Neo prog - then and now

Essex-based Trilogy is a three-piece Neo-prog band that was active in the early 80s and recently reunited. A compilation of Trilogy's studio demo recordings from 1983 and 1984, Hidden Mysteries has been remastered and restored using the greatest source tapes that are now accessible: https://trilogyuk.bandcamp.com/album/hidden-mysteries

Magog2112 wrote: ...Misplaced Childhood ...Pendragon and Galahad

you gonna love Shadowland then:





Such an underrated project

My first meet was Fugazi and then Script.... . As a Prog Rock fan that started 40 years ago , I have a same story like others....

I remember listening to Script for a Jester's Tear when it was released and we all friends saying it was a Genesis clone, but we liked it anyway. Then we bought the maxisingles with Grendel and so on, and Fugazi when it came out. We really liked all of it. Then they came to Barcelona in the Fugazi tour and it was a great show, with a very small but passionate audience.

Edited by Gerinski - July 25 2023 at 14:32

Neo Prog is the romantic schmaltz of Prog World. It's definitely a love-hate relationship. We love the full, lush sound textures and catchy melodies but we malign the artists for being imitators or for being unoriginal. Too bad. There's a lot of great music there.

Edited by BrufordFreak - July 25 2023 at 06:52

Marillion Script back then

Nice stories, Gents

I have to say I owe a ton to PA for its dense data base, which rabbit holed the sh*t out of me.
For all that I discovered IQ and Arena while Fish Era Marillion are the bands that really agree with me the most.
Anyhow. This site has been amazing and with people like yourselves on here, have been a great help.

progaardvark wrote: Marillion obviously led me to Arena, IQ, and Pendragon, and then to more obscure bands like Abraxas, Galleon, Flamborough Head, Tale Cue, Afterglow, Osiris, Cyan, Atria, Now, Egdon Heath, Cliffhanger, and East

hah, interestingly enough I discovered basically the same bands during my "must find more Script soundalikes"-phase in 2003-2006, thanks to PA as well. My discoveries included IQ, Arena, Pendragon, Abraxas, Galleon, Flamborough Head, Tale Cue also - plus Collage, Red Sand, Discipline., Simon Says, Rael, Shadowland, The Watch, Mangala Vallis, Landmarq, Grey Lady Down, Iluvatar, Like Wendy, Grace, Anubis, Credo, Comedy Of Errors, Twelfth Night, Aragon, Abel Ganz, Clepsydra, Pallas, Citizen Cain, Mindgames, Also Eden, Janison Edge, Lorien, Puppet Show, Strangefish, Quidam, The Fyreworks, Triangle, Twin Age etc.

There were also bands that I discovered and didn't quite enjoyed - Cyan, Casino, Galahad, Cliffhanger, Violet Disctrict, Gazpacho (Night is great tho), Sylvan, RPWL, Galadriel, Theatre/Moongarden, Satellite, La Tulipe Noire (Shattered Image is great tho), Jadis, Millenium, Ageness, The Vow, Harnakis, Arrakeen, Deyss, Metaphor - but hey, to each his own I guess

I bought Marillion's Script 2CD remaster on August 1st, 2003. I lived in a small provincial Ukrainian town and I was 16. Literally not a single person could understand my obsession with this music, not even my dad, a huge Beatles/Urian Heep/Deep Purple fan, who taught me to play guitar (he was in pop/rock bands in Soviet times).

By 2003 I'd already written like coupla hundred songs (again, for nobody, just for myself), but only after hearing Script I decided I wanna be in music for real. It wasn't easy but now my main band has 167k monthly listeners on Spotify and one of my side-projects is literally an early Marillion clone, hehe:



Another favourite of mine genre-wise is Clive Nolan's Shadowland - Ring Of Roses is a masterpiece and MUST get a vinyl release!