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WARRINGTON-RUNCORN NEW TOWN DEVELOPMENT PLAN

Prog

Issue 165

Ambient artist travels back to the 70s with synth-heavy utopian soundtracks.

WARRINGTON-RUNCORN NEW TOWN DEVELOPMENT PLAN

GORDON CHAPMAN-FOX MIGHT not look like an archetypal pop star, though his abundantly monikered musical project has visited the UK Top 30 singles chart twice, in 2023 and earlier this year. Furthermore, could Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan be the longest name in chart history?

“I don’t know if they’ve ever chartered but Thee Silver Mt Zion Memorial Orchestra have got a pretty long name,” says Chapman-Fox, who has just pulled up at Cheshire services to conduct this interview on the way to Cardiff where he'll be playing a show tonight.

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Ghosts In The Half Light

Released 20 years ago, Porcupine Tree's Deadwing was the album that Lava Records hoped would turn over a profit. Although things didn't quite work out that way, the band's eighth studio record did raise their profile and launch them to American audiences. Steven Wilson, Gavin Harrison, Lava's Andy Karp and scriptwriter Mike Bennion reflect on the journey that took Porcupine Tree from playing to 30 people to filling 1,500-capacity venues and even scoring a ride in Neil Peart's Aston Martin.

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Morphin' Glory

Finnish progressive metal veterans Amorphis are 15 albums into a career like few others. As the band release Borderland, bassist Olli-Pekka Laine tells Prog, the nexus of death metal and neo-prog is a truly strange place to be.

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Issue 165

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Emotional Rescue

On her seventh album, Welsh art-rocker Cate Le Bon has returned to her homeland after a period of living in California. On the emotional Michelangelo Dying, she comes to terms with a broken heart and even teams up with fellow countryman John Cale. The singer-songwriter tells Prog about what she refers to as her \"necessary exorcism\" and why she's looking forward to playing her new songs live.

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Issue 165

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WARRINGTON-RUNCORN NEW TOWN DEVELOPMENT PLAN

Ambient artist travels back to the 70s with synth-heavy utopian soundtracks.

2 mins

Issue 165

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Gut Feeling

When Crown Lands found themselves without a label, they immersed themselves in total creative freedom, magic mushrooms and 80s King Crimson. The result is a widescreen three-album arc, starting with two psychedelic meditation records: Ritual I and Ritual II. Prog catches up with the duo to find out more about their epic prog dreams.

5 mins

Issue 165

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BE PROG! MY FRIEND

After a successful comeback in 2024, Be Prog! is expanding carefully. Now set in a sci-fi-styled corner of the Poble Espanyol museum, organisers have added four extra bands and upgraded the food and chill-out zones. Across 12 colourful sets, the atmosphere at Catalonia's premier prog gathering is joyous.

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PINK FLOYD

Alienation, loss and a legendary live bootleg - the prog giants' post-Dark Side masterpiece gets the ultimate 50th-birthday box set treatment.

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BARRY PALMER

Triumvirat's former vocalist on doing The Bump, working with Mike Oldfield and his latest project with Magenta's Robert Reed.

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GONGOVERCOME TROUBLED TIMES

New album birthed from a period of personal challenges and heavy deadlines.

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Issue 165

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Hand of Fate

Norwegian art-rockers Gazpacho stare fate in the face with their latest album, Magic 8-Ball, but things could have turned out very differently had it not been for Hollywood script-writers. Songwriter, producer and keyboard player Thomas Andersen discusses kismet, creating great art and never being afraid to rip things up and start again.

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