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IQ Eastmas Bash, de Boerderij, Zoetermeer, The Netherlands Saturday, 9th April 2022 It is one of the first ‘big’ shows in the Zoetermeer rock temple after the lockdown(s). The caption of the IQ40 tour was ’40 years of prog nonsense’.…

IQ – A Show of Resistance (Live~stream)

At the end of May, the symphonic British neo-proggers IQ were scheduled to visit the Netherlands and France in the context of their Resistance Tour 2020. We now know what happened: both shows had to be cancelled due to the…

TPA Best Albums of 2019

Happy New Year! It’s that time again where we look ahead to the audible delights that might give us a quick peck on the cheek, a full-blown snog or have us running screaming from the singles bar in 2010. It’s…

The Decade in Review – Leo Trimming

It seems to be traditional to start these things by saying just how difficult it was to choose 10 of the best albums, and that if you asked me to tomorrow the list would be totally different. However, to be…

IQ – Resistance

IQ, a band both loved and reviled by the prog community: loved for their part in relaunching the progressive rock movement in the early 1980s and arguably bringing some epic tunes with them; reviled for sounding like a pastiche of…

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Islington Assembly Hall, London Saturday 7th September Resistance Album Launch Event The launch of a new IQ studio album is a special event – they only happen about every 4 or 5 years, so it’s understandable that there was a…

Night Of The Prog Festival 2019 ~ Day One

Loreley Amphitheatre, St. Goarshausen, Germany 19th to 21st July 2019 Once again TPA’s Dave Baird share’s his “as it happens” account of this year’s Night Of The Prog Festival. It’s July, we’re all aboard the electric prog-mobile in Germany, yes,…

Progstock 2018

Union County Performing Arts Center, Irving Street, New Jersey, USA 5th to 7th October 2018 The Progressive Aspect were delighted to be able to attend the second Progstock Festival in New Jersey at the beginning of October. The quality line-up…

IQ – Ever: 2018 Remix – 25^th Anniversary Collector’s Edition

“The perfect opportunity to finally get it right, as I heard it in my head”, is how IQ’s guitarist Mike Holmes describes the major motivation for IQ re-releasing their 1993 classic Ever in a special 25th Anniversary Remix edition. This…

Michael Holmes – Subterranea (O.S.T.)

Michael Holmes, the multi-talented guitarist and main man of renowned U.K. Progressive Rock band IQ, has released his first ever movie soundtrack album, for a new film adaptation of IQ’s classic Subterranea double concept album from 1997. American independent film…