Ian Gregson

Ian Gregson

Ian grew up around Wigan, Lancashire, England. After witnessing his first band [Rainbow] at the Liverpool Empire in 1976 Ian was hooked on live bands and listening to music. Ian moved to Vancouver, Canada in 1981 and joined campus radio station CJSF at Simon Fraser...
Geoff Penn

Geoff Penn

Hi my name’s Geoff (Penn) and I retired to live in Cyprus after living and working in the UK as a Consulting Engineer. My first memories of being totally absorbed in music were at the age of about six playing shellac records on my grand- mother’s posh radiogram. As a...
Kev Rowland

Kev Rowland

Kev has been writing about progressive music for more than a quarter of a century. Between 1990 – 2006 he ran Feedback Fanzine in the UK, writing about bands that were never covered in the mainstream press, many of whom were in the progressive underground. He...
Michael Jobborn (Jobby) HOP Promotion and Street Team

Michael Jobborn (Jobby) HOP Promotion and Street Team

Michael has been an immense fan of music ever since he received his first Walkman around the age of 6. Like many music fans, he grew up listening to the local radio station. It was at this time he purchased his first record player and a copy of Frank Zappa’s Joe’s...