Going Dutch

After a two-year pause, Prognosis Festival returned to the Netherlands in April 2022 and Prog travelled to Eindhoven to soak up the atmosphere. Prog acts new and old rubbed shoulders at the rescheduled two-date event, which brought many surprises as well as some new favourites.

Jerry Ewing

“This has been really expensive for us,” explains Ross Jennings, best known as frontman of Haken, but here in Eindhoven with up-and-coming prog metallers Novena, and as a solo artist in his own right. Prog has just run into Jennings and some Novena bandmates in the corridor that runs from the bar to the smaller hall within De Effenaar, the venue that houses Prognosis Festival, and as excited as they are to be here, the impact of Brexit on British touring bands is all too evident. “We weren’t able to bring any merch over,” sighs Jennings. “And what with carnets and everything else you now need to be a band abroad it’s costing a fortune.” These solemn sentiments are echoed by The Fierce And The Dead’s Matt Stevens, who joins…

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