The Doorway

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Happy Easter Folks!

Hope you are all enjoying the warm weather, despite everything else.

Here is the podcast of the FM Radio show, broadcast here in the UK on 103 The Eye last night.

Apologies to my good friend Tony Apps whose hopes I raise in the first couple of the minutes of the show, only to dash by not actually playing any of the songs he requested! I’ll make it up in the next show.

If anyone else has a request or dedication just email thedoorwaymusic@outlook.com or leave a message here or Facebook.

Hope you all enjoy the show.

Take care of yourselves and look after each other.

Ian

 

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Hello everyone.

I hope you are staying safe.

Here’s the podcast of last night’s radio show, broadcast on 103 The Eye here in the UK.

I’m keeping the format of these shows really simple – just playing some fantastic music by some incredible musicians!

I really hope you enjoy the show and it offers a couple of hours’ distraction from current events.

If there is something you’d like me to play, or  dedicate to someone, just shout. Email me at thedoorwaymusic@outlook.com  or get in touch via my blog thedoorwaymusic.com  or The Doorway’s facebook page.

Take care of yourselves and look after each other.

Ian

 

 

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Hello everyone

Here is the podcast of last night’s show broadcast on 103 The Eye, here in the UK.

We are nearly a week into the lock down of the UK. Our hearts and prayers go out to everyone affected by this awful virus where ever in the world that may be.

I’ve kept the format of this show really simple. I’m just concentrating on playing some great music. I hope that it will keep your mind off of things for a couple of hours. it certainly helps me to have the distraction of putting the show together!

If there is something you’d like me to play, or a dedication to someone, just shout. Email me at thedoorwaymusic@outlook.com  or get in touch via my blog thedoorwaymusic.com  or The Doorway’s facebook page..

If you know someone that would enjoy listening to the show or you are listening for the first time there are 45 back episodes stored on Podbean! (Nearly 4 days of continuous prog!!)

Above all, look after yourselves and take great care of each other.

Ian

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Hello everyone – I’m back!!

After taking a week off , I found myself in the position of not wanting to upload last week’s show as a podcast. It just didn’t seem the right thing to do. Given that I record these shows primarily for 103 The Eye it may be 2 weeks before it gets posted as a podcast. So much changed in that time that I felt the overall tone of the show, whilst fine for the time it was broadcast on FM, was not totally appropriate for where we find ourselves now!

Hopefully this week’s podcast will help some of you while away a couple of hours if you’re self isolating or poorly, and hopefully will assist in taking your mind off what’s going on in the world.

So this week, I’m looking at the theme of money (rather than Coronavirus!!) and I’m intoducing a new feature called Axe Victim, where I take a look at the career of a particular guitarist – this week is John Mitchell. There’s also a selection of brand new music.

Now more than ever we need to show our support for these artists by buying their material, preferaby from sources as close to the artist as possible (direct from websites, from Bandcamp or from the record label.) Its great to use streaming services like Spotify but these pay a pittance to the artist.

I really hope you enjoy the show this week.

Above all, stay safe. Follow the social distancing advice or self isolate if necessary. If we don’t this will be a disaster from which we may never recover.

Look after yourselves and take care of each other.

Ian

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Hello Everyone!

Here’s the podcast of the FM Radio show first broadcast on 103 The Eye, here in the UK on Saturday evening.

I’m catching up with the recent announcements from Night of The Prog, including tracks from Colosseum and Blank Manuskript. However the really joyful discovery for me was Voyager IV,  who released their interpretation of Pictures at an Exhibition on 2 November 2019, on what would have been Keith Emerson’s 75th Birthday. Now I was weaned on the ELP album from 1971, its in my musical DNA, so buying this album was a huge leap of faith. I needn’t have worried. It’s absolutely brilliant and well worth checking out! https://voyageriv.bandcamp.com/album/pictures-at-an-exhibition

Hope you all enjoy the show!

Have a great week!

Ian

Setlist: Hide in Your Shell – Supertramp; This Air – Anathema; Grace – Jeff Buckley; Song For the Innocent – Pain of Salvation; Il Vecchio Castello – Voyager IV; Looking For Someone – Genesis; Lucky Me – Tony Banks; Here Comes The Flood – Peter Gabriel; God If I Saw Her Now – Anthony Phillips; Chamber of 32 Doors – Steve Hackett; Rope Ladder to The Moon – Colosseum; There’s a Light – Jadis; Induction – Blank Manuskript; Promenade II – Voyager IV; Trains – Porcupine Tree; This Train is My Life – Marillion; When the Trains Are Sleeping – Subsignal; Keeper of Abbeys – Big Big Train; Take Me – IO Earth

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Happy Monday Folks

Here’s the podcast of my FM Radio Show on 103 The Eye, broadcast here in the UK on Saturday Evening. Every track I play is linked to the last with the whole process starting with ELP. I hope you enjoy listening as much as I did putting the thing together.

Next week I’ll catch up with all the recent announcements from Night of The Prog, including a track from what just might be my favourite album discovery of the year – Pictures at an Exhibition by Voyager IV. Its a real gem!

Have a great week!

