I grew up at a time when progressive rock was a successful musical form and when there were programmes to stimulate my teenage imagination.

With Christmas not long past, I’ve been attempting to wade through the novels I received as gifts, and have just completed Hugh Howey’s...

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...

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...

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

Sometime in July my wife forwarded me an Amazon recommendation, Peter Hammill and the K Group Live At Rockpalast – Hamburg 1981, a DVD...

The desire for the authentic sounds of the 70s harboured by some modern prog bands has led to a quiet revolution in digital samples. The...

If musical genres were modes of transportation, prog would be some form of public transport and Italian prog would be a tram!

I’ve been lucky enough to play around on a Mellotron but I didn’t have the foresight to buy the Beast. The instrument was in a music shop...

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...

The annual dash for number one at Christmas refers to singles and thus excludes the vast majority of prog. In recent years it’s been the...

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