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...

I’ve been lucky enough to play around on a Mellotron but I didn’t have the foresight to buy the Beast. The instrument was in a music shop...

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...

The annual dash for number one at Christmas refers to singles and thus excludes the vast majority of prog. In recent years it’s been the...

Barrow Civic Hall (subsequently Forum 28, now the Forum) was a concert hall with decent acoustics and the venue for my earliest gig...