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...

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...

Early in the new millennium, when progressive rock was emerging from underneath rocks and dragging itself out of slimy ponds, I...

Back in 2015, the lack of availability of albums by progressivo Italiano band Jumbo forced me to buy a download of DNA, the first of...

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

Towards the end of the golden era of progressive rock, the denigration of the genre took a number of different forms. One of these was...

Neo-prog The rise of neo-prog coincided with my time at the Transfusion Centre, which largely passed me by. The absence of column inches...

There’s an almost unspoken agreement that jazz-rock fusion comes under the prog umbrella. This relationship, forged in the late 60s and...

University challenges I arrived at university with the best hi-fi system in my hall of residence. I’d worked at the steel mill in Barrow...