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Malcolm Dome

“He sings in French, so you have no idea what he’s on about – but I’ve been told his lyrics are clever”: Snooker icon Steve Davis’ interesting and obscure prog picks

Steve Davis at a snooker table with a pile of prog albums.

When Steve Davis acquired his sarcastic “Interesting” nickname, he was best known for wining the World Snooker Championsip six times. Since then he’s established himself as a member of The Utopia Strong and as a prog DJ. In 2009 he faced his boring tag head-on, telling Prog about some of the most obscure albums in his collection of over 2,000 prog records, and recommending a few he felt should be more widely heard.

"I have a reputation for being boring. So people assume I must be into prog because it’s also boring, and that my record collection therefore is full of albums featuring 30-minute drum solos. But that really shows how much bigotry there is still around when it comes to prog.

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