There will also be a warm-up party for the Final Night Of The Prog Festival 2024 with performances by three bands in the Weinstübchen in Sankt Goarshausen. This Warm-Up Party will take place on Thursday, 18 July!
The third and last band we can now announce is PÜNK FLÖYD. Pünk Flöyd are a Swedish tribute band of a band with a very similar name and they have been active for quite some years now, pleasing the crowds during various festivals.
There is a Pünk Flöyd Facebook-Page, which can be found here. The band is also listed on Spotify.
Please note The Warm-Up Party is now sold out, but we do have a waiting list
Tickets cost 35€ (30€ for buyers of a NOTP 3-day ticket) and you can put your name on the waiting list via Email directly at WiV Entertainment.
Note regarding the ferry: If you need a ferry to get to the other side of the Rhine after the Warm Up Party, please note this in the email when you order tickets. We will organise a passenger ferry for all those who need to return to St. Goar.
There will also be a warm-up party for the Final Night Of The Prog Festival 2024 with performances by three bands in the Weinstübchen in Sankt Goarshausen. This Warm-Up Party will take place on Thursday, 18 July!
The second band we can now announce is FLAME DROP. Flame Drop are a kind of reincarnation of the band FORS from Switzerland, who performed at the Night Of The Prog Festival a few years ago. FLAME DROP are now a duo consisting of Felix Waldispühl and Roland Hegi. So far, the music has been purely instrumental and all instruments and effects have been recorded by Roland and Felix.
More about FLAME DROP can be found on their website.
A third band is also planned for the Warm Up Party, more information will be available in the next few days.
The tickets will cost 35€ (30€ for buyers of a NOTP 3-day ticket) and can be ordered directly from WiV via email. THERE ARE ONLY A FEW TICKETS LEFT!
Note regarding the ferry: If you need a ferry to get to the other side of the Rhine after the Warm Up Party, please note this in the email when you order tickets. We will organise a passenger ferry for all those who need to return to St. Goar.
The Final Night of the Prog Festival will take place on the Loreley in July 2024. This will mark the end of the biggest prog festival of our time and an entire era.
To mark the occasion, Empire Music is publishing an opulent photo art book that illustrates the entire history of the extraordinary festival with photo galleries on over 200 pages. At the end of the 17th and final festival this year, there will have been 188 acts, with 258 performances.
Not only the selected stars and headliners – the heart and soul of this unique festival has always been all the artists, and that is why the comprehensive book shows absolutely all the participants, from the hopeful newcomers under the hot midday sun to the superstars in the deep dark night. A photo is worth a thousand words, and here the photos alone speak…
Seven photographers accredited for Empire Magazine have documented all the performances for the magazine from the very beginning and are now sharing their best photos as a memento with the audience and those who stayed at home, giving everyone an impressive picture of the festival’s history. All of this year’s performances at the final festival in 2024 will of course also be professionally photographed again and the photos will be included in the book in their entirety.
The photo book is in A4 format with a sturdy coated hardcover, the 200+ photo pages with well over 1000 photos are printed on high-quality glossy paper. Due to the elaborate production, the book is published as a subscription (with prenumeration), a traditional old form of publication similar to modern crowdfunding.
Limited introductory price: 49€
The book is offered at a special introductory price up to and including 31 August 2024 as a binding and prepaid order, with which buyers enable the production of the photo book and receive three advantages and privileges in return:
The introductory price of just €49 (from 1.9. the regular publisher’s price of €69 will apply) plus shipping
Guaranteed delivery of the purchased copy for all pre-orders
An entry in the list of all pre-orders on a thank you page in the book (voluntary consent, please switch on consent in the menu before the shopping basket) All pre-orders will be produced in autumn and delivered by the end of November 2024, after which all remaining copies will go on sale at the regular publisher’s price of €69 (plus shipping), “first come, first serve”.
Shipping costs:
Germany: Book 49€ + freight 8€ = 57€ total price (incl. VAT) EU member states: Book 49€ + freight 16€ = 65€ total price (incl. VAT) CH/NOR/UK: Book 49€ + freight 24€ = 73€ total price (local import/customs fees may apply)
Important notes:
The sale of the pre-order via WiV Entertainment is on behalf of Empire Music. All buyers will be contacted by Empire Publishing by email no later than 6 weeks after the purchase, who will then deliver the ordered books directly to the customers in November. The customer data of the order will be transmitted to the publisher, all data protection rights remain guaranteed.
