Prog Fetish

AntiMusic is reporting that this year’s ProgPower UK festival has been canceled due to poor ticket sales. The two day festival was to take place on March 28th and 29th in Bristol and feature sets from Jon Oliva’s Pain, Kamelot, Leaves’ Eyes, Communic, Haggard, Dreamscape, Scar Symmetry, and Cloudscape. The following statement was posting on [...]

The former Soft Machine bassist has his lastest album, The Unfairground, profiled by Rolling Stone’s David Fricke:

Blond and handsome, of impeccable pedigree and beguiling baritone voice, he was the closest thing to a pop idol in English progressive rock.

Apparently the Zeppelin vocalist prefers Captain Beefheart over, say, more current musical fare. Read the full story over at The Sun. We prefer Beefheart too.

ProgRock Records has signed the Italian “melodic progmetal” outfit Soul Secret, and they’ll be releasing their debut album, Flowing Portraits, as well. Says ProgRock Records president Shawn Gordon:
I always like to discover new talent, and I’m fortunate to have a network of friends that refer promising material to me, which is how Soul Secret came [...]

Twelfth Night have announced they’ll be headlining the opening night of this year’s Rotherham Rocks festival. The festival is presented by The Classic Rock Society and will take place Friday, May 16th at the Herringthorpe Leisure Centre, Rotherham, Yorkshire.
Tickets are available from 01709 702575 or www.classicrocksociety.net.

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