Britain’s Progressive Magazine have announced the nominees for the 4th Annual Progressive Music Awards.
Pink Floyd is up for Band/Artist of the Year, Best Album and the Storm Thorgerson Grand Design Award for the packaging of the album The Endless River. King Crimson have been nominated for Band/Artist, Album (for Starless) and event for their U.S. tour. Former Porcupine Tree leader Steven Wilson was recognized for Band/Artist, Album and Design, the last two for his Hand.Cannot.Erase.
Kate Bush received two nominations for Band/Artist and Event for her Before the Dawn residency. Other artists with two include Steve Hackett (Band/Artist, Anthem for Love Song To A Vampire), Opeth (Band/Artist and Album for Pale Communion), Flying Colors (Band/Artist and Album for Second Nature), the Von Hertzen Brothers and Public Service Broadcasting.
Veteran artists received all ten nominations in the The Storm Thorgerson Grand Design Award for album design.
All seven of the following categories can be voted on by the public at progmagazine.com/awards. An additional six awards, Outer Limits, Visionary, Virtuoso, Guiding Light, Lifetime Achievement and Prog God, are selected by editors of the magazine and will be announced at the ceremony.
Jerry Ewing, editor of Prog Magazine, said “Prog Magazine is currently enjoying its most successful year ever in terms of sales (our current issue is 35% up year on year), and I believe we are starting to see this reflected in the way the genre is interacting with the mainstream and with the commercial successes the front runners of today’s progressive scene are also enjoying. And it’s been another bumper year for the genre and this is a wonderfully diverse spread of artists who find themselves worthy nominees this year, once again showing that the influence of progressive music now spreads far and wide throughout so many areas of music. And of course, the night itself is always such a memorable one. It’s going to be a lot of fun with Matthew hosting for us for the first year.”
The 4th Annual Progressive Music Awards will be held September 3 at London’s Underglobe under Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre.
Limelight
A Formal Horse
Bend Sinister
Dream The Electric Sleep
Fuzzy Nautilus
Heights
Maybeshewill
MoeTar
Perfect Beings
Sumer
The Physics House Band
Live Event
Anathema – Cathedral Tour
Cropredy 2014
Devin Townsend – Live at the Royal Albert Hall
Muse – Live At Download
HRH Prog 3
Kate Bush – Before The Dawn Tour
King Crimson – US Tour
Marillion Weekend
RoSFest 2015
The Enid Present: The Bridge
Vangard (Previously known as Breakthrough Artist)
And So I Watch You From Afar
iamthemorning
Lonely Robot
Native Construct
Nordic Giants
Public Service Broadcasting
Purson
Soen
Sólstafir
Trojan Horse
Anthem
Wassail – Big Big Train (from Wassail EP)
The Light – Christina Booth (from The Light)
Stranded – Dave Kerzner (from New World)
In My Mind – John Lodge (from 10,000 Light Years Ago)
Satellites – Mew (from +-)
Gagarin – Public Service Broadcasting (from The Race For Space)
Love Song To A Vampire – Steve Hackett (from Wolflight)
Summer Now – Tin Spirits (from Scorch)
Operate – Vennart (from The Demon Joke)
Hold Me Up – Von Hertzen Brothers (from New Day Rising)
The Storm Thorgerson Grand Design Award
Harvest Of The Heart – Anthony Phillips
Noise Candy – Bill Nelson
This Is Your Captain Speaking… – Hawkwind
Minstrel In The Gallery – Jethro Tull
Starless – King Crimson
The Endless River – Pink Floyd
R40 – Rush
Live In 1970 – Soft Machine
Hand.Cannot.Erase. – Steven Wilson
Progeny: Seven Shows From Seventy-Two – Yes
Album of the Year
Mystoria – Amplifier
+4626 comfortzone – Beardfish
Second Nature – Flying Colors
Endless Forms Most Beautiful – Nightwish
Pale Communion – Opeth
The Endless River – Pink Floyd
Juggernaut – Periphery
Hand.Cannot.Erase. – Steven Wilson
Motorcade Amnesiacs – Sweet Billy Pilgrim
Magnolia – The Pineapple Thief
Band/Artist of the Year
Between The Buried & Me
Flying Colors
Kate Bush
King Crimson
Opeth
Pink Floyd
Steve Hackett
Steven Wilson
Threshold
Von Hertzen Brothers
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