Assuming there’s no last-minute hitch with flight cancellations or travel restrictions being imposed because the Omicron BA.4, BA.5 and...

Upper Norwood, commonly referred to as Crystal Palace, is a former ProgBlog stamping ground (see https://www.progblog.co.uk/post/a-progbl...

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

The Page family annual ski trips have resumed after quite understandable Covid restrictions kept the European pistes closed to UK...

Sometime in 1978 or 1979 in a Zoology class at Goldsmiths’, fellow students Jo Wallace and Karen Fraser were discussing the use of the...

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...

When I first started going to Italy with the intention of seeing a live band, I felt I had to buy a ticket beforehand. Navigating...

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...

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

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...

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

Paul Whitehead's cover illustration for Foxtrot (1972) Though Get ‘em out by Friday (from Foxtrot by Genesis, 1972) was a piece of social...

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...

Already 2016 seems to have been blighted by more high-profile musician deaths than previous years. I was still reading articles about Sir...

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

Chris Squire died on 27th June 2015. He was being treated for Acute Erythroid Leukaemia in Phoenix, Arizona. A true giant of the bass,...