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...

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

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

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

I was a bit shocked, though not at all surprised, to hear Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has hired former M&S chief executive Stuart Rose...

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...

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...

School inadvertently fuelled my love for all things prog. Our old fashioned wooden desks had lids so that you could leave your belongings...

In mid-May I was in Dublin to see Steve Hackett and while I was there I indulged in some retail therapy. Tower Records in Wicklow Street...

In the early 70s, radio was a vital medium which began to play an increasingly important role in my interest in prog. Though BBC Radio 3...

Though most readers will have a good understanding of the term ‘progressive rock’ it is inherent in the nature of many prog fans to query...

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