I’ve just reposted, with only minor editing, the blog ‘ 100 not out ’, the story of Prog magazine reaching its 100th edition in ten...

By 1974 I’d had over a full year of immersion into progressive rock, a term which wasn’t yet being applied to the genre, though what I...

I'm very much in favour of buying recordings of gigs I've attended, should they become available at some date after the concert in...

I’ve now set up my new Rega RP3 and have started to put on vinyl in preference to my somewhat larger collection of CDs. My first record...

I was offered, and accepted, a new job this week. My rolling post-retirement contract with the private organisation that was drafted in...

Early in the new millennium, when progressive rock was emerging from underneath rocks and dragging itself out of slimy ponds, I...

When did prog emerge? That's one of the great prog questions...

Towards the end of the golden era of progressive rock, the denigration of the genre took a number of different forms. One of these was...

There is an increasing amount of printed information about Rock Progressivo Italiano (RPI.) From the odd line or two in the original...

Barrow Civic Hall (subsequently Forum 28, now the Forum) was a concert hall with decent acoustics and the venue for my earliest gig...