Issue 134

Prog

At the forefront of the modern day progressive music revival.

Prog1 min read
Prog
Editor Jerry Ewing Deputy Editor Natasha Scharf Art Editor Russell Fairbrother Production Editor Vanessa Thorpe News Editor Grant Moon Reviews Editor Dave Everley Associate Editor Jo Kendall Content Director Scott Rowley Jeremy Allen (JA), Joe Banks
Prog2 min read
Ed’s Letter
Hello, and welcome to the new issue of Prog magazine. Just over 40 years ago (by the time you read this), some 60,000 Genesis fans convened in an old clay pit in Milton Keynes and witnessed the one live reunion it seems most prog fans have hankered f
Prog2 min read
PROG PRESENTS… Discovering
White Knight Records is a collaboration between Rob Reed (Magenta/Tigermoth Records) and Will Mackie (Hoggwash/Caerllysi Music), two friends with a long-standing mutual interest in the promotion and popularity of prog and art-rock. Mackie and Reed ha
Prog6 min read
Bloody Well Write
Last night, I finally got to see Big Big Train live. I discovered them a little late and came in just in time for Common Ground, but they were well worth the wait. It was hands down one of the most enjoyable gigs I’ve ever been to and the venue – the
Prog3 min read
Riverside Headline Prognosis 2023
Riverside have been announced as the first of two headline acts for 2023’s Prognosis Festival. Swedish prog rockers Soen, Canadian prog metal pioneers Voivod and Colin Edwin’s supergroup O.R.k. are also on the bill, with Rosalie Cunningham and Iamthe
Prog1 min read
Mountainscape’s Ascent Continues On Album Two
British post-rock prospects Mountainscape release their second album, Atoms Unfurling, on October 21 via Trepanation Recordings. The LP follows the band’s full-length 2021 debut Acceptance, which established their dynamic blend of ambient, folk, meta
Prog1 min read
Magenta’s Ninth Is A Symphony!
Magenta’s ninth studio album will be unveiled on October 31 via Tigermoth Records. Over a year in the making, The White Witch – A Symphonic Trilogy is a three-part orchestral suite and, as such, it’s a departure for the Welsh band. “I do so much musi
Prog2 min read
‘Bluesman’ Dunnery To Tour The UK!
Francis Dunnery returns to the UK in November with a new group, Tombstone Dunnery, and he’ll also play live in 2023 with Francis Dunnery’s It Bites. Blues-based project Tombstone Dunnery also features bassist Paul Brown, guitarist Quint Starkie and d
Prog1 min read
INTRO Extras
Sunderland art-rockers Field Music have founded their own music label. Daylight Saving Records will open their account with a new album from fellow Tyne And Wear prog-pop artist Ian Black, AKA Slug. Thy Socialite! will be released on January 20 next
Prog1 min read
Haken Join Between The Buried And Me In ‘Limbo’!
Heavy-hitting Brit proggers Haken will join forces with US prog metallers Between The Buried And Me next year, on an extensive co-headline tour. With support from New Yorkers Cryptodira, the bands’ Island In Limbo tour will see them play 36 dates acr
Prog1 min read
Prog Adventurers Galahad Return
Enduring Bournemouth proggers Galahad release their 11th studio album on October 24. Available through the band’s Avalon label, The Last Great Adventurer is their first release since 2018’s Seas Of Change. It was produced by Threshold’s Karl Groom, a
Prog2 min read
Gordon Giltrap On His Latest Chapter
Veteran guitarist Gordon Giltrap has teamed up once again with keyboardist Paul Ward for a new album, set for release on November 4 via Psychotron Records. Scattered Chapters features 16 brand-new instrumental compositions plus fresh recordings of Gi
Prog1 min read
INTRO Extras
On November 18 Warner will reissue Ian Anderson Plays The Orchestral Jethro Tull for the first time ever on vinyl. Originally released in 2005 on CD and DVD, the double album features performances recorded during Anderson’s tour of the same name acro
Prog1 min read
Eight Albums In Gandalf’s Fist Get Superstitious!