Due to the status of both the subscription/prenumeration and the individualisation of the product (list of names), the right to exchange or return the delivered books is excluded. All buyer rights for the conclusion of this purchase contract itself and/or objective reasons for complaint after delivery (e.g. damage) are not restricted by this.
Due to the weight of approx. one kilo, shipping is generally done as an insured parcel.
There will also be a warm-up party for the Final Night Of The Prog Festival 2024 with performances by two bands in the Weinstübchen in Sankt Goarshausen. This Warm-Up Party will take place on Thursday, 18 July!
We can now conform that FLYING CIRCUS will be one of the tow bands. The second band will be announced after Easter.
The tickets will cost 35€ (30€ for buyers of a NOTP 3-day ticket) and can be ordered directly from WiV via email.
Note regarding the ferry: If you need a ferry to get to the other side of the Rhine after the Warm Up Party, please note this in the email when you order tickets. We will organise a passenger ferry for all those who need to return to St. Goar.
The Final Night Of The Prog Festival is just less than five months away. The line-up has been finalised for a while now and we would now like to give you the provisional schedule / running order. Please note that this is PROVISIONAL and the started times may still change.
THURSDAY, 18 July 2024 — Warm-Up Party, Info here — 18:30 Doors open 20:00 Band 1 22:00 Band 2 End: midnight
FRIDAY, 19 July 2024 13:15 Doors Open 14:00 Inhalo 15:15 Cheeto’s Magazine 16:30 IZZ 17:45 Sylvan 19:30 Alex Henry Foster 21:30 Arena 23:30 Riverside End: 1:00
SATURDAY, 20 July 2024 13:15 Doors Open 13:45 !GeRald! 15:00 Ritual 16:15 Kamataka 17:45 Beardfish 19:15 Lazuli 21:00 Pendragon 23:00 Steve Hackett End: 1:00
SUNDAY, 21 July 2024 11:45 Doors Open 12:15 OK Goodnight 13:30 The WIndmill 14:45 Amarok 16:00 MEER 17:45 The Flower Kings 19:30 Steve Rothery Band 21:30 Big Big Train End: 23:00
There will also be a warm-up party for the Final Night Of The Prog Festival 2024 with performances by two bands in the Weinstübchen in Sankt Goarshausen.
We will announce the two bands that will perform there shortly. The tickets will cost 35€ (30€ for buyers of a NOTP 3-day ticket) and can be ordered directly from WiV via email.
Note regarding the ferry: If you need a ferry to get to the other side of the Rhine after the Warm Up Party, please note this in the email when you order tickets. We will organise a passenger ferry for all those who need to return to St. Goar.
Originating from Wales UK, Karnataka have won plaudits from BBC Radio 2’s Bob Harris, prog icon Rick Wakeman and many others. The band’s storming live performances have entranced and captivated audiences across the UK, Europe and the USA and seen them perform alongside prestigious artists such as Robert Plant and Porcupine Tree.
Creating music that shifts effortlessly from powerful to ethereal, breath-taking to haunting, and produced at some of the world’s top studios including Real World, Rockfield and Abbey Road, Karnataka’s music combines a widescreen cinematic vision with soaring melodies, lush harmonies and epic symphonic, progressive soundscapes, whilst also drawing on their Celtic roots.
In 2023 the band released their critically acclaimed new album Requiem For A Dream supported by a nationwide UK tour which included sell-out headline performances at the Summer’s End and HRH Prog festivals. In 2024 the band embark on a UK/European tour.
KARNATAKA are: Sertari: Vocals Ian Jones: Bass, bass pedals, acoustic guitar Rob Wilsher: Keyboards Luke Machin: Guitars Jack Summerfield: Drums
Karnataka will perform on Saturday, 20 July 2024.
This is the FINAL band to be announced for the Final Night Of The Prog Festival 2024.
