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Join us for our regular Sunday get together

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Recently I’ve been listening to a lot of J.S. Bach, and when not listening, I’ve been attempting to write fugues.  Let’s take a look at the man and his music in this afternoon’s livestream: 3:30pm EDT https://www.crowdcast.io/e/composer-spotlight-j-s-

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Another look at how me and Simon managed to perform a live duo show from either side of the Atlantic. This time I’ll be talking us through Tarkus! https://www.crowdcast.io/e/concert-commentary—11

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I hope you can join us for our 3rd and final exploration of Mozart’s life & music. Today 3:30pm EST https://www.crowdcast.io/e/composer-spotlight-7

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Can you believe it’s been a year since me and Simon attempted to play Pictures at an Exhibition from either side of the Atlantic? Tonight we’ll revisit that epic undertaking and I’ll talk you through step-by-step exactly how we did it.

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Tomorrow’s livestream will be a little earlier than usual, due to the Euro 2021 finals – first time England have reached an international football final in 55 years! As you know, I’ve been busy writing a score for the 1922 silent film Nosferatu, and right Read More …

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I hope you can join us at 3:30pm EST today for our second exploration of the life and music of Mozart. https://www.crowdcast.io/e/composer-spotlight-6

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Join me for the 2nd part of last year’s virtual concert in Rome – featuring performances in the Colosseum, the Pope’s bedroom, the Sistine Chapel and the Catacombes! https://www.crowdcast.io/e/concert-commentary-10

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Due to tomorrow being July 4th, I thought I should move our weekend livestream to today. I’ll be playing some of the new compositions I’ve been writing and giving you some sneak peeks of coming daily songs. Hope you can join me :)

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Join us for a new composer spotlight, this time we’ll be exploring the life and works of Mozart. https://www.crowdcast.io/e/composer-spotlight-5

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Join us at 7:30pm EST for another Concert Commentary. This week we’re taking a look at highlights from last year’s Virtual Tour, including a selection of Stefano’s hilarious intro videos. See you soon :) https://www.crowdcast.io/e/concert-commentary-9

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Join me at 3:30pm EST today for another Sunday get together. https://www.crowdcast.io/e/sunday-get-together-4

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Join us today at 3:30pm EST for the third and final part of our exploration of Beethoven’s life and music.  https://www.crowdcast.io/e/composer-spotlight-4

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Join us for the final installment of the Baltimore date of Paul & Dave’s Excellent Adventure! https://www.crowdcast.io/e/concert-commentary—9

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Hope to see you later for our weekly Sunday get together :)

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Join us for our second look at the life and music of Beethoven. 3:30pm EST :) https://www.crowdcast.io/e/composer-spotlight-3

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I hope you can join me for the second part of my show with the wonderful Dave Bainbridge, from our 2019 Excellent Adventure tour. https://www.crowdcast.io/e/concert-commentary—8

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I’m back from vacation and ready to livestream! Hope you can join me for our Sunday get together :)

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As mentioned earlier this week, I’m moving our Thursday livestream to today, as I’m going to be away for a couple of days. Hope you can join us for another Composer Spotlight, this week we’re starting a 3 week series on the mighty Beethoven! 

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Join me for another trip through time. This evening we’re going back to pre-pandemic 2019 when me and Dave Bainbridge went on an Excellent Adventure!

As you know, these past months I’ve been spending most of my time in the studio writing, and it recently occurred to me that you don’t hear as much from me on the Patreon page outside our live-streams… and obviously not everyone can make the Read More …

Wow! It looks and feels like Summer has officially arrived here in MA today. I hope you’ve all got this lovely weather – if not, come and share some of ours with a livestream of summery acoustic tunes.

