The Prog Mill 471 – 8 June 2025

Edition 471 of THE PROG MILL for Progzilla Radio (691 in total), first broadcast 8 June 2025, is now also available to listen to anytime you like or even download it. This week I’m joined by Leo Trimming of The Progressive Aspect who reads a review of the superb Oddleaf album ‘Where Ideal and Denial Collide’ which was written by the late Tony Colvill. There is also a short tribute to Tony as part of that. Our fun quickfire quiz invites you to identify five of the bands who played last weekend’s Soundle festival by hearing just a few seconds of each. All this of course makes up two hours of superb melodic and symphonic progressive rock!

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Your melodic and symphonic progressive rock music suggestions for the show are very welcome. Just email shaun@progzilla.com, or message via twitter/X @shaunontheair or facebook.com/theprogmill

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Playlist

1 Drifting Sun – Tormented (Chasing Rainbows)
2 Bjorn Riis – Gone (Fimbulvinter)
3 Salome – Falling Free (Black Hole)
4 ESP Project – Resurrection On The Forest Floor) (Velvet Crunch)
5 Cafune – Cafune (Tra Le Corde Dei Racconti)
6 Alpha Lighting System – Salto De Fe (Dualitas)
7 Enigmatic Sound Machines – In Perfect Silence (Imperfect Silence)
8 Oddleaf – Back in Time (Where Ideal and Denial Collide)
9 Oddleaf – Ethereal Melodies (Where Ideal and Denial Collide)
10 Peter Gabriel – Solsbury Hill (Peter Gabriel 1)
11 Ambient Den – For All Mankind (Ambient Den)
12 Yuka & Chronoship – Sleeping Girl in the Stained Glass (Ribbon Butterfly)
13 Blind Convergence – Ghost Stories (Excerpt) (Skyward) * Prog Magazine Limelight Artist

Shaun has been a radio presenter since 1982, starting in pirate radio broadcasting across Europe from an aerial strung between trees in the forests of Staffordshire. Soon after, he became a regular presenter and member of the management team at Hospital Radio Stafford, staying there for 32 years and receiving long service awards. Shaun also worked extensively in local community radio in Staffordshire on several stations including Stafford FM, Stone FM, Chase FM and Smart Radio. When Stafford Radio, an online community radio station started broadcasting from a 220 year old windmill in 2011, Shaun began presenting 'The Prog Mill' (the name inspired by the station's unique base). Stafford Radio became Windmill Radio before closing in 2016, when 'The Prog Mill' became part of Progzilla Radio. The Prog Mill leans towards the melodic and symphonic side of progressive rock, and includes regular album reviews from our friends at The Progressive Aspect, CD Giveaways, and a regular fun quickfire quiz. Your music suggestions for the show are very welcome at shaun@progzilla.com or via facebook.com/theprogmill or twitter (X) @shaunontheair