would have been out of place on Circus of Wire Dolls, but the album still retains the sense of drama and strong focus on melody that has become the band’s trademark.

  1. Haunted

  2. It’s the Small Things

  3. The Haunted Life

  4. If We’re Silent & We Listen

  5. The Ballad of Joe Martin

  6. Changing Channels

  7. The Ballad of Wesley Martin

  8. Splitting Atoms

  9. Restless Wanderers

  10. Big City Small Town Blues

  11. The Last Pink Glow

 

Circus of Wire Dolls (2022)

He created a miniature circus of wire dolls, then brought its performers to life. Circus of Wire Dolls, the expansive genre-defying concept album/rock opera from Rocking Horse Music Club, coming 16th September 2022.

Features special guests Ms Amy Birks, Tim Bowness, Caroline Carter (Miss NH 2017), Evelyn Cormier (American Idol), David Cross (King Crimson), Kenwood Dennard (Brand X), Chris Difford (Squeeze), John Hackett, Greg Hawkes (the Cars), Noel McCalla (Mike Rutherford/Manfred Mann), Kate St John (Dream Academy), and Rob Townsend (Steve Hackett).

  1. Prologue: Riverside (3:49)

  2. Circus of Wire Dolls (8:45)

  3. Packed Up (featuring Noel McCalla) (3;28)

  4. Senseless Sky (2:46)

  5. Animate in 5/8 (featuring Noel McCalla & Caroline Carter) (4:13)

  6. To Reach the Other Side (2:58)

  7. Will You Be My Downfall? (featuring Caroline Carter) (3:52)

  8. So Little Left (featuring Tim Bowness) (3:58)

  9. It’s Not About You (4:05)

  10. Trapeze Waltz (featuring Amy Birks) (4:14)

  11. Burn (featuring Caroline Carter) (4:41)

  12. Cut from a Different Cloth (featuring Chris Difford) (4:06)

  13. Face of Rain (4:00)

  14. 0300 (4:54)

  15. SY22 (5:15)

  16. Lost a Piece of Me (1:28)

  17. House Party at Jack’s (1:58)

  18. Flowers in November (4:00)

  19. Every Show Must End (featuring Noel McCalla) (7:59)

  20. All Shall Be Well (featuring Evelyn Cormier) (4:04)

  21. Circus Waltz (featuring David Cross) (4:03)

  22. Coda: Slide Down the Cellar Door (6:21)

 

Which Way the Wind Blows (2019)

Rocking Horse Music Club presents the music of original Genesis guitarist Anthony Phillips. Features guest appearances by Steve Hackett, John Hackett, Noel McCalla, Nick Magnus, John Helliwell, Kate St. John, and others.

  1. Um & Aargh

  2. Paperchase

  3. Which Way the Wind Blows

  4. Silver Song

  5. Something Blue

  6. Pulling Faces

  7. Collections

  8. Sleepfall: The Geese Fly West

  9. Nightmare

 

Every Change of Seasons (2018)

The debut album from Rocking Horse Music Club. Features the award-winning single Everywhere is Home (Independent Music Awards 2019).

  1. Waiting for the Leaves to Change

  2. Be Free

  3. Roadblocks

  4. Closer to the Sun

  5. Everywhere is Home

  6. Piggy Logan’s Circus

  7. Splitting Atoms

 
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Video

Everywhere is Home

London Live

08 March 2018 / London Live Television

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Rocking Horse Music Club from the USA returns to the UK to perform the music of original Genesis guitarist Anthony Phillips. The shows are scheduled for 15th-16th November 2019 at Trading Boundaries in East Sussex, England. The band will perform a show of its original material on 14th November.

Photos

Rocking Horse Music Club 2025. Photo by Wesley Thurber/Ends of the Earth Innovations.

Rocking Horse Music Club live at Trading Boundaries, East Sussex.

Rocking Horse Music Club live at Trading Boundaries, East Sussex, 2018.

Rocking Horse Music Club live at Trading Boundaries, East Sussex.

Rocking Horse Music Club live at Trading Boundaries, East Sussex, 2018.

Guitarist Myron Kibbee recording 12 string guitar.

Guitarist Myron Kibbee recording 12 string guitar.

Brian on bass in Londonderry, NH.

Brian on bass in Londonderry, NH.

Drummer Eric Wagley in the studio.

Drummer Eric Wagley in the studio.

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