Andy

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Full Name: Andy Read
Year Of Birth: 1969
City + Country: Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK
Occupation: Magazine editor/photographer/media writer and run an Internet café
Instrument: I used to play the cornet in a brass band including a ‘gig’ at the Royal Albert Hall

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Active For DPRP Since: March 2003
DPRP Responsibilities: CD Reviews, Concert Reviews, Interviews and concert photography.

ODDS 'N ENDS

Favourite Prog/Metal Bands: Vanden Plas, Evergrey, Crimson Glory, Queensryche, Jethro Tull, Rush, Stonehenge, Pagan’s Mind, Freak Kitchen, Alias Eye, Sylvan, Ricocher, Threshold, Pallas, Balance of Power, Pain of Salvation and ARK
Favourite Non-Prog: Metallica, Kamelot, Axel Rudi Pell, Million, Magnum, Y&T, Kreator, Scorpions, Rainbow, Dokken, Q5, Tesla, Faith No More, Giant, Helloween, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Savatage, Saxon, Kip Winger, White Lion, BOC, Mamas Boys, FM and any good bluuuezzz

Bart

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Full Name: Bart Jan van der Vorst
Nickname: Biedjee
Anagram: Darn! not brave TV jars
Year Of Birth: 1974
City + Country: Somewhere on this planet
Occupation: Traveller
Instrument: Miserably failed as a musician, so I became a journalist instead...

DPRP STUFF

Active For DPRP Since: November 1998
DPRP Responsibilities: News Editor, Counting Out Time (hopefully) and the annual DPRPoll, formerly editor of the Concert Reviews (1998-2004), administrator of the DPRForum, writing the occasional CD Review, conducting Interviews, and making mostly outdated comments

ODDS 'N ENDS

Favourite Prog: Marillion, IQ, Genesis (Steve Hackett era), Pink Floyd, Mike Oldfield, Spock's Beard (Neal Morse era), Dream Theater, IQ, Porcupine Tree, Mostly Autumn, Peter Gabriel
Favourite Non-Prog: U2, Bruce Springsteen, Queen, Bon Jovi and anything else I listened to when I was 16
Deserted Island Top 5: 5 CD-R's filled with 50 albums worth of MP3-files. Seriously? Urm, Marillion - Misplaced Childhood, U2 - Joshua Tree, Genesis - The Lamb, IQ - Subterranea, Mike Oldfield - Amarok. Something like that.
Favourite album format: CD

Bob

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Full Name: Robert Mulvey
Year Of Birth: 1957
City + Country: Billingham, UK
Occupation: Audio and Lighting Designer
Instrument: Bass and Classical Guitar
Other: Glacier (Click Here for more information)

DPRP STUFF

Active For DPRP Since: 2001
DPRP Responsibilities: CD/DVD Reviews Editor, News Editor, some Concert Reviews and general DPRP gopher !

ODDS 'N ENDS

Favourite Bands: Al Di Meola, Allan Holdsworth, Bill Bruford, BJH, Camel, Clannad, Deep Purple, Derek Sherinian, Dixie Dreggs, Dream Theater, ELP, Enya, Eric Johnson, Flower Kings, Focus, Free, Genesis, Gentle Giant, IQ, Jeff Beck, Jeff Berlin, Jethro Tull, John McLaughlin, KBB, King Crimson, Led Zeppelin, Martin Taylor, Mountain, Paco De Lucia, Pink Floyd, Robin Trower, Spock's Beard, Steve Morse, Tony Levin, UK, Yes... to name but a few. My horizons are growing weekly !
Desert Island Top 5: Aqualung - Jethro Tull, Harbour Of Tears - Camel, Selling England By The Pound - Genesis, Live At the Royal Albert Hall - ELP, The Introduction - Steve Morse

Charlie

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Full Name: Charles Farrell
Year Of Birth: 1959
City + Country: London, UK
Occupation: Was a Text Retrieval/Knowledge Management Consultant but now I'm just a C++/Unix Support Drone
Instrument: None of a musical nature

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Active For DPRP Since: Late 2001
DPRP Responsibilities: News Editor

ODDS 'N ENDS

Favourite Bands: More inclined towards the Metal end of the Prog Spectrum (Dream Theater, Ayreon, Threshold, Symphony X, Vanden Plas) these days. Cut my prog 'teeth' on early Yes, Genesis, ELP, Camel, Gentle Giant, PFM etc but when I listen to 'Prog Lite' these days it tends to be bands like Jadis, Karnataka, Spocks Beard and Transatlantic
Desert Island Disks: Images And Words (Dream Theater), Judgement (Anathema), Holy Land (Angra), Across The Water (Jadis), Universal Migrator Pt1 (Ayreon), Burn The Sun (Ark), Operation Mindcrime (Queensryche), Coma Divine (Porcupine Tree), Carved in Stone (Shadow Gallery), Rising Force (Yngwie Malmsteen), Selling Enland By the Pound (Genesis)