Tickets for the Final Night Of The Prog Festival 2024 are available at the WiV Ticket Shop
Ritual is a progressive rock band from Stockholm, formed in 1993. Influenced equally by progressive rock and hardrock of the 70s and contemporary bands like The Police, XTC and It Bites, Ritual forged their own distinctive brand of progressive music. The characteristics of the band’s sound were already prominent on their eponymous debut album, released in 1996: song based, melodic and intense, with a great stylistic variation, and plenty of folk music influences seeping in. The latter feature is not least due to the band’s frequent use of acoustic instruments like bouzouki, mandola, whistles and the Swedish nyckelharpa (a keyed fiddle). Songs like Seasong For The Moominpappa also showed something that would become a hallmark of the band: lyrics inspired by Tove Jansson’s novels about the Moomins. This culminated in the album The Hemulic Voluntary Band from 2008, where five out of six songs drew inspiration from Tove Jansson, including the 26-minute long A Dangerous Journey.
Over the years, Ritual has established themselves as a confident and powerful live band through numerous tours around Europe and appearances at international festivals such as Rites Of Spring Fest in the USA and Baja Prog in Mexico.
Ritual is currently putting the finishing touches to their upcoming epic The Story of Mr. Bogd, part 1 that will be released by Karisma Records in 2024.
Ritual are: Patrik Lundström – leadvocals and guitars Fredrik Lindqvist – bass, mandola, whistles and backing vocals Jon Gamble – keyboards and back vocals Johan Nordgren – drums and backing vocals
Ritual will perform on Saturday, 20 July 2024, during the Final Night Of The Prog Festival 2024.
Tickets for the Final Night Of The Prog Festival 2024 are available in the WiV Ticket Shop
After years of working on their music with scene icons like Jochem Jacobs (Textures) and Forrester Savell (Karnivool, Dead Letter Circus), the Dutchmen Fons Herder (vocals), Roy Willems (guitar), Susana Raya (guitar) and Peter Cats (bas) and Pepijn Gros (Drums) have now teamed up with Construction Records for the release of their debut album.
Inhalo, the first signing on Construction Records, is an emerging band that is taking the prog scene by storm after the release of their debut album Sever in 2022. The album received the IO-Pages’ ‘Prog Award 2022′, Aardschok Magazine’s ‘Eremetaal’ and Heaven Magazine’s ‘Album Of The Week’ to name just some feats of arms.
Inhalo is no newcomer. They have gigged with Conception and Antimatter and played at the prestige Progpower Europe Festival last year. All of the band members have earned their stripes over the years playing tours all over the continent in bands such as A Liquid Landscape, Ivy’s Dream and The Heaven’s Devils, supporting bands like Karnivool, Riverside and Marillion.
With layered compositions that range from tranquil oases to swirling riffs Inhalo is as diverse as an alternative progressive rock band can be. A seamless blend of serene and ferocious elegantly held together by an emotional performance. Tension and release, like a ballet dancer gracefully tiptoeing on a volcanic caldera.
Their second release, Live At Wisseloord Studio, an impressive 10-inch featuring two acoustic songs from their debut recorded at the renowned studio and mixed by Forrester Savell, takes you on a musical journey. With a unique sound that blends various genres and influences, Inhalo creates harmonious melodies and enchanting rhythms that captivate your senses. The recording sessions at the prestigious Wisseloord Studio have captured the true essence of Inhalo’s musical talent. Every chord, every note, and every lead- and backingvocal has been meticulously captured, resulting in an immersive listening experience. Furthermore, the seasoned expertise of Forrester Savell can be heard in the mix of the record. His subtle adjustments ensure that every sound element on the 10-inch record sparkles and comes to life, including that of the grand piano and the sarangi used for this recording.
Inhalo will open the Final Night Of The Prog Festival on Friday, 19 July 2024.
Tickets for the Final Night Of The Prog Festival 2024 are available in the WiV Ticket Shop
Legendary guitarist Steve Hackett will bring his new show “Genesis Greats, Lamb Highlights & Solo” to Germany and will headline the Final Night Of The Prog Festival on Saturday!
His new show celebrates the 50th anniversary of The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway, and Steve Hackett is including a selection of highlights from this iconic Genesis album.