Cumbrian prog rockers Gandalf’s Fist will issue their eighth album, Widdershins, on November 21 via their own Nightkeeper Productions. It’s the band’s first new music since 2019’s The Clockwork Prologue, and Fist frontman Dean Marsh tells Prog that e
Prog1 min read
Elder Seek Passage On Proggy Sixth
Berlin-based heavy psych rockers Elder have unveiled details of their sixth full-length album. Set for release on November 25 via Stickman Records, Innate Passage builds on the template of 2020’s acclaimed Omens, which was a notably sprawling and pro
Prog1 min read
Fad Gadgets
Many electronic instruments have a “randomise” function which lets you shape and sculpt sound in unexpected ways. None of them, however, are as aesthetically gorgeous and conceptually sound as this: a machine constructed from brass and walnut, which
Prog2 min read
Fabrizio Grossi
“In 1980 I dropped and broke my cousin’s vinyl copy of an Eagles live album. I looked everywhere for a replacement copy in my home town of Milan but couldn’t find one anywhere, then eventually this guy was selling his copy but would only sell it with
Prog1 min read
Prog In Brief
Ayreon’s (right) 2000 releases Universal Migrator Pt I & II will be reissued – remixed and remastered – by Music Theories on November 18, with Neal Morse, Damian Wilson and Bruce Dickinson among the vocalists. More at www.arjenlucassen.com. Oslo prog
Prog2 min read
Unprocessed
UNPROCESSED RELEASED THEIR fourth album, Gold, over the summer and the resulting surge in popularity over their modern blend of progressive metal has filled their calendars to the brim. Prog asks where Unprocessed frontman Manuel Gardner Fernandes is
Prog2 min read
The Membranes
Forged amid the snotty fires of punk, The Membranes emerged from the mean streets of Blackpool in the late 70s. Part of a freewheeling post-punk movement that had precisely zero interest in the virtuoso excesses of progressive rock, they became one o
Prog2 min read
Dongyang Gozupa
Describing themselves as “the gap between East and West,” Seoul’s instrumental trio Dongyang Gozupa merge traditional Korean music with prog approaches to percussion-based music. Eunhwa Yun leads the charge with his custom version of the traditional
Prog1 min read
Prog In Brief
Tunisian prog metallers Myrath headline French festival Ready For Prog, in Toulouse on October 29. Now in its fourth year, the also features Klone, Seventh Wonder, Scar Symmetry, Kingcrow and more. Tickets at readyforprog.festik.net. Norwegian guitar
Prog2 min read
Dawnwalker
THE IRONY BEHIND Dawnwalker’s new record, House Of Sand, is that it is self-admittedly“claustrophobic and inward looking” – yet it could easily open up the group to a whole new audience. Gone are the 10-plus-minute opuses of the London-based collecti
Prog3 min read
US, THEM & YOU
The prog top 30 albums Compiled by 1 MUSE Will Of The People (WARNER/HELIUM-3) 2 PINK FLOYD Animals (2018 Remix) (RHINO) 3 STEVE HACKETT Genesis Revisited Live: Seconds Out & More (INSIDEOUT) 4 KING’S X Three Sides Of One (INSIDEOUT) 5 MARILLION Holi
Prog2 min read
Oiseaux-tempête
OISEAUX-TEMPÊTE STARTED WHEN Frédéric Oberland travelled to Greece in 2012 with photographer Stéphane Charpentier to document the economic and political turmoil there. The situation inspired him to start a new musical project as a reaction. “Back in
Prog2 min read
The Hirsch Effekt
HIRSCH EFFEKT BASSIST and co-vocalist Ilja John Lappin categorises his band’s music as“progressive metal with an indie touch”. It’s a description that drastically undersells their restless eclecticism. Since forming in 2008, the trio have become one
Prog23 min read
Dark And Grey: six of The Best
It was almost as unbelievable as a storyline on one of their early albums. In October 1982, Genesis reunited with their mercurial co-founder and original lead singer Peter Gabriel for a one-off concert in an act of generosity that underlined the grou
Prog4 min read
Q&A DAVID PAICH
