Thanks for joining me, stick around, this is going to be good fun!!
This is the start of a whole new adventure of musical discovery. I’ve always had a deep love of music, as a performer and as a listener. I have never followed fashions or trends and now that I finally have the opportunity to create my own radio show and podcast I have no intention of starting.
It amazes me how the media generally ignores the great majority of musical output. How the most amazing talent, across all musical styles is largely ignored.
My particular love is progressive rock – there, I’ve said it!! You may be surprised to learn that “prog” didn’t die in the 1970s; cast roughly aside by the brash onset of the Punk era. At least that’s what the broadcast media generally would have you believe anyway.
It lived on. It absorbed the influence of New Wave in the 1980s; grunge in the 90s as well as hip hop and the more traditional elements of folk, jazz and heavy metal. Its still evolving and the contemporary prog scene is more lively and dynamic and varied than at any point in its history.
Except hardly anyone knows that its there. And that’s where I come in………………..!
I now have the opportunity to create a Radio Show. It’s called The Doorway (after the Spock’s Beard track on Beware of Darkness). My aim is to create the link between the vast back catalogue of classic prog from the 1970s – material most of you will be familiar with – and show you how this has inspired the amazing variety of contemporary artists from around the globe.
The show goes out on Saturdays at 21.00 UK time. Unless you’re lucky enough to live in the small Leicestershire town of Melton Mowbray in the UK where you can hear it on 103 The Eye, you’ll need to go to http://www.103theeye.co.uk or use the Tunedin Radio app.
It will soon be available as a podcast from here too.
I hope you’re going to enjoy the ride!
The Doorway 