If you choose to go to a pub, which is more likely than not to be showing some desperately important sporting event and could...

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...

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...

An interview with Stuart Avis from Servants of Science The limited edition CDs are being hand-numbered and local postal workers should...

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...

What will the future of prog look like, assuming there's still life on earth...?

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...

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...

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...

Ten years ago I was sitting in an MBA tutor group, discussing the pharmaceutical industry when I casually announced my belief that the...

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

Machu Picchu Ever since Tales from Topographic Oceans was released in 1973, I’ve been entranced by not just the music, but also by the...

Sometime in July my wife forwarded me an Amazon recommendation, Peter Hammill and the K Group Live At Rockpalast – Hamburg 1981, a DVD...

Anti-Brexit demonstration (Photo: Wix) I remember the UK joining the EEC in 1973 better than I remember the last time the UK took part in...

Getting into music in 1972 meant that I may have missed out on records released on some of the early, innovative imprints like Decca’s...

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...

If musical genres were modes of transportation, prog would be some form of public transport and Italian prog would be a tram!