Six Grammys, one Emmy, 40 million sales: keyboardist, songwriter, producer, singer, not to mention crack session man, Toto’s David Paich has chalked up a fulsome career, rich in both breadth and success. Working with such luminaries as Quincy Jones,
Prog11 min read
Waiting To Happen
The tipping point for Marillion came with ‘Mexican Night’. It was late summer in 1990, and the band had spent several increasingly frustrating weeks holed up in Stanbridge Farm Studios, a residential facility outside the English seaside resort of Bri
Prog5 min read
Black Moon
On March 23, 2020, AA Williams uploaded a video to her YouTube channel. Shot in moody black and white at her London home, the musician sat at her piano and performed a skeletal cover of Radiohead’s Creep, silhouetted against the pale light coming thr
Prog7 min read
All God’s Children
With drummer Jerry Gaskill suffering a pair of near-fatal heart attacks and guitarist Ty Tabor developing an unspecified illness that required “vigilant monitoring”, causing the second axing of a visit to Europe and the UK, the past few years represe
Prog7 min read
Theory Of Evolution
During Prog’s chat with Arena about their latest album, The Theory Of Molecular Inheritance, new vocalist Damian Wilson veers the conversation towards the time he got pulled over by police for speeding at more than 100mph en route to sing at a Rick W
Prog7 min read
Between The Lines
A revolving door’s been in operation at Threshold HQ throughout the veteran prog metallers’ 34-year history, most notably in the lead vocals department. The last revolution in 2017 saw singer Damian Wilson leave for the third time and the return of o
Prog5 min read
The Post-War Dream
“The first album was a demo that sort of escaped, really.” Prog is reminiscing about the development of the Cosmograf project in the late 2000s with its sole creative force, the multi-talented Robin Armstrong. We’re discussing 2009’s End Of Ecclesia,
Prog7 min read
Bleed From Within
The links between music and archery are not often discussed. Intriguing, then, that Conrad Keely believes his band’s current album, XI: Bleed Here Now, benefited from him accessing his inner Robin Hood. “It was fun to set up an archery range outside
Prog7 min read
All The Rage
The song Vienna might have been held off the No.1 spot by a novelty song about a rebellious Italian boy, but its huge success gave Ultravox carte blanche to experiment for as long as it took with a bearlike German. Conny Plank, the éminence grise of
Prog6 min read
“Joy Is The Essence Of success!”
There is a song on Heilung’s new album Drif that comes from the oldest surviving complete work of annotated music. This music was found carved into clay tablets dating back 3,400 years ago, in the Canaanite city of Ugarit, in the northern part of wha
Prog11 min read
The Prog Interview Hugh Banton
While other keyboard players of the late 1960s and mid-1970s have lugged their instruments about the stage, hurled cutlery at the keys, or appeared as a caped magician encircled by a towering array of technology in a swirl of dry ice, Hugh Banton has
Prog35 min read
Jean-michel Jarre
[email protected] Jean-Michel Jarre achieved global recognition with his 1976 album Oxygène, selling 12 million albums at a time when progressive music was supposedly in retreat. Forty-six years later, he brings us Oxymore, which suggests we
Prog16 min read
Echoes Old turns…
Welcome return for the dazzling, long out of print, live album. Bill Bruford has always maintained that his drumming style fell somewhere between rock and jazz. And with regards to his departure from prog supergroup UK in late 1978, he explained that
Prog2 min read
Justin Hayward
VENUE WHITE ROCK THEATRE, HASTINGS DATE 23/09/2022 With The Moody Blues dormant since the retirement of the late Graeme Edge four years ago, any sign of Moodies-related activity is welcome. Following on from bandmate John Lodge’s Classic Moody Blues
Prog3 min read
Porcupine Tree
