Our new Hats Off Gentlemen It's Adequate album 'The Confidence Trick' is officially released today. The theme of the album is toxic overconfidence and excessive certainty in public life. It is now available on Spotify, Bandcamp, Youtube, Amazon, Apple and many other providers. It is available in digital formats, or as a CD with a 24 page booklet. 

If you'd like to listen on Spotify, here's a link - https://open.spotify.com/album/1HvnrXRh8aYYNrttmQLi0m?si=cU5YrlqNT2mmdBmRWkUB5Q.  

If you are listening to a…

The Confidence Trick is now available on Bandcamp. Huge thanks to all the reviewers and broadcasters for their kind comments, and for everyone supporting the album.

Hello, 

I hope you are as well as possible given the odd and difficult times in which we currently live. 

We are co-hosting Prog The Forest at the Fiddler's Elbow in Camden, London (UK) on Sunday 5 December 2021. It is a one day charity fundraising progressive rock festival in aid of The World Land Trust, a charity that buys threatened rainforest and other vulnerable habitats to be preserved in trust, working with local people to ensure a long term future for these vital parts of the ecosystem on which we…

Hello, 

I hope you are as well as possible given the odd and difficult times in which we currently live. 

We are co-hosting Prog The Forest at the Fiddler's Elbow in Camden, London (UK) on Sunday 5 December 2021. It is a one day charity fundraising progressive rock festival in aid of The World Land Trust, a charity that buys threatened rainforest and other vulnerable habitats to be preserved in trust, working with local people to ensure a long term future for these vital parts of the ecosystem on which we…

After a difficult year and a half, we are looking forward to returning to playing live again.  Our first gig back was at the excellent Prog For Peart brain cancer fundraising festival in Oxfordshire.

Of course, any gig plans are subject to any COVID-related regulations that may or may not be in place at the time, but at the time of writing, these are our current bookings - 

Sun 19 Sep 2021 -  A Sunday In September, Balham - https://fb.me/e/1f1jUnqZ1. We'll be playing alongside Tom Slatter, IT,  Abel Ganz…

Looking back on the previous blog post, I see I was optimistically looking forward to our 'Nostalgia For Infinity' tour. Obviously, viral events then overtook the plans - apologies for the inconvenience.

It's not a pleasant time for most of us at the moment. Our thoughts are with all those affected by this horrible pandemic, and those working so hard to protect others and keep vital services going. We look forward to being back out gigging as soon as safely possible. Meanwhile we are continuing work…

We're going to be playing some Nostalgia For Infinity tunes in various places in 2020, including London, Edinburgh, Hove, and Sheffield. 

Bandcamp linkDear supporters, 

I delighted to be able to let you know that our new album 'Nostalgia For Infinity' is now available for preorder on Bandcamp. https://hatsoffgentlemen.bandcamp.com/album/nostalgia-for-infinity    

Although it officially comes out on CD in May, those who pre-order the album (or buy the digital version of the album) get the digital download in MP3, MP320, WAV, and FLAC versions, and are able to stream the album on Bandcamp, straight away. They also get a 24 page booklet in PDF…

We’ve just about finished a new song ‘Nanobotoma’ for our 5th Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate (HOGIA)’s 5th album (promotional snippet above).

The story behind the song is something like this…

The protagonist has a slowly progressive but incurable leukaemia. They are a scientist working on medical self-replicating nanobots, tiny machines that are designed to identify and destroy cancer cells. Unfortunately, as they built to self-replicate, there is an inherent Darwinian selective pressure on…