I guess people have their hands full getting to Hull because of the snow in England. Any updates? Saw a few comments on FB.
Sounds like there are some cancelled flights/ trains and closed roads (especially for those traveling from Scotland) but the cruise is on.
They seem to be at sea, being serenaded by Martin Turner’s Wishbone Ash!
There's got to be a morning after...
I have to admit, I am kind of amused at the fact that a guy sitting at home in the NY Hudson River Valley is giving us live updates of a British prog cruise he's not on that is somewhere in the North Atlantic. My funny bone is tickled.
It's the North Sea, not the North Atlantic. This is why these updates are absolutely vital.
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I’m hunkered over my shortwave set with headphones and a Neal Morse-Code key, trying to get info. This just in: Pendragon has busted out The Black Knight from The Jewel! Meanwhile, wave heights are surging...
I actually did post on their FB page trying to get some updates. They’ve posted some photos of Wishbone Ash and Caravan, that’s about it. Trying to get info on the eggs...
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Managed to find this fun shot of Clive Nolan and Nick Barrett of Pendragon aboard the HMS Prog.
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Pendragon goin’ at it in Hamsterdam. All I can say is I’d have left the ship, sparked up, and then been back on the ship enjoying this.
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Just read that Comedy of Errors was supposed to be there but couldn’t make it due to the weather.
We're back home and warming up nicely - HMS Prog was never going to rival CTTE but it was a pretty good way of passing a winter's weekend for us Brits.
It was a shame that Comedy of Errors were caught in a snowdrift somewhere. All the other bands made it but there may well have been numbers of punters who failed to get to the ferry in time before it left port.
I'll start with the positives:
We watched all the shows on the main stage and I can safely say that all the bands were on top form:
Fri: Martin Turner (1st set - Argus) and Caravan (with John Etheridge (ex-Soft Machine) standing in for an unavailable Geoffrey Richardson - which produced an interesting and unique change to the band's usual instrumental presentation)
Sat: Cairo (2nd set), Martin Turner (2nd set - There's the Rub + extras) and PFM
The main stage was in the ship's main show lounge and provided a fine venue to accommodate us all - the sound and visibility was excellent.
The extra Saturday afternoon show was held at the Waterhole in Amsterdam: Cairo (1st set) and Pendragon (Acoustic).
A larger venue would have been better to be honest - Cairo struggled for space on stage and, to my ears, their sound suffered too.
Unfortunately, Geoff Downes' late night sets in the other on-board lounge suffered due to an underpowered sound system.
I haven't a clue if the Cinema was attended by anyone - I believe that the John Wetton film wasn't shown as originally planned.
Overall though I think it was a worthwhile attempt at providing an interesting event for Prog fans and I suspect that the organisers will have lots of ideas about how things might work better if there is to be an HMS Prog 2.
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