VENUE AUDITORIUM THEATRE, CHICAGO, USA DATE 20/09/2022 Late last year, progressive behemoths Porcupine Tree announced their big comeback. After being apart for more than a decade, they’re finally back on the road, on their first tour in 12 long years
Prog2 min read
The Mars Volta
VENUE METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE PHILADELPHIA, USA DATE 27/09/2022 The Mars Volta were among the greatest prog/jazz rock groups of the 2000s, so this comeback show is heavily anticipated. Comprising mostly of classic compositions – as well as some trac
Prog3 min read
Big Big Train
VENUE WATERSIDE THEATRE, AYLESBURY DATE 02/09/2022 SUPPORT DIM GRAY When Big Big Train played a triumphant end-of-tour show at Hackney Empire in November 2019, all seemed set fair for their continuing rise, with dates scheduled for Europe and the US
Prog7 min read
Arctangent Festival
VENUE FERNHILL FARM, COMPTON MARTIN DATE 17/08/2022-20/08/2022 The UK’s premier post-rock, math rock and prog festival is finally back! It’s been three years since ArcTanGent has graced Fernhill Farm, but thankfully the now four-day get-together is m
Prog2 min read
Crippled Black Phoenix
VENUE THE DOME, LONDON DATE 07/09/2022 Justin Greaves – he of luxuriant flowing hair, voluminous beard and enough ink on his arms to have once satisfied Leo Tolstoy’s scribing needs – is in no doubt about tonight’s agenda: “We’re gonna play some new
Prog2 min read
A Sunday In September
VENUE THE BEDFORD, LONDON DATE 18/09/2022 Kicking off this all-dayer, now in its second year, Scottish sextet Ebb deliver a polished and impassioned set of space rock, ballads, inventive grooves and straight-up rockers. Endlessly entertaining, the ba
Prog2 min read
Organ Reframed
VENUE UNION CHAPEL, LONDON DATE 16/09/2022 Considering its fourth iteration has been delayed for over two years, the Organ Reframed festival feels uniquely pre-ordained. Although Islington’s Union Chapel regularly hosts folk, rock and prog acts – Ope
Prog3 min read
Vola
VENUE THE GARAGE, LONDON DATE 29/02/2022 SUPPORT VOYAGER, FOUR STROKE BARON Prog is a universal language, and it’s hard to think of a recent line-up that demonstrates it more clearly than tonight’s. North London’s 600-capacity rock club The Garage is
Prog2 min read
The Ocean
VENUE 229, LONDON DATE 26/08/2022 SUPPORT PLAYGROUNDED, LLNN Of all the bands who’ve had to arrange and rearrange tours over the last couple of years, few have been fucked over more than The Ocean. The international prog metal collective were meant t
Prog2 min read
It’s Never Too Early To Start Your Christmas Shopping
PLUS GET FREE BOOMPODS ANC† Simply press the noise-cancellation button to reduce the sounds around you and amplify your favourite tunes ★ Bluetooth headset ★ Play time: eight hours ★ Features active noise-cancelling, volume control, track skip, play/
Prog3 min read
Hans Rutten (the Gathering)
Where’s home? I live where I was born – Nijmegen [The Netherlands], which is near the German border. Earliest prog memory? I saw a video clip of Rush around the Power Windows period, I was something like 16 years old, and they were great. I borrowed
Prog6 min read
Bloody Well Write
Last night, I finally got to see Big Big Train live. I discovered them a little late and came in just in time for Common Ground, but they were well worth the wait. It was hands down one of the most enjoyable gigs I’ve ever been to and the venue – the
Prog3 min read
Riverside Headline Prognosis 2023
Riverside have been announced as the first of two headline acts for 2023’s Prognosis Festival. Swedish prog rockers Soen, Canadian prog metal pioneers Voivod and Colin Edwin’s supergroup O.R.k. are also on the bill, with Rosalie Cunningham and Iamthe
Prog1 min read
Prog
Editor Jerry Ewing Deputy Editor Natasha Scharf Art Editor Russell Fairbrother Production Editor Vanessa Thorpe News Editor Grant Moon Reviews Editor Dave Everley Associate Editor Jo Kendall Content Director Scott Rowley Jeremy Allen (JA), Joe Banks
Prog1 min read
Magenta’s Ninth Is A Symphony!
