Poster for PB4X 25 at Glasgow, Drygate

We’ll be playing this BTW. If you’re in Glasgow at the end of November then come see the Daughters!!

KISS founding guitarist Ace Frehley dies aged 74 Bandmates Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley have paid tribute to an "irreplaceable rock soldier".

KISS founding guitarist Ace Frehley dies aged 74 www.bbc.com/news/article...

F***k Trump and all his henchmen!!

A picture of me holding a copy of ‘A playground of broken hearts’, by Andrew Wild.

A photo of me with an advance copy of Andrew Wild’s latest opus, part two of his history of what became known as Neo-prog (Cough! Splutter! ). Reading through it so far it gives a useful context to what went on and when. What a long, strange trip it’s been!

Alan's fundraiser for Parkinson’s UK Help alan Reed raise money to support Parkinson’s UK

This is now live:

www.justgiving.com/page/alan-re...

I’ve also blogged on it. Give as much - or as little- as you can. Every penny counts

Alan & The Daughters @ PB4X

Seems we’ll be doing this on Saturday, 29th of November. We’ll be playing a full set!

Have agreed to stop bombing infrastructure. So I'll have more time to focus on military targets like hospitals.

F***k Trump and all his henchmen!!

Cover for Download single: Pallas, ‘The Great Attractor’ (courtesy Mike Bentley)

With Agent Orange in the White House, who knows how long anyone has left. Not us. Not you. Not the Ukrainians, not the Canadians, and not the Greenlanders.

We felt we had to do something - however small.
We have released ‘TGA’ via streaming sites. You know what to do!

Slava Ukraini - Pallas

We are releasing ‘The Great Attractor’ via all streaming sites in the next few days. It’s passed its review stages view TuneCore, so it should be up in the next few days. With Agent Orange in the WH we had to do something! Slava Ukraini!

So we’re doing this. Four acts to celebrate midsummer. We may even attempt some Pallas.

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There might not be any Pallas gigs on the horizon, but this is worth seeing. He may even attempt the odd Pallas track!

Gulf of Mexico - Wikipedia

Go to Google
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Reverse of Paris is burning 7”

Paris Burning 7”

Look what Alan’s partner found. A 7” of ‘Paris is Burning’!

He joined an outfit called Minas Tirith and left Aberdeen. We got back in touch sometime after the re release of the albums he was on. By that time he was back in Scotland. He has joined another band in the Glasgow area.

Prog online

Seems we’re also at the heart of vol2 of a book by Andrew Wild. Vol 1 covered the years with Euan.

Extract from Prog

Seems that the reissues did ok. No 10 in this month’s Prog magazine.
We, of course, don’t hold with such things. Unless of course we win them 😂

Pallas 'The Dreams Of Men' (2005) - YouTube

#ProgressiveRock @pallasofficial.bsky.social

Pallas 🎭 The Dreams Of Men

Released 2005

Tracks
1. The Bringer of Dreams
2. Warriors
3. Ghostdancers
4. Too Close to the Sun
5. Messiah
6. Northern Star
7. Mr. Wolfe
8. Invincible
9. The Last Angel

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The Knightmoves: Strangers/Nightmare/Sanctuary

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The Formative Years

The Great Attractor, by Pallas from the album The Messenger

I don’t know why, but this seems oddly appropriate at the moment. pallasofficial.bandcamp.com/track/the-gr...

Today's listening - excellent acoustic mini album from @3hobbits.bsky.social : features a lovely version of @pallasofficial.bsky.social 's 'Sanctuary'!

Musician who contracted flesh-eating bug gets new lease of life Mike Stobbie contracted a "flesh-eating disease" but says it has given him a new appreciation of life.

'My left hand was like something out of an alien movie' www.bbc.com/news/article...

‘There’s no hope and no mince pies’. Xmas in Atlantis.

A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to yin and a’

Pallas

A life well lived is the best revenge. By now you’ll have seen the band statement about us ‘retiring’ from live work.  If you haven’t seen it, then it’s all over FB. And I’ll post it again at the bottom of this blog. In essence &#8…

Alan has blogged:

3hobbitsblog.wordpress.com/2024/12/15/a...

A full statement is on FB, and Alan will blog on this later.

We’re sorry that we couldn’t bow out as intended, but we have to be realistic.

Alan, Graeme, Niall and Ronnie

However, with every bit of good news comes something bad. We’ve decided that we’re ’retiring’ as a live outfit. We looked at touring, but we just couldn’t make the sums add up. Add in the costs of re-equipping, a drummer and bringing Niall back from Cambodia and it wasn’t to be.

We’ve decided that we’ll work together on another album. No title or release date as yet, but we’ve abandoned most of the material from The Messenger sessions in favour of working afresh. Expect it to be rockier, but also another ‘progression’.

From 2011. A return to the Atlantis theme of 1984’s The Sentinel… I think. Impressive artwork and the music’s pretty good too!

Pallas - XXV

Niall Mathewson

POD (Prince of Darkness aka Niall Mathewson) decides whether to eat a cat or stroke it.