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29/04/2026

As foretold at 'Beyond the Pale' on 1 April, the new supergroup single with a Brooker/Reid rarity B-side is out today: the news is here, as ever https://procolharum.com/whatsnew.htm .

Long-awaited first release from Josh Phillips's Bluewater Giants ... with plenty to interest the Procol fan ... have a listen here 1 Dangerously in Love (Josh Phillips, Neil Taylor)

27/04/2026

Were you at Procol Harum’s concerts at Ledreborg Castle, Denmark, on 