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Nene 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…

Some 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…

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas

An 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…

Brian Blessed at The Empress Building, Mexborough

An 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…

Vertiginous 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.…

Peter Gabriel & more at the Movies on The Prog Mill [Audio Feature]

Peter 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…

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,…

Eurosong – Najveći hitovi

Boogaloo Club, Zagreb, Croatia Saturday 8th June 2024 Eurovision 2024 was a stressful event for fans of the contest with Palestine protests happening in and around the venue, the disqualification of one of the most popular acts this year and…

Vertiginous Musings – Part Two

My trawl through the formative years of the Vertigo label and its “spiral” imprint continues… After VO7, the catalogue numbers have changed, as has the decade. We are now into 1970 and the music biz is growing apace. The major…