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  • John Wenlock-Smith’s ‘Best of 2023’

    John Wenlock-Smith’s ‘Best of 2023’

    This is a list of the albums that have made a big impression on me this year. They are not in any order although several marked are my favourites and I will nominate one as my album of the year. Here is the list: 1.Orion– The End Of Suffering – This came out of nowhere…

  • Progradar – Review Of The Year 2023

    Progradar – Review Of The Year 2023

    2023 has been a fantastic year for music with an absolute plethora of superb albums that I have reviewed. It’s always very difficult indeed to pick out my favourite twenty releases from such a stellar year but here are the ones that have really left a mark for me. They are in no particular order…

  • Review – Southern Empire – Another World

    Review – Southern Empire – Another World

    Music is the perfect accompaniment to life, when you listen to great music you don’t need to be doing anything else. There are all sorts of different music genres and we don’t like them all but, to me anyway, there’s no such thing as bad music, it’s just music that’s not for me. Music that…

  • Southern Empire share new single “Hold On To Me” from upcoming new album Another World

    Southern Empire share new single “Hold On To Me” from upcoming new album Another World

    Another World is out on September 4th – Pre-order begins today! Southern Empire recently announced the new album, Another World, due out on September 4th, 2023 on GEP Records. It’s been five years since their last offering Civilisation made such a big impression on the music press and fans alike and now the band have…

  • 2018’s Top 10 Albums – Part 2 – James R Turner’s Picks

    2018’s Top 10 Albums – Part 2 – James R Turner’s Picks

    Blimey, as we hurtle towards the season finale of 2018, with 2019 ready and waiting in the wings, it’s that time of year for an arbitrary jog through some of the albums that have made my year. Lists being lists these, of course, are totally personal. My Christmas list, for instance, looks nothing like Lord…

  • HRH Prog 7 at Hafan y M?r Holiday Park in Pwllheli – by James R Turner with input from Progradar

    HRH Prog 7 at Hafan y M?r Holiday Park in Pwllheli – by James R Turner with input from Progradar

    This was my first HRH Prog, and I gleefully loaded up my car with the requisite supplies (Bottled water, Bottled Beer) and entertainment for the journey (the new Sheridan Smith album – it’s rather brilliant btw, the new Robyn CD, the latest Gryphon album and Chas n Dave the EMI years) and set off on…

  • Review – Southern Empire – Civilisation – by Progradar

    Review – Southern Empire – Civilisation – by Progradar

    “And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon Englands mountains green: And was the holy Lamb of God, On Englands pleasant pastures seen!” Sage words of bombast and pomposity and the sort of thing you’d hear at the Last Night of the Proms. To be honest, if we had an equivalent thing for progressive…

  • Summer’s End Festival announces (almost) complete 2017 line up…

    Summer’s End Festival announces (almost) complete 2017 line up…

    We are delighted to announce the (almost) complete line up for Summer’s End 2017, to be held at the Drill Hall, Chepstow on October 6-8 2017. Leap of Faith tickets have now come off sale and will be replaced by standard tickets on Tuesday 17th January. – Hero tickets (including a t shirt and our…

  • Progradar Best of 2016 – Rob Fisher’s Top Ten

    Progradar Best of 2016 – Rob Fisher’s Top Ten

    We are going to end 2016 at Progradar with a selection of ‘Top 10’ picks. I have asked as many contributors as would like to join in the fun to give me their best 10 albums of the year. Here we start with Rob Fisher‘s selections. Flux – Shadowlines I had the absolute pleasure of…

  • Progradar – 2016 – Best of the First Six Months

    Progradar – 2016 – Best of the First Six Months

    (Yours truly and Prog Guru himself) Welcome ladies and gentlemen to the first official Progradar Reviewers and Friends ‘Best Of…’ feature. I asked those who wished to contribute to cogitate over what great music they had heard, released 1st January to 30th June, in the first half of 2016 and come up with a list…