Magenta’s ninth studio album will be unveiled on October 31 via Tigermoth Records. Over a year in the making, The White Witch – A Symphonic Trilogy is a three-part orchestral suite and, as such, it’s a departure for the Welsh band. “I do so much musi
Prog1 min read
Mountainscape’s Ascent Continues On Album Two
British post-rock prospects Mountainscape release their second album, Atoms Unfurling, on October 21 via Trepanation Recordings. The LP follows the band’s full-length 2021 debut Acceptance, which established their dynamic blend of ambient, folk, meta
Prog2 min read
PROG PRESENTS… Discovering
White Knight Records is a collaboration between Rob Reed (Magenta/Tigermoth Records) and Will Mackie (Hoggwash/Caerllysi Music), two friends with a long-standing mutual interest in the promotion and popularity of prog and art-rock. Mackie and Reed ha
Prog2 min read
‘Bluesman’ Dunnery To Tour The UK!
Francis Dunnery returns to the UK in November with a new group, Tombstone Dunnery, and he’ll also play live in 2023 with Francis Dunnery’s It Bites. Blues-based project Tombstone Dunnery also features bassist Paul Brown, guitarist Quint Starkie and d
Prog1 min read
INTRO Extras
Sunderland art-rockers Field Music have founded their own music label. Daylight Saving Records will open their account with a new album from fellow Tyne And Wear prog-pop artist Ian Black, AKA Slug. Thy Socialite! will be released on January 20 next
Prog2 min read
Ed’s Letter
Hello, and welcome to the new issue of Prog magazine. Just over 40 years ago (by the time you read this), some 60,000 Genesis fans convened in an old clay pit in Milton Keynes and witnessed the one live reunion it seems most prog fans have hankered f
Prog1 min read
Haken Join Between The Buried And Me In ‘Limbo’!
Heavy-hitting Brit proggers Haken will join forces with US prog metallers Between The Buried And Me next year, on an extensive co-headline tour. With support from New Yorkers Cryptodira, the bands’ Island In Limbo tour will see them play 36 dates acr
Prog1 min read
Prog Adventurers Galahad Return
Enduring Bournemouth proggers Galahad release their 11th studio album on October 24. Available through the band’s Avalon label, The Last Great Adventurer is their first release since 2018’s Seas Of Change. It was produced by Threshold’s Karl Groom, a
Prog2 min read
Gordon Giltrap On His Latest Chapter
Veteran guitarist Gordon Giltrap has teamed up once again with keyboardist Paul Ward for a new album, set for release on November 4 via Psychotron Records. Scattered Chapters features 16 brand-new instrumental compositions plus fresh recordings of Gi
Prog1 min read
INTRO Extras
On November 18 Warner will reissue Ian Anderson Plays The Orchestral Jethro Tull for the first time ever on vinyl. Originally released in 2005 on CD and DVD, the double album features performances recorded during Anderson’s tour of the same name acro
Prog1 min read
Eight Albums In Gandalf’s Fist Get Superstitious!
