We thought it was about time we updated our news page as we have been a bit quiet lately. The good news, however, is that we have been working on a very special 3CD re-issue project which is now nearing completion. More details to follow in due course.

Also, work is progressing well on new material which will form the basis of our next studio album. We will be going in Thin Ice in September to record drums on all the completed tracks, so more exciting times ahead. Hopefully, the as yet untitled new album will be released in 2020 which also happens to be our 35th anniversary year, thus a few shows will hopefully be planned too!

In the meantime we'd like to wish everyone a fun filled, happy and peaceful Summer. :-)

Just a reminder that in a few weeks we will be venturing back up to Scotland to play at the Backstage venue at the Green Hotel in Kinross on Saturday 16th March, which we are very much looking forward to. It will be one of only a few shows in 2019 and will also be one of the last occasions at which we will perform 'Seas of Change' in it's (almost) entirety, an album which has been received far better that we could have hoped for and one which still resonates as much now, if not more so than it did when it was first released almost exactly a year ago. 

It would be lovely to see as many of our 'Northern' fraternity as possible as it is so rare that we get a chance perform in that particular neck of the woods as it were. :-)

Here is a link to the venue: Backstage at the Green Hotel, Kinross

Well, what a year it has been, a total blast.

On behalf of Galahad, I would just like to say a very big thank you to everyone who has supported Galahad this year, very very much appreciated.  
I feel that we have come back stronger than at any time in the last few years both on and off stage as it were.  

We've had some great adventures in 2018 and a big thanks too to all those who came along, supported and showed their warmth towards us.  

In 2019 we have a couple of planned projects which we will elaborate on in due course. We also hope to write and record our next album for which we have numerous completed 'demo' tracks, the hardest job will be choosing which songs to include as there over two dozen ideas floating about!

We have only one confirmed show in 2019 and are happy to announce that we will be venturing back up to Scotland on Saturday 16th March to play at the Backstage venue at the Green Hotel in Kinross which is a lovely little venue which we are really looking forward to playing. After the fun we had at the Drygate in Glasgow in December we'd love to see a few of our Scottish fans at 'Backstage' in Kinross. Here is a link to the venue site etc. : https://www.ticketweb.uk/event/galahad-backstage-at-the-green-hotel-tickets/8898265

We may play a few other shows in 2019 but our main focus will be writing and recording new material plus a couple of other special projects.

Finally, we'd just like to wish everyone a happy, successful and peaceful 2019. :-)

Avalon Records in conjunction with Oskar Productions is very pleased and proud to announce the release of ‘Constellations’ the first ever solo album from Dean Baker who also happens to be the main writer and arranger for the established UK ‘Prog’ band Galahad.

You could say that ‘Constellations’ is an accidental album borne out of personal tragedy. Dean’s good friend Ray succumbed to Cancer in 2018 and Dean subsequently inherited a rather large CD collection and began listening to some of the gems contained within what was, in fact, more of a music library, including albums by iconic keyboard visionaries such as Jean-Michel Jarre, Kraftwerk, Vangelis and Tangerine Dream to name but a few.

After listening to and re-acquainting himself with music by the above artists Dean was massively inspired to write some music in a similar vein over the course of the Summer of 2018 and before he knew it he had over twenty new tracks to work on! These were then distilled and whittled down to the ten tracks which appear on the final version of this album.

Dean also called upon a few fellow cohorts to contribute including Lee Abraham and Stu from Galahad on guitars and vocals respectively as well Anastasia Coburg from Coburg on vocals. You could say that the resulting album is paying homage to some of the pioneering synthesizer artists of the 1970s but it is also still very much a Dean Baker vision incorporating modern production values and Dean’s very own musical slant on modern electronic music.

‘Constellations’ is dedicated to music lover Ray Chiles (1959 -2018)

Track listing:

1. Le Chat Qui Pêche (9.14)

2. Off the Shoulder of Orion (4.35)

3. Here and Now (4.40) (Vocals - Stu Nicholson)

4. Modular Seasons (3.51)

5. Clouded Hills (5.56)

6. New Horizons (5.41) (Vocals - Anastasia Coburg)

7. Nuda Veritas (4.09) (Vocals - Stu Nicholson)

8. Engelbrecht (3.37) (Guitar - Lee Abraham)

9. Constellations (4.24) (Vocals - Stu Nicholson)

10. Impression No.8 (9.01)

‘Constellations’ will be available to download from  Dean's Bandcamp page from 29th October 2018. CD'S will also be able to be pre-ordered from the official Galahad website merchandise page from 29th October 2018. Shipping date is still to be confirmed but will begin some time in November 2018.

