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The new issue Prog 16  out on Wednesday 20th April

has a big interview with me and a free Cd sampler of my stuff, two tracks from the Newborn Creatures album (out in June) two from Talking With Strangers and three tracks from the Anthology of forgotten and neverbeforeheard songs which will be released later this year. I hope..

At the moment there is only a picture on facebook of the front and back covers of the wallet, but when I get a copy, I'll scan it in..

There is also an interview with Fairport, and John Renbourn and Roy Harper and the main interview is with Rush.

So that's a bit good isn't it? ;D

Sorry Jude, I have to disagree. It's a LOT good...    ;D

Sounds excellent. (Just hope I don't get hooked on yet another music mag!)

Be careful, Bill...this could be an expensive habit (it's about £8 a copy I think, although it's not monthly I don't think)  :)

Gulp!! Oh well, it's probably about time I knocked "Q" on the head!

Excellent news, may even treat myself to one  :). I haven't read Q since about 2001, still pick it up on the news-stands to see if there's anything I've missed, and usually there isn't !

I don't know why Prog is so expensive compared to it's parent magazine - (as far as I know it is monthly - another new offshoot, AOR, is every couple of months and is also pricey) - so I don't buy it as a rule now, but this one I shall get for the Jude content.
If the prog content is reduced in Classic Rock to fill the off shoot I may well end up not buying that evry month either,which is a shame as I have every issue, it was the broad coverage of all the rock genres that appealed to me.

Congrats Jude ... Brilliant news!

Just simple supply and demand I imagine, Mike...sales will be smaller...the price has to be higher to compensate...

and prog fans have more money than sense

How easy is this to find in shops without subscribing in people's experience?

Very. All Smiths seem to sell it.

which peoples experience do you want to subscribe into?

I knew somebody would pick me up on that!

Anybody's experience but mine!

Never had a problem getting it...its always in WH Smith's and the larger supermarkets.

Damn..just read that the sampler CD is not available outside of the UK, even for subscribers..Should any kind soul happen to have a copy they do not want, please IM me and I will find something to send in exchange.

Merci.

If that is true about the cd not being available outside the U.K.,that really sucks!

'Contractual reasons' is the line. But we have ordered 200 cd's to service such demand, which will be sent out free. :-) So you will probably all get the cd's before the mags at the the rate of complaints about slow despatch to the other corners of the world.

On the other hand, the feature is err' impressive' to say the least.

Just bought this in Tesco. Will have a listen to the CD after Mike Harding.

Tell him to buy his own copy.At 8 quid a pop you should go first.

I don't often buy this mag as I think it is rather expensive. But this time it's worth it just for Judy's CD. The opener "Heart of Stone" is stunning and along with "Crystal Voices" if this is the standard of all the tracks of the new release, Newborn Creatures is going to be one great album. Shame we have to wait until June.

Obviously we already know the tracks off the last album, glad they have included Harpsong though.

The three demos are also very good and I love the version of See Emily Play. So this augers very well for the Anthology as well. This could be getting expensive.

The article in the mag is also very interesting and informative.

 ;D ;D PMSL

Seems a good deal to me given you get 2 CDs and a 132 page magazine with features on Judy, Fairport (great pic of the '71 line-up giving it six-nowt onstage) and John Renbourne. Plus the mighty Rush. It's all good stuff.

I just love that phrase...

Shame the mag's review of Festival Bell talks about Ric Sanders rearranging Celtic Moon to suit his voice... Although that's a rearrangement I wouldn't mind hearing...

Glad See Emily Play is on the Jude CD - as a Floyd fan and NOT usually a cover version fan, it's a good take on an old classic.....nice!