Chris

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Full Name: Chris Jackson
Year Of Birth: 1988
City + Country: Avon, In, United States
Occupation: Math/Physics Student
Instrument: Mainly guitar, some keyboard and bass

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Active For DPRP Since: September 2007
DPRP Responsibilities: CD Reviews

ODDS 'N ENDS

Favorite Artists: 4 Front, Anekdoten, Anglagard, Alex Argento, Ayreon, Blackfield, Thomas Bodin, Dave Brubeck, Cab, Camel, Chick Corea, Cynic, Dream Theater, Echolyn, The Flower Kings, Frost, Brett Garsed, Gentle Giant, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Gordian Knot, Green Carnation, Greg Howe, IQ, Isildur's Bane, Kaipa, Kamelot, King Crimson, Liquid Tension Experiment, Tony Macalpine, Magic Pie, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Ohm, Opeth, On The Virg, Ozric Tentacles, Planet X, Porcupine Tree, Proto Kaw, Return To Forever, Riverside, Derek Sherinian, Spaced Out, Spiral Architect, Spock's Beard, Roine Stolt, Symphony X, The Tangent, Tool, Transatlantic, Tribal Tech, Uncle Moe's Space Ranch, Dave Weckl, White Willow, Wobbler, Yes
Desert Island Top 10: Planet X - Moonbabies, On The Virg - Serious Young Insects, The Flower Kings - Unfold The Future, The Tangent - The World That We Drive Through, Anglagard - Hybris, Porcupine Tree - Stupid Dream, Spock's Beard - The Kindness Of Strangers, Uncle Moe's Space Ranch (The first, self titled release), Dream Theater - Scenes From A Memory, Anekdoten - A Time Of Day

Christos

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Full Name: Christos Ampatzis
Year Of Birth: 1977
City + Country: Thessaloniki, Greece
Occupation: Reseacher - Robotics
Instrument: NONE! (air-guitar)

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Active For DPRP Since: October 2005
DPRP Responsibilities: CD Reviews & Interviews

ODDS 'N ENDS

Favourite Prog Bands: Rush, Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd, Camel, Genesis, Marillion (before This strange engine, plus Marbles), Queensryche (up to Promised Land), Yes, UK, David Sylvian, No-Man, Porcupine Tree, Twelfth Night, Brand X, Sieges Even, IQ, Premiata Forneria Marconi, Landmarq, Soft Machine, Zappa, Black Sabbath, Alan Parsons Project, Brian Eno, Kansas, Uriah Heep, Led Zeppelin, Psychotic Waltz, Conception, Mayfair, Watchtower, Heir Apparent, Crimson Glory, David Byrne, 801 and many more…
Favourite Non-Prog Bands: David Bowie, Roxy Music, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, And Also the Trees, James, The Divine Comedy, The Waterboys, Prefab Sprout, Tuxedomoon, All About Eve, Faith No More, Yello, Iron Maiden, Sigur Ros and many many more…
Rock Island Top 5: Hold your Fire – Rush, Misplaced Childhood – Marillion, Minstrel in the Gallery - Jethro Tull, Selling England By The Pound - Genesis, Wish You Were Here – Pink Floyd
Alternative Island: Gone to Earth – David Sylvian, Labradford – Mi media naranja, Green is the sea – And Also The Trees, Returning Jesus – No Man, No more shall we part – Nick Cave & The bad seeds

Dave

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Full Name: David John Sissons
Nickname: Sis
Anagram: JOHNS ODD VISA SINS
Year Of Birth: 1960
City + Country: Sheffield, UK
Occupation: Civil Servant
Instrument: None

DPRP STUFF

Active For DPRP Since: February 2003
DPRP Responsibilities: CD Reviews

ODDS 'N ENDS

Favourite Bands: VDGG, Gentle Giant, PFM, Focus, Symphony X, White Willow, Iluvatar, Everon
Deserted Island Top 5: VDGG - Pawn Hearts, Magenta - Revolutions, Yes - Reylayer, Locanda Delle Fate - Forse Le Lucciole Non Si Amano .., Banco - Di terra
Favourite album format: CD

Dave Baird

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Full Name: Dave Baird
Year Of Birth: 1966
City + Country: English but living in Brussels, Belgium
Occupation: Program Manager
Instrument: Bass and guitar, sometimes in bands but never very good!

