In order to better celebrate the Mayday Bank Holiday I’m taking a week off from show-making, but I’ll be back next weekend!

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Drinking tea is only slightly less desirable than eating curry, so for this week’s episode I was delighted to partake of said beverage with Dave Foster and Charlotte Evans from the British progressive rock band Mr. So & So, who provided one of the highlights of the Summer’s End festival programme this year. Okay, so they were drinking tea in Manchester and I was in London…but that’s not the point! We had an excellent chat, talking about Mr. So & So’s excellent 2009 release ‘Sugarstealer’, progressive rock and music in general. Thanks to you both, guys, for such an excellent contribution to the show!

Plenty of other material to keep you all entertained in another four and a half hour epic – new albums from Steve Hackett and Nosound, a little Kino/Frost*/It Bites sequence highlighting the excellent ‘Esoteric Evening…” event at the Peel last weekend (with Messrs. Mitchell and Godfrey being more than ably supported by the redoubtable Tinyfish), the next three letters in Huw’s Alphabet of Prog (though strangely, without Huw!) and a preview of what is sure to be one of the highlight releases of the year – and possibly the decade – Big Big Train’s ‘The Underfall Yard’.

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Finally! It’s here! Less than a month after the event itself, the European Perspective review of the 2009 Summer’s End Festival!

And this time…it’s mob-handed. I’m joined by prog fan extraordinaire, Chris, to play lots of songs and talk nonsense about them.