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There are just a few days left to vote at the prestigious Progressive Music Awards 2014. Voting at awards.progmagazine.com closes at midnight on Friday August 8.

In its short but illustrious history, the Orange Amplification presents The Progressive Music Awards, has received both critical and public acclaim for acknowledging and celebrating one of the most successful but unsung genres of music. The awards give the prog-loving public the opportunity to celebrate and give recognition to the bands they love.

Jerry Ewing, Prog Magazine Editor, says, “Voting has never been closer in many of this year’s categories, but there can only be one winner! It all sounds very cliché, but each vote really does count. So vote now to give your favourite band every chance of winning one of our prestigious gongs!”

Prog Magazine are delighted to announce that Transatlantic will be giving an exclusive and unique live performance at this year’s event. Nominated in four categories, including Album and Band/Artist of the Year, they have the highest number of nominations next to Dream Theater, which demonstrates just how big their year has been!

On playing the awards, Transatlantic said, “2014 has been an amazing year for Transatlantic – we’ve done our first main worldwind tour and now being nominated for these PROG awards – it is quite a trip. We will be there in London regardless of the outcome and we will play a loud scaled down tall short set – just to prove it wasn’t just lip syncing all the way. Yes we can actually play – and God forbid, we may even improvise a bit! The smiles and cheering is something that YOU have to provide – our simultaneous capacity is limited, after all. See you there – Greetings.”

Previous recipients of these prestigious awards include Rick Wakeman and Ian Anderson, who were named Prog Gods in 2012 and 2013 respectively. Other multi-million-selling rock legends such as Genesis, Carl Palmer, Rush and Hawkwind’s Dave Brock have also been recognised, alongside up-and-coming artists such as TesseracT, Sound Of Contact and Big Big Train, who have all gone from strength-to-strength since picking up awards.

There are 12 categories of which seven are reader-voted, and these are:

LIMELIGHT

Thieves’ Kitchen

Messenger

Kitten Pyramid

Purson

White Moth/Black Butterfly

Hi Fiction Science

Synaesthesia

Agent

Schnauser

Coshish

BREAKTHROUGH ARTIST

Karnivool

Syd Arthur

65daysofstatic

Matt Stevens

Moon Safari

Voyager

Animals As Leaders

John Wesley

Skyharbor

The Safety Fire

LIVE EVENT

Ian Anderson – Thick As A Brick Tour

Camel – The Snow Goose 2013/14 Tour

Progressive Nation At Sea

Cruise To The Edge

HRH Prog

Roger Waters – The Wall Stadium Tour

Peter Gabriel – So – Back To Front

Steve Hackett – Genesis Revisited

Dream Theater – An Evening With Dream Theater

Rick Wakeman – Journey To The Centre Of The Earth 40th Anniversary Tour

ANTHEM

Panic Room – Incarnate

Se Delan – Tonight

IQ – From The Outside In

Coshish – Raastey

Tim Bowness – Smiler At 50

Big Big Train – Make Some Noise

Knifeworld – Don’t Land On Me

Haken – The Cockroach King

Anathema – Anathema

Bigelf – Alien Frequency

ALBUM OF THE YEAR

Haken – The Mountain

Dream Theater – Dream Theater

Fish – A Feast Of Consequences

Knifeworld – The Unravelling

Transatlantic – Kaleidoscope

Bigelf – Into The Maelstrom

Anathema – Distant Satellites

IQ – The Road Of Bones

Syd Arthur – Sound Mirror

Yes – Heaven & Earth

BAND/ARTIST OF THE YEAR

Haken

TesseracT

Dream Theater

Transatlantic

Fish

Anathema

Yes

Bigelf

Ian Anderson

Mogwai

STORM THORGERSON GRAND DESIGN AWARD

King Crimson – The Road To Red

Dream Theater – Limited Edition Collector’s Box Set

ELP – Brain Salad Surgery Deluxe Box Set

Rush – Rush 40th Box Set

Rick Wakeman – Journey To The Centre Of The Earth Box Set

Pink Floyd – The Division Bell Deluxe Set

Fish – Feast Of Consequences Box Set

Cynic – Kindly Bent To Free Us Deluxe Book Set

Ian Anderson – Homo Erraticus Deluxe Edition Hardback Book

Transatlantic – Kaleidoscope Deluxe Edition Box Set

The editorially chosen categories are – Visionary, Virtuoso, Guiding Light, Lifetime Achievement and Prog God.