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…
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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 Preview
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…
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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 Copeland
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…
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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.…
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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…
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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]
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…
View More Eurosong – Najveći hitovi
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…
View More Vertiginous Musings – Part Two