It would seem that strange times call for things to get outside of normal (whatever that is). In keeping with this there came to be a second virtual meeting of the SCPC, numbers were reduced due to dimensional instability but the important thing is that it occurred, which concurred with its occurrence. Natch.

3 names went into the Fez Of Choosing and when they appeared they delivered the following….

UT – Everything Everything ‘Arc’

FS – Blackfield ‘Welcome To My DNA’

PC – Kevin Ayers ‘Whatevershebringswesing’

Points to note – UT utterly failed in the pizza department, Flat Sky had all the recorders in the room (small, bigger, biggest) and Cheersie’s  kazoo playing needs work.

Without consulting the archive I’d say that none of artists have appeared at a PN before which is nice. The left field doozy provided by Pete Cheers featured some back door Mike as well as some farmyard style instrument abuse of high quality. At some point he’s gonna run out of these hidden gems but so far he keeps them coming!

Also none of the albums were overly long, the longest under 50 minutes and the other two easily fitting on one side of a c90. Is there room for a discussion of quality over quantity?

There has been a part one and a part two to this PNXI, one wonders what will follow next……….

Or was it in the clouds?

Either way in the midst of a country wide lockdown a gathering was had thanks to the wonders of the steam age.

Dressing gowns were worn, Nepalese cultural appropriation occuranced, Cheersie got the wine in and UT made like a kipper, Flat hosted with the mosted and Popey had pudding.

Basses were covered and no left turn unstoned.

Due to the constraints and time factors etc. there was a one album limit imposed ……how can you only choose one album? But one album each we did choose and the order of play was dictated by none other than the Fez Of Choosing. We may have been under lockdown and in less than optimal conditions but we still got the Fez out.

UT – Rush ‘A Show Of Hands’

MP – Jethro Tull ‘Broadsword And The Beast’

FS – Yes ‘Talk’

PC – Rick Wakeman ‘The Six Wives Of Henry VIII’

After that we called time and retired to our beds….

Points to note – quite a ‘modern selection’, Rick being the only ‘classic’ prog on show, and what a show he put on. There’s some proper wig outs on that album that demand further listenings.

Trevor Rabin makes some of the best noises know to man.

Broadsword has some of everything on it.

R.I.P. NP

Pine Gap
You
Deadwind
Luther S5
Hinterland
Bones S8
Seven Seconds
The Innocent Man
Travellers S3
Secret City S1
Power S1
Crimson Guitars – Bob build / 9 hour build
This Time With Alan Partridge
Rick Beato – Why This Song Is Great
The Umbrella Academy
Line Of Duty S3
iZombie S4
Lucifer S4
Bosch S5
Good Omens
American Gods S2
Justified S1
Stitchers S1/2/3
What/If
The Looming Tower
Chasing The Moon
Soundbreaking
Homeland S7
Game Of Thrones S8
Elementary S6
The Boys
Orange Is The New Black S6
Line Of Duty S4
Bojack Horseman S5
The Good Plan S3
Brooklyn 99
Seven Worlds One Planet
Mr. Robot S3
Carnival Row S1
Jack Ryan S2
Hanna
Secret City S2
Mindhunter S2
Star Trek Discovery S2
Unit 42 S1
A Very Secret Service S1
The Bridge S4
Giri/Haji

Birdbox
The Great Wall
Assassin’s Creed
The Cloverfield Paradox
Fyre
Ant Man and Wasp
Mission Impossible – Fallout
Ready Player One
The Incredibles 2
13 Assassins
What We Do In The Shadows
Sicario
Swordfish
The Great Hack
Captain Marvel
Avengers Endgame
Men In Black 2
Men In Black International
Brightburn
Aquaman
Pink Floyd – Live at Pompeii (Director’s Cut)
Gone Baby Gone
The Guard
Into The Spiderverse
Exit through the gift shop
Fahrenheit 11/9
Eric Clapton – Life In 12 bars
Sicario 2
Spider-Man – Far From Home
Venom
The Lego Ninjago Movie
Daniel Lanois Here Is What Is
U2 From The Sky Down

