There are a number of different reasons to make the pilgrimage to Canterbury; 3 independent record stores and an HMV to cater for all tastes

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...

Contrary to my previous pronouncements about the availability of prog in Venice, I can now reveal that there is a record store in the...

Brighton is a progressive city, including the constituency of the only Green Party MP in the UK. Under normal circumstances, much less...

I pay £1.50 for four pints (2.27 litres) of milk at our local Co-op which is a third more than is strictly necessary. Our local...

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,...

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...

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...

Getting into music in 1972 meant that I may have missed out on records released on some of the early, innovative imprints like Decca’s...

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...

The presentation of an album used to be one of the factors I took into account when I was attempting to discover new music at a time when...

Close to the Edge by Yes One Saturday morning in September 1972 shortly after my thirteenth birthday, I accompanied my brother Tony on...