Steve Hackett’s timeless guitar-work was woven throughout Genesis’ classic 70s catalogue of albums. In recent years he and his outstanding touring line-up of Roger King (keyboards), Nad Sylvan (vocals), Jonas Reingold (bass, backing vocals), Rob Townsend (saxophone, flutes, additional keyboards) and Craig Blundell (drums) have brought many of these albums back to the concert hall to great acclaim. Many fans have also been asking for more tracks from The Lamb to be included. What better way to celebrate half-a-century of this remarkable album than to include a selection of Lamb Highlights alongside some of Hackett’s finest solo work and unmissable Genesis Greats.
“I’m hugely looking forward to return to the Loreley and play a final Night Of The Prog Festival-Show,” says Steve Hackett, “I have played this location with both, Genesis and my own band many times and always enjoyed it. I am also looking forward to present parts of my new concept album “The Circus And The Nightwhale”, which will come out in February, and also ‘The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway’ favourites as well as other iconic Genesis numbers.”
Together with his former band Genesis, Steve Hackett was part of the first ever live show that took place on the legendary festival grounds on the Loreley in 1976. He returned many times for headlining shows for the Night Of The Prog Festival and always left enthusiastic crowds.
Steve Hackett and his band will perform on Saturday, 20 July 2024.
His new concept album The Circus And The Nightwhale will come out on 16 February 2024 via InsideOut and is now available for pre-order [click here]
Tickets for the Final Night Of The Prog Festival 2024 are available in the WiV Ticket Shop
Ok Goodnight is a Progressive Rock/Metal band from Boston, Massachusetts, USA and combines the talents of Casey Lee Williams (vocals), Martín de Lima (piano/guitar), Augusto Bussio (drums/guitar), and Peter de Reyna (bass), .
On June 2nd, 2023, Ok Goodnight self-released The Fox And The Bird, a concept album about animals and myths telling the tale of a drought-stricken land and two friends’ perilous quest to bring back the rain. As the story unfolds, the music keeps surprising the listener at every turn, taking you on an emotional journey full of pop-infused melodies, proggy time changes, and crushing metal riffs.
To celebrate the release of The Fox And The Bird, Ok Goodnight embarked on their first tour in July 2023 and played to sold-out crowds all over the US East Coast and Midwest. They will hit the road again in 2024 to discover new horizons and are excited to play for you at the final Night of the Prog next July!
Ok Goodnight will open on Sunday, 21 July 2024, which will be the last day of the Final Night Of The Prog Festival 2024.
Tickets for the Final Night Of The Prog Festival 2024 are available in the WiV Ticket Shop
!GeRald! is a French/English Experimental Rock project that emerged in 2018. Founding members count Teddie Burton and Marvin Gobert.
!GeRald! has started to establish a ferocious name for itself. With daunting melodies, an uncompromising rhythm section and intricate structures, the project has created a surrealistic landscape prone to shape shifting.
The first E.P Church of the Sublime Parade came out in 2018 and was recorded, mixed and mastered by Ex-Gong member Patrice Lemoine. In October 2021 the ensemble was the opening act for Zeuhl monsters MAGMA. In 2022 the debut album The Lost Tapes was released and was followed by 3 lengthy promotional tours.
Currently working on a 5 track E.P and on a second album, the band intend to release the E.P in June 2024 and will embark upon a promotional tour throughout Germany, Czechia and more.
Band Line-Up: Marin Michelat: Various Keys / Voice. Marvin Gobert: Guitar / Voice. Quentin Loizeau: Bass / Voice. Teddie Burton: Drums / Voice / Noise Box. Vincent Zlotkowski: Projectionist.
!GeRald! will open on Saturday, 20 July 2024, during the Final Night Of The Prog Festival 2024.
Tickets for the Final Night Of The Prog Festival 2024 are available in the WiV Ticket Shop
After eight years, Beardfish will return! See them during the Final Night Of The Prog 2024!