William Gibson – Zero History
Gregory David Roberts – Shantaram
Paolo Bacigalupi – The Doubt Factory / The Water Knife
Robert V.S. Redick – Master Assassins 1
Neal Stephenson – DODO
Hannu Rajaniemi – Summerland
Sheelah Kolhatkar – Black Edge
Barry Eisler – A Clean Kill In Tokyo
Paolo Bacigalupi / Tobias S. Buckell – The Tangled Lands
Matthew Stover – Heroes Die (Caine book 1)
The Blade Of Tyshalle (Caine book 2)
Richard Morgan – Thin Air
Alastair Reynolds – Permafrost
::*Nick Harkaway – Gnomon*::
Annalee Newitz – Autonomous
Nick Harkaway – Angelmaker / Tigerman
Matthew Walker – Why We Sleep
Tom Trott – You Can’t Make Old Friends
Alex White – A Big Ship at The Edge Of The Universe
Chris Beckett – Eden’s Story
Andy Summers – One Train Later
Steve Hogarth – The Invisible Man vol. 1 / vol. 2
Beth Lewis – The Wolf Road
Chris Brookmyre – Places In The Darkness
Graham Edwards – String City (didn’t finish)
Kim Stanley Robinson – Aurora
Terry Pratchett – Maskerade
Chris Brookmyre – Fallen Angel / Want You Gone
Ambrose Parry (C Brookmyre) – The Way Of All Flesh
Jasper Fforde – Early Riser
Keigo Higashino – Malice / Newcomer
Chris Brookmyre – Where The Bodies Are Buried / When The Devil Drives / Flesh Wounds
Charlie N Holmberg – The Paper Magician
Jan Stocklassa – The Man Who Played With Fire (Stieg Larsson’s Lost Files and the Hunt for an Assassin)
Terry Pratchett – Soul Music / Interesting Times / Thief Of Time
Haruki Murakami – Hard-boiled Wonderland & The End of the World
Michio Kaku – Parallel Worlds
Terry Pratchett – Reaper Man
Patricia Cornwell – Quantum
Peter Watts – Echopraxia
Alex White – A Bad Deal For The Whole Galaxy

Massive Attack – Ritual Spirit / The Spoils
Klaus Schulze – Kontinuum
Robert Palmer – Pressure Drop
Tangerine Dream – What A Blast / Miracle Mile / The Sessions 1 / Particles
JMJ – Equinoxe Infinity
Pink Floyd – Meddle / Dark Side Of The Moon / Wish You Were Here / Animals / The Wall / A Momentary Lapse Of Reason – Remasters
Vangelis – Nocturne
Trio Of Doom – Trio Of Doom
Ed Wynne – Shimmer Into Nature
Tangerine Dream – Ocean Waves Collection
Chick Corea – Light As A Feather / Hymn Of The Seventh Galaxy / Where Have I Known You Before / No Mystery / My Spanish Heart
Seal – Commitment
Nodens Ictus – Spacelines / Cozmic Key
Ultramarine – Signals Into Space
Carlos Santana / Mahavishnu John McLaughlin – Love Devotion Surrender
Mahavishnu Orchestra – Inner Worlds / Visions Of The Emerald Beyond
Dream Theater – Distance Over Time
Spoon – Telephono / A Series Of Sneaks / Girls Can Tell / Kill The Moonlight / Gimme Fiction / Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga / Transference / They Want My Soul / Hot Thoughts
Yann Tiersen – ALL
Herbie Hancock – Maiden Voyage
Klaus Schulze – Timbres Of Ice
The Japanese House – Good At Falling
Tim Bowness – Flowers At The Scene / Postcards From The Scene
Mahavishnu Orchestra – The Lost Trident Sessions
Miles Davis – Agharta / Dark Magus / Pangaea
Billy Cobham – A Funky Thide Of Sings
Isildurs Bane & Steve Hogarth – Colours Not Found In Nature
Shakti – John McLaughlin and Shakti Live
Rustin Man – Drift Code / Out Of Season
Neal Morse Band – The Great Adventure
The Cinematic Orchestra – To Believe
The Mute Gods – Atheists And Believers
Tom Morello – The Atlas Underground
The Japanese House – Clean
Steely Dan – Katy Lied / Pretzel Logic / The Royal Scam / Countdown To Ecstasy / Gaucho
Genesis – A Trick Of The Tail
Toto – IV
Tedeschi Trucks Band – Live / Signs
Jon Anderson – 1000 Hands / In The City Of Angels
Peter Gabriel – Rated PG
The Little Unsaid – Fisher King
Jakko M Jakszyk – The Bruised Romantic Glee Club
Adrian Belew – Pop Sided
North Atlantic Oscillation – Grind Show
Centrozoon – Blast / The Cult Of Bibbiboo
Patrick Moraz – The Story Of I
SAND – SAND
Prince – The Gold Experience
Tangerine Dream – Springtime At Nagasaki / Sessions vol 2
Trevor Horn – Reimagines The 80’s
Prince – The Hits / B-sides
Kerry Burrell – Midnight Blue
Doyle Bramhall 2 – Jellycream
Gong – The Universe Also Collapses
Big Big Train – Grand Tour
Dodgy – The Dodgy Album
The Little Unsaid – Atomise / Imagined Hymns and Chaingang Mantras
The Reluctant Rocker – Collider
Caravan – Live 1990
Tedeschi Trucks Band – Revelator / Let Me Get By / Made Up Mind
Siouxsie And The Banshees – Juju / A Kiss In The Dreamhouse
Pierre Moerlen’s Gong – Downwind
The Decemberists – The Hazards Of Love
Tangerine Dream – The Bootleg Series vol 3
Philip Glass – The Essential Philip Glass / Koyanisquatsi
Gong – Camembert Electrique / 2032
King Crimson – The Elements Tour Box 2019
George Michael – Listen Without Prejudice / MTV Unplugged
Tangerine Dream – Oedipus Tyrannus
Andy Summers – Tribioluminescence / The Last Dance Of Mr. X / Earth + Sky / Synaesthesia / Metal Dog
The Raconteurs – Helps Us Stranger
John Mayall with Eric Clapton – Blues Breakers
John Mayer – Continuum
Sting – Nothing Like The Sun / The Souls Cages
Khruangbin – Hasta El Cielo
Brian Eno – Apollo deluxe
Frankie Hies To Hollywood – Welcome To The Pleasuredome
Iamthemorning – The Bell
Queensrÿche – Hear In The Now Frontier
DarWin – Origin Of Species
Queensrÿche – The Verdict
Dire Straits – Alchemy / Comminuque / Making Movies / Brothers In Arms / On Every Street / Dire Straits
Rush – Rush / Fly By Night
Mark Knopfler – Local Hero
Black Dub – Black Dub
Elbow – Giants Of All Sizes
GoGo Penguin – Ocean In A Drop
Mike Patton – Corpse Flower
System 7 – Up / Power Of Seven / Café Seven / Point 3 Water Album
Tool – Fear Inoculum
Flying Colors – Third Degree
Marillion – With Friends From The Orchestra
Patrick Watson – Wave
Marillion – Afraid Of Sunlight (Deluxe Edition)
Mark Lettieri – Things Of That Nature
The Bad Plus – Activate Infinity
Bruce Soord – All This Will Be Yours
B.B. King – Live At The Regal
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Ghosteen
Zoe – Scarlet Red and Blue
Santana – Supernatural
No-Man – Love You To Bits
Humble Pie – Eat It
Daniel Lanois – Goodbye To Language
The Neville Brothers – Yellow Moon
Daniel Lanois – Belladonna / Here Is What Is
Pink Floyd – The Later Years
Patrick Moraz & Syrinx – Coexistence
Fripp and Eno – Beyond Even

