I’ll start with an update as regards the new album.
As mentioned before, it is a keyboard heavy (now there’s a surprise), prog rock instrumental album. There are 8 tracks in total and the album length is around 56 minutes.
As well as having Erik Jordan in charge of the recording, I also have on board the services of three exceptional musicians in Lee Pomeroy on bass, Dave Colquhoun on guitars and Ash Soan on drums.
The basic tracks are already recorded and that includes contributions from the musicians named above and I am thrilled with the results so far. I still have a lot to add to each track and that will be done throughout this month before Erik starts his task of mixing it all so it ends up sounding like it should!
There are great plans afoot for a very special playback session and other surprises too. It’s been great fun getting back to prog and I think the period away from recording such an album has contributed greatly to making The Red Planet sound extremely fresh.
So it appears this album will be titled The Red Planet and is, akin to his 2003 album Out There, another paean to the wonders of outer space. I am so excited! It will be great to hear Lee playing prog again...and who knows, he might even be ready to release his own project, which former Headspace drummer Richard Brook mentioned on Instagram back in 2018.
Speaking of the 'Gram, Lee now has an official account, huzzah!
https://www.instagram.com/leepomeroy1/
In related news Rick will be appearing with a version of the English Rock Ensemble (hopefully the above-mentioned combo) at the HRH Prog IX festival on March 28th at the O2 Shepherds Bush Empire in London and 29th at the O2 Academy in Sheffield. There is also a performance scheduled for May 23rd in Switzerland, which might also be a festival date of some kind?
