The badly managed response to the effects of Covid on the music industry has been commented on in the ProgBlog pages and in a recent...

While a live album can’t compare with being physically present at a gig, the best of them are able to convey a sense of outstanding music...

By this time of the year in 2019, even with a slow start, I’d seen ten gigs and attended Steve Hackett’s The Edge of Light playback,...

Even though much of the world has been in lockdown to reduce the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic, many musicians have been working away...

PM Boris Johnson at a daily Coronavirus briefing (screenshot from BBC TV) Everyday service has been increasingly more abnormal since at...

Producing a magazine dedicated to prog every 6 weeks traces a difficult path, catering for those stuck in the past and the more open-minded

My first visit to Amsterdam was as a 20 year old, the first stop on a month-long journey around western Europe by train with university...

Britain’s National Health Service celebrated its 70th anniversary last week, having come into effect on July 5th 1948. Despite a...

One of my recent purchases, on a short trip out to Crystal Palace, was a £1 copy of Short Stories (1980) by Jon and Vangelis, from...

One of my Record Store Day 2018 purchases, that is one of the limited editions specially produced for the occasion rather than one of the...

If you choose to go to a pub, which is more likely than not to be showing some desperately important sporting event and could...

The Instagram and Twitter trend ‘9 albums that changed my life/mean most to me’ (#9albums) which appeared in January 2018 didn’t pass me...

BBC Four has just shown a new, three-part series Hits, Hype & Hustle: An Insider’s Guide to the Music Business where the timing of the...

What will the future of prog look like, assuming there's still life on earth...?

I’ve just ripped a rather large pile of my wife’s CDs to mp3 for her which according to the categories ascribed by Windows Media Player...

The Crystal Palace was originally built in Hyde Park for the first World Exposition in 1851, a structure designed to be temporary with...

I bought myself a bass guitar shortly after my 18th birthday, a Fender Precision copy with a sunburst finish and no manufacturer’s...

If we accept that the progressive rock genre started in 1969 and proto prog has been around since 1967 it’s hardly surprising that, given...

Ten years ago I was sitting in an MBA tutor group, discussing the pharmaceutical industry when I casually announced my belief that the...

I visited the You Say You Want a Revolution? Records and Rebels 1966 - 1970 exhibition at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum in November...