The Tenth Prog Night…..

they said it would never happen, they said it should never happen…..

but it did.

The Pre-PNX warm up session

• King Crimson – Meltdown (Live In Mexico City

PNX

• The Decemberists – The Hazards Of Love (PC)
• Jean Michel Jarre – Equinoxe Infinity (PC)
• Jon Anderson – 1000 Hands (UT)
• Ozric Tentacles – Pungent Effulgent (FS)
• Talk Talk – The Colour Of Spring (UT)
• Riverside – Wasteland (FS)
• Marillion – Marbles (UT)
• Yes – Going For The One (UT)
• Steve Hillage – Green (FS)
• Pierre Moerlen’s Gong – Downwind (PC)
• Opeth – Pale Communion (FS)
• Tangerine Dream – Quantum Gate (PC)

The Post PNX viewing session

• Caravan – Access All Areas (1991 concert)
• Marillion – The Final Straw (making CAS documentary)
• Tangerine Dream – Revolution In Sound (TD doc.)
• ARW – Live At The Apollo
• Peter Gabriel – Back To Front

Thoughts And Reflectionisms

Themes that weren’t themes but actually were themes if you ignored one of the choices.

Peter Cheers’s Left Field Doozy with the hidden smuggle that came with a smuggle.

There’s two pairs, but you can’t tell what they are because only one of each pair has come out so far.

I don’t want my come face in the cloud.

How do you follow that? Oh, with that!

Hmmmmm, I’ll have the Merlot.

Blue T-shirts, with God inscribed in heaven on both sides.

Lots of interconnected oneness flying about, talking about things that would magically appear from the Fez Of Choosing later on in the evening.

Lots of groovy grooves that grooved.