Beardfish started in 2001 when schoolmates Rikard Sjöblom and David Zackrisson found out they had a mutual love for King Crimson. ”We should start a new band and make music in this style…” – so they did! After a couple of line-up changes the long standing combo of Sjöblom and Zackrisson on vocals, guitar and keys and guitar respectively together with bassist Robert Hansen and drummer Magnus Östgren was formed. After self-releasing two albums, the quartet signed with InsideOut music for the release of their third album, the first part of the Sleeping in Traffic series. It made the band some wide-spread ripples along with very nice reviews and caught the attention of one Mike Portnoy, who would have their albums in his yearly top ten list for two years in a row. The band continued to release albums and tour in Europe but also the USA and parts of South America. Then in 2016, after the release of +4626-COMFORTZONE, the band decided to call it quits.
However, in 2022, a spark reignited discussions among the members about reuniting. Rikard had penned new material that resonated deeply with Beardfish’s essence, leading to unanimous enthusiasm for a comeback. After a hiatus that left them yearning for live performances, Beardfish will return to the stages including a performance at Night of the Prog in 2024.
2024 Line-Up: Rikard Sjöblom – Keyboards, guitar, vocals Magnus Östgren – Drums David Zackrisson – Guitar Robert Hansen – Bass
Beardfish will perform on Saturday, 20 July 2024, during the Final Night Of The Prog Festival 2024.
Tickets for the Final Night Of The Prog Festival 2024 are available in the WiV Ticket Shop
Formed in 1978 in Stroud, Gloucestershire, Pendragon had early success after supporting Marillion first in Gloucester and then at the infamous Marquee Club in London. They went on to appear on Tommy Vance’s Friday Rock Show and a slot at Reading Festival in 1983. In 1984 they released their first “mini-album” Fly High Fall Far, and followed it up in 1985 with their first full album, the much loved The Jewel. There were many frustrations in the early years in search of a record deal until in 1987 frontman and guitarist Nick Barrett formed his own record label “Toff Records” to release their next full album Kowtow. Having their own label proved to be a stroke of genius and releases such as The World, The Window of Life and The Masquerade Overture in the ‘90s cemented their position as one of the UK’s leading progressive rock bands.
2001 saw the release of Not Of This World often topping the polls as the fan’s favourite album. Pendragon have consistently toured around the world, venturing as far as South America, the US, Canada & Japan playing sellout shows, they regularly play across Europe. Albums Believe, Pure & Passion took Pendragon through the early 2000’s and were followed up with Men Who Climb Mountains in 2014. Their latest full album Love Over Fear came in 2020 shortly after Nick Barrett’s move to Cornwall and evokes the feeling of his relationship with the sea and utilises the work of local artist Liz Saddington for the cover and booklet paintings. It was whilst touring this album in early 2020 that the world changed with the pandemic and the band found themselves in Poland with the borders of Europe closing down. 2023 Sees Pendragon celebrating their 45th anniversary and their return to live work after their enforced 3 year break. They celebrated in style having played 3 two day weekend shows in May with the release of North Star a much applauded mini album.
Pendragon are: Nick Barrett (guitar/vocals) Clive Nolan (Keyboards) Peter Gee (Bass) Jan-Vincent Velazco (drums)
And for live shows also featuring: Rog Patterson (12string) Johanna Stroud (violin and backing vocals) Sally Minnear (backing vocals)
Pendragon will be co-headlining on Saturday, 20 July 2024, during the Final Night Of The Prog Festival 2024.
Tickets for the Final Night Of The Prog Festival 2024 are available in the WiV Ticket Shop
Cheeto’s Magazine are a progressive rock ensemble from Barcelona. Bearing open-mindedness as their flag, the band brings together classic prog tradition and forward-looking paths under a colorful, humerous and joyful outlook that is embodied in their meticulous compositions, surrealistic imagery and eccentric live appearances.
Amazingous, their sophomore record, takes what was introduced in their debut album Boiling Fowls (2014) and takes it to a higher level. With a bold production and rock-solid songwriting, the album is deliberately fearless in its mixture of symphonic passages, vocal shenanigans, spot-on solos and electronic strokes, delivering a tracklist where glimpses of Spock’s Beard, Faith No More, Nintendo 64 soundtracks, Frank Zappa and Justice can be found altogether. Progspere and Prog UK have also praised the band.
