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Hats Off Gentlemen It's Adequate
London-based Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate have been developing a cult reputation through their award winning albums, endorsements from rock legends (including former Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett) and passionate live performances. They came to national attention when they stepped in at the last minute to replace an injured band on the main stage at Hard Rock Hell’s Prog Festival in Wales on November 2017, one of the world’s leading indoor progressive rock events. They performed to over 1000 people, opening for Magnum, Focus and Carl Palmer. They were described by Hard Rock Hell magazine as ‘unlikely stars who stole the show’, by eFestivals as the ‘highlight of the festival’. Their 2020 album ‘Nostalgia For Infinity’ featured on many critics’ selections of top progressive rock albums of the year.
Hats Off Gentlemen It's Adequate are Malcolm Galloway (vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and producer) and Mark Gatland (bass, backing vocals, keyboards and co-producer), on their own, or with Kathryn Thomas (flute). Malcolm and Mark have been playing together since they were at school. Malcolm and Kathryn are married (to each other).
Their music combines progressive/alt rock, experimental and classical elements, minimalist, metal, folk, funk, and electronic music, and often explores scientific and philosophical themes.
They regularly play at leading venues and festivals, and have regularly organised and supported charity events (including Prog The Forest, and events for Save The Children, Cancer Research UK, Marie Curie Cancer Care, Ehlers-Danlos Support UK, and Brain Tumour UK). They have been broadcast on/featured in over 250 radio stations/shows/podcasts/TV channels/publications.
AWARDS
Prog Magazine 2023 - Featured in Russell Fairbrother, Julian Marszalek, Mike Barnes, Chris McGarel, Gary McKenzie, and Chris Wheatley's pick of the best albums of the year.
Prog magazine featured Limelight Feature artists
Featured in the 2020 best albums of the year selections by Live From Progzilla Towers, The Prog Mill, World Of Metal, Kiss That Prog, House Of Prog, Prog Watch, The Progressive Aspect, The Friday Night Rock and Prog Show, Beasties Rock Show, and Hard Rock Hell Magazine, and by two critics in their selections for Prog magazine
Top albums of the week/month awards from Anfetamina+Rock, Bandwagon Network Radio, Valley FM, Kiss That Prog, NewEARS, Betreutesprog.de
Artist of the week/month awards from American Veterans Radio, Rock FM (Canada), Metal Mayhem Radio
Track Of The Day award - Babystep Magazine
Prog magazine readers’ poll top 10 unsigned bands 2019
Featured on Prog magazine covermount CD and in Bass magazine
Music video of the month/week/day awards – Voice Of America, Alternative Tracks
Bandwagon Network Radio - Song Of The Year Award 2018 - Vent/Almost Familiar
Beastie's Rock Show Album of The Year 2017 (jointly with Roger Waters and Alice Cooper)
Beasties Rock Show's Prog Album Of The Year Award 2015
Finalists (top 5) in Banks Radio Australia's awards in the best album and best producer categories and shortlisted for Radio Wigwam's Single Of The Year award.
Shortlisted for Radio Wigwam's Single Of The Year award, and finalists in Banks Radio Australia's awards in the best album and best producer categories.
They are very grateful to the many broadcasters and writers who have featured their music (either HOGIA tracks or solo tracks by Malcolm Galloway), including
6 Album Sunday
6 Towns Radio
7522 Radio
Actual Radio Colchester
Addictions and Other Vices
A Little Alternative
Ally’s Attic
Alt Sounds
Alternative Fruit
Alternative Tracks
Amazing Radio
American Veterans Radio
Among Dreamers
Amplify The Anthems
Angel's Indie Lounge
Anti-Music
Arlequins
Artists In The Spotlight
Ashville.fm
Audio Pollution
Baby Blaue
Background Magazine.nl
Bandwagon Network Radio
Banks Radio (Australia)
Babystep Magazine
Bass Magazine
BBC Radio 3
Beastie’s Rock Show
Bedside Yellow Foam
Betreutes Proggen
Bleeding Edge Interviews
BMans Blues Report
Bobcast - Not The American Prog Show
Bombshell Radio
BRFM 95.6 (Kent)
Brooklands Radio
Bullet Proof
Burton Radio
C and C Indie Show
Captain Captain
CastleBlakkradio
CastleDown Radio
CHBN Radio
Check It Out with DJ Peter Prog
Clair + Obscur
Click Roll Boom
Closer To The Edge
Closet Concert Arena
Coast And Country Radio
CreativeZIN
Cthulhu
Dark Compass
Darren's Music Blog
Deal Radio
DMME - Let It Rock
DPRP (Dutch Progressive Rock Pages)
Emerging Rock Bands
Emergent Unsigned
Enjoy Estes Park Radio
Epic Mondays
Epics For All Time
European Indie Music Network
Expose Online
Fab Radio International
Fatman's Rock Show
Firebrand Rock Radio
Flobcast Radio
Flyde Coast Radio (Blackpool)
Friday Firsts
Friday Night Progressive