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It's a corking read, although they do seem to have a fairly broad definition of what constitutes 'prog'.  :D
Phrase of the issue? "There's more ways of killing a cat than throwing butter at it".  :D

Must have been good stuff that whoever thought that one up was smoking !  :)

I always pick up Classic Rock meets Prog and have stopped buying Classic Rock itself. I'm not interested in Kiss, who seemed to be in it every month, or articles about band members drinking/drugging themselves into oblivion. Articlesd usually accompanied by photos of a hairy bloke covered in tattoos leering out the page while doing that dumb "devil's horn" thing with his fingers.

I wasn't expecting the JD sampler, so put it on in the car the other morning. Certainly does make me look forward to the actual album!

For the first issues of CRMP you could only get it in WH Smiths or independents. Now it appears to be in all supermarkets. I get my copy from the Tesco over the road from the office...

Although the content does sometimes seem to stray quite a way from Prog. Not that it bothers me, as a lot of prog rock fans seem to also be fans of folk-rock as well. I wish they'd do a bit more jazz/rock fusion and cover more Italian/German bands.

That's a sentence I thought had been declared extinct in about 1976....  :D

It's a marvellous read but I did find that, not having followed the prog scene - be there such a thing - for a while, the other free CD was such a collection of pedestrian cliches that I flipped most of the tracks before they'd even reached their sixth minute. The prog scene - really, is that it?

Somewhat like the free CDs with Classic Rock, the CR Presents..CDs are somewhat variable in quality - far too much tuneless metal masquerading as complex prog, or bands copying IQ copying Genesis..The CDs with the first few editions were excellent, as was the K-Scope records sampler..

It's always a bit of a molly shoot - assuming that anything given away with a magazine is either representative as a whole or not subject to contractual and advertising considerations (doffs cap, present company excepted and all that) but this was really dire. Put it this way, I was looking fondly at a cheap copy of Wheel of Steel in HMV today as a palate cleanser.

I just wanted to say that I never ever thought that I would be likely to buy a magazine called Classic Rock Presents Prog. Judy D, you have a lot to answer for! :-)

Heeheeheeheeheeheehee!  ;D  ;D  ;D

Found a copy of the mag hidden away at the back of the bottom shelf at my local WH Smiths. Lots of interesting stuff to read though obviously the Jude article comes first! What on earth was RT wearing in that photo on p49?  :)

See Emily Play is a popular song to cover as Martha Wainwright did a version on her I Know You're Married... album.

I sent my brother off to find me a copy, which he has stashed away for my holidays in July.  Looking forward to it.

 ;D

Likewise. The only ones I listened to more than a couple of minutes of were Twelfth Night, Matt Stevens and The Curator. I'll stick to my Yes and Fish-era Marillion LPs if I'm in the mood for some prog. And I'll admit to having one of Rush's live albums. Bought it mainly for Spirit of Radio.

I've long felt that early-70s FC were as proggy as they were folky or rocky.  

See, e.g., Bring 'em Down and Sloth - lyrically and instrumentally, they have much in common with the popular progressive music of the period.  They're already bloody long on record, and stretched on forever in live performance, other hallmarks of the progressive movement.  In addition, FC's early '70s penchant for complex instrumentals, played at warp speed, seems a bit proggy to me.

Finally got my copy and the sampler CD, which I have enjoyed very much.  The article was well written and informative too.  Interesting articles on John Renbourn, FC and Roy Harper, as well as Rush and The Nice, so a good issue all in all.

As for the magazine CD, oh dear.  I got half way through the opening track, which sounded like a Zappa parody of modern music and that was that..

I'm new here, and didn't recognize you as THAT Judy, Jude. Pleased to meet you.

Delighted to meet you too ;D

Jude

When is your anthology coming out? Can't wait for it! Will it cover all your work?

Cheers

Jamie

Hopefully by the end of the year (but don't get cross if it's delayed, these releases depend on a zillion things ;D)

And yes it will cover right from 1964 to last week, and apart from one or two things will be mostly 'never before heard in public' or 'hidden in the attic' or 'good grief where did that come from' material 8)

who locked you in the attic Jude?

Fantastic!