Steve Petch
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Sep 07 2011
Prog – What Would I Have Done Without It?
This posting of Progmeister’s thoughts comes to you from a small fishing port near Ayamonte in southern Spain. The Progmeister is indeed on his Jolley’s and with me is a variety pack of Prog courtesy of my trust laptop. I was inspired to…
Aug 23 2011
Mandalaband | BC Ancestors
Somewhere in my loft is a copy of a vinyl record given to me by a friend many years ago. It is called The Eye Of Wendor by the Mandala band, the driving force and founder of whom is David Rohl.
My memory of this album has been somewhat jaded b…
Aug 10 2011
New Classic Record Sleeve Portal
For those who not only enjoy the music of prog a new blog has been created by by Teesside atrist and long tome friend of Progmeister John Wray. In it he features his favourite classic album covers including some interesting facts and the stories of t…
Aug 10 2011
Sean Filkins | War And Peace and Other Short Stories
It’s taken me a while to get round to reviewing Sean Filkins war and peace & other short stories. I first heard excerpts from the album on ARFM’s Soundscapes and became instantly intrigued. From the outset this album holds the listen…
Jul 31 2011
Apology
Please accept our apologies for the recent lack of input on the site by The Progmeister. It is said and it is true that sometimes life just gets in the way. Many of the day to day issues like work/life balance, health etc. have all conspired to prev…
Jul 20 2011
Comedy of Errors | Disobey
Beguiling, bewildering and really very good is the way that I would describe “Disobey” the shape-shifter of an album by Glaswegian based Comedy Of Errors. Vocalist Joe Cairney brought the release of “Disobey to our attention a few …
Jul 19 2011
In Conversation with IQ
It was a very hot Saturday the day of IQ’s 30th anniversary gig at the The Assembly in Leamington Spa. I and big prog Al had traveled down from Teesside arriving early so that we could interview the band prior to them taking to the stage. As we were ushered through the waiting crowd …
Jun 29 2011
IQ30 – Leamington Spa
Travelling south to Leamington Spa from Teesside playing some of IQ’s vast back catalogue as we went paid off that evening of the bands 30th Anniversary show. Many of the songs the band played that night had not been played for many year…
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