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Artist News Awards
Progressive Music Awards presented
By Chris Cooke | Published on Friday 4 September 2015
So, if you’ve been sitting there for 24 hours now trying to picture what sort of artists might be appearing in the all new Official Progressive Albums Chart – even though we published the first top ten, which you might have thought would have given you a hint – well, have some more guidance in the form of the winners of this year’s Progressive Music Awards, presented by Prog Magazine in association with Currencies.co.uk, for some reason. Presumably prog fans all love cost effective currency exchange. Actually, I bet they do.
Coming up, winners. But first, here’s Prog Magazine Editor Jerry Ewing with a quote: “We began planning this back in March and now it’s over it seems to have gone by in a flash. But what a terrific night, and what a spread of artists, not just showing what great talent the progressive world has had to offer for the past 40 years, but how strong the current breed of progressive artists are becoming as well. I can’t even begin to imagine where we go with the Progressive Music Awards next year. Like the music itself, the opportunities are limitless”.
But the winners are limited to fourteen. And here they are…
Band Of The Year: Opeth
Commercial Breakthrough: Steven Wilson
Album Of The Year: Steven Wilson – Hand.Cannot.Erase.
Anthem: Public Service Broadcasting – Gagarin
Live Event: Marillion Weekends
The Storm Thorgerson Grand Design: Steven Wilson – Hand.Cannot.Erase.
Limelight: Heights
Vanguard: Purson
Outer Limits: Roy Wood
Virtuoso: Danny Thompson
Guiding Light: Roger Dean
Visionary: Holger Czukay / Be Bop Deluxe
Lifetime Achievement: Gentle Giant
Prog God: Tony Banks
