Latest articles by Nick Shilton
“Yes told me never to come back”: How Oliver Wakeman joined and left his dad’s former band
If Rick Wakeman’s son had taken an angrier attitude to being fired in 2011, their 2019 mini-album From A Page might never have been rescued from the demo stacks
When the unclassifiable Haze finally got to play for a prog audience, they found it so easy
80s outfit never had a record deal or management – instead they“got good at being poor” to avoid compromising their musical values, and it’s kept them going through the decades
Why Frost* revisited dazzling debut Milliontown on latest album Life In The Wires
Leader Jem Godfrey, who took a financial hit to spend five months focusing on the band’s double-length concept album, explains why doing something connected with their past equals doing something entirely new
"Maybe we can open for Marillion on the next tour?” The story of Mark Kelly and Marathon
The story of Marillion. keyboard player Mark Kelly's first solo venture with Mark Kelly's Marathon
With a Monty Python quote as their motto, Jadis somehow keep delivering the goods
More Questions Than Answers has come eight years after their previous studio album, but bandleader Gary Chandler knows why it might just be their best-ever release
"I wanted to be the person who came up with the ideas and made grandiose visionary albums." How TV soap opera director Phideaux became a prog sensation
The story of Phideaux's 2018 album Infernal, the final part of his dystopian prog trilogy
What Hawkwind’s Robert Calvert means to Luke Haines
The space rock poet, who died in 1988, inspired Auteurs leader and Britpop pioneer Haines to explore a wider world of art
"My hope is that most fans of progressive music are fans of experimental stuff, so I leave it in their capable hands." How Simon Godfrey returned with Shineback
Having led Tinyfish for nine years, Simon Godfrey has taken a sharp left turn with Rise Up Forgotten, Return Destroyed, his first album as Shineback.
Echolyn didn’t kill the joy with their second self-titled album
2012 release from the mainly part-time band is a prime example of five friends surviving industry pressure to do things their way
“The priorities of the first Asia were to make it a success. Yet when we had it, we were so stupid it was unbelievable:” How the supergroup admitted mistakes and worked them out via their patchy Phoenix album
It was the first studio project featuring all four original members since their gradual disintegration in the 80s. And even if it wasn’t their best work, it was an essential element in moving forward
"By the time we reach our dotage we should be throwing out an album every few minutes!" How Credo prepared to take on the world!
Back in 2011 Credo released their third studio album Against Reason full of optimism...
“There was just so much circus along the way. It felt like the album was cursed”: Having kids, splitting with one member, nearly splitting with another - small wonder it took Moon Safari a decade to deliver Himlabacken Vol. 2
Barely able to believe the record has finally left their hands, and often doubting it would, Swedish sextet take stock as the reactions roll in
"The middle of the day was Marillion. Mornings and evenings DeeExpus." What happened when Mark Kelly joined North East prog rockers DeeExpus
The rise of DeeExpus has been swift. Now with their second album King Of Number 33 and Marillion keyboardist Mark Kelly in tow, prog stardom awaits.
“If there’s a message it’s live every day as if it’s your last. I went through a very sticky patch… The freedom of not being enslaved by addiction is marvellous”: John Wetton’s return from the darkness
With Asia on the rocks and a scuppered solo deal, the singer found himself struggling with alcohol in the 90s - before he finally earned himself a reprieve
“Every album is different, but this one was a strange process." The inside story of The Neal Morse Band's Great Adventure...
Prolific prog rocker Neal Morse sat down with Prog in 2019 to talk about the latest Neal Morse Band album The Great Adventure
"We were never motivated purely by money – that idea was knocked out of us many years ago!” Landmarq and the story of Entertaining Angels
UK prog rockers Landmarq released Entertaining Angels in 2012, their then first new album for 14-years against a backdrop of line-up shifts, outside commitments and ill health...
“21st Century Schizoid Man – the first track on the first prog album – is a political protest song! Anyone who says prog and politics don’t belong together never realised what it was about”: The Tangent’s Andy Tillison on why prog should challenge you
Self-confessed “raving leftie anarchist” gave the subtitle “A protest, a reflection, a couple of regrets and a rant” to The Tangent’s 10th album for good reason
“It’s an homage to all the fans who stayed with us for all these years.” Galahad and the story of The Last Great Adventurer
Galahad's first new album for five years, The Last Great Adventurer, showed the prog veterans to be in particularly fine fettle..
“I’ve always said it’s not just ‘progressive anything’. It’s progressive rock and it needs to rock." How Glass Hammer turned it up to 11 with Skallagrim – Into The Breach
If anything epitomised the ambition of progressive rock, then surely US proggers Glass Hammer's Skallagrim trilogy was it. Here's the story of 2021's second instalment
“It was brutal. I would wake up and not get out of bed. I couldn’t face having to tell the guys what was going to happen… that God wanted me to leave”: Neal Morse’s struggle with his final Spock’s Beard album
9/11 brought turmoil just as the benign dictator had decided to completely rewrite the record that would become Snow - but there was even more turmoil to follow
"There are keyboard players who are way better than me who have made albums that aren’t as good as mine!" - The Tangent, Andy Tillison and Auto Reconnaissance
Long standing UK proggers The Tangent discuss the creation of their eleventh studio aobum, 2020's Auto Reconnaissance
IQ and Frequency: "It's one of our best pieces of work"
Having endured the loss of founding keyboard player Martin Orford during the writing of the album, IQ returned with their powerful tenth album Frequency in 2009
Spock's Beard and the story of Noise Floor
US prog rockers Spock's Beard released their thirteenth studio album, Noise Floor, in 2018. It remains their most recent studio release...