We finished our weekly Silent Sthursday last week with a great documentary about the early silent film era. Today we’re going to start a new Thursday livestream series: Composer Spotlight, in which we’ll be exploring the life and music of a different composer each week… Read More …

Join me for the final installment in our commentary of the show from my first solo tour – When Melies met Debussy

I’ve just uploaded the first 2 postcard compositions to the Patreon Download Page on my website. There you’ll be able to download the audio for each composition and watch the accompanying video. I was very excited when my copies of the May postcards arrived a Read More …

Join us for a Sunday get together of music and chat :)

Join us at 3:30pm EST for another exploration of silent film and the music that accompanies it. 🙂

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The Popcorn single is released tomorrow, so I thought we’d celebrate together by having a listening party. Hope you can join me! https://www.crowdcast.io/e/popcorn-single-release

I hope you can join us for another Silent Sthursday – an exploration of silent film and the music that accompanies it

Join us for the start of a new concert commentary this evening, as we delve into the vaults to reminisce, relive and occasionally cringe at past performances (why did I ever think those flamboyant hand gestures were a good idea? 😂).  https://www.crowdcast.io/e/concert-commentary-5

Join me for a concert featuring live video looping, guitar solos and knock knock jokes! https://www.crowdcast.io/e/sunday-concert

I hope you can join us for another Silent Sthursday livestream, today at 3:30pm EST. :) https://www.crowdcast.io/e/silent-sthursday-15

I hope you can join us for a continuation of our current concert commentary, with a show from my 2018 solo tour, “When Melies met Debussy”. https://www.crowdcast.io/e/concert-commentary-6

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Join us for another exploration of silent film, and the music that accompanies it. Today, 3:30pm EST https://www.crowdcast.io/e/silent-sthursday-14

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Join us for the second part of the ELP Legacy Quebec concert from 2018. https://www.crowdcast.io/e/concert-commentary—elp-2

Join me today at 3:30pm EST for the return of Silent Sunday – with LIVE accompaniments! https://www.crowdcast.io/e/silent-sunday-its-back

I hope you can join us for another exploration of Silent film and the music that accompanies it. https://www.crowdcast.io/e/silent-sthursday-13

See you in an hour for this evening’s concert commentary livestream: 7:30pm EST 🙂

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Hope you’re having a lovely weekend! Join me on Sunday, 3:30pm for a solo guitar concert. I’ve been working on a few pieces this week, looking forward to performing them for you tomorrow.

You can join us for another Sunday get together – starting in an hour at 3:30pm ET https://www.crowdcast.io/e/patreon-get-together-34

I hope you can join us this afternoon (or evening, depending on where you are) for another trip to the world of Silent film, and the music that brings it to life! 3:30pm ET https://www.crowdcast.io/e/silent-sthursday-11

I hope you can join us for the final installment of our trip down Memory Lane. Tonight we’ll be finishing this concert from 2005, which will include Carl’s drum solo. https://www.crowdcast.io/e/concert-commentary—7

I hope you can join us for today’s Silent Sthursday – another exploration of silent film and the music that brings it to life!

April marks the beginning of a year of postcards, which I’ll be sending out to all patrons on tiers that include the “postcard from the road”. If you’ve not heard about the project, I’m writing a piece of music for every month of the year, Read More …

Join us for the second part of our trip back to The Mexicali Prog Festival in 2005. Last week we witnessed the drums distorting & the soundman kicking out my speaker cable on his way to fix them… will the drums be fixed? Will the Read More …

In keeping with Easter traditions, mine & Simon’s gift to you this Easter is something with a decorated hard outer shell… Tarkus! Join us at 3pm ET for a Transatlantic duo concert

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A few days ago I received a message on Facebook: “Hi Paul, I have a question I hope you could answer (or if you could be kind enough to ask Carl.  4/1/05 (April 1, 2005) Carl played a gig at the Baja Prog Festival, Teatro Read More …

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Join me, Simon, Dyanne Klinko & Noddy’s Puncture (UK ELP Tribute band) as we discuss and celebrate everybody’s favourite armadillo!  The Crowdcast stream is open to all patrons and includes a watch party of ELP’s live performance of the piece. The stream starts at 3pm Read More …

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This Sunday’s Livestream will be a gathering of guests to discuss, demonstrate and dissect Tarkus (we’re going to need some sharp scalpels to get through that armadillo armored plating)! Join ELP Tribute band Noddy’s Puncture, Dyanne Klinko, Simon & myself as we talk and play Read More …

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Join us for our Sunday get together – 3:30pm ET, 7:30pm GMT

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Well, it’s been a long time coming, but the new website is now live! The site was designed with you all in mind – there are a couple of patron-only areas for you to check out, and I’ll be adding more in the coming months. Read More …

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I hope you can join us for another Patreon catchup and concert commentary, this evening at 7:30pm ET (11:30pm GMT) https://www.crowdcast.io/e/concert-commentary

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I hope you can join me and Simon this afternoon at 3:30pm ET, as challenge the laws physics with our transatlantic duo performance…

I’ll be doing another transatlantic duo livestream with Simon Fitzpatrick this Sunday. We’ll be tackling some tricky new pieces together, while trying to overcome the delay of sending a video signal across the Atlantic. Will we manage it? Join us Sunday at 3:30pm ET to Read More …

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I hope you can join us for another Concert Commentary this evening at 7:30pm, as we continue our trip down memory lane to a time when live music was allowed!