We are sure you remember the band was on the bill for the 2020 Night Of The Prog Festival, which didn’t happen due to COVID and we are very pleased the are now back and will be part of the Final Night Of The Prog Festival!
The band history of ARENA goes back to mid-nineties, when Mick Pointer (original drummer of Marillion) and Clive Nolan (keyboardist of Pendragon) founded the band together with Keith More, John Carson and Cliff Orsi. The band had quite a few line-up changes over the years and soon after their formation, John Jowitt (IQ) and John Mitchell (Frost*) joined the band.
Today, ARENA are Mick Pointer (drums), Clive Nolan (keyboards), John Mitchell (Guitars), Kylan Amos (bass) and vocalist Damian Wilson, who joined in 2020. This is also the line-up that will play the show at the Final Night Of The Prog 2024.
The band’s most recent album is The Theory Of Molecular Inheritance, which received great feedback from both, fans and music press.
ARENA will play their only live show in 2024 at the Final Night Of The Prog Festival on Friday, 19 July 2024.
Tickets for the Final Night Of The Prog Festival 2024 are available in the WiV Ticket Shop
Big Big Train will be the last band to perform at the Final Night of the Prog Festival2024
Big Big Train have a lengthy history with numerous twists and turns since the band was co-founded by Gregory Spawton on the south coast of the UK in the early 1990s. With 2009’s The Underfall Yard, which featured vocalist David Longdon for the first time, Big Big Train earned a place in the prog Olympus and went on to produce exciting albums with impressive and extensive line-ups. Albums such as English Electric Parts 1 & 2, Folklore, Grimspound and The Second Brightest Star were rapturously received by fans and critics alike.
In 2018, Big Big Train played their first concert in Germany as headliners of the Night Of The Prog festival at the Loreley. This memorable performance is one of the highlights of the festival‘s history and is also available as a Blu-ray concert film (Summer Shall Not Fade).
Big Big Train | Trieste, May 2023 | ph Massimo Goina
After the Grand Tour, Common Ground and Welcome To The Planet albums, the tragic death of David Longdon in 2021 and an enforced break due to COVID, Big Big Train returned to the stage in autumn 2022 with new singer Alberto Bravin (known from Italian prog legends PFM) and once again impressed fans and critics alike. In August and September this year Big Big Train played their first ever full European tour, titled The Journey Continues, performing 17 shows across nine countries in 21 days.
Big Big Train released the Ingenious Devices album in summer 2023 with new recordings from 2019 of three of their best loved epic tracks about mankind and machinery (East Coast Racer, Brooklands and Voyager) and a live track exploring the same theme from 2022 (Altantic Cable). In addition, the first studio album with vocalist Alberto Bravin will be released in spring 2024. This album will represent the band’s first release on the InsideOut/Sony label.
After their brilliant performance in 2018, Big Big Train will now be the last band to perform at the final Night Of The Prog Festival on Sunday 21st July 2024. And with their performance, which will feature a mixture of classics from the band‘s history and songs from the forthcoming studio album, they will close the story of Night Of The Prog.
Alongside Spawton and Bravin, the band has an impressive list of musicians, including drummer Nick D’Virgilio and guitarist/keyboardist Rikard Sjöblom, with experience for bands and artists such as Genesis, PFM, Tears For Fears, Spock’s Beard, Beardfish, among others.
Tickets for the Final Night Of The Prog Festival 2024 are available in the WiV Ticket Shop
The Flower Kings have been around since 1994 – also the year when they played their first gig (20 August). The band name was taken from Carl Von Linneus, a local botanist, who traveled worldwide, finding and giving latin names to all flowers. Today, almost 30 years and 15 albums later, the band has established themselves as the iconic alpha father of modern melodic prog and a great live act – always delivering the goods. The new album named Look At You Now is a testament of persistence and tireless work of the highest level of composition, playing, singing and production. No other modern melodic prog band has even touched the level of all aspects like rock, jazz, cinematic, metal, electronic – of the 70’s prog rock like The Flower Kings do. They were also one of the first bands signed to the now dominating prog label Inside Out/SONY. A music consistent in quality and on their new album they prove their case: A collection of songs that rings with the nordic melancholy and the joyous inventions of both classical, artrock, fusion & pop. It has been said more than twice – The Flower Kings music grows on you – over time, just like a fine wine, or a classic book.
