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London Prog Gigs presents A SUNDAY IN SEPTEMBER - an all-day festival featuring the best in modern progressive rock music. Featuring:

ABEL GANZ : Abel Ganz is a group whose origins lie with the second wave of prog rock bands who appeared in the early 1980s. Reborn this century with a new line up, the band released the eponymous 'Abel Ganz' album in 2014. Largely abandoning the neo-prog style of the past to embrace a far broader palette [covering styles such as folk, jazz, classical, and funk] this album increased the band?s profile enormously and rode very high in end-of-year ?best of? polls.
July 2020 saw the band release their concept album 'The Life Of The Honey Bee & Other Moments Of Clarity', comprising six thematically linked pieces exploring the relationships with memory and loss. Once again, reception of the new album has proven highly positive, with many critics calling this their best album to date, and again the album featured very highly in end-of-year polls, even landing at top ?album of the year? spot for some.
With a history as long as Abel Ganz it is quite remarkable that in 2021 they are now a band increasingly growing in confidence and hitting their creative stride. Based in Scotland, incredibly this will be their first ever gig in London!


THE EMERALD DAWN : The Emerald Dawn are a multi-instrumentalist, symphonic progressive rock quartet, who combine elements from classical music, jazz and rock to produce their own original, distinctive and exciting sound ? a sound that is cinematic, epic, experimental and powerful. Usually haunting, often beautifully melodic and always highly atmospheric, the music of The Emerald Dawn paints images or tells stories that stimulate the imagination and takes the listener on unforgettable musical journeys. Their fourth album 'To Touch the Sky' was released in 2021. Based in Cornwall they have played many gigs in the south of England, but this will be their debut London performance.

THE GIFT : The Gift are one of the UK?s underground giants of Prog, signed to Bad Elephant Music. Their music has been described by Classic Rock magazine as ?music of considerable power and beauty?. It is rumoured that the band?s 5th album will emerge in 2021

IT : Beginning life as a psychedelic, multi-media group, IT is a band with a colossal sound that shakes the bones, with a barrage of images that feeds the mind. IT?s sound fuses the classic melodies of prog rock?s past with a passion and intensity usually only found in punk or metal bands. Politics, religion, war and sexuality all come under the band?s lens for critical examination. Lyrics are intelligent, challenging and occasionally darkly humorous. The bottom line is that the IT experience will inform your thinking, feelings and memory long after the last notes have ended.

HAT?S OFF GENTLEMEN IT?S ADEQUATE : Hats Off Gentlemen It's Adequate are Malcolm Galloway and Mark Gatland, on their own or with Kathryn Thomas (flute). They combine prog/alt-rock, funk, metal, ambient, contemporary classical, minimalist, and electronica elements, and often explore scientific themes. They are recommended by Steve Hackett, and were described by HRH Prog as ?unlikely stars who stole the show?

TOM SLATTER : Tom Slatter is a sci-fi singer-songwriter, ?a latter-day Victorian street-theatre barker with a guitar promising tales of mystery, imagination, ?orrible murders and bloody great waving tentacles?. He was once nominated for a prog award and has been trying to atone ever since.

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77 Bedford Hill,

Balham,

Greater London,

England,

SW12 9HD.