Hi everyone,
I didn't want to intrude on these grounds just like that, but now that René himself has invited me to promote my prog festival here, I'll gladly share this with you!
I've always wished for something like ProgPower Europe in Germany, preferrably further in the South. Maybe a bit less on the "power" side of things, but instead with a further definition of the "prog" bit - with some fusiony instrumental bands, for example. Like my own!
As usual with these things, they don't really happen unless you take matters into your own hands...
After half a year of work, this dream is about to become reality: The Generation Prog Festival 2011 will take place on September 23rd and 24th at the "Luise - The Cultfactory" in Nürnberg (Nuremberg), Germany. Here's our official promo poster with the full lineup:
Don't miss this if you can make it! It's going to be an awesome weekend and we're hoping for quite a few guests from abroad (especially from Austria and Switzerland, obviously) given the rather special lineup: It's Andromeda's first German gig in five years, Exivious' debut on German soil, one of the first non-UK gigs for Haken and one of the rare occasions to see my own band Relocator live!
To make things even more interesting, both Subsignal and Haken want to bring advance copies of their upcoming albums and sell them ahead of the release date.
Here's the preliminary schedule:
Friday, September 23:
23:15 Haken
21:50 Exivious
20:25 Effloresce
19:30 Ocean Spout
Saturday, September 24:
23:00 Andromeda
21:45 Relocator
20:25 Subsignal
19:30 Theory of Elements
Weekend tickets are 40 Euro, single-day tickets are 21 (will be 22 at the door).
More information and tickets available here:
http://www.generation-prog.com (mostly German, but there's a small English section with all the relevant information and news)
Even more information and behind-the-scenes nonsense here:
http://www.facebook.com/GenerationProg (English)
But wait - there's more!
When you're staging a prog festival for modern and somewhat obscure prog bands, you try to think of ways to make those bands more popular to maximize your audience. But of course there's nothing quite as persuasive as the actual music those bands are playing! I am very happy that thanks to the help of Prog Sphere and the bands and labels involved I was able to put together this awesome compilation:
Free download here: http://www.prog-sphere.com/2011/08/31/a-progstravaganza-special-the-new-generation-of-prog
Over 68 minutes of hand-picked modern classics (or at least they should be!) from some of my favorite modern prog bands. There is some mindblowing stuff here: "The Point Of No Return" from Haken's celebrated debut Aquarius (over 11 minutes!), Andromeda's incredible 17 minute epic "Veil of Illumination", Exivious' awesome "Waves Of Thought" - in my opinion it simply doesn't get any better! And of course I hope you'll also enjoy the track that my own band Relocator contributed - our fan favorite Aavishkar, another track that's over 10 minutes long!
Enjoy and spread the word - or in this case, the link!
All the best,
Michael
I didn't want to intrude on these grounds just like that, but now that René himself has invited me to promote my prog festival here, I'll gladly share this with you!
I've always wished for something like ProgPower Europe in Germany, preferrably further in the South. Maybe a bit less on the "power" side of things, but instead with a further definition of the "prog" bit - with some fusiony instrumental bands, for example. Like my own!
As usual with these things, they don't really happen unless you take matters into your own hands...After half a year of work, this dream is about to become reality: The Generation Prog Festival 2011 will take place on September 23rd and 24th at the "Luise - The Cultfactory" in Nürnberg (Nuremberg), Germany. Here's our official promo poster with the full lineup:
Don't miss this if you can make it! It's going to be an awesome weekend and we're hoping for quite a few guests from abroad (especially from Austria and Switzerland, obviously) given the rather special lineup: It's Andromeda's first German gig in five years, Exivious' debut on German soil, one of the first non-UK gigs for Haken and one of the rare occasions to see my own band Relocator live!
To make things even more interesting, both Subsignal and Haken want to bring advance copies of their upcoming albums and sell them ahead of the release date.
Here's the preliminary schedule:
Friday, September 23:
23:15 Haken
21:50 Exivious
20:25 Effloresce
19:30 Ocean Spout
Saturday, September 24:
23:00 Andromeda
21:45 Relocator
20:25 Subsignal
19:30 Theory of Elements
Weekend tickets are 40 Euro, single-day tickets are 21 (will be 22 at the door).
More information and tickets available here:
http://www.generation-prog.com (mostly German, but there's a small English section with all the relevant information and news)
Even more information and behind-the-scenes nonsense here:
http://www.facebook.com/GenerationProg (English)
But wait - there's more!
When you're staging a prog festival for modern and somewhat obscure prog bands, you try to think of ways to make those bands more popular to maximize your audience. But of course there's nothing quite as persuasive as the actual music those bands are playing! I am very happy that thanks to the help of Prog Sphere and the bands and labels involved I was able to put together this awesome compilation:
Free download here: http://www.prog-sphere.com/2011/08/31/a-progstravaganza-special-the-new-generation-of-prog
Over 68 minutes of hand-picked modern classics (or at least they should be!) from some of my favorite modern prog bands. There is some mindblowing stuff here: "The Point Of No Return" from Haken's celebrated debut Aquarius (over 11 minutes!), Andromeda's incredible 17 minute epic "Veil of Illumination", Exivious' awesome "Waves Of Thought" - in my opinion it simply doesn't get any better! And of course I hope you'll also enjoy the track that my own band Relocator contributed - our fan favorite Aavishkar, another track that's over 10 minutes long!
Enjoy and spread the word - or in this case, the link!
All the best,
Michael