AMAROK from Poland have more than 20 years of experience in the music scene. They have released six studio releases, of which Hunt, released in 2017, gave the band wide acclaim, not only in their home country, but also internationally. In 2019, band leader Michal Wojtas teamed up with British choreographer James Wilton, resulting in Amarok’s fifth album, The Storm.
In 2021, Amarok stabilized its lineup by inviting Konrad Zielinski (drums) and multi-instrumentalist Kornel Poplawski. Amarok’s sixth album, Hero, was released in the fall of 2021. Hero is a collection of innovative, fresh-sounding and exceptionally spacious compositions, with an equally strong lyrical layer that asks very topical questions about our future. The atmosphere prevailing in the songs mesmerizes from the the first listening and prompts many more.
Extremely balanced and filled with Floydian nostalgia, the music takes listeners on a journey into a world of sounds, conjured up by true musical shamans, as Michal and Marta Wojtas undoubtedly are.
Innovative techniques and combining the best elements of various musical genres are the hallmarks of the Warsaw-based Amarok band. Their lyrics are saturated with hidden meanings and messages, and their interesting musical themes enchant and attract both old and new fans.
Amarok put a slightly more predatory side on its latest single Hope Is. The track is based on a distinctive guitar sound and a characteristic drum rhythm, complemented by electronic additions that give the whole composition a modern twist. The message is based on the concept of hope understood as a force that shatters the safe but illusory order, giving a new direction to reality and the present. Hope as an almost cosmic force lends its energy, nourishes and saturates. It stimulates one to move forward, to live.
Hope Is is not a regular song, but rather a track with vocalizations from a distance, with lyrics sung by Kornel Poplawski and Marta Wojtas’ voice somewhat reminiscent of the sound from a space station. The single Hope Is will open Amarok’s next album, scheduled for release in spring 2024 and ready to be performed at the Final Night Of The Prog Festival 2024.
AMAROK Band line-up
Michał Wojtas: Guitar, Keyboards Kornel Popławski: Vocals, Bass Marta Wojtas: Vocals Konrad Zieliński: Drums
AMAROK will be performing during the Final Night Of The Prog Festival 2024 on the Loreley on Sunday, 21 July 2024!
Tickets for the Final Night Of The Prog Festival 2024 are available in the WiV Ticket Shop
Steve Rothery is one of the best-known guitarists in the progressive rock genre. He is a founding member of Marillion, a band that has been a common name in the music industry for over 40 years. His guitar playing and sound shaped their early albums such as Script For A Jester’s Tear and Misplaced Childhood, as well as later albums acclaimed by fans and critics such as Brave, Marbles and most recently An Hour Before It’s Dark.
Rothery’s guitar playing clearly is in the tradition of David Gilmour, Andy Latimer or Steve Hackett. Creating atmosphere is more important to him than excessive, fast playing. Rothery’s Stratocaster sound became one of Marillion’s trademark.
Steve Rothery also plays regular gigs with his own band, the Steve Rothery Band. He now returns to Night of the Prog with his outstanding band to play a selection of classic early Marillion tracks including sections from the Misplaced Childhood and Clutching at Straws albums and several tracks from his highly acclaimed solo album, The Ghosts of Pripyat.
It’s the second time Steve Rothery will be playing with his own band at the Loreley for Night Of The Prog, after 2015. Steve says: “I’m really excited to return to Night of the Prog with my solo band for it’s final year. It’s a venue that’s always been very special to me ever since Marillion first played there in 1987! I know it’s going to be a fantastic weekend”.
The STEVE ROTHERY BAND
Steve Rothery – Guitar Dave Foster – Guitar Leon Parr – Drums Yatim Halimi – Bass Riccardo Romano – Keys Martin Jakubski – Vocals
The STEVE ROTHERY BAND will be performing during the Final Night Of The Prog Festival 2024 on the Loreley on Sunday, 21 July 2024!
Tickets for the Final Night Of The Prog Festival 2024 are available in the WiV Ticket Shop.
