Letters
BLOODY WELL WRITE
Send your letters to us at: Prog, Future Publishing, 1-10 Praed Mews, Paddington, London, W2 1QY, or email prog@futurenet.com. Letters may be edited for length. We regret that we cannot reply to phone calls. For more comment and prog news and views, find us on facebook.com under Prog.
A WONDERFUL DISCOVERY
You can take the view that music taste stops at 33 [according to online research] – this is supposed to be the age that most people apparently stop listening to new music, but my own musical taste got wider and wider at this age through listening to the late, great John Peel. I was a Beatles and a Stones fan, then it was Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and anything metal. Now at the age of 67, I’ve found myself getting into all sorts of stuff I wouldn’t have imagined I ever would: Frank Zappa, Gentle Giant, Yes, Rick Wakeman, Dream Theater, Kansas and loads of other new bands. It’s all thanks to your illustrious magazine, which I now can’t live without.
I’m constantly fascinated by the groups in the pages of Prog, so imagine my shock and delight when reading about Three Colours Dark, who turned out to include two of my all-time favourite people: Jonathan Edwards and Rachel Cohen. I interviewed them for BBC Radio WM when they were in Karnataka and the album Delicate Flame Of Desire was out. They were the first prog band I’d seen live in years. They were stunning and I couldn’t wait to see them again but I never saw or heard of them after they left the band.