Cumbrian prog rockers Gandalf’s Fist will issue their eighth album, Widdershins, on November 21 via their own Nightkeeper Productions. It’s the band’s first new music since 2019’s The Clockwork Prologue, and Fist frontman Dean Marsh tells Prog that e
Prog1 min read
Elder Seek Passage On Proggy Sixth
Berlin-based heavy psych rockers Elder have unveiled details of their sixth full-length album. Set for release on November 25 via Stickman Records, Innate Passage builds on the template of 2020’s acclaimed Omens, which was a notably sprawling and pro
Prog1 min read
Fad Gadgets
Many electronic instruments have a “randomise” function which lets you shape and sculpt sound in unexpected ways. None of them, however, are as aesthetically gorgeous and conceptually sound as this: a machine constructed from brass and walnut, which
Prog2 min read
Fabrizio Grossi
“In 1980 I dropped and broke my cousin’s vinyl copy of an Eagles live album. I looked everywhere for a replacement copy in my home town of Milan but couldn’t find one anywhere, then eventually this guy was selling his copy but would only sell it with
Prog2 min read
Unprocessed
UNPROCESSED RELEASED THEIR fourth album, Gold, over the summer and the resulting surge in popularity over their modern blend of progressive metal has filled their calendars to the brim. Prog asks where Unprocessed frontman Manuel Gardner Fernandes is
Prog1 min read
Prog In Brief
Ayreon’s (right) 2000 releases Universal Migrator Pt I & II will be reissued – remixed and remastered – by Music Theories on November 18, with Neal Morse, Damian Wilson and Bruce Dickinson among the vocalists. More at www.arjenlucassen.com. Oslo prog
Prog2 min read
The Membranes
Forged amid the snotty fires of punk, The Membranes emerged from the mean streets of Blackpool in the late 70s. Part of a freewheeling post-punk movement that had precisely zero interest in the virtuoso excesses of progressive rock, they became one o
Prog2 min read
Dongyang Gozupa
Describing themselves as “the gap between East and West,” Seoul’s instrumental trio Dongyang Gozupa merge traditional Korean music with prog approaches to percussion-based music. Eunhwa Yun leads the charge with his custom version of the traditional
Prog1 min read
Prog In Brief
Tunisian prog metallers Myrath headline French festival Ready For Prog, in Toulouse on October 29. Now in its fourth year, the also features Klone, Seventh Wonder, Scar Symmetry, Kingcrow and more. Tickets at readyforprog.festik.net. Norwegian guitar
Prog2 min read
Dawnwalker
THE IRONY BEHIND Dawnwalker’s new record, House Of Sand, is that it is self-admittedly“claustrophobic and inward looking” – yet it could easily open up the group to a whole new audience. Gone are the 10-plus-minute opuses of the London-based collecti
Prog2 min read
Oiseaux-tempête
OISEAUX-TEMPÊTE STARTED WHEN Frédéric Oberland travelled to Greece in 2012 with photographer Stéphane Charpentier to document the economic and political turmoil there. The situation inspired him to start a new musical project as a reaction. “Back in
Prog3 min read
US, THEM & YOU
The prog top 30 albums Compiled by 1 MUSE Will Of The People (WARNER/HELIUM-3) 2 PINK FLOYD Animals (2018 Remix) (RHINO) 3 STEVE HACKETT Genesis Revisited Live: Seconds Out & More (INSIDEOUT) 4 KING’S X Three Sides Of One (INSIDEOUT) 5 MARILLION Holi
Prog2 min read
The Hirsch Effekt
HIRSCH EFFEKT BASSIST and co-vocalist Ilja John Lappin categorises his band’s music as“progressive metal with an indie touch”. It’s a description that drastically undersells their restless eclecticism. Since forming in 2008, the trio have become one
Prog4 min read
Q&A DAVID PAICH
Six Grammys, one Emmy, 40 million sales: keyboardist, songwriter, producer, singer, not to mention crack session man, Toto’s David Paich has chalked up a fulsome career, rich in both breadth and success. Working with such luminaries as Quincy Jones,
Prog23 min read
Dark And Grey: six of The Best
It was almost as unbelievable as a storyline on one of their early albums. In October 1982, Genesis reunited with their mercurial co-founder and original lead singer Peter Gabriel for a one-off concert in an act of generosity that underlined the grou
Prog11 min read
Waiting To Happen
The tipping point for Marillion came with ‘Mexican Night’. It was late summer in 1990, and the band had spent several increasingly frustrating weeks holed up in Stanbridge Farm Studios, a residential facility outside the English seaside resort of Bri
Prog5 min read
Black Moon
On March 23, 2020, AA Williams uploaded a video to her YouTube channel. Shot in moody black and white at her London home, the musician sat at her piano and performed a skeletal cover of Radiohead’s Creep, silhouetted against the pale light coming thr
