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   I am pleased to be able to announce that all three volumes of the trilogy containing all my progressive rock reviews and interviews from 1991-2006 are now available. This is the most comprehensive look at the scene ever published, containing reviews which were written at the time by someone close to the scene, instead of looking back into it from the present day. With approximately half a million words and nearly 1000 pages over the three volumes, it is no wonder that Record Collector said, “A book that will be quickly referred to as “a bible””.
Volume 1
Foreword by Stu Nicholson, comments on rear cover by Greg Spawton and Clive Nolan.

Album reviews of:
A.C.T., Abarax, Abbfinoosty, Abel Ganz,
Abiogenesi, Acid Mother Gong, Adachi Kyodai, Addison Project, AD Infinitum,
Advent, Aelian, Aesculus Hipp, After, After Crying, After The Fall, After@All,
Afterglow, Agarta, Ageness, Agent Cooper, Ajalon, Jan Akkerman, Alaska, Albion,
Al-Bird, Alias Eye, Alien On My Mind, Alientar, Alkemy, Daevid Allen, Daevid
Allen & Russell Hibbs, Amarok, The Amber Light, Ambervoid, Amorphis,
Anabis, Anathema, Andeavour, Robert Andrews, Anekdoten, Animator, Annalist,
Anyone's Daughter, Arachnes, Aragon, Archetype, Ardency, Areknames, Arena, Ark,
Arkus, Artension, ARZ, Asgard, Ashada, Asia, Astralasia, Ataraxia, Aton's , A
Triggering Myth, Atria, Attica, At War With Self, Ausia, Axiom, Kevin Ayres,
Ayreon, Marvin Ayres, Mayvin Ayres + Peter Gomes, Azazello, Max Bacon, Vladimir
Badirov, Frank Balestracci, Band of Rain, Peter Banks, Barclay James Harvest
Featuring Les Holroyd, Barrock, Colin Bass, Adrian Belew, Believe, Robert
Berry, Beyond The Labyrnith, Big Big Train, Black Bonzo, Black Bonzo,
Blackfield, Black Jester, The Black Noodle Project, Tim Blake, Blow Up
Hollywood, Blurt, Blyndsyde, Tomas Bodin, Jean Pascal Boffo, Bolt, The Bond,
Andrew Booker, Christian Boule, Tim Bowness, Brassé, Brighteye Brison,
Broadcast, Brother Ape, Budderfly, Tim Burness, Maryen Cairns, Cairo,
California Guitar Trio, Laurent Calomne, Robert Calvert, Carpathia Project, The
Carpet Knights, Carptree, Cashmere, Casino, Cast, Castarnac, Casual Affair,
Marc Catley & Geoff Mann, Catweazle, Centrozoon, Cerebus Effect, Chain,
Dennis Chambers, Jeff Berlin, David Fiuczynski, T. Lavitz, Chandelier, Chaos
Code, Cherno, Chroma Kay, Circus, Cirkus, Citizen Cain, Citriniti, Cleopatra's
Needle, Cliffhanger, Climate of Earth, Cloudscape, The Coenobite, Collage,
Colorstar, Colosseum, Colt, Coltsfoot, Concerto Moon, Conqueror, Conspiracy,
Court, The Covenant, Craft, Credo, Cross, David Cross, Cross 'n' Crazy, Cryptic
Vision, Crystal Maze, Crystal Phoenix, Vedres Csaba, Curious Works, Curved Air,
Cyan, Istvan Cziglan, D Sound, Daimonji, Damien Steele, Martin Darvill and
Friends, Darwin's Radio, Darxtar, Alan Davey, Simon Davies, Dawnlights, Day
Shift, Dead Soul Tribe, Death Organ, Degree Absolute, Deimos, Delta Cyphei
Project, Deluc, Der Spyra, Deyss, DFA, DGM, Dialog, Different Trains, Difficil
Equilibrio, Digital Ruin, Dilemma, Discipline, Djamra, Julius Dobos, Rudi
Dobson, Tim Donahoe, Troy Donockley & Dave Bainbridge, Geoffrey Downes,
Drahk Von Trip, Drama, Dreadnaught, Dream Aria, Dream Machine, The Dreaming,
