It is with great sadness that we have to tell you all that our TPA colleague and friend Tony Colvill sadly passed away in the early hours of Monday morning. A gentleman and a true character. Our thoughts are with…
View More Tony Colvill ~ RIPCategory: Featured
Remembering Jez…
Hard to believe, but it is one year today that we lost our wonderful friend and colleague Jez Rowden. A truly witty and positive man who touched so many, and always with that heart-warming and infectious smile… As I attempt…
View More Remembering Jez…Steven Wilson presents The Overview
BFI IMAX, Southbank, London Tuesday 25th February 2025 In 1999 I walked into a Swansea record store and heard Steven Wilson’s music for the first time. The album in question was Porcupine Tree’s Stupid Dream and it had an instant…
View More Steven Wilson presents The OverviewNene Valley Rock Festival 2025 Preview
I am sure that you have all been keeping abreast of the headline acts for Nene Valley Rock Festival, as they have been drip fed into your consciousness. Waiting with eager anticipation in the hope that the next big name…
View More Nene Valley Rock Festival 2025 PreviewSome of The Best of 2024
Happy New Year! Hopefully 2023 treated you well. In most respects it was a step further along the road to getting back to whatever normal is/was, but the world still feels like a different place these days. Jez Rowden’s opening…
View More Some of The Best of 2024An Audience with Stewart Copeland
City Varieties, Leeds Monday 4th November 2025 For some people, such as myself, The Police were part of the soundtrack to our formative lives. They might not have been our very favourite band but their songs were good and some…
View More An Audience with Stewart CopelandAn Audience with Brian Blessed
The Empress Building, Mexborough Friday, 25th October 2024 I have friends all over the world and when I excitedly told them that I was going to see Brian Blessed I was met with silences that made it clear that they…
View More An Audience with Brian BlessedVertiginous Musings – Part Three
Part Three reveals an overall musical quality dip, unsurprising given the number of “underground” labels now resorting to hoovering up the average bands by the denim-clad bag load. Our trawl is redeemed by a couple of real gems by unknowns.…
View More Vertiginous Musings – Part ThreePeter Gabriel & more at the Movies: The Prog Mill [Audio Feature]
Whilst Shaun Geraghty was busy at Buckingham Palace (no kidding!) he usurped his Prog Radio throne for one week with a Special based on Peter Gabriel music at the movies, including his film soundtracks ‘Birdy’ and ‘Passion’ and many film…
View More Peter Gabriel & more at the Movies: The Prog Mill [Audio Feature]Our Progressive Planet on Prog-Watch: Germany [Audio Feature]
Prog-Watch presents another instalment of Our Progressive Planet in which Rob Fisher and and Big Tony Rowsick take you on a little tour of the vibrant progressive music scene in Germany! With music from Sylvan, Lucifer’s Friend, Subsignal, Panzerballett, Eloy,…
View More Our Progressive Planet on Prog-Watch: Germany [Audio Feature]