Brighton is a progressive city, including the constituency of the only Green Party MP in the UK. Under normal circumstances, much less...

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...

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,...

Chris Squire died on 27th June 2015. He was being treated for Acute Erythroid Leukaemia in Phoenix, Arizona. A true giant of the bass,...

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...

Prog was born in an era of possibilities, at a time of cultural and social freedom brought about by some amazing technological...

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...

School inadvertently fuelled my love for all things prog. Our old fashioned wooden desks had lids so that you could leave your belongings...

In the early 70s, radio was a vital medium which began to play an increasingly important role in my interest in prog. Though BBC Radio 3...

Close to the Edge by Yes One Saturday morning in September 1972 shortly after my thirteenth birthday, I accompanied my brother Tony on...