DPRP STUFF

Active For DPRP Since: October 2005
DPRP Responsibilities: CD Reviews, Concert Reviews, Interviews

ODDS 'N ENDS

Favourite Prog Bands: Anglagard, Bozzio Levin Stevens, Discipline, Dream Theater, ELP, The Flower Kings, Gentle Giant, In The Labyrinth, IQ, King Crimson, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Marillion, Mike Oldfield, Neal Morse, Opeth, Pain Of Salvation, Peter Hammill, Porcupine Tree, Queensrÿche (pre HITNF), Rick Wakeman, Riverside, Royal Hunt, Rush, Spocks Beard, The Tangent, Threshold, Transatlantic, U.K., Van Der Graaf Generator, Yes
Favourite Non-Prog Bands: Allan Holdsworth, Asia, Be-Bop Deluxe, Bill Bruford, Bill Nelson, The Bonzo Dog Band, Coldplay, David Bowie, Devin Townswend, Dire Straits, Extreme, The Flaming Lips, Francis Cabrel, Henry Rollins, Leonard Cohen, Manic Street Preachers, Morrisey, Muse, Pantera, Philip Glass, Primus, Radiohead, Simon & Garfunkel, Soundgarden, Stan Ridgway, Steve Vai, Tangerine Dream, The Tea Party, TNT, Todd Rundgren, Tom Waits, Tomita, Tori Amos, Yngwie Malmsteen
Rock Island Top 10: Tales From Topographic Oceans - Yes, Unfold The Future - The Flower Kings, Red - King Crimson, U.K. - U.K., Scenes From A Memory - Dream Theater, Remedy Lane - Pain Of Salvation, Visions Of The Emerald Beyond - The Mahavishnu Orchestra, Moving Pictures - Rush, Blackwater Park - Opeth, Still Life - Van Der Graaf Generator

Dries

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Full Name: Dries Dokter
Year Of Birth: 1970
City + Country: Venlo, The Netherlands
Occupation: Service Product Specialist
Instrument: Trumpet in a far away past, I even played in a military band (compulsory military service). So I have been a professional musician ;-)

DPRP STUFF

Active For DPRP Since: February 2003
DPRP Responsibilities: CD Reviews and our "behind the scenes man".

ODDS 'N ENDS

Favourite Bands: Genesis (until Hackett left), Fish, Marillion, Spocks Beard, Transatlantic, Ayreon, Peter Gabriel, Roger Waters, Mike Oldfield, Pain of Salvation, Evergrey, Opeth, Elfonia, IQ, Pendragon, Dream Theater, After Forever, Anathema, k's Choice
Deserted Island Top 5: The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway(Genesis), The Perfect Element (Pain of Salvation), Brave (Marillion), Vigil in a Wilderness of Mirrors (Fish), Subterranea (IQ)
Other: I read a lot of Science Fiction and Fantasy novels (while music is playing through headphones) , favourite writers: JRR Tolkien, Isaac Asimov, Orson Scott Card, Terry Goodkind, Dan Simmons, J.K. Rowling, etc.

Edwin

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Full Name: Edwin Roosjen
Year Of Birth: 1974
City + Country: Hoofddorp, The Netherlands
Occupation: Dosimetrist
Instrument: Guitar

DPRP STUFF

Active For DPRP Since: September 2007
DPRP Responsibilities: Concert Reviews Editor and CD Reviews

ODDS 'N ENDS

Favorite Bands: Ayreon, Marillion (old-stuff), Rush, Fish, Arena, Pendragon, IQ, Threshold, Pink Floyd, Iron Maiden, Epica
Deserted Island Top Five: Iron Maiden - Live after death, Marillion - Script for a jester's tear, Pink Floyd - Dark side of the moon, Arena - The visitor, Rush - Chronicles
Other interests: Cycling, badminton, movies

Erik

TRIVIA

Full Name: Erik Neuteboom
Nickname: Neut
Year Of Birth: 1960
City + Country: The Hague, Netherlands
Occupation: psychiatric nurse
Instrument: classical / Spanish guitar and occasional ‘Tarantula grip’ M400 Mellotron work

DPRP STUFF

Active For DPRP Since: May 21, 2008
DPRP Responsibilities: contributions to Forgotten Sons, some reviews and articles, especially about lesser known and unknown old and new progrock bands.

