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garethsprogblog
7 days ago19 min read
A ProgBlog guide to Milan
Everything the prog fan needs to know about Milan
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garethsprogblog
Nov 2416 min read
Canterbury pilgrimage
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
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garethsprogblog
Nov 169 min read
Progressive rock in 1974
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...
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garethsprogblog
Oct 126 min read
Instant gratification - the phenomenon of ‘taking the gig home with you straight after the show’
I'm very much in favour of buying recordings of gigs I've attended, should they become available at some date after the concert in...
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garethsprogblog
Sep 59 min read
Prog and TV theme tunes
I grew up at a time when progressive rock was a successful musical form and when there were programmes to stimulate my teenage imagination.
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garethsprogblog
Jul 2530 min read
ProgBlog and UK politics
I started writing this blog the day before the 2024 UK General Election, an unexpected gamble called on a rainy afternoon in May, finally...
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garethsprogblog
Feb 2011 min read
ProgBlog and the C18 agriculturalist
For someone who was into progressive rock in 1972, my appreciation of the music of Jethro Tull, indisputably one of the genre’s ‘big...
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garethsprogblog
Feb 512 min read
Born in the USA
I’ve always been something of a US sceptic and never bought into the American Dream. While entirely admirable, the Declaration of...
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garethsprogblog
Dec 18, 20237 min read
Maths lesson
My first dalliance with a form of rock music other than progressive or jazz/jazz-fusion came in the guise of Robert Fripp and the League...
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garethsprogblog
Nov 16, 202313 min read
The Pink Floyd Experience
Ten years ago (11th November 2013) I went to see Think Floyd, who made the claims ‘the UK’s premier Pink Floyd tribute band’ and ‘the...
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garethsprogblog
Apr 22, 202310 min read
A ProgBlog guide to Venice
Contrary to my previous pronouncements about the availability of prog in Venice, I can now reveal that there is a record store in the...
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garethsprogblog
Mar 18, 202311 min read
Coffee and prog
Any fool knows that progressive rock was invented by the English and by extension, the best beverage to consume while you’re listening to...
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garethsprogblog
Jan 9, 202310 min read
A proggy read
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...
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garethsprogblog
Dec 14, 20228 min read
A ProgBlog guide to Rome
I’d been to Rome a couple of times before 2017’s Progressivamente Free Festival, in August 1980 by InterRail as a student and in 2006 as...
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garethsprogblog
Jul 13, 20229 min read
A ProgBlog guide to Genoa
Assuming there’s no last-minute hitch with flight cancellations or travel restrictions being imposed because the Omicron BA.4, BA.5 and...
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garethsprogblog
Jun 15, 20226 min read
Putting prog on the map: Penge
Upper Norwood, commonly referred to as Crystal Palace, is a former ProgBlog stamping ground (see https://www.progblog.co.uk/post/a-progbl...
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garethsprogblog
Apr 19, 20226 min read
Brighton rock
Brighton is a progressive city, including the constituency of the only Green Party MP in the UK. Under normal circumstances, much less...
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garethsprogblog
Mar 29, 20227 min read
How prog is skiing?
The Page family annual ski trips have resumed after quite understandable Covid restrictions kept the European pistes closed to UK...
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garethsprogblog
Mar 18, 20228 min read
Prog and the violin
Sometime in 1978 or 1979 in a Zoology class at Goldsmiths’, fellow students Jo Wallace and Karen Fraser were discussing the use of the...
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garethsprogblog
Feb 11, 20227 min read
Economics
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...
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