Ian

Setlist: The Sage – ELP; Last One Home – Quango; Open Your Eyes – Asia; To Catch a Thief – ICON; Nocturnal – Panic Room; Ghosts of Pripyat – Steve Rothery Band; Easy – The Wishing Tree; Somewhere Else – Marillion; We all need Some Light – Transatlantic; You are not Alone – Flying Colors; On a Perfect Day – Spocks Beard; Window To The Soul – GPS; Happy Returns – Steven Wilson; Broken Chord – The Sea Within; Is This The End? – Karmakanic.

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Hello everyone!

Here’s the podcast of Saturday’s edition of The Doorway, broadcast over the airwaves on Saturday evening on 103 The Eye, here in the UK.

There is a real nod towards Pink Floyd in this week’s show with 2 hours of music bookended between two classic Floyd tracks! You’ll hear the brand new single, “Impossible”, from Lifesigns and I’ll set another “Connections” puzzle for you to solve. Just tell me what connects the 3 songs highlighted and asterisked* below in the setlist. Just for fun -no prizes !!

Post the answers on the FB page or email thedoorwaymusic@outlook.com.

Last weeks connection was Guthrie Govan – he played guitar on Drive Home by Steven Wilson, Written on the Wind by GPS and Last orders by The Aristocrats.

Have a great week!

Ian

Setlist: Let There Be More Light – Pink Floyd; The Wave – Amplifier; The Night Sky – Mostly Autumn; Impossible – Lifesigns; Us and Them – Pink Floyd*; The Best Years’ of Our Lives – Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel*; How was your Ride – Blackfield*; No Decoder – Yogi Lang; A New World – RPWL; If I were the Wind – Pendragon; Entangled – Steve Hackett (Genesis Revisited); Old and Wise – Alan Parsons Project; distant Bells – Leprous; Sisters – Pain of Salvation; Sheep – Pink Floyd

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Hello Everyone!

Here’s the Podcast of my Radio Show broadcast on Saturday on 103 The Eye here in the UK. I hope you all enjoy the music!

The show is loaded with goodies from every decade from the 70s right up so some of the very latest releases.

As my regular listeners will know I’m fond of playing songs that are connected and this week is no exception. So I’m running a little competition and asking you the connection between 3 particular tracks (asterisked below*). Listen out and get in touch if you know the answer! No prizes but I will buy a beer in The Nevile Arms for anyone that gets it correct and pops over!

Have a great week!

Ian

Setlist: Siberian Kantru – Yes; Holy War – Asia; Lifetime of A Journey – Kaipa; You Never Will – IQ; Soulsplitter – The Maze; Silent Genesis – Pure Reason Revolution; Enigma – Freedom To Glide; Drive Home* – Steven Wilson; Written on The Wind*- GPS; Last Orders* – The Aristocrats; Music In Dreamland – Bebop Deluxe; where Did The Summer Go – Oak; Sun – Haken; Into The White – Caligula’s Horse; Folklore – Opeth.

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Happy Sunday All!

I hope you are all enjoying the slight change of format for the Doorway. I’m still playing the usual mix of old and new, but mixing it up across the Show rather than playing most of the old stuff at the start.

This week’s show is jam packed with proggy goodness and kicks off with a bit of a tribute to Peter Hammill; takes a look at RPWL who’ve just been announced for Night of The Prog in July; takes a trip to Lancashire and rounds off with an amazing track by IQ.

Have a great week!

 

Ian

Setlist: House with no Door – VDGG; Aguirre – Isildur’s Bane and Peter Hammill; Sweet Thing/Candidate/Sweet Thing Reprise – David Bowie; Just one Victory – Todd Rundgren; Between the Cold Moon and The Earth – Steve Hackett; Never Escape The Storm – Blind Ego; Roses – RPWL; Frequency – Ray Wilson; Afraid of Sunlight – Marillion; The Optimist – Anathema; Minions Song – Amplifier; Karn Evil 9 1st Impression (Part 1) – ELP; Into The Night – Beardfish; Perfect Life – Steven Wilson; At The End of The World – Lifesigns; When We Were Young – Magnum; Road of Bones – IQ

 

 

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Happy Monday Folks.

Here is the weekly podcast of my radio show broadcast on 103 The Eye here in the UK on Saturday evening.

This week’s show boasts tracks from early Genesis and Camel, a selection of classic cover versions, a trip round Europe and a Flower Kings special.

The finale track is especially poignant and a tribute to thos who perished in recent terror atrocities in Manchester, Paris and Las vegas.

Have a great week!

Ian

Setlist: Song Within a Song – Camel; Hygge – Tiger Moth Tales; Visions of Angels – Genesis; Nomads – Steve Hackett; Le Lierre – Lazuli; The Passage – Subsignal; Reality Dream III – Riverside; Prometteo Tra Le Stella – Ranestrane; Hallelujah – Pain of Salvation; Find My Way Back Home – Morse/Portno/George; Even in The Quietest Moments – Unitopia; Tiny Demons – Luna Rossa; What if God is Alone – The Flower Kings; Spirit of The Rebel – Roine Stolt; God, The Universe and Everything Else Nothing Cares About – Karmakanic; Sanctuary i  Music – TangeKanic!