ODDS 'N ENDS

Favourite Prog Bands: Rush (74-86), Genesis (70-77), Seventies Yes, Pink Floyd, Camel, Seventies Barclay James Harvest, early Steve Hackett solo, early Earch & Fire, Focus, Finch, Fish-Marillion, IQ, Pendragon, early Roxy Music, early Rick Wakeman solo, Seventies Le Orme, Banco and PFM, Museo Rosenbach, Outer Limits, Gerard, Seventies Grobschnitt, Jane, Eloy and Novalis, Triana, Solaris, Anekdoten, Deep Purple, Uriah Heep, Vanilla Fudge...
Favourite Prog Albums: GENESIS - Wind and Wuthering / YES - Yessongs / GENESIS - Live / RUSH - Exit Stage Left / TRIANA - El Patio / SOLARIS - 1990 / BACAMARTE - Depois Do Fim / PINK FLOYD - The Wall / CAMEL - Mirage / BARCLAY JAMES HAVEST - Live
Favourite New Prog Bands: Senogul, Riverside, William Gray, R-U Kaiser, Neverness, Little Tragedies, Nexus, Nemo, Angulart... to name a few!
Favourite Non-Prog: guitar-oriented flamenco (like Paco De Lucia, Paco Pena, Juan Martin and Manitas De Plata), Stevie Ray Vaughan, Rory Gallagher, Tangerine Dream (74-78), Santana, The Doors, Led Zeppelin, Queen, folk music from Rumania, Greece and Latin-America, classical piano like Chopin and Bach...

Geoff

TRIVIA

Full Name: Geoffrey Feakes
Year Of Birth: 1954
City + Country: Wakefield, UK
Occupation: Design Engineer, Quality Assurance Manager and Health & Safety Advisor
Other: Telephone Counsellor and Group Treasurer
Instrument: Guitar. I put it down 20 years ago, and haven’t picked it up since!

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Active For DPRP Since: October 2005
DPRP Responsibilities: CD Reviews, Concert Reviews and Interviews

ODDS 'N ENDS

Favourite Prog: Yes, Genesis, ELP, King Crimson, Ant Phillips, Gryphon, Camel, PFM, Moody Blues, Iona, Transatlantic, Focus, Steve Hackett, Pink Floyd, Mike Oldfield, Spock’s Beard, Flower Kings, Glass Hammer, Pendragon, Greenslade, Vangelis.
Favourite Non-Prog: The Who, 10cc, Queen, Red Box, Brian Wilson, John Barry, Leonard Bernstein, John Williams, Ennio Morricone, Elmer Bernstein, Aaron Copland
Deserted Island Prog Top 5: Close to the Edge - Yes, Foxtrot – Genesis, Midnight Mushrumps - Gryphon, Amarok - Mike Oldfield, Things to Come - Seventh Wave
Favourite album format: CD, but I have a large vinyl collection that I can’t bring myself to part with.
Best gig experience: Genesis at the De Montfort Hall Leicester, 25 February 1973.

Gerald

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Full Name: Gerald Wandio
Year Of Birth: 1962
City + Country: Nine Mile Creek, Prince Edward Island, Canada
Occupation: Lecturer in English
Instrument: Bass Guitar

DPRP STUFF

Active For DPRP Since: October 2004
DPRP Responsibilities: CD Reviews

ODDS 'N ENDS

Favourite Bands & Artists: Alan Parsons Project, Black Sabbath, Blind Guardian, Blue Öyster Cult, The Clash, Coldplay, Cradle of Filth, Death Angel, Bob Dylan, The Flatlanders, Grave Digger, Iced Earth, Interpol, Iron Maiden, Joy Division, Led Zeppelin, Manilla Road, The Mars Volta, Mary Lou Lord, The Moody Blues, Nazareth, New Order, Opeth, Pearl Jam, Pink Floyd, Radiohead, R.E.M., Royal Hunt, Running Wild, Rush, The Smiths, Slayer, Steely Dan, Therion, UK, Uriah Heep, Warren Zevon – and maybe one or two others. Or three.

Henri

TRIVIA

Full Name: Henri Bos
Anagram: any suggestions are welcome
Year Of Birth: 1959
City + Country: Culemborg, The Netherlands
Occupation: Chemical Analyst
Instrument: Did some bluesy drums

DPRP STUFF

Active For DPRP Since: 1995
DPRP Responsibilities: Dutch Concert Guide, CDelight (discontinued).

