Author: Paul Watson

Live in Auckland, New Zealand and have collected and listened to Prog since when it first started being played here on radio back in the very early 70's. First LP I bought was 'Close To The Edge' by Yes. Years later I wrote music articles and reviews for a number of local magazines for 20 years or so. i also worked on local radio with my own weekly show playing mostly instrumental music. I then wrote reviews and articles for an international screenwriting magazine for a couple of years. I loved 3 or so years playing prog rock on an online radio station with my own show called 'Too Close To the Edge' and got to play all types of prog-related music and make a lot of friends with fans and artists. My hobbies and spare time include writing my own music and playing guitar, collecting and reading books, mostly Science Fiction, still have the itch to write the next best novel, and I mooch around various FB pages and prog forums making a nuisance of myself. Glad to meet you.
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LET SLIP THE SANDS OF TIME. CARY HEUCHERT’S LATEST ALBUM, ‘HOURGLASS.’

Canadian Multi-instrumentalist/singer-songwriter, Cary Heuchert returns with a followup album to his “Blue Rain” (2014), simply titled “Hourglass.” The evergreen, “Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind…” from the pen of novelist, Nathaniel Hawthorne is in some ways an apt quote for a perfect continuation after so many years from the stylistic approach Cary … Continue reading LET SLIP THE SANDS OF TIME. CARY HEUCHERT’S LATEST ALBUM, ‘HOURGLASS.’

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BREAKING DOWN EVERY ALBUM BY RENAISSANCE. AUTHOR,DAVID DETMER’S NEW BOOK TITLE ON ONE OF OUR FAVOURITE 70’S PROGRESSIVE ROCK BANDS.

All it took was a mention of the word “Renaissance” and “new book” to race on over to my favourite online book seller to pre-order without any hesitation. I was so there in my excitement. Why? Because this band put out so many memorable Progressive Rock albums but not much has been said via the … Continue reading BREAKING DOWN EVERY ALBUM BY RENAISSANCE. AUTHOR,DAVID DETMER’S NEW BOOK TITLE ON ONE OF OUR FAVOURITE 70’S PROGRESSIVE ROCK BANDS.

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GOING OUT WITH A LAUGH. BOOMER’S LAST STAND THROUGH ‘ASSISTED LIVING’

No, not a residence for older folk or people with disabilities, or even a TV sitcom, and you’d be forgiven for saying so, as their album ‘Assisted Living‘ does take an irreverent tongue-in-cheek approach to a lot of these songs on offer here. They might be dwelling on the last roll of the dice but … Continue reading GOING OUT WITH A LAUGH. BOOMER’S LAST STAND THROUGH ‘ASSISTED LIVING’

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Get those stockings filled with THE GRAND UNDOING / HENRICK CEDERBLOM ZOBOP / PABLO EMBON

Phew…! What a year, and we still have a few days to go before the fat man with the white beard sings, “ho! ho! ho!” down the chimney of every good child in the land. Looking for new sounds over the festive period? Then look no further than these three. you’ll find there’s something for … Continue reading Get those stockings filled with THE GRAND UNDOING / HENRICK CEDERBLOM ZOBOP / PABLO EMBON

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IRISH BAND, M-OPUS RELEASES NEW EPIC ProgSci~Fi CONCEPT DOUBLE ALBUM ‘ORIGINS’

“The year was 2187. We had already established thriving colonies on the Moon and Mars,on space stations and orbiting facilities, when a new discovery revolutionised everything… ” Show me one marriage between music and Science Fiction that has stood the test of time more than Progressive Rock? If not fully dabbled in it then some … Continue reading IRISH BAND, M-OPUS RELEASES NEW EPIC ProgSci~Fi CONCEPT DOUBLE ALBUM ‘ORIGINS’

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‘TIS THE SEASON TO BE PROGGIE… Potter’s Daughter release a single fit for this time of year

Are you starting to feel some of those strands to the Festive vibe? Stirrings of childhood memories filled with laughter and child-like expectations, with a myriad of coloured glowing lights on trees. The smell of pine (or maybe pine air fresheners tied to plastic trees)? What about the malls all decked out to be jolly, … Continue reading ‘TIS THE SEASON TO BE PROGGIE… Potter’s Daughter release a single fit for this time of year

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“TYGER TYGER, BURNING BRIGHT!” FEARFUL SYMMETRY RELEASE THEIR NEW ALBUM ‘LOUDER THAN WORDS.’

‘Tyger Tyger, burning bright,  In the forests of the night;  What immortal hand or eye,  Could frame thy fearful symmetry?’ William Blake [‘Tyger, Tyger,’ 1794]   Now here’s a band that takes its own name from the very poem just tripping over itself in metaphorical meaning designed to demonstrate the “fearful symmetry” between the beauty … Continue reading “TYGER TYGER, BURNING BRIGHT!” FEARFUL SYMMETRY RELEASE THEIR NEW ALBUM ‘LOUDER THAN WORDS.’