{"id":16828,"date":"2012-09-08T00:22:08","date_gmt":"2012-09-08T05:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=16828"},"modified":"2013-06-15T08:58:42","modified_gmt":"2013-06-15T13:58:42","slug":"rush-wins-album-of-the-year-at-first-progressive-music-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/09\/08\/rush-wins-album-of-the-year-at-first-progressive-music-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Rush wins &#8220;Album of the Year&#8221; at first Progressive Music Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a &#8220;how is this possibly the first time&#8221; event, Rush won the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/entertainment-arts-19492677\" target=\"_blank\">Album of the Year<\/a> award for <em>Clockwork Angels<\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Clockwork Angels picked up &quot;Album of the Year&quot; at last night&#39;s Prog Awards. Here&#39;s BBC&#39;s wrap up of the event: <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/u8ZsUfrS\">http:\/\/t.co\/u8ZsUfrS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Rush (@rushtheband) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rushtheband\/status\/244108510244270080?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 7, 2012<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Veteran rock band Genesis have been honoured at the first Progressive Music Awards, alongside other bands including Pink Floyd and Rush.<\/p>\n<p>Genesis members Mike Rutherford and Tony Banks picked up the lifetime achievement award at a ceremony at Kew Gardens on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Keyboard legend and ex-Yes member Rick Wakeman was given the Prog God Award.<\/p>\n<p>The awards, created by <em>Prog<\/em> Magazine, were hosted by <em>BBC Newsnight<\/em> presenter Gavin Esler.<\/p>\n<p>Prog rock, which grew out of 1960s psychedelia, was originally associated with 70s bands including Pink Floyd, Genesis, Yes and King Crimson.<\/p>\n<p>[. . .]<\/p>\n<p>Canadian rock band Rush&#8217;s latest concept album, <em>Clockwork Angels<\/em>, was named Album Of The Year.<\/p>\n<p>With its dystopian steampunk theme, the three-piece&#8217;s 19th studio album has earned rapturous reviews, even in the mainstream press.<\/p>\n<p>Describing it as Rush&#8217;s &#8220;most solid and compelling set of songs in years&#8221;, <em>The Guardian<\/em> went on to say: &#8220;Those who worship at the temple of Rush will be in raptures; for those who remain agnostic, there may well be enough here to justify a leap of faith.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It was also a handy reminder to me that I hadn&#8217;t actually bought the album yet: it was on sale in the Canadian iTunes store for $6.99. Sold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a &#8220;how is this possibly the first time&#8221; event, Rush won the Album of the Year award for Clockwork Angels. Clockwork Angels picked up &quot;Album of the Year&quot; at last night&#39;s Prog Awards. Here&#39;s BBC&#39;s wrap up of the event: http:\/\/t.co\/u8ZsUfrS &mdash; Rush (@rushtheband) September 7, 2012 Veteran rock band Genesis have been honoured [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,28],"tags":[263,200,915,772],"class_list":["post-16828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-cancon","category-media","tag-1970s","tag-music","tag-progrock","tag-rush"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4nq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16828"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20683,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16828\/revisions\/20683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}