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Prog Reviews, Prog Music Reviews

Combination Head | Museum

I was recently asked in a radio interview if I knew any of new prog rock bands carrying on from where the traditional bands like Pink Floyd, Yes and Genesis left off in their hey day. A few bands came to mind and Combination Head was one of them. It…

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Dropshard | Anywhere But Home

On the strength of this, their debut album Italian band Dropshard looks as if they could in time be joining the ranks of the Italian prog cognisenti alongsides of PFM and Le Orme as a major progressive band.

For this their fist album the band have re…

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Matt Stevens | Ghosts

At a time when so many talented artistes lean towards the prog metal edge of prog it is a breath of fresh air when something just a bit different comes along. At the present time Matt Stevens represents the antithesis of prog metal. The North Londoner …

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Mountains Come Out Of The Sky

  The illustrated history of prog rock by Will Romano This book is a large format full colour size guide to prog rock past and present. Most of the bands featured in the book the diehard aficionado will know and love but there are sections on Kraut rock, the Canterbury scene, Italian prog and prog …

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Prophets & Sages Book Review

Prophets & Sages: An illustrated guide to underground and progressive rock 1967-1975 by Mark Powell.

A petfect reference book for anyone interested in this very productive and musically rich musical ers. Printed in black and white with a colour …

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Nines Stones Close | Traces

A CD sized package arrived from the Netherlands recently at Progmeister Towers.  Upon opening it I was presented with the latest album by Nine Stones Close for review.  It was accompanied by an extra disc containing acoustic renditions f…

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Steve Hackett | The Sage, Gateshead

Travelling North from Teesside to Gateshead wasn’t a sensible thing to do taking the horrendous weather conditions into consideration, but, it had to be done. For this I must thank Ian Kerr, Progmeister’s prolific photographer for driving us the…

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RetroGenesis | Darlington Arts Centre

Braving the snow and icy roads of Friday 26th of November myself and good lady set out for Darlington to catch Retro-Genesis perform at the Darlington art centre. On arrival we were stricken by the similarity of the building to Chaterhouse which…

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