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    Posted: January 01 2011 at 13:14
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"We are delighted to welcome new keyboard player Neil Durant to the IQ family. Neil has been a big fan of IQ for the past 25 years and is itching to learn the vast IQ back catalogue ready to help us celebrate our 30th year of prog nonsense. Many of you will know Neil from his work with Sphere3 and from the fact that he ran the very first internet mailing list for IQ, 'It All Posts Here' in the early 90's before the world wide web became popular and the IQ website started."
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Points: 15585 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 02 2011 at 09:56
Good luck Neil!Thumbs Up
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Wonderful news to start the new year!
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Great news. Hopefully a fantastic band will march on to ever greater heightsClap
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Big smile Alright! Looking forward to this!
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Sphere3 are (were?) and excellent instrumental jazz rock combo so I think this is very good news.
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Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Sphere3 are (were?) and excellent instrumental jazz rock combo so I think this is very good news.

 
Sounds like this may add a new  (positive) demension to IQ's sound
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Points: 311 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 03 2011 at 18:44
It definitively shows that it is difficult to find a secure successor to Martin.
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It was only yesterday I thought this may be the end for IQ...And that is great news, jazz-oriented keyboardist might add a new flow of inspiration to IQ music...and a fan of IQ to boot, he must know the trademarks of "traditional" IQ style, which was created mainly by Orford...
 
Remember the story with Pendragon's drummer? First they find the replacement for half of a year, and then enter Scott Higham and we got brilliant, bursting with new ideas "Pure" and gigs which were unforgettable experience...
 
However, Martin is more important musician to IQ than Scott is to Pendragon (with all due respect ofc but Nick Barrett is still present in the band, whereas Martin is not), but let's give Neil Durant all the support possible..
 
Eager to hear IQ with new musician, either live or on a new album :)
yet you still have time!
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i saw sphere 3 at the whitchurch festival in 2001, and was very impressed. neil was using mellotron samples too! which made it all the more enjoyable from my point of view.i think he will be an exellent replacement,so i really look forward to their 30th anniversary shows.....great to hear this!
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Best wishes!
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Thumbs Up Now there's something to look forward to...
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Originally posted by mike hewetson mike hewetson wrote:

i saw sphere 3 at the whitchurch festival in 2001, and was very impressed. neil was using mellotron samples too! which made it all the more enjoyable from my point of view.i think he will be an exellent replacement,so i really look forward to their 30th anniversary shows.....great to hear this!
That must have been where I saw them ..Flower Kings headlining and Martin Orford performed a set with own band if I remember correctly.
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yep. that"s right, the flower kings got some flak from the punters too! for technical problems! now myself ,being a prog keys player, it made me angry, as if your not a musician-then there"s no-way of understanding the amount of things that can go wrong , before or during a concert! roine stolt was his usual, humble self though and took it all with a pinch of salt! I.Q played there in 1999 (when i saw them) and i believe also 2003 (which i missed) . great shame about whitchurch, as it was a nice little festie, and only 50 miles away from me.any other prog festies are now a few hundred miles away!
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Originally posted by mike hewetson mike hewetson wrote:

yep. that"s right, the flower kings got some flak from the punters too! for technical problems! now myself ,being a prog keys player, it made me angry, as if your not a musician-then there"s no-way of understanding the amount of things that can go wrong , before or during a concert! roine stolt was his usual, humble self though and took it all with a pinch of salt! I.Q played there in 1999 (when i saw them) and i believe also 2003 (which i missed) . great shame about whitchurch, as it was a nice little festie, and only 50 miles away from me.any other prog festies are now a few hundred miles away!
yep although when I went in 2003 to see IQ, the venue had changed and was no longer in the large hall. Poor acoustics and extremely inadequate toilets and the festival was on a slippery slope so to speak. Chippenham was actually the very best sighting for a prog venue I could wish for (just down the M4 from Swindon) but that only got through one year sadly.
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