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Doing What I Know For God And The Economy (and Independent Record Stores)
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...
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garethsprogblog
Jul 10, 20207 min read
Live albums for lockdown (part 2)
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...
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garethsprogblog
Jul 3, 20207 min read
Live albums for lockdown (part 1)
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,...
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garethsprogblog
Jun 14, 20207 min read
Lockdown singles and EPs
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...
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garethsprogblog
Mar 25, 20207 min read
An unprecedented situation
PM Boris Johnson at a daily Coronavirus briefing (screenshot from BBC TV) Everyday service has been increasingly more abnormal since at...
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garethsprogblog
Jul 12, 20196 min read
100 not out
Producing a magazine dedicated to prog every 6 weeks traces a difficult path, catering for those stuck in the past and the more open-minded
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garethsprogblog
Feb 24, 20197 min read
A ProgBlog guide to Amsterdam
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...
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garethsprogblog
Jul 7, 20188 min read
The NHS at 70
Britain’s National Health Service celebrated its 70th anniversary last week, having come into effect on July 5th 1948. Despite a...
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garethsprogblog
Jun 29, 20187 min read
Match of the Day
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...
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garethsprogblog
May 27, 20188 min read
The end of an era
One of my Record Store Day 2018 purchases, that is one of the limited editions specially produced for the occasion rather than one of the...
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garethsprogblog
May 18, 20185 min read
Shhh, peaceful
If you choose to go to a pub, which is more likely than not to be showing some desperately important sporting event and could...
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garethsprogblog
Mar 5, 201818 min read
Nine album challenge
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...
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garethsprogblog
Feb 5, 20187 min read
Hype & existential questions
BBC Four has just shown a new, three-part series Hits, Hype & Hustle: An Insider’s Guide to the Music Business where the timing of the...
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garethsprogblog
Jan 22, 201811 min read
The Swan Song
An interview with Stuart Avis from Servants of Science The limited edition CDs are being hand-numbered and local postal workers should...
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garethsprogblog
Oct 28, 20177 min read
Hallowe'en
Something strange is going on in my local area. I’ve been around at home most evenings for the past two weeks and the fireworks...
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garethsprogblog
Sep 5, 20177 min read
No future?
What will the future of prog look like, assuming there's still life on earth...?
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garethsprogblog
Jul 11, 20176 min read
The perfect length
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...
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garethsprogblog
Apr 29, 20177 min read
A ProgBlog guide to Crystal Palace
The Crystal Palace was originally built in Hyde Park for the first World Exposition in 1851, a structure designed to be temporary with...
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garethsprogblog
Feb 4, 20177 min read
John Wetton
I bought myself a bass guitar shortly after my 18th birthday, a Fender Precision copy with a sunburst finish and no manufacturer’s...
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garethsprogblog
Dec 10, 20165 min read
Lake district
If we accept that the progressive rock genre started in 1969 and proto prog has been around since 1967 it’s hardly surprising that, given...
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