An Accidental Decade

Ten years ago, the whimsical stories on Tiger Moth Tales’ debut album, Cocoon, captured the imagination of the prog world. Marking the decade with a 10th anniversary edition of the album, TMT’s Peter Jones shares some of his personal highlights with Prog and explains why he’s still coming to terms with where it all went right.

Alison Reijman

In true prog fashion, it all started with a musical box, the one in the opening sequence to Camberwick Green, the 1960s children’s animated TV series. Followed in quick succession by Trumpton and Chigley, the memories these childhood shows evoked inspired Peter Jones to write the song that defines Tiger Moth Tales’ debut album, Cocoon. Jones developed and elongated the catchy tune accompanying the revolving musical box and emerging puppet figures, turning it into TMT’s now-classic A Visit To Chigwick. It’s now joined on Cocoon’s 10th-anniversary edition by a companion piece, the autobiographical Return To Chigwick. In it, Jones reflects on TMT’s “accidental” decade, one for which he is eternally grateful, and especially for the continuing devotion of his faithful fans, the Mothingtons. Not surprisingly, Prog finds Jones in an…

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