Would you like to watch that Stewart Lee singing a very noisy version of Ejection with EarthBall? Of course... Recorded at Cafe OTO, 17 April 2026 www.facebook.com/share/v/1CfZ...

After a short break, it's time for the Progressive Rock Show panel to share episode 3 of A Crash Course In Italian Prog... We move out of the classic '70s RPI era and into the '00s for Il Grande Labirinto by La Maschera di Cera. Great cover!

Listen here from 1:00:19: progzilla.com/the-progress...

Everything is Singing to me, by Magnus Martin 12 track album

Anyway, if you haven't already, listen to his new album, it's great: magnusmartin.bandcamp.com/album/everyt... 2/2

Hawkwind’s Magnus Martin isn’t actually a member of Hawkwind Magnus Martin got his start with Hawkwind by lying about being able to play keyboards. He's still there nine years on

Louder has kindly shared online the interview I did with Magnus Martin which appeared in the last issue of Prog magazine... though I don't think at any point I suggest that Magnus isn't a member of Hawkwind! Magnus definitely is a member of Hawkwind... 1/2 www.loudersound.com/bands-artist...

Hmmm, that's rather an, err, imaginative spin on what I wrote...!

Yeah, it was quite a leap!

PH certainly isn't for everyone, but have a listen to A Black Box (and its 1981 follow-up Sitting Targets) - it's an interesting comparison with what Gabriel was doing around the same time (and as you may know, PH sings backing vox on PG4)

Peter Gabriel - No Self Control (Video) YouTube video by The Geeky Music Dude

PG obviously had the Genesis faithful boosting his career at the time, but the likes of 'No Self-Control' were as out there as anything PH was doing. I remember seeing it on Top Of The Pops in May 1980, which was a definite WTF moment for my 12-year-old self... 2/2 www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFbH...

Just found this in the October 1980 edition of ZigZag, a review of The Black Box (sic) by Peter Hammill fan Kris Needs. It's positive as you'd expect, but that's an interesting point he makes re Peter Gabriel in the opening paragraph... 1/2

Buy tix for our King Crimson ITWOP Listening Party! – A King Crimson Listening Party III - In The Wake Of Poseidon – The Water Rats Theatre, 328 Grays Inn Road, King's Cross A King Crimson Listening Party III - In The Wake Of Poseidon – The Water Rats Theatre, 328 Grays Inn Road, King's Cross, Sun 17 May 2026 - Join Prog, Record Collector, Classic Rock, MOJO and The Wire ...

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This is coming up, and well worth attending. Last year's Lizard listening party was excellent... #kingcrimson fb.me/e/6ql2cX6BD

"Wolf? Pah..."

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Hertfordshire Chorus at Bath Abbey Hertfordshire Chorus makes its long-awaited debut in the beautiful city of Bath with a compelling programme of twentieth century choral music.

Get tickets here: bathboxoffice.org.uk/whats-on/her...

Listen to Requiem Mass here: judgesmith1.bandcamp.com/album/requie...

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Judge Smith's excellent Requiem Mass for choir, brass and rock band is being performed at Bath Abbey, 13 June 2026.

Written in 1975, and in the tradition of Pink Floyd's Atom Heart Mother and Deep Purple's Concerto For Group And Orchestra, this is a must-see event for all VdGG/prog fans 1/2

The experience was enhanced by the decidedly sci-fi surroundings of the Barbican's screen 1 cinema - must see more stuff there...

Here's the link to the season this film was part of: www.barbican.org.uk/.../2026/ser... 2/2

ATOMIC WAR BRIDE (1960) Trailer [#atomicwarbride #atomicwarbridetrailer] YouTube video by Tripsy Trailers

To the Barbican last night to watch Atomic War Bride, a darkly absurdist satire made in Yugoslavia in 1960. Tonally, it swings from slapstick to melodrama, but the ending is as bleak as anything you'll have seen in more well-known nuclear films. Dubbed trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHFT... 1/2

[October 22, 1970] The Most Dangerous Game on West German TV: Das Millionenspiel (The Million Game) - Galactic Journey by Cora Buhlert The Fugitives Apprehended Like much of West Germany, these past few months I have been following the antics of the young idiots, since dubbed the Baader-Meinhof Gang by the press, who ...

Go here to read more: galacticjourney.org/october-22-1...

And yes, this was 17 years before The Running Man - although Sheckley also wrote Seventh Victim, a story with similar themes that was adapted for film as The Tenth Victim in Italy in 1965... 3/3

Das Millionenspiel WDR1970 Intro YouTube video by Lautsprecherdurchsage

It's an excellent early example of a mockumentary in that a lot of TV viewers at the time thought it was a real show they were watching.

There's some wonderful sequences, such as these opening credits, which include an excellent theme by Can www.youtube.com/watch?v=njvy... 2/3

Another trip to @thenickelcinema.bsky.social last night to see Das Millionenspiel, a German TV movie from 1970 based on a Robert Sheckley short story The Prize Of Peril. It's a prescient satire on reality TV gameshows, as a man attempts to evade three killers and claim a 1,000,000 DM prize. 1/3

Excellent cutting from Melody Maker, 24 July 1976, Gail Colson - label head of Charisma - in their '8 Days A Week' diary feature. She sees VdGG in Geneva (which puts her in a "weird mood") and then Hawkwind in Le Havre (who she diplomatically says she needs to see more ;-)) Oh, and Genesis in Paris.

"Sick of politicians..." ;-)

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Yep, not good

I don't think so, just very confused...

There's a bizarre exchange where one of the doc makers says, "Didn't they write a song that was anti the Beatles?", and the other immediately agrees, "They were anti the Beatles." What is this absolute bollocks?? McCartney was Lemmy's bass-playing hero FFS.

It's really shoddy... 2/2

I've just watched the McCartney bass documentary that features Hawkwind and I feel genuinely outraged. It makes a completely unfounded, verging on libellous, claim that "it felt like Hawkwind had a motive [to steal the bass] and it also felt like they also had the personality to go and do it." 1/2

I have a feeling that anger will ensue when I watch this...

Clockwork Orange deleted ;-)

"How the World Declared War on America" In the wilderness of America, JG Ballard foresaw the gangster imperialism of Donald Trump

Apologies, behind a paywall, but those first few lines suggest that J.G. Ballard was dead on the money again... www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2026/0...