LMG wrote:I am game if others are. Not sure about voter turnout, however.
If we do, might there be funds available to prepare and distribute commemorative awards to the winners?
Caravan, for instance, are currently on tour, and I can easily imagine myself joining the current line up onstage for the encore at the 450-capacity Fleece in Bristol, explaining to the audience that I am there in my official capacity as member of the Prog Illuminati and Doyen to present the band with their award recognising their 11-20 placing in the Prog Premier League, as voted by the members of Black Cat Bone, the surviving message board of Mojo magazine readers.
One foresees a tearful Pye Hastings accepting the award to warm applause, and explaining gratefully that although the band never achieved very much in the way of sales or chart placings, the belated recognition of a BCB award makes up for this slight in so many ways. He might also mention that their merchandise stall has available replicas of the award for sale, as well as copies of the band's recently released album It's None Of Your Business and a selection of live offerings from recent tours.
They would then launch into a spirited rendition of (hopefully) something from one of their first three albums.
All this assuming they actually do win a placing in the second ten, of course.
Caravan might just squeeze in, perhaps 19th or 20th.
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