ODDS 'N ENDS

Favourite Bands: IQ (Peter Nicholls), Yes, Kansas, UK, MMEB, Deep Purple, Tiles & Lillian Axe

Jerry

TRIVIA

Full Name: Jerry van Kooten
Year Of Birth: 1970
City + Country: Weesp, The Netherlands
Occupation: Senior VB Programmer
Instrument: vocals, and working on the piano
Other: Lyricist, Poet, Composer (click here for more information)

DPRP STUFF

Active For DPRP Since: 1995
DPRP Responsibilities: being the One Who's On The Team Longer Than Anyone Else since Martijn quit, Technical Maintenance and scripting, The Official Twelfth Night Website (formerly hosted by DPRP), DPRPuzzle, some interviews, and no more CD Reviews

ODDS 'N ENDS

Favourite Genres: first wave of progressive rock (Genesis), second wave of progressive rock (Twelfth Night, Pallas, Tamarisk, Comedy Of Errors, Quasar, early Marillion), Sixties' blues / rock / early progressive (Jimi Hendrix, Blind Faith, Spirit, Derek & The Dominos, Cuby + Blizzards, The Who, Led Zeppelin, Nektar, early Deep Purple), and only a little bit of prog metal (earliest Dream Theater, Mastermind)
Favourite Bands: Nektar, Twelfth Night, Pallas, Jimi Hendrix
Favourite Albums: Collectors Item (Twelfth Night), The Cross And The Crucible (Pallas), Nursery Cryme (Genesis), In The Following Half-Light (Netherworld), Battlement (Neuschwanstein), Pawn Hearts (Van Der Graaf Generator), Tommy (The Who), Nebula (Egdon Heath), Amenophis (Amenophis), Recycled (Nektar), Opus One (Opus Est), Door To Deliverance (Bagheera), Garden Shed (England)

Jez

TRIVIA

Full Name: Jez Rowden
Year Of Birth: 1966
City + Country: Swansea, UK
Occupation: Ex-Retail Manager, currently eCommerce Postgraduate Student
Instrument: Bad Bass!

DPRP STUFF

Active For DPRP Since: October 2006
DPRP Responsibilities: CD Reviews

ODDS 'N ENDS

Favourite Artists: Yes, Rush, King Crimson, Flower Kings, NoMeansNo, Magenta, Porcupine Tree, Van der Graaf Generator, Pain Of Salvation, Marillion, IQ, Genesis, Gentle Giant, Pink Floyd, Dream Theater, Camel, etc, etc, etc
Desert Island Top 5: (In no order) King Crimson - Power To Believe, Yes - Relayer, NoMeansNo - Small Parts Isolated And Destroyed, Flower Kings - Stardust We Are, Porcupine Tree - In Absentia

Jim

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Full Name: Jim Corcoran
Nickname: Jimmy
Year Of Birth: 1966
City + Country: Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Occupation: Customer Service
Instrument: I have studied piano and low brass (baritone horn, slide trombone). Once I marched with a Sousaphone.

DPRP STUFF

Active For DPRP Since: September 2007
DPRP Responsibilities: CD Reviews

ODDS 'N ENDS

Favorite Prog: Jon Anderson, Asia, Tony Banks, Adrian Belew, Circa, Conspiracy, David Cross, Geoff Downes, Keith Emerson, ELP, Fish, Fission Trip, Robert Fripp, Peter Gabriel, Genesis, David Gilmour, TU, Steve Hackett, Icon, King Crimson (all of it), Kino, Greg Lake, Legendary Pink Dots, Tony Levin, Mainhorse, Marillion (both Fish and Steve eras), Ian McDonald, McDonald and Giles, Merkaba, Patrick Moraz, Moraz/Bruford, The Nice, No-Man, Carl Palmer, Pink Floyd, ProjeKct X, Proto-Kaw, Qango, Refugee, Rush, Rhythm Buddies, Chris Squire, The Syn, Tangerine Dream, 3, Tool, 21st Century Schizoid Band, Tuner, UK, Van Der Graaf Generator, Rick Wakeman, Ian Wallace, Roger Waters, John Wetton, White, Rick Wright, Yes
Favorite Non-Prog: Badger, Black Tape for a Blue Girl, Boston, Bowie, Combustible Edison, Dead Can Dance, Deep Purple, Devo, Dire Straits, 808 State, ELO, EBN, Excessive Force, Fear Falls Burning, Bryan Ferry, Front 242, Lisa Gerrard, Jesus and mary Chain, John Paul Jones, KMFDM, Lycia, Phil Manzanera, Meat Beat Manifesto, Moody Blues, The New Cars, New Order, New York Dolls, Nitzer Ebb, Gary Numan, The Orb, Ramones, Reverend Horton Heat, Steve Roach, Roxy Music, Simple Minds, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Sisters of Mercy, Patti Smith, Social Distortion, The Stooges, Talking Heads, Tortoise, Traffic, Peter Ulrich, U2, Velvet Underground, The Who, Steve Winwood
Desert Island Top Ten: No-Man- “Flowermouth”, King Crimson- “The Power to Believe”, David Cross- “Closer Than Skin”, Circa “2007”, Pink Floyd- “The Division Bell”, Marillion- “Marbles”, Tangerine Dream- “Poland – The Warsaw Concert”, Van Der Graaf Generator- “World Record”, The Syn “Syndestructible”, ELP- “Brain Salad Surgery”
Favourite Gig Experiences: Yes – “Union” Tour 1992, King Crimson “Level Five” Tour 2001

