garethsprogblog
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 20
- 11 min
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 5
- 12 min
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, 2023
- 7 min
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, 2023
- 13 min
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, 2023
- 10 min
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, 2023
- 11 min
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, 2023
- 10 min
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, 2022
- 8 min
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, 2022
- 9 min
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, 2022
- 6 min
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
- Mar 29, 2022
- 7 min
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, 2022
- 8 min
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, 2022
- 7 min
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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garethsprogblog
- Feb 9, 2022
- 6 min
Tickets, please!
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...
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garethsprogblog
- Dec 6, 2021
- 5 min
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, 2020
- 7 min
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, 2020
- 7 min
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, 2020
- 7 min
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, 2020
- 7 min
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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