Let’s doff our caps to Pendragon etc., and to the good Kev Rowland

The third volume of Kev Rowland's trilogy of progressive rock reviews and interviews from 1991-2006 has just been reviewd itself in the amazing publication, RnR.

The Progressive Underground collects former RNR contributor Kev Rowland’s writing on progressive rock, from his own Feedback magazine, from the lean prog years of the early 90s to the somewhat less lean ones of the early 2000s. The final volume completes the album section, with reviews of artists from T (that’s an artist’s name) to Zone Six. There follows DVD reviews, gig reviews and interviews. Most moving is an obituary of Geoff Mann, the talented vocalist and songwriter for Twelfth Night, my favourite 1980s prog group, who died of cancer in 1993.

Kev’s reviews are informative and generous. Despite being a member of Mensa, he is an enthusiast, not a theorist. He encounters all the big fish in the small pond of the era’s prog. Actually a big fish in a small pond probably ain’t such a bad thing to be: you have serious admirers, yet you don’t get stared at on the bus. Doubtless, though, as The Stranglers put it immortally, ‘the money’s no good’.

All these heroes kept progressive rock alive when it was till orthodox to spit upon the so rich and radical genre. Let’s doff our caps to Pendragon etc., and to the good Kev Rowland.

Rychard Carrington 

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