Joris

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Full Name: Joris Donkel
Year Of Birth: 1965
City + Country: Haarlem, The Netherlands
Occupation: System Operator of a Personnel & Salary Registration (Its more fun than it sounds!)
Instrument: Occasional air drums and weird vocal noises that almost sound like music
Other: Being one of the most fanatic Queen collectors in the World and running the International Queen Swap Office (click here for more info)

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Active For DPRP Since: 2004
DPRP Responsibilities: CD Reviews and an occasional Concert Reviews

ODDS 'N ENDS

Favourite Prog & Symfo Bands: Genesis, Yes, Flower Kings, Arena, Camel, Muse, Pink Floyd, Jean-Michel Jarre, Steve Hackett, UK, Spock's Beard, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Marillion, Pendragon, Liquid Tension Experiment, Transatlantic, Dream Theater, Caravan, E.L.O., Ayreon, Pallas, Pär Lindh Project, Rhapsody, Rick Wakeman, IQ, Rush, Saga, Alan Parsons Project, Kayak, Focus, Kansas to mention just a few ...
Favourite Non-Prog Bands: Queen, Deep Purple, Billy Joel, Beatles, Meatloaf, Rammstein, Rainbow, Uriah Heep, Waterboys, The Police, Supertramp, The Doors, Puhdys, Flairck and some Balkan gyspy music like from Fanfare Giocarlia and Goran Bregovic and this is just the tip of the iceberg
Desert Island Top 5: Queen - A Night at the Opera, Genesis - Selling England By The Pound, Flower Kings - 'depends on my mood', Deep Purple - Made in Japan, Jean-Michel Jarre - Magnetic Fields (and my wife will definitely bring Arena - The Visitor)

Leo

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Full Name: Leo Koperdraat
Year Of Birth: 8 November 1966 (I love to receive birthday mail!)
City + Country: Gorinchem, The Netherlands
Occupation: Account Manager Commercial Banking with an International Bank
Lives With: Kitty
Instrument: Guitars, Keys, Vocals (pop under the name of The Depressed Pop Consortium. Still looking for a drummer. Working on songs to put on a MySpace account). Favourite instrument: Mellotron!!!!!

DPRP STUFF

Active For DPRP Since: September 2007
DPRP Responsibilities: CD Reviews and maintainer of the Long Songs List

ODDS 'N ENDS

Favorite Prog & Metal Bands: Yes, Genesis, GG, KC, Gryphon, BJH (just discovered their old stuff!!), Gracious, Spring, Lift, PFM, IQ, Marillion, Pallas, Coda, Earth and Fire, Taurus, Terraced Garden (!!), Cardiacs, Saga, Rush, Spocks Beard, Flower Kings, Anglagard, Anekdoten, Landberk, Big Big Train, Galleon, Carptree, Deadwood Forest, Echolyn, Ritual, Beardfish, PRR, Moongarden, Moon Safari, La Machera di Cera, The Watch, Big Elf, Wobbler. To name just a few.
Favorite Non-Prog: Beatles, Beach Boys, Jason Falkner, Jon Brion, Pugwash, Aimee Mann, Michael Penn, Barenaked Ladies, Stephen Duffy (and the Lilac Time), Ben Folds (Five), Joe Jackson, Talk Talk, Benjamin Biolay, Blackfield, Rockfour, Elbow, Radiohead, Morgan (Italian pop genius!!!), Coparck, David Sylvian, Japan, Two times the Trauma, Depeche Mode, Duran Duran, Divine Comedy, Hooverphonic, Doves, Duncan Sheik, Elliot Smith, Jeff Buckley, Fiona Apple, Grant Lee Philips, Kevin Gilbert (also Toy Matinee), Grays, Mew, Oceansize, Porcupine Tree, No Man, Rufus Wainwright, Moody Blues, Jazzanova, Tim Christensen, Brendan Benson, A-HA, Alfie, Timesbold, Bee gees (old stuff), Moloko (Roisin Murphy), Jellyfish, PSB, Wondermints, XTC, Zero 7, Zappa. etc etc etc etc
Desert Island top 5 Prog (in no particular order and subject to daily changes): 1. Yes - Tales from Topographic Oceans; 2. Gentle Giant - In a Glass House; 3. Anglagard - Any album; 4. Ritual - The Hermulic Voluntary Band (absolute masterpiece!!); 5. Deadwood Forest - Deadwood Forest
Desert Island top 5 Non-Prog (in no particular order and subject to daily changes): 1. Beach Boys - Pet Sounds; 2. Morgan - Canzoni dell'appartamento; 3. Grays - RoShamBo; 4. Duncan Sheik - Duncan Sheik; 5. Alfie - Cryin at Teatime

