Rusty Badger

This is a classic!

I knew all the answers of course (ok, I got one wrong – I thought Hugh Padgham produced Trick Of The Tail B-

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I’ve just sent a complaint to the BBC, via their ‘Have A Say‘ feature, about their recent season of programmes on Prog Rock.  Here is the message I sent:

I was pleased to see that progressive rock was finally getting some air time, but disappointed that it was limited to the usual, sneering look back, implying [...]

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Its that time again!
As the year draws to a close, all good Prog fans turn their attention to compiling a top ten CDs from the past year.
Here is my list:

1: Unitopia – The Garden

2: Believe – Yesterday Is A Friend

3: Mariusz Duda – Lunatic Soul

4: The Tangent – Not As Good As The Book

5: No-man [...]

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Wow.
I mean, seriously, wow.
I’ve been listening to the new CD ‘The Garden’ by Unitopia, who are an Australian, yes, Australian Prog band!  They’ve recently signed to Inside Out and this is their second CD.  Let’s hope IO do the right thing and re-release their debut, if they can get the rights.
It’s a wonderful slice of [...]

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One of my favourtite bands from my childhood are reforming and touring next year!!!
Keith – are you reading this???  B->

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So, it’s been several months since my last blog post, but I’m back and will try not to leave it as long before the next post.
I’ve moved on from the loyalty company I was contracted to at the beginning of the year. I then worked for an online dating company for a few months, adding [...]

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I've just taken delivery of a new musical toy, for use in the Psychedelic Ambient Trance collaboration project I've recently become involved with – a Korg PadKontrol.

Having played with it for the weekend, I'm very impressed and will be having lots of fun with it over the next few months.

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Thanks to Martin for pointing this YouTube video out:
At least they had the sense not to put their names against this video! B->

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Last night myself and a few friends went to see Bill Bailey's Tinselworm show at Wembley – I hadn't laughed so much in years! Next day my sides still ached.
The show was being recorded for a DVD release, so I look forward to watching this show again and again, like I do Bill's other [...]

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Here's one for the Prog fans!
As a developer, you sometimes get to have fun during the long hours coding by using silly words as variable names or adding funny comments that the end users never see, but yesterday I surpassed myself!
I was helping a fellow developer complete a system which automatically built a form from [...]

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