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...

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...

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...

There was a long wait for a prog gig during the Covid era from 13th September 2020 in Genoa until HRH Prog X on 4th September 2021

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...

PM Boris Johnson at a daily Coronavirus briefing (screenshot from BBC TV) Everyday service has been increasingly more abnormal since at...

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

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...

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

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...

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...