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Stalwarts of the UK’s underground prog scene, Galahad have been ploughing their own musical furrow since the 80s, evolving, mutating and absorbing different influences yet still sounding as relevant and fresh as ever on their recent releases. This di

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Rosalie Cunningham tells Prog that her upcoming solo album, To Shoot Another Day, which is released on November 1 via Esoteric, finds her in a far happier creative space than she’s been in before and she also reveals some high cinematic ambitions and

When Solstice played the 2023 Cropredy Festival, returning to that stage after an 18-year absence, their performance marked a high point in their resurgence. The dramatic changing fortunes of Andy Glass’s neo-prog institution are chronicled in New Li

Greek proggers Aphrodite’s Child reissue their third album, 666 – The Apocalypse Of John, as part of a box set via Universal Music on November 8 Based on the Bible’s Book Of Revelation, the original 1972 double record is widely regarded as one of the

Oxfordshire’s Prog For Peart festival, named in honour of Neil Peart, will return for its fifth edition on 18-19 July 2025, raising funds for the Headcase Cancer Trust. The charity is researching a cure for glioblastoma, the brain cancer that Rush’s

Matt Berry returns with his new his album, Heard Voices, on January 24 via Acid Jazz. Although it marks a change in direction from its predecessor, The Blue Elephant in that it moves into the area of bright Californian-influenced psychedelia, its cre

Winter’s End Festival organisers have unveiled a bumper line-up for the next edition, and they’ve also announced an expanded Summer’s End for 2025. Taking place at Chepstow Drill Hall on April 27-28, Winter’s End welcomes back Wobbler with their head

“It’s all there, every bum note that literally was ever played,” declares Rodney Slater. Arriving on December 14 from Madfish Music and seven years in the making, We Are Normal But We Are Still Barking, is a massive 17-CD, three-DVD compendium of mas

“I recently passed the site of the old Marquee Club on Wardour Street in London. I used to be a regular there in my teens and I saw Edgar Broughton there a few times. I also saw Led Zeppelin there when they were still The New Yardbirds. I used to go

Mark Barron’s first steps on the road of conversion to prog came from a most unlikely source. Then a teenage guitar player in his own pop-punk band, Embassy, he and his bassist became intrigued by a lyric from Wheatus’s global hit single, Teenage Dir

She was the baby of the family, born in Bexleyheath in 1958, but in her elder brother John’s black and white snapshots of her aged between eight and 12, dressed up and posing in various places around the extensive family plot of East Wickham Farm and

If Jakko Jakszyk’s music career ever ended, he’d make a great impressionist. An hour-long conversation about his fantastic new autobiography, Who’s The Boy With The Lovely Hair?, sees him mimicking everyone from Sir Richard Attenborough to Michael Ja

When Swedish prog metal kings Opeth played London’s Eventim Apollo in November 2022, their minds weren’t on King Crimson, Camel or Genesis. They were thinking about the bands who’d made the venue a part of heavy metal history. “To me it’s still the H

In retrospect, my decision to stick Kate Bush on the cover of ZigZag magazine in 1980 was an act of sheer punk-style defiance; so unlikely she had to be persuaded it wasn’t going to be another stitch-up before agreeing to do our interview. Yet once t

After 1997’s Calling All Stations, Tony Banks realised for the first time in 30 years that he may have to consider a world fully outside Genesis. His five solo/collaborative albums to date had been support features to Genesis’s main film, but now the

Developing their particular combination of melodic art-rock, pop-infused prog and metallic heft since 2010, Dutch five-piece Lesoir are deep into a slow-build campaign to promote their sixth album, Push Back The Horizon. When Prog catches up with mai

Continuity of activity is a hallmark shared by countless successful bands, prog or not. But rules have exceptions and continuity has never been a dominant feature of Frost*. They’re a band whose career has been punctuated by many stops and starts. Th

“I wasn’t so much of a classical music fan at the start, more folk rock,” says guitarist and vocalist John Lees, looking back at the early days of Barclay James Harvest with Prog via a video-call from his music room. “Woolly Wolstenholme would play t

Musical inspiration springs from many obscure places, but Stuckfish’s co-founder Adrian Fisher hit on an unlikely source while in the queue for the Tyne Tunnel’s telephone hotline. “The on-hold music had quite a nice keyboard sound, so after the phon

Expectations can be misleading. Jordan Rudess is renowned for his dazzling, technical keyboard skills that have been proudly placed under the spotlight on Dream Theater’s albums for the last 25 years, and such skills do, perhaps, lead to assumptions

“I always hard to predict the mood of the Brothers when we start a new project,” says Mikko von Hertzen. Yet the Von Hertzen Brothers – Kie the eldest, Mikko in the middle and Jonne the youngest – seem to be in a very upbeat mood on their ninth album

How did you become involved? I was speaking to Roie Avin from The Prog Report, which is an American podcast, and he asked if I’d heard of Jordan Rudess. He suggested that we could work well together and asked if he could set me up with him over email

Originally formed by brothers Paul and Chris McMahon in Sheffield way back in 1978, Haze have been a fixture of the music scene in a career spanning six decades, albeit with the occasional interregnum. While their longevity is impressive, it is by no

Phil Manzanera can’t get used to the fact he’s been recording music for more than half a century. “You blink and suddenly it’s 50 years,” Roxy Music’s guitar supremo tells Prog over Zoom. “I can’t even believe it myself! What happened? Where did it g

Egg ESOTERIC It’s hard to overstate the reverence in which Egg are held within the Canterbury scene community. Keyboardist Dave Stewart, bassist Mont Campbell and drummer Clive Brooks only recorded two albums during their short lifespan. These were f

50 Years Of Music UMR Emerging at the same time as Bryan Ferry’s half-century solo retrospective, this splendid and sprawling 11-CD collection of the former Roxy Music guitarist’s own work revels in his distinctive identity. That said, there are mome

Storm Corrosion KSCOPE There are some albums where lightning strikes. Storm Corrosion – a collaboration between Steven Wilson and Opeth’s Mikael Åkerfeldt, originally released in 2012 – is one such album. The pair had worked together before – the Por

VENUE CIRCO MASSIMO, ROME, ITALY DATE 27/09/2024 The setting couldn’t be more perfect. Rome’s majestic Circus Maximus, the hub of chariot-racing for the ancient Romans, is bathed in late-September sunshine without a cloud in the sky as an excited aud

VENUE O2 FORUM KENTISH TOWN, LONDON DATE 21/09/2024 From playing modest pub venues in 2010 to tonight’s “homecoming” London show at the 2,000-plus capacity Forum, Haken’s resolute commitment to their vision, married to a rare level of musical ability

VENUE POBLE ESPANYOL, BARCELONA, SPAIN DATE 27/09/2024-28/09/2024 The return of Spain’s premier prog festival is positive news for the community. After six years away, the two-day event is back at Barcelona’s open air museum, Poble Espanyol, this tim

VENUE THE BEDFORD, LONDON DATE 15/09/2024 Assumption, dear reader, is very often the mother of all fuck-ups! Prog isn’t the one here who looked at the poster of this prog all-day event, spotted the logo and photo of a black-clad Message From The Rave