Mark

TRIVIA

Full Name: Mark Hughes
Year Of Birth: 1964
City + Country: Romiley, UK
Occupation: Technical Director, Regulatory Writing (it's a drug thing!)
Instrument: Pen (metaphorically speaking)

DPRP STUFF

Active For DPRP Since: October 2002
DPRP Responsibilities: Writing loads of CD Reviews and Concert Reviews

ODDS 'N ENDS

Favourite Prog Bands: IQ, Twelfth Night, Peter Hammill/Van Der Graaf Generator, Gentle Giant, Echolyn, Yes, Pink Floyd, King Crimson, Discipline.
Favourite Non-Prog: Ant Phillips, Roy Harper, American Music Club, The Lilac Time/Stephen Duffy, Mark Eitzel, Nick Drake ... and about two hundred others!

Martien

TRIVIA

Full Name: Martien Koolen
Year Of Birth: 1958
City + Country: Heerlen, the Netherlands
Occupation: Teacher, semi-rock reporter and music addict
Instruments: Air Guitar

DPRP STUFF

Active For DPRP Since: November 2003
DPRP Responsibilities: CD Reviews, Interviews and Concert Reviews

ODDS 'N ENDS

Favourite Prog/Metal: Rush, Dream Theater, Porcupine Tree, Yes, Enchant, Spock's Beard, Magellan, Kamelot, Symphony-X, Marillion, Pendragon, Pallas, IQ.
Favourite non-prog: Led Zeppelin, Queensryche, Savatage, Journey, Jimi Hendrix, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Yngwie Malmsteen, Joe Satriani, Metallica(old stuff), Judas Priest, Iron Maiden.
Deserted Island Disks: Train Of Thought - Dream Theater, In Absentia - Porcupine Tree, Tales From Topographic Oceans - Yes, Moving Pictures - Rush, Band Of Gypsys - Jimi Hendrix, Operation Mindcrime - Queensryche, Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence - Dream Theater.

Ron

TRIVIA

Full Name: Ron Faulkner
Anagram: Real Funk Ron
Year Of Birth: 1960
City + Country: Bangor, UK
Occupation: IT Manager
Instrument: Guitar; Keyboards, Air-triangle

DPRP STUFF

Active For DPRP Since: October 2007
DPRP Responsibilities: Releases Editor and occasional CD Reviews

ODDS 'N ENDS

Favourite Bands: Echolyn, Yes, Glass Hammer, IZZ, Thieves' Kitchen, Mostly Autumn, Manning, The Tangent, IQ, Pallas, Salva, Pendragon, Ayreon, Pink Floyd, Marillion (Fish era), Steely Dan, 10cc, Genesis (Gabriel era), Magenta, Karnataka, Dream Theater, The Source, Gentle Giant, A.C.T., Credo, Mr So & So, Grey Lady Down, Frost, Satellite
Prog Island 10: Close To the Edge - Yes; Mei - Echolyn; Tales From Topographic Oceans - Yes; Foxtrot - Genesis; Clutching At Straws - Marillion; All Along this Land - The Source; This Is My Halo - Ray Weston; Aerial - Kate Bush; The Hemulic Voluntary Band - Ritual; Chris Squire's Swiss Choir - Chris Squire (remote islands have Christmas too, you know!)