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Hope you can join me and Andre at 3:30pm ET, when we’ll be asking 4 of you to ‘Come on Down, The Prog is Right!’

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Join us for another silent movie get together today at 3:30pm ET.

Join us for the continuation of our Neal Morse Sola Scriptura & Beyond concert commentary 

Hope you can join us for our second episode of The Prog is Right! gameshow.  Anyone watching on Crowdcast can be a contestant.

Seeing as The Prog is Right has replaced our usual Silent Sunday movie for the time being, I’ve had requests to move the movie to another day. Seeing as Silent Thursday doesn’t have the same pleasing alliteration, I’m opting to rename it Silent Sthursday! Today’s Read More …

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I hope you can join me for the final part of our Concert Commentary on the Tribute to Keith Emerson concert.

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Today’s the day. I hope you can join me for the first episode of The Prog is Right! All patrons can watch on Crowdcast and have a chance to be a contestant, if you have non-patron friends then they can watch on facebook. Join me Read More …

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Come on down, The Prog is Right! https://www.crowdcast.io/e/the-prog-is-right

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After it was suggested in Thursday’s livestream that we organise a time for us to get together face to face, I’ve set up a Crowdcast session this Sunday, at 3:30pm ET. We’ll be able to have 6 people on screen at a time – I Read More …

We’ll be starting a new concert commentary today, and I’ll be giving you a choice of two shows to watch. I’ll be taking a poll at the start of the stream – the show with the most votes wins. Hope you can join us!

I was recently advised by two separate people, that I really should sign up to TikTok if I want to get my music to young folk. I reluctantly relented, and now I have two videos on there. If you are so inclined, feel free to Read More …

When I got together with Eric for a Zoom catch-up recently, I was in stitches laughing at stories from his time touring with bands and in the circus – the thought occurred to me that it was such a shame there weren’t more people with Read More …

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Join us for another Silent Sthursday, as we continue our journey to the world of silent film https://www.crowdcast.io/e/silent-sthursday-12

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Today we’ll be starting a new concert DVD talk through – as usual, expect backstories, behind the scenes insights, me pointing out mishaps and saying things like, “Here comes the smoke machine that hid my pedal board from me!” We have a choice of two Read More …

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Today’s the day – forget Santa Claus, The Magic Hare is coming to town! I am SOOOOOO excited about this. Tune in to hear 55 patrons tell a festive version (because the hare wears a Santa hat) of The Quest for the Magic Hare. I Read More …

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Thank you SO much to every who has submitted a video, what an amazing collaboration this is turning out to be. I’m recording all the music today and tomorrow I’ll start on putting your videos together. If I sent you chapters to record then today’s Read More …

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Join us for the 3rd part of one of my very first shows with Carl Palmer. As usual, I’ll be talking you through the performance, providing more behind the scenes stories and generally being over-critical of a much younger me! 😂

Join us for another exploration of the vaults, as we continue to watch one of my first concerts with Carl Palmer, complete with live nostalgic commentary from me! 😂

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Join us for what has been described as “A Christmas’s Carol’s darker and edgier cousin”. This 1921 classic is guaranteed to bring some Christmas Spirit(s) 👻👻👻

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We’ll be going back to the vault’s today, to my first ever performance with Carl to be captured on film! I think it’s from 2004 and I’ve NEVER watched it. Join me for this trip down memory lane.

I hope you can join us for the last instalment of the concert we’re watching. Expect more insights, back stories, and me pointing out any bloopers that might be on there!

Join us for this week’s Silent Sunday movie, IT (don’t worry, there are no creepy clowns in this one). If you want to examine the Zeitgeist of Roaring Twenties USA in serious book form, read The Great Gatsby. If you want to do the same Read More …