We are very pleased and delighted to announce that we will be playing in Norway for the first time on Saturday 3rd November at the Haugaland Prog and Rock Festival in Haugesund where will be closing the festival with a  full set including an (almost' full performance of our latest Seas of Change' album plus a selection of old Galahad favourites! We very much hope to see some of Scandinavian fans there.:-)

Here is a link to the festival Face Book page: Haugaland Festival

Well, what a lovely and most unexpected surprise, we are so pleased and proud to announce that GALAHAD has been nominated for the 2018 UK PROG awards in the ‘UK Band/Artist of the year’ category. Whilst we are realistic and know that the chance of walking away with the main ‘prize’ is very slim due to some very stiff competition from some great bands, some with much larger fanbases, many of whom we know well and good luck to them all too, we are very pleased and honoured just to be considered and acknowledged for this prestigious and well regarded award.

Needless to say, if anyone would like to cast their vote in our favour, which would be very much appreciated, here is the link to the relevant web page in order to do so. http://loudersound.com/prog2018.

We would also like to this opportunity to thank everyone who has supported us for so long and more recently purchased our new ‘Seas of Change’ record which, in all honesty, has exceeded all our expectations, especially in terms of critical acceptance from both fans and reviewers alike. Thus it seems that after what has been, at times, a very difficult few years for the band 2018 is turning out to be a great year for GALAHAD and we’re still only in June! 😊

This is not strictly Galahad news but our good friends Twelfth Night will shortly be re-issuing their seminal 'Fact & Fiction' album and what makes this one special is the fact that one of the 3 CDs which make up this release consists of cover versions of tracks which appeared on the original album.

Various current Galahad members appear on no less than SIX of these new versions including a new Galahad version of the track  'Fact & Fiction' which was performed many times by the band at early gigs back in the mid to late 1980s.

This very special release, which will be of interest to both Galahad and Twelfth Night fans alike, will be released some time in May 2018.

More information can be found on the official Twelfth Night website here:Twelfth Night official website

Big thanks to Jerry, Johnny, Ross and PROG magazine for our interview in the latest edition (86 April) of PROG magazine. Very much appreciated. Although we would just like to clarify that we haven't had yet another line-up change and that our keyboard player is still Dean Baker (Dane Beaker) and not his imaginary brother Mark.  
Thanks also to Matt Mills for the Southampton, Talking Heads gig review. Plus I'd just like to mention Peter Jones who played a gorgeous acoustic set beforehand and kindly let me have the honour of guesting with him on a couple of impromptu old Genesis beauties being 'Many Too Many' which used to be a Galahad staple in the early days of the band and 'Guide Vocal' which I've always wanted to perform and finally got a chance at last after all these years. :-)

All of us in and associated with the band would just like say a massive, heartfelt THANK YOU to everyone who has pre-ordered and purchased our new 'Seas of Change' studio album. We have been blown away by the interest and response to the album which, effectively, is a comeback album after a pretty difficult couple of years or so. We really weren't expecting such a positive, heartwarming response.  

We are so very proud of this album which has been a labour of love and is, in our opinion, an unashamedly no holds barred 'Progressive Rock' record, all 43 minutes of it (plus the CD edits of course)! 

We also really appreciate the support from all those Galafans who have followed and remained faithful to us over the years and also would like to thank all those who are new to the band for giving us a chance and hopefully we will keep you on board in future.  

We would also like thank everyone who has (mainly) given us such positive reviews/ratings and 'understood' what we were trying to get across and achieve. 
Hopefully, we will see some of you at a few up and coming shows we have planned for this year and thank you in person. 

Dates confirmed so far are as follows: 

11 March – The Talking Heads, Southampton, UK with Peter Jones Tiger Moth Tales (acoustic) as special guest 

17 March - Prog Rock Fest IV – Legionowo near Warsaw, Poland 

28 April - Winter’s End Festival, The Drill Hall, Chepstow, UK 

9 June - Mattfest, The Iron Horse, Sidcup, Kent, UK 

22 June - Serious Music Festival, Alphen aan Den Rijn, The Netherlands 

1 December - Danfest, The Musician, Leicester, UK 

Hopefully there will be more to follow...:-)