Mike Maidment 
Progtastic Faces the Rainbow this week with a show embracing Frost, Wildfire and other Sweet Thrills with the one and only Miles on hand to bring the show to a heady climax. Strap in for some sounds that’ll blow your mind. 1. Rainbow Face – Drown 2. The Hotcakes of Wildfire – Knocking at the … Read more
Progtastic is the ultimate solution (obviously) as we sail the mighty ocean of music in the good ship Prog. Avoiding the Scylla and Charybdis of mainstream dross with a little help from Jethro Tull, Hats off Gentlemen its Adequate, Jo Beth Young, the Deviants and Kansas we arrive safe and intact to the Lunar Seas … Read more
Hiding in plain sight tonight are new tracks from Aqaba, Pymlico and the Gizzards while lurking in the bushes we find some guitar widdlery from Steve Hackett, some splendid folk-prog from Mostly Autumn and an ethereal fandango from Sigur Ros. 1. Marillion – The Invisible Man 2. Aqaba – Disconnect 3. Pymlico – Don’t do … Read more
Progtastic goes heavy tonight for a delve into the hard rock of days gone by so get the leathers out, buff up your finest codpiece, make the sign of the hornéd one and bang your head like the metal maniac that deep down you know you are. There, that’s better isn’t it! 1. Iron Maiden … Read more
Well the dead might be able to dance but most folks attending a prog concert tend to struggle with a 13/8 time signature. Strutting their terpsichorean stuff this week are gavottes from Black Country, New Road. Plus some foot-tapping canterbury scene and alternative jazz and of course some boogie-down Zappa guitar magic and we finish … Read more
Don’t be Blue, don’t be Moody, simply tune in to Progtastic, turn on an appropriate browser to access the show and hope the signal doesn’t drop out. We have fab new music from Henge and Chercan, some Zappa splendour from Treacherous Cretins, a tribute to Clem Burke of Blondie and some Purple of the Deep … Read more
Like a cosmic tripod of sound, we march across the wasted plains of popular music to deliver quality tunes to the masses with the heat ray of Prog. Scything through the red weed of anodyne radio this week are new tracks from Artnat, McStine and Minneman and Fifth Daughter plus classics old and new including … Read more
Its mostly Spring across the land despite our Mostly Autumn opening track as we peregrinate our way through the genres like Gandalf on his way to the Rivendell Curry House after an evening on the Sauron Super Mead. Enroute we encounter psychedelic rock, post punk, Zappa (a category apart), jazz fusion and post rock before … Read more
Our zeit has never been so geisted at Progtastic HQ as we find ourself at the vanguard of popular culture for the first (and probably only) time in our short but illustrious history as we feature a track from Steven Wilson’s album The Overview which hit Number 3 in the actual pop charts this very … Read more
Progtastic goes Fish-tastic to celebrate the last tour of his royal Fish-ness along with new tracks from Maruja and Nad Sylvan, some Zappa madness from the ZERO Ensemble and an early Simple Minds track. It’ll be reel-ly good and I’m angling for your approval and await your feedback with bait-ed breath. OK I’ll stop now. … Read more