Plenty of Artists that have never appeared in the Fez before alongside some cornerstones of SCPC.

Jon.

Where did Cheers get The Decemberists from?

Flat Sky’s data factualisma.

The increasing ritualisation of Prog Night (I’m looking at you light bulb).

Throw in some roasted veg, pizzas, enough cups of tea to ensure regular trips to the bladderterium, alcohol free beer and the mystery wrap of mouth engunkmentage and you have a beautiful weekend spent enjoying the very best of klang (we learnt the German word sound) and company.

Snetterton is just wiping down the furnishings and I’m very much looking forward to the next one (we keep raising this bar you know) and it goes without saying that the audience were knowledgeable and appreciative.

Well I think we can safely say that that is perfection.

Travellers S2

Dirk Gently S2

Black Mirror S4

That Pedal Show (you tube)

Orange Is The New Black S1,2,3,4,5

The End Of The F*ing World

Altered Carbon S1

Toast Of London

Hard Sun

Star Trek Discovery S1

The Good Place S2

Requiem

Limitless S1

Dark

Bloodline S1,2 (didn’t finish)

Hap and Leonard S1

Homeland S6

Dope S1

Fargo S3

The City and The City

Jessica Jones S2

Lost In Space S1

Fastest Car

Happy

Lucifer S3

The Bridge S1,2,3

That Pedal Show (lots of)

El Misterio Del Tiempo

The Vietnam War

Good Girls S1

Into The Badlands S1,2,3

Reporting Trump’s First Year – The Fourth Estate

The Rain

Santa Clarita Diet S2

Zoo

The Pyramid Code

The Forest

Evil Genius

Bosch S4

Spiral S1,2,3

This Country S1,2

Luke Cage S2

Iron Fist S2

Norsemen S2

Jack Ryan S1

The New Legends Of Monkey

Salvation S1,2

Drug Lords

Ozark S2

The Sinner S1

Daredevil S3

Thor Ragnarok

Valerian and the 1000 planets

The Jungle Book

Icarus

Star Wars – The Force Awakens / The Last Jedi

Mute

This Might Get Loud

Sample This

Kingsmen – The Golden Circle

The Death Of Stalin

Deadpool 2

Black Panther

Avengers – Infinity War

The Sugar Film

American Psycho

The Wolf Of Wall Street

Extinction

Django Unchained

Logan

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (Swedish version)

The Beyond

Star Trek – Into Darkness

Interstellar

Freefire

The Grand Budapest Hotel

Jack Reacher – Never Go Back

Blake Crouch – The Wayward Pines book 1,2,3

Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon – Preacher Book One

Neil Gaiman – Sandman Overture

Umberto Eco – The Prague Cemetery

James Burke – The Knowledge Web

Tom Toner – The Promise Of The Child (Amaranthine Spectrum 1)

Aliette De Bodard – The House Of Shattered Wings

Eoin Colfer – And another thing

Douglas Adams – H2G2

Yuval Noah Harari – Sapiens / Homo Deus

Matthew Mather – Cyber storm

Ernest Cline – Armada

Adrian Tchaikovsky – Ironclads

Carl Sagan – The Dragons Of Eden

David Eagleman – The Brain

Raoul Martinez – Creating Freedom

Hugh Howey – Beacon 23

V.E. Schwann – Vicious

Gene Riehl – Quantico Rules

Genevieve Cogman – The Invisible Library (1)

Stephen Donaldson – The King’s Justice

Jeff Noon – A Man Of Shadows

Pete F Hamilton – The Abyss Beyond Dreams / The Night without Stars

Andrew Cherascu – The Vintages / Ayers

Various – 2054

Terry Pratchett – Lords and Ladies / Thief Of Time / The Fifth Elephant

Adam Spencer’s Book Of Numbers

John Guy Collick – Thumb

Andrez Bergen – Who Is Killing The Great Capes Of Heropa?

Ian Sample – Massive (the hunt for the Higgs boson)

Graham Hancock – Magicians Of The Gods

John Higgs – The KLF

David Lagercrantz – The Girl In The Spider’s Web / The Girl That Takes An Eye For An Eye

Simon Winstanley – Boundary (field book 3)

EVA (field book 4)

Phillip Ball – Invisible

Ivy Pochoda – Wonder Valley

Andy Weir – Artemis

Alan Partridge – Nomad

Terry Pratchett – Thud / Unseen Academicals / Snuff / Raising Steam

Keigo Higashino – The Devotion Of Suspect X / Salvation Of A Saint / A Midsummers Equation

William Gibson – Pattern Recognition / Spook Country