Tom

TRIVIA

Full Name: Tom De Val
Year Of Birth: 1970
City + Country: Cambridge, England
Occupation: Management Accountant
Instruments:

DPRP STUFF

Active For DPRP Since: May 2003
DPRP Responsibilities: CD Reviews and Concert Reviews

ODDS 'N ENDS

Favourite Music: Rush, Queen, Pink Floyd, Genesis, Peter Gabriel, Kate Bush, Camel, Marillion, It Bites/ Francis Dunnery, IQ, Jadis, Threshold, Dream Theater, Porcupine Tree, King's X, Spock's Beard, Anathema, Queensryche, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Metallica, AC/DC, Midnight Oil, Killing Joke, Steely Dan, Cheap Trick, Aimee Mann, Calexico - and hundreds of others!

 

DPRP Guest Team Members

Additional contributors to our site:

Andreas Vogel (DE) - since February 2001 (live reviews)

Jeroen Bos (NL) - since October 2001 (concert photography)

Pía Matozzi (IT) - since July 2002 (live reviews and news clippings)

Craig O'Brien (UK) - since November 2002 (live reviews)

Ed Sander (NL) - since January 2003 (CD Reviews and Concert Reviews)

Kevin Murphy (IE) - since May 2003 (Concert Reviews)

John Morley (UK) - since June 2003 (Concert Reviews)

Lorraine Kay (USA) - since June 2005 (interviews, CD and live reviews)

The Spirit of DPRP Past

A big thank you to the past members of the DPRP team:

Martijn Albering (with DPRP: 1995 - 2001): founder of DPRP, many band contacts, maintainer of our internal mailinglist and contact person with our former sponsors at Vuurwerk.

Neil Durant (with DPRP: 1995 - 2001), besides starting the IQ Mailing List It All Posts Here many years ago, also maintained the UK Gig List (1995 - 2000).

René Janssen (with DPRP: 1996 - 2000): the News page (1996 - 1999), interviews, and many contacts with bands and labels. Although officially resigned, René still provides us with news, review material and conducts the occasional interview.

Ed Sander (with DPRP: 1996 - 2002): was initiator and is still maintainer of the The Lush Attic (IQ Pages) & It All Posts Here (IQ Mailing List), Chief Editor of CD Reviews 96 - 2002), Chief Editor of Concert Reviews (1996 - 1998), conductor of DPRPolls (1997 - 2001) and Competitions and initiator and maintainer of the DPRP Update Mailing List. At the end of 2002, Ed chose to resign from his active work with DPRP, but he still works as guest reviewer of CDs & Concerts, as well as Counting Out Time articles.

Jan Jaap de Haan (with DPRP: 1997 - 2002): maintained fansites for Spocks Beard, Arena, Jadis, Pendragon and Kayak, initiated and maintained Counting Out Time in 1999, wrote CD reviews and conducted interviews. Although he is he is officially resigned, JJ still provides us with many news items and still writes the occasional CD review.

Derk van Mourik (with DPRP: 1998 - 2005): maintained the Links Page between 1998 and 1999 and was editor of the News Page from 2000 to 2004. Throughout his tenure with DPRP he also performed the occasional piece of maintenance work, and wrote a fair number of CD and concert reviews mainly in his earlier years with the site.

Remco Schoenmakers (with DPRP: 1998 - 2002): initiated the Forum and The Vision Pit, wrote many CD reviews and conducted interviews.

Hans van der Leden (with DPRP: 1998 - 2000): initiated the official Landmarq page.

Mattias Norén (with DPRP: 1999 - 2000): the DPRP lay-out, the design of our site mascot and the Art Corner.

Mark Sander (with DPRP: 1999 - 2001): wrote nearly ninety CD Reviews for DPRP.

Nigel Camilleri (with DPRP: 2000 - 2005): wrote many, many, many CD Reviews for DPRPexcellent and initiated and maintained the Forgotten Sons Section.

Rob Michel (with DPRP: 2001 - 2002): provided DPRP with many excellent CD Reviews and a few Counting Out Time articles.

Hester Stasse (NL) (with DPRP: 2000 - 2004):  (CD Reviews, Concert Reviews and CoT Articles)

Joakim Jahlmar (SE) (with DPRP: 2000 - 2004):  (CD Reviews and CoT Articles)

Chris Meeker (USA) - since January 2003 (CD Reviews)

Bart Cusveller (NL) - since May 2004 (CD Reviews)

Christopher Frick - since September 2005 (CD Reviews)

Jeffrey E Terwilliger (with DPRP: 2004 - 2007) - (CD Reviews)

John Shannon (with DPRP: 2004 - 2006) - (CD Reviews)

Yalcin Inel (with DPRP: 2005 - 2007) - (CD Reviews & Interviews)

Louis Koot [R.I.P.] (with DPRP: 2006 - 2007) - (CD Reviews & Interviews)

Caricatures by IQ's Peter Nicholls