Drifting Sun, Sergey Dudin, Dulcimer, Dynamic Lights, Dyonisos, Earthling
Society, Earthstone, East Wind Pot, Eat Static, Eccentric Orbit, Echolyn, Eden
Burning, Edera, Edhels, Egdon Heath, Eldritch, Electric Outlet, Elegant
Simplicity, Emerald, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Keith Emerson & The Nice,
E Motive, Empty Tremor, Alan Emslie, Enchant, The Enid, Roger Eno, Ensemble
Nimbus, Epidermis, Epilogue, Roberto Erdesz, Er Malak, Michael Ernst, Eskaton,
Evenfall, Event, Evergrey, Everon, Evolution, Exhibit A, Existence, Eyestrings,
Ezra, F.H.C., Faith, Fancyfluid, Fantasmagoria, Fantasyy Factoryy, Farmakon,
The Fellowship, Mike Figgis, Final Conflict, Finisterre, Finnegan’s Wake,
Finneus Gauge, First Band From Outer Space, Fish, Fitzpatrick, David
Fiuczynski, Flamborough Head, Flat 122, Flight 09, The Flower Kings, Fluxury,
Focus, Fonya, For Absent Friends, Forest Stream, Forgotten Suns, Jack Foster
III, Frágil, Framauro, Frameshift, Framework, Free Love, Freewill, Sally
French, Frog, Frogflavor, Frogg Café, Peter Frohmader, Frost*, Fruitcake,
Fugato Orchestra, The Future Kings Of England , The Fyreworks, The Gak Omek,
Galahad, Galahad Acoustic Quintet, Galleon, Gandalf, Garden Wall , Julian
Garner, Jerry Gaskill, TheGathering, Gecko’s Tear, Peter Gee, Gentle Giant,
George Velvet, Gerard, Jim Gilmour, Ghosts Of Dawn, Gordon Giltrap, Glass,
Glass Hammer, Gong, Good Authority, Tadachi Goto, Grace, Grand Stand, Grass,
Gratto, Greenslade, Grendel, Grey Lady Down, The Guardian’s Office, Yngve
Guddal And Roger Matte, The Guitar Orchestra, Trey Gunn, Steve Hackett,
Hamadryad, Happy The Man, Gordon Haskell, Annie Haslam, Hatfield And The North,
Hauteville, Hawkwind, Haze, Head Pop Up, Hecenia, Henry Fool, Heon, Steve
Hillage, Steve Hillman, Tracy Hitchings, Roger Hodgson, Holy Lamb, House Of
Spirits, House/Goodway, Steve Howe, Höyry-Kone , Gary Husband.

Volume 2
Foreword by Mark Colton, comments on rear cover by Nick Barrett and Martin Orford.

Album reviews of: 
Icon,
Igzit-Nine, Ilúvatar, Iluzjon, Imagin'Aria, Incandescent Sky, Ines Project, The
Inhabitants of Yip, Inkább Holnap, Interpose +, Into Eternity, Iona, IQ, The
Ire, Iron Clowns, Ivanhoe, Ivory Tower, Daniel J, Jadis, Jaén Kief, Janison
Edge, The Jelly Jam, Jeremy, Jeremy + Progressor, Guillermo Cazenave, Guill &
Jem, Jeronimo Road, Steve Joliffe, Jones, Evans & Turner, Nigel Mazlyn
Jones, Jump , Kada, Marius Kahan, Kaipa, Kalo, Kambium, Kamelot, Kampec
Delores, Kansas, Kara, Karcius, Karda Estra, Karfagen, Kava Kava, KBB,
Kenziner, King Bathmat, King's X, Kino, Kitaro, Knitting By Twilight, Nelko
Kolarov, Kooch, Kopecky, Alexander Kostarev Group, Krel, Sonja Kristina, K²,
James Labrie, Landberk, Landmarq, Lands End, Lana Lane, Lanfear, Lanvall, Last
Tribe, Last Turion, Last Warning, Legend, Leger De Main, Lemur Voice, The Lens,
Lest, Light, The Light, Lightspeed, Like Wendy, Par Lindh Project, Liquid
Scarlet, Little Atlas, Little Tragedies, Lives and Times, Kerry Livgren,
Lizard, Huw Lloyd Langton, Llyn Y Morynion, Loermel, Bertrand Loreau, Lorien,
Lost World, Lucas, White & Edsey, Lunar Chateau, LU7, Bjørn Lynne ,
Madrigal, Maestoso, Magellan, Magenta, Magic Moments At Twilight Time, Magic
Pie, Magnesis, Magnitude 9, Nick Magnus, Magus, Martin Maheux, Malombra,
