Ken Slaters Progressive Musings #008 – 04/09/2024 – The Class of’83

Progressive Musings with Ken Slater (edition 008) on Progzilla Radio

This show was broadcast on Wednesday 18^th September 2024 at 3pm BST/UK, 10am East Coast US & 7am Pacific US.

This week we have one main feature: The Class of ’83. The subject is The Reading Rock Festival of 1983 which was considered as some kind of rebirth for Progressive Rock. You will hear music from every neo-prog band that played, two established bands that were on the bill and two bands that almost made the festival. My personal choice of music for this episode is classic Barclay James Harvest. It’s all part of three hours of superb melodic and symphonic progressive rock.

Bonus Podcast Only Tracks:

Pallas (BBC Radio 1 Friday Rock Show At The Reading Festival 1983). After I had completed the show for broadcast, I was given these four tracks originally broadcast on Tommy Vance’s BBC Radio One Friday rock show. They are on CD2 of Pallas – Eyes In The Night The Recordings 1981-1986 Box Set and are: Cut and Run, Ark of Infinity, Arrive Alive and Atlantis.

You can hear Progressive Musings with Ken Slater on Progzilla Radio live from The Black Country at 3pm BST/UK, 10am East Coast US & 7am Pacific US on every alternate Wednesday

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Playlist

It Bites – Old Man And The Angel

The Madrigal Project – A Question Of Wait And Matter

ZIO – X-Ray (Live)

Jadis – Said And Done

Frant1c – Prologue-The Awakening – Come Back To Earth

Barclay James Harvest – The Great 1974 Mining Disaster – Mockingbird (Live)

The Enid – Land Of Hope And Glory (Live)

Magnum – The Spirit – Sacred Hour (Live)

Pendragon – The Black Knight

Solstice – Morning Light (Live at Cropedy) – Cannibalise Legalis – Sunrise

Pallas – Arrive Alive – Atlantis

Marillion – Grendel (Reading Festival 83)

Marillion – Forgotten Sons (Reading Festival 83)

Twelfth Night – The Ceiling Speaks (Reading Festival 83)

Twelfth Night – The Poet Sniffs A Flower (Reading Festival 83)

Trilogy – Hidden Mysteries

IQ – The Enemy Smacks

PODCAST ONLY BONUS TRACKS RECORDED LIVE AT THE READING ROCK FESTIVAL 1983

Pallas – Cut and Run,

Pallas – Ark of Infinity

Pallas – Arrive Alive

Pallas – Atlantis

Ken Slater Born at the end of February 1957, I suppose you can say I am a child of the sixties. My musical journey started one night in 1970. I was visiting an Aunt when her son Keith came home from Walsall’s rock pub the Dirty Duck. He was slightly drunk (on barley wine) and for some reason, ravenously hungry. He asked me if I wanted to listen to some music and I said yes. He played me tracks from Led Zeppelin II, Frank Zappa’s Hot Rats and Trout Mask Replica by Captain Beefheart. I was so impressed that I woke up the next morning wearing a cheesecloth shirt, loon pants and my hair had grown past my shoulders!!!!! During the NWOBHM (1980-83) I was one of the DJ’s who compiled the weekly Heavy Metal charts for ‘Sounds’ music paper. I did this from a number of venues in the West Midlands. Member of the Production Team for Late Night Live on Cruise to the Edge. Member of the Production Team for Prog on the Ranch in Tampa, Florida. Until late 2023 and for eight years before, I was associate promotor of Prog concerts at the Robin Club, Bilston.