Funked In The Head
Games, Braaaiiins and a Head-Banging Life
Gareth’s Prog Blog
Get Ready To Rock
Gigride Radio
Going For The One
Going Underground Prog And Rock Show
Gone To Mars, Back Soon
Goud en Nieuw
Harborough FM
Harbour Radio
Hard Rock Hell Radio
Headbanger Reviews
Heartland FM
Heavy Music HQ
HGB Radio Canada
House Of Prog
HRH Magazine
Improvijazzation Nation
In Yer Ears
Independent Share Show
Indie Bands Blog
Indie Popups
Indie Radio Network
Indie Star Radio
Indie, Folk, Rock and Alternative
Insomnia Radio UK
ISKC
It Could Get Loud
It’s All About Bands
It’s Only Rock’n’Roll
Its EZ Breezy
jonn.co.uk
Jupiter Variation
Keith’s Reviews
Kelly’s Heroes
Kiss That Prog
Krautrocker
Kulture Aspekte
KYBN Radio
LA Rocks Radio
Laut.fm
Let It Rock
Liege Of Cookies
Listen Lanarkshire
London Unsigned
Lost In The Manor
Loud Enough Magazine
LP Substack
Metal Mayhem Radio
Michael's Music Blog
Midlands Metalheads Radio
Midnights Metal Grinder
MLDZ Radio (Poland)
Moshville Times
Mostly Prog, Tasmania
Music Box Pete
Music In Widescreen
Music News
Music Review Unsigned
Music Street Journal
Music Vs The World
Musician (Musicians Union Magazine)
Musik Magazine
My Rock Radio
New Music Saturday
New Wave Of British Heavy Metal
NEWEars
Next with Bernadette Barter
Nick Holmes Music
Notty Nation
Novumfm.de
Offbeat
OMG Staffs
Only Rock Radio
Open The Door Music Blog
Optical Zoo Radio
Oystermouth Radio
Permafrost Today (Norway)
Pete’s Rock News and Views
Phil Meek Radio Show
Phonic.fm
Planet Indie
Powerplay
Positive Chillout
Prime Cuts – The Music Butcher
Prog
Prog Archives
Prog Core Radio
Prog Critique
Prog Magazine
The Prog Mill
Prog Palace Radio
Progphonic
Progrock.com
Prog Rock Dock
Prog Rock Machine Radio
Prog Watch
ProgRadar.com
Progressive Rock Central
Progressive Rock Fanatics
Progressive Rock Journal
ProgRock.com
Progscure
Prog Visions
Progosaurus Rex
Progwereld
Progzilla Radio
Progphonic
Psych Insight Music
Psychedelic Jukebox
Pure M Zine
Purple Revolver
Radio Armazem
Radio Abbey
Radio Caroline
Radio Crystal Blue
Radio Dark Tunnel
Radio Laika
Radio Seagull
Radio Sherbourne
Radio Shoreditch
Radio Tamworth
Radio TD1
Radio Wigwam
Ralphy’s Music Of The World
Real Musik London
Rebel Noise
Review Fix
Ridge Radio (UK)
Riviera FM
Rock Bandom
Rock FM (Canada)
Rock Metal Mag (France)
Rock N Load Mag
Rock Radio Durban
Rock Regeneration
Rock Til You Drop
The Rockin' Chain
Rocking The Blues From Canada
Rockportaal (Netherlands)
Rocktalk
Rokout Radio
Rowan Blair Colver
Runnin’ On Empty
Ruptured Aura
Ryan’s Smashing Life
Sci-Fi And Horror News
Share Your Dreams
SHMU FM Breakfast (Aberdeen)
Shoot For The Stars
Silver Raven
Sine.FM
Skope Mag
Social Media Radio
Society’s Basement
Songwriter Radio
Sound-Painted Landscapes
Soundscapes
Spin Sundays
Spins From The Bins
Spirit Of Progressive Rock
Stellar Attraction
Stone and Steel
Support Independent Music
Syndae Electronic Music Podcast
The Basement Tapes with Nick and Bootsy
The Camden New Journal
The Closet Concert Arena
The Electro Review
The Eppy Gion Show
The European Perspective
The Indie Squid
The Interval Machine
The Invisible Side Of Rock
The Justin Sane Show
The Justin Wayne Show
The Keith Symes Radio Show
The Kitty Opal Show
The Last Outpost
The Lost Art
Metal Rock Punk News
The Music Producer (Australia)
The Music Revolution
The Music Wall
The Notty Wood Show
The Organ
The Paul Waters Show
The Prog Aspect
The Prog And Rock Show
The Progressive Alternative
The Progressive Aspect
The Prog Bus
The Prog Hours
The Prog Rock Files
The Prog Rock Show
The Prog Rock Tuesdays Show
The Progressive Intervention
The Progressive Subway
The Proper Proggy Prog Show
The Quantum Soup
The Rocker
The Russ Evans Show
The Scene With Shelley McRobbie
The Seventh House
The Shift
The Vinyl Frontier
The Walrus And Carpenter Show
Trend City Television
TriLakes Radio
Troy's Room (LA Talk Radio)
Tudno FM
TVRDO
Twisted Mixtape (Pulse 98.4 Glasgow)
Uber Rock
Unsigned Revolution
Valley FM (Australia)
Vents
Victoria D Live
Wall Of Noise
WBR FM
WCR FM
Welsh Connections
World Media Reviews
World Of Metal
Wrinkly Rockers Club
Wycombe Sound
XRP Radio
Zeitgeist Radio
Zeitgeist - The Rocker
Zone Radio
And thanks to all the venues and festivals at which we've played including
The Alleycat
The Dublin Castle
Edinburgh University
The Fiddler's Elbow
Fusion Festival, Kidderminster
The Gunners
Prog For Peart
Summer's End
Greystones, Sheffield
Hard Rock Hell Prog
Mad Hatter, Grey Matter Festival
Nambucca
Renaissance Festival, London
Sci-Fi Weekender
The Water Rats
(If any have been omitted in error, please let us know)
Just in case anyone might be interested in what equipment/software we use/like/recommend -
Malcolm records/mixes/masters in Sonar/Cakewalk
Malcolm's guitars - Fender Stratocaster, Yamaha acousitc, PRS 24, Yamaha bass
Malcolm's keyboard - Yamaha Clavinova
Fractal art software - JWildfire