Mangala Vallis, Manitou, Geoff Mann, Manning, Man On Fire, Marillion, Mk II,
Masque, Mastermind, Matter of Taste, McGill, Manring, Stevens, Medicine Man,
Melbourne, Men of Lake, Mentaur, Merchants Vice, Mercy Train, Mermaid Kiss,
Metagaia, Metamorphosis, Mico, Millenium, Mindflowers, Ming Fighters, Minimum
Vital, Minoke?, Miosótis, Mirage, Mr. Gil, Mr. So & So, Mist Season,
Mizukagami, Molca, Francis Monkman, Montefeltro, Moon Safari, Moria Falls, Neal
Morse, Tim Morse, Morsof, Moscow Riley, Mostly Autumn, Musical Witchcraft,
Music Station, My Empty Room, Myster Kah, Mystery, Mythologic, Naikaku, NDV,
Necrost, Negative Zone, Nemo, Nepenthe, Neronia, The New Grove Project, New
Sun, Niadem's Ghost, Nice Beaver, Nil, Noekk, The Noisy Room, Clive Nolan &
Oliver Wakeman, no-man, No Name, Noom, Erik Norlander, Nosound, Novact,
November, Now, Gary Numan, Nûs, Nyl, October Equus, Odyssice, Office of
Strategic Influence, Ryo Okumoto, Olyam, Øresund Space Collective, Martin
Orford, Orplid, Cliff Orsi, Murat Öztürk Trio, Out of Abbfinoosty, Ozone
Quartet, Ozric Tentacles, Paatos, Pain of Salvation, Paley's Watch, Pallas,
Carl Palmer, Pangaea, Peter Panka's Jane, Panopticum, Paradogs, Parallel or 90
Degrees, Matthew Parmenter, Rog Patterson, Henning Pauly, Payne's Gray,
Pendragon, Alain Pernot, Persephone's Dream, Persona Non Grata, Peter Room,
Phideaux, Gary Pickford Hopkins, Pictorial Wand, Pineapple Thief, Michael
Pinnella, Planet X, Platypus, Podsdarapomuk, Bill Pohl, Poisoned Electrick
Head, Jon Poole, Poor Genetic Material, Popol Vuh, Porcupine Tree, Poverty's No
Crime, Present, Mark Price, Prime Mover, Primitive Instinct, PRKLZ, Product,
Project Creation, Prong, Proto-Kaw, Psyambience, PTS, Pulse Engine, Puppet
Show, Pursuit, Qango, Qoph, Quarkspace, Quasar, Queensrÿche , Quest, The Quest,
Quidam, Quikion, Radiomöbel , Rakoth, Ravana, Ray, Razor Wire Shrine, Red
Jasper, Regenesis, Relayer, Renaissance, Retroheads, Revelation, Revolver, RH
Factor, Ricochet, Ring of Fire, Ring of Myth, Ritual, Riverside, Rocket
Scientists, Kurt Rongey, Rook, Root, Round House, Rousseau, RPWL, RSC, Runaway
Totem, Sad Minstrel, Saens, Saga, Salem Hill, Sandstone, Satellite, Lee
Saunders, Scenes, Schloss Adler, Don Schiff, Secret Saucer, Il Segno Del
Comando, Senses, Sensitive To Light, Seraphique, 7 Months, Shadow Gallery,
Shadow Keep, Shadowland, Derek Sherinian, Shingetsu, Michael Shipway, Shizuka,
Show-Yen, Shub-Niggurath, Side Steps, Sieges Even, Silent Edge, Silver Lining,
Richard Sinclair, Sinister Street, Sinkadus, Sixnorth, Jósef Skrzek, Skyron
Orchestra, The Skys, Skywalkers, Sleeping Giant, Sleepy People, Gilli Smyth,
Doug Snyder & Bob Thompson, Solar, Solaris, Solstice, Solstice Coil, Sonic
Music, Sonic Pulsar, Sonus Umbra, Space Avenue, Spaced Out, Spacehead, Space
Mirrors, Space Nelson, Space Ritual.net, Special Experiment, Specimen 37,
Spektrum, Sphere, Sphere of Souls, Spock's Beard, Starless, Star One,
Steelwind, Simon Steensland, Stereoscope, Roine Stolt, Strangebrew,
Strangefish, Strangers On A Train, Stream of Passion, The String Cheese
Incident, ST37, Subaudition, Subspace Radio, Summer Indoors, Sunseth Sphere,
Svann, Sylvan, Symphony X, Syzygy, Witsend.

Volume 3
Foreword by Artur Chachlowski and Steve Paine, comments on rear cover by Gary Chandler and John Dexter Jones.

