Jo Kendall

The music nut, prog savant and all round comedian goes on a journey to the outer limits. First published in Prog issue 20

The ITN Anchorman reveals how he got into prog - and defends Phil Collins' solo career! This was first published in Prog issue 23

We take a peep at the Director Of Education at the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame's record collection.

The Oink! comic founder and Private Eye cartoonist on how he tuned in, turned on and dropped out to Manchester’s psychedelic awakening – and is still searching for weird sounds.

From a Saturday job selling records to Radiohead band members to putting the prog into Sonisphere festival, this Oxford don likes his music both epic and loud.

Firmly under the paw of Twitter sensation My Sad Cat, these days the DJ and author is ‘getting it together in the country’ with a purr-fect folk-prog playlist.

Goblins! Ballet! And ‘those other things’! The comedian, writer, actor and Infinite Monkey Cage creator scientifically dissects his 1am earworms.

“There’s been many a happy hour spent on the toilet thanks to Prog,” says the Waterloo Road, Catterick and Strictly Come Dancing star with a CV as eclectic as his taste in music…

Never mind the Buzzcocks, most days the Luxury Comedy and The Mighty Boosh chap has Frank Zappa, Hawkwind, Primus and hoovering up after Pond on his wandering minstrel mind.

The Wombles! Hanging out with IQ! Being Peter Gabriel’s stunt double! The Fables, Hellblazer and Miracleman comic artist has quite a story to tell…

With his Fripp-enhanced dialogue-free avant-garde horror flick Aaaaaaaah! just hitting our home screens, it’s a perfect time for a Sightseers’ tour of the actor-director’s sonic stimuli…

Son of space pioneer Neil Armstrong, the ‘hobby guitarist’ and Marillion supporter runs down his own musical explorations…

Throwing open an attic of treasures, the writer, broadcaster and former Whistle Test presenter David Hepworth remembers hyperventilating over The Beatles, am-dram prog lighting.

The London-based Northern Irish stand-up and Vitriola music podcast co-conspirator tells it like it is.

Street artist and gallery owner Pure Evil (actually a very polite Charles Uzzell-Edwards) gives us a guided tour of his record collection

Glasgow-born, but known for his Brixton-based cosmic punk fiction, the novelist with the award-winning sci-fi alter ego Martin Scott blows the pixie dust from his proggier pleasures.

He got into prog as a reaction to punk, now Al Murray is rocking our world with the theory that prog’s King isn’t necessarily Crimson…

Spurred on by the far-out sounds of the Bonzos, Zappa and Residents, the Judge Dredd and Batman illustrator is lucky to still be in one piece after Swans “broke him"...

Unsettling soundtracks from the past and I Monster mash-ups from the future: the Little Britain/Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle comic actor takes his prog-with-a-knowing-wink very seriously

Even if you’ve not bought a record from Phil Smee's Waldo’s or Bam-Caruso labels, you’ll own something that he designed, from Motörhead to Return To Ommadawn. He opens up his archive...

Bookish and wordy, this Jersey boy turned The Thick Of It/Veep writer-comedian found a world of imagination in Marillion and became a rebel without a cause thanks to Dire Straits…

Obscurities and oddities abound in the record racks of the Lock, Stock…, Luther and The Halcyon actor, a self-confessed “rhythm nut” and hybrid obsessive with a passion for all things Gong

The Sightseers, High Rise and Free Fire director takes us from mono to stereo to cinema surround sound via Minecraft, minimalism… and Happy Mondays

The long-serving chief sports writer for BBC Online started supporting rock and prog back when he was a tuned-in Liverpool teen. But which proggers are in his premier league?

“I’m still learning about prog,” says the rock-loving star of hit BBC show Uncle. So where does the actor-comedian-musician get his weirder chops from?