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Prog-Watch 340 - David Longdon Of Big Big Train

Big Big Train won big big kudos at this year's Prog Awards, being named Band Of The Year and honored as the Best Live Event! A few weeks ago I was lucky enough to have a chat with David Longdon of the band and you can hear that conversation (as well as some great BBT music) on this week's Prog-Watch! We covered a lot of ground, from the current state of the music business as regards creativity and a band's connection to their fans, to that time when David auditioned for Genesis! So you won't want to miss this one! As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you follow on Twitter or like the Facebook page, you can see the Daily Classic album---a fun little feature which the Squatch sends out six days each week! (Squatches rest on Sundays!) The Squatch also posts about the show and shares noteworthy news items from around the Prog World, so like or follow!This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/3136310/advertisement

Prog-Watch 339 - Variety

A wide variety of stuff is in store for you on this week's show! There's music from Flying Colors, Thank You Scientist, Joost Maglev, Happy the Man, The Dowling Poole, Magenta, Haken, Trevor Rabin, and Barclay James Harvest! And don't go anywhere when you hear our outro music! I tacked on a last minute addition...the new single from the Colin Tench Project, featuring our friend, Peter Jones! You won't want to miss it!As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you follow on Twitter or like the Facebook page, you can see the Daily Classic album---a fun little feature which the Squatch sends out six days each week! (Squatches rest on Sundays!) The Squatch also posts about the show and shares noteworthy news items from around the Prog World, so like or follow!This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/3136310/advertisement

Prog-Watch 338 - Damian Wilson -- Proghopper

This week's show is a Proghopper episode centering on the diverse career of Mr. Damian Wilson! I tried to get Damian for an interview show, but we couldn't get it together. So I did the next best thing...because if ever there was a person who could be called a Proghopper, it's Damian! On the show we will be hearing music from Damian's time with Landmarq, Threshold, Ayreon, and Rick Wakeman's New English Rock Ensemble! We'll also hear from Headspace, his band with Adam Wakeman, and from a few of his solo albums, including the brand new one, Built For Fighting!As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you follow on Twitter or like the Facebook page, you can see the Daily Classic album---a fun little feature which the Squatch sends out six days each week! (Squatches rest on Sundays!) The Squatch also posts about the show and shares noteworthy news items from around the Prog World, so like or follow!This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/3136310/advertisement

Prog-Watch 337 - Variety

Variety is the spice of life on this week's Prog-Watch! Hear music from Shpongle, Evership, cosmograf, Andy Tillison Diskdrive, Huis, Profusion, Comedy Of Errors, Galahad, and Electric Light Orchestra!As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you follow on Twitter or like the Facebook page, you can see the Daily Classic album---a fun little feature which the Squatch sends out six days each week! (Squatches rest on Sundays!) The Squatch also posts about the show and shares noteworthy news items from around the Prog World, so like or follow!This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/3136310/advertisement

Prog-Watch 336 - Elaine Samuels of Kindred Spirit

This week's show is a bit of a departure for Prog-Watch! We chat with the lovely Elaine Samuels of Kindred Spirit, which could probably best be described as a Progressive Folk band. We talk about the band, exploding drummers (a la Spinal Tap), the giants of British Folk (Fairport Convention, Steeleye Span, and Lindisfarne) and the tribulations of being a band that doesn't easily fit into one particular genre. Of course, lots of great Kindred Spirit music will be interspersed in between the chat!As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you follow on Twitter or like the Facebook page, you can see the Daily Classic album---a fun little feature which the Squatch sends out six days each week! (Squatches rest on Sundays!) The Squatch also posts about the show and shares noteworthy news items from around the Prog World, so like or follow!This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/3136310/advertisement

Prog-Watch 335 - Variety

This week's Prog-Watch features a variety of great stuff for your listening entertainment! Hear music from Toto, Katatonia, Armonite, The Pineapple Thief, Jeavestone, the Von Hertzen Brothers, Mungion, Pendragon, Knight Area, Napier's Bones, Simon Collins, and Crack the Sky!As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you follow on Twitter or like the Facebook page, you can see the Daily Classic album---a fun little feature which the Squatch sends out six days each week! (Squatches rest on Sundays!) The Squatch also posts about the show and shares noteworthy news items from around the Prog World, so like or follow!This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/3136310/advertisement

Prog-Watch 334 - Cover 2 Cover

The last cover song special on Prog-Watch was very well received, so this week we are doing a follow-up, which we are calling "Cover 2 Cover"! The show features music from Kevin Gilbert Official, Daryl Stuermer, Erik Norlander, Manfred Mann`s Earth Band, Fish, Rush, Unitopia, Dream Theater, Yes, Echolyn, Steve Howe, Arjen Anthony Lucassen and more!As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you follow on Twitter or like the Facebook page, you can see the Daily Classic album---a fun little feature which the Squatch sends out six days each week! (Squatches rest on Sundays!) The Squatch also posts about the show and shares noteworthy news items from around the Prog World, so like or follow!This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/3136310/advertisement

Prog-Watch 333 - Colin Tench of Corvus Stone and CTP

This week's show features none other than Colin Tench of Corvus Stone and The Colin Tench Project! Colin and I had a great conversation and I think you will enjoy listening to sections of it, interspersed, of course, with lots of great Corvus Stone and CTP music! The conversation ranged from serious topics like modern record production and the evolution of Pop and Prog music, to the more outrageous, such as the actual origin of the notorious title of the Corvus Stone song, Jussipussi! So don't miss it...it was fun and we had quite a few laughs!As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you follow on Twitter or like the Facebook page, you can see the Daily Classic album---a fun little feature which the Squatch sends out six days each week! (Squatches rest on Sundays!) The Squatch also posts about the show and shares noteworthy news items from around the Prog World, so like or follow!This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/3136310/advertisement

Prog-Watch 332 - Variety

This week we have another fun variety show, with a little of the old, a little of the new, a couple of orchestras, an MBE, and a summer "Double Shot" in the middle! With music from Klaatu, The Mahavishnu Orchestra, Glass Hammer, Electric Light Orchestra, Circa, Sir Paul McCartney, Karibow, Supertramp, The Dowling Poole, and Steve Thorne! Plus a classic from Nektar in honor of the late Roye Albrighton.As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you follow on Twitter or like the Facebook page, you can see the Daily Classic album---a fun little feature which the Squatch sends out six days each week! (Squatches rest on Sundays!) The Squatch also posts about the show and shares noteworthy news items from around the Prog World, so like or follow!This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/3136310/advertisement

Prog-Watch 331 - Get Surreal With Erik Norlander

This week on Prog-Watch, we get "Surreal" with Erik Norlander! We talk a lot about the making of his new solo album (entitled "Surreal") and some of the great musicians who played on the album. We also chat about some of his other projects (the Rocket Scientists and Last In Line), the Mexican Prog scene, and why you, the listener, are only three degrees away from Kevin Bacon! Of course, we play plenty of music, too, from Erik's new solo album, and we throw in a couple from the Rocket Scientists for good measure!As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you follow on Twitter or like the Facebook page, you can see the Daily Classic album---a fun little feature which the Squatch sends out six days each week! (Squatches rest on Sundays!) The Squatch also posts about the show, and shares noteworthy news items from around the Prog World, so like or follow!This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/3136310/advertisement