Oct 11 2012
Tangent fans will have heard via Facebook et al about radical plans do dissolve the band in it’s present form. Like many if not all of you i was heartily disappointed, shocked and upset to read of this news. However, i remember having the same feelings when Pete Bardens left Camel and the same with …
Oct 07 2012
My old friend and guitar loop genius Matt Stevens will be appearing at a great up-coming event – anyone who watched Matt’s brilliant performance at Progmeister 2 should check it out by following these links: www.stabbingadeadhorse.com http://soundcloud.com/mattstevensguitar/steve-davis-stabbing-a-dead Looks like a great bash. don’t miss out and get yourself there.
Oct 04 2012
Legendary progressive rock veterans FOCUS are set to release their new studio album FOCUS X on November 5 via Eastworld Recordings. With their unique progressive rock Focus manifested themselves at the start of the seventies as the most successful and the most appreciated of all the Dutch pop-rock exports. The band is fronted by …
Oct 02 2012
Well, time is getting on and whilst it has been raining since Progmeister2 i was wondering whether or not to start planning Progmeister III? with so many brilliant gigs to attend like summers End, celebr8 and of coarse Y-Prog, would anyone be interested? Let me know what you think guys. I have a few …
Sep 13 2012
Those of you who attended the first Progmeister will hopefully recall Mog who played out their opera “Jack The Vicar”? damned good it was too. Mog front man Phil Swinburne has since been keeping himself busy with various drama and musical projects not least recording a new EP “Harpsong”. I received a call from …
Sep 05 2012
Big Big Train’s latest and much spoken about album “English Electric” found it’s way to Progmeister HQ last week to initially mixed feelings. Please don’t read too much into that as like many we have been waiting in great anticipation for it’s release and found that on it’s maiden voyage in the wrong environment …
Aug 27 2012
Since the fist appearance of The Tony Patterson Band at Progmeister2 there has been little time for idle hands. tony has been hard at work writing and recording music as he does for various media and started work with Riversea man Brendan Eyre on the Northlands project. More recently Tony sent me some files …
Aug 26 2012
Thirty years ago Asia was a dirty word to me preferring instead the pomp, excesses and eccentricities of the bands that i then believed had been betrayed and abandoned by the four elements of Asia. I thought then that Asia had sold out. It wasn’t until a few years ago that Riversea keys man …
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