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Is it going to be a near empty stadium on Thursday 30th?

The Henryk Reyman stadium has a capacity of over 33,000 and according to a club bulletin on 'the ultimate away day', our ticket allocation is only 2000...

It seems unlikely that Shakhtar will be able to muster a huge number of fans and I appreciate that the home fans should have a numerical advantage, but it seems ridiculous to host a game in a decent-sized venue and leave it mostly empty

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u/garethsprogblog — 3 days ago

Do you know your prog? A quiz to test your knowledge of prog trivia

The nine musicians pictured, Daevid Allen, Jon Anderson, Peter Banks, Syd Barrett, Lee Jackson, Jakko M. Jakszyk, Andrea Massimo, Demetrio Stratos and Nad Sylvan all have one particular feature in common, but one of them could be considered the odd one out.

What is it they have in common and who is the odd one out, and why?

If you're quite certain of the answer, please use Reddit's redacted text function to hide your response and allow others to submit their own answers.

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Last week I asked what unusual thing the two keyboard players Lars Fredrik Frøislie and Andy Tillison had in common.

While lots of Italian bands recorded their vocals in English, some of them releasing versions of albums in both Italian and English, there can't be many bands or artists that aren't native Italian speakers who have released an album in Italian.

Tillison Reingold Tiranti released Allium: Una storia in 2021, based on Tillison's memory of the music on a cassette tape recorded by an Italian-Albanian group that was given to him when he sat in on one of their rehearsals at a campsite in Rome during his teenage years, later stolen from his student flat. He recruited Roberto Tiranti to sing the Italian lyrics written for the project by Antonio de Sarno.

In 2025, Frøislie released Quattro Racconti, an Italian version of his 2023 album Fire Fortellinger, with Museo Rosenbach's Stefano 'Lupo' on vocals.

Frøislie is on record as saying

"When I wrote Et sted under himmelhvelvet I imagined an Italian version in my head with just Stefano 'Lupo' Galifi's vocals. Not so surprising, perhaps, since he is one of my my favourite vocalists... For me, it was both emotional and surreal to hear a voice I have known and loved throughout much of my life, singing my songs."

I can't think of any other examples of non-Italian prog artists releasing an Italian-language album.

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u/garethsprogblog — 3 days ago

Do you know your prog? A quiz to test your knowledge of prog trivia

The nine musicians pictured, Daevid Allen, Jon Anderson, Peter Banks, Syd Barrett, Lee Jackson, Jakko M. Jakszyk, Andrea Massimo, Demetrio Stratos and Nad Sylvan all have one particular feature in common, but one of them could be considered the odd one out.

What is it they have in common and who is the odd one out, and why?

If you're quite certain of the answer, please use Reddit's redacted text function to hide your response and allow others to submit their own answers.

____________________

Last week I asked what unusual thing the two keyboard players Lars Fredrik Frøislie and Andy Tillison had in common.

While lots of Italian bands recorded their vocals in English, some of them releasing versions of albums in both Italian and English, there can't be many bands or artists that aren't native Italian speakers who have released an album in Italian.

Tillison Reingold Tiranti released Allium: Una storia in 2021, based on Tillison's memory of the music on a cassette tape recorded by an Italian-Albanian group that was given to him when he sat in on one of their rehearsals at a campsite in Rome during his teenage years, later stolen from his student flat. He recruited Roberto Tiranti to sing the Italian lyrics written for the project by Antonio de Sarno.

In 2025, Frøislie released Quattro Racconti, an Italian version of his 2023 album Fire Fortellinger, with Museo Rosenbach's Stefano 'Lupo' on vocals.

Frøislie is on record as saying

"When I wrote Et sted under himmelhvelvet I imagined an Italian version in my head with just Stefano 'Lupo' Galifi's vocals. Not so surprising, perhaps, since he is one of my my favourite vocalists... For me, it was both emotional and surreal to hear a voice I have known and loved throughout much of my life, singing my songs."

I can't think of any other examples of non-Italian prog artists releasing an Italian-language album.

u/garethsprogblog — 3 days ago