Prog7 min read
All God’s Children
With drummer Jerry Gaskill suffering a pair of near-fatal heart attacks and guitarist Ty Tabor developing an unspecified illness that required “vigilant monitoring”, causing the second axing of a visit to Europe and the UK, the past few years represe
Prog7 min read
Theory Of Evolution
During Prog’s chat with Arena about their latest album, The Theory Of Molecular Inheritance, new vocalist Damian Wilson veers the conversation towards the time he got pulled over by police for speeding at more than 100mph en route to sing at a Rick W
Prog5 min read
The Post-War Dream
“The first album was a demo that sort of escaped, really.” Prog is reminiscing about the development of the Cosmograf project in the late 2000s with its sole creative force, the multi-talented Robin Armstrong. We’re discussing 2009’s End Of Ecclesia,
Prog7 min read
Between The Lines
A revolving door’s been in operation at Threshold HQ throughout the veteran prog metallers’ 34-year history, most notably in the lead vocals department. The last revolution in 2017 saw singer Damian Wilson leave for the third time and the return of o
Prog7 min read
All The Rage
The song Vienna might have been held off the No.1 spot by a novelty song about a rebellious Italian boy, but its huge success gave Ultravox carte blanche to experiment for as long as it took with a bearlike German. Conny Plank, the éminence grise of
Prog7 min read
Bleed From Within
The links between music and archery are not often discussed. Intriguing, then, that Conrad Keely believes his band’s current album, XI: Bleed Here Now, benefited from him accessing his inner Robin Hood. “It was fun to set up an archery range outside
Prog6 min read
“Joy Is The Essence Of success!”
There is a song on Heilung’s new album Drif that comes from the oldest surviving complete work of annotated music. This music was found carved into clay tablets dating back 3,400 years ago, in the Canaanite city of Ugarit, in the northern part of wha
Prog11 min read
The Prog Interview Hugh Banton
While other keyboard players of the late 1960s and mid-1970s have lugged their instruments about the stage, hurled cutlery at the keys, or appeared as a caped magician encircled by a towering array of technology in a swirl of dry ice, Hugh Banton has
Prog16 min read
Echoes Old turns…
Welcome return for the dazzling, long out of print, live album. Bill Bruford has always maintained that his drumming style fell somewhere between rock and jazz. And with regards to his departure from prog supergroup UK in late 1978, he explained that
Prog35 min read
Jean-michel Jarre
[email protected] Jean-Michel Jarre achieved global recognition with his 1976 album Oxygène, selling 12 million albums at a time when progressive music was supposedly in retreat. Forty-six years later, he brings us Oxymore, which suggests we
Prog2 min read
Justin Hayward
VENUE WHITE ROCK THEATRE, HASTINGS DATE 23/09/2022 With The Moody Blues dormant since the retirement of the late Graeme Edge four years ago, any sign of Moodies-related activity is welcome. Following on from bandmate John Lodge’s Classic Moody Blues
Prog3 min read
Porcupine Tree
VENUE AUDITORIUM THEATRE, CHICAGO, USA DATE 20/09/2022 Late last year, progressive behemoths Porcupine Tree announced their big comeback. After being apart for more than a decade, they’re finally back on the road, on their first tour in 12 long years
Prog3 min read
Big Big Train
VENUE WATERSIDE THEATRE, AYLESBURY DATE 02/09/2022 SUPPORT DIM GRAY When Big Big Train played a triumphant end-of-tour show at Hackney Empire in November 2019, all seemed set fair for their continuing rise, with dates scheduled for Europe and the US
Prog2 min read
The Mars Volta
VENUE METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE PHILADELPHIA, USA DATE 27/09/2022 The Mars Volta were among the greatest prog/jazz rock groups of the 2000s, so this comeback show is heavily anticipated. Comprising mostly of classic compositions – as well as some trac
Prog7 min read
Arctangent Festival
VENUE FERNHILL FARM, COMPTON MARTIN DATE 17/08/2022-20/08/2022 The UK’s premier post-rock, math rock and prog festival is finally back! It’s been three years since ArcTanGent has graced Fernhill Farm, but thankfully the now four-day get-together is m
Prog2 min read
Organ Reframed
VENUE UNION CHAPEL, LONDON DATE 16/09/2022 Considering its fourth iteration has been delayed for over two years, the Organ Reframed festival feels uniquely pre-ordained. Although Islington’s Union Chapel regularly hosts folk, rock and prog acts – Ope

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