Album reviews
t, Tale, Talisma, Tangerine Dream, Tea For The Wicked, Tempest, Tercia, Thessera, Thieves’ Kitchen, David Thomas & Ronnie Gunn, Steve Thorne, Threshold, Tiemko, Tiles, Timeline, Timelock, Timothy Pure, Tin Scribble, Ádám Török & Mini, Top Left Corner, Touchstone, Devin Townsend, Tr3nity, Tractor, Tranceport, Transatlantic, Transience, Trans-Siberian Orchestra , Treebeard, Trespass, Trion, Trio96, Tripod, Tristan Park, Akihisa Tsuboy, Natsuki Kido Duo, Tsuki no Umi, Tsunami, La Tulipe Noire, Twelfth Night, U I Blue, Ultime Atome, Umphrey’s Mcgee, Unbroken Spirit, The Underground Railroad, Upright, Van & Borner, Vanden Plas, Vanishing Point, Janos Varga Project, Csaba Vedres, Vertical Alignment, Vietgrove, Violent Silence, Violet District, Visible Wind, Vision, Volare, Von Daniken, Voyager, Vulgar Unicorn, Adam Wakeman, Oliver Wakeman, Rick Wakeman, Rick & Adam Wakeman, Walking On Ice, Walrus, Wappa Gappa, Paul Ward, Wastefall, The Watch, Waterclime, John Wetton, Whistler’s Mother, White Door, White Willow, Alan Whittaker, Wicked Minds, Harry Williamson, Willowglass, Damian Wilson, Ray Wilson, Wingdom, Wings Of Steel, Winter, Without Face, Without Warning, Withoutending, Woolly Wolstenholme, World Turtle, Wyxmer, Xaal, Xinema, You And I, Ywis, Dweezil Zappa, Zaragon, Zazen, Zen Orchestra, Zenit, Ziff, Zone Six
Smaller reviews
5:01 AM, Abraxas, After Crying, Airborne, Ancient Curse, Blue Shift, Brian Hirsch, Court, Crucible, Deluc, Die A Tribe, Evidence, Fig Leaf, Fruitcake, Geoffrey Downes, Ghosts Of Dawn, In The Labyrinth, Indeed, Ines, Iris, Ivanhoe, J.R.S., Jeremy, John Wetton, Lands End, Lanvall, Magus, Maryson, Mystery De Notre Dame, New Sun, Quasar Lux Symphoniae, Quidam, Rachel’s Birthday, Sigmund Snopek, Silent Lucidity, Simon Says, Smokin’ Granny, Solaris, Tea In The Sahara, The Moor, The Wishing Tree, Tristan Park, Truth In Advertisement, Zello
DVD/Videos
Jan Akkerman, Asia, Chain, Roger Chapman, Colosseum, Discipline, Dream Machine, ELP, Genesis, Glass Hammer, Icon, IQ, Jadis, Landmarq, Lana Lane, Legend, Magenta, Geoff Mann, Neal Morse, Mostly Autumn, Nektar, Erik Norlander, Pain Of Salvation, Pendragon, Plackband, Quikion + Lithuma Qnombus, Saga, Sanity, Shadowland, Spaced Out, Spock’s Beard, Threshold, Tractor, Twelfth Night, Uriah Heep, Rick Wakeman, Yes
Interviews (some multiple times)
Nick Barrett, Brian Devoil, Stu Nicholson, Clive Nolan, Geoff Mann Tribute, Tracy Hitchings, Rog Patterson, Steve Paine, John Dexter Jones, Clive Nolan/Mick Pointer, Fish, Clive Nolan/Ian Salmon, Steve Howe, Neal Morse/ Nick D'Virgilio, Alan Morse, Karl Groom, Kerry Livgren, Martin Orford, Woolly Wolstenholme, Peter Nicholls, Neal Morse , Nick D'Virgilio, Gary Chandler, Manfred Mann, Henning Pauly, Mark Colton, Empathy, Richard Sinclair, Guy Manning, Adam Wakeman, After Crying, Solstice Coil, Jeremy Morris, Richard Wileman, Mangala Valis
Gigs
Aerie Faerie Nonsense, Ars Nova, Asgard, Big Big Train, California Guitar Trio, Casual Affair, Credo, Damian Wilson, Different Trains, Enchant, Freewill, Galahad, Grace, Grey Lady Down, IQ, Jadis, Jump, Landmarq, Legend, Llyn Y Morynion, Mastermind, Mentaur, Mr. So & So, Neal Morse, Power Quest, Revelation, Rick Wakeman, Saga, Shadowland, Sphere, Spock’s Beard, Steve Hackett, The Flower Kings, The Morrigan, Threshold, Tracy Hitchings , Vietgrove, Winter, World Turtle

Artwork for all 3 by Martin Springett, published by Gonzo Multimedia, link to Amazon.com in my signature (to get to my author page on any other Amazon site just edit the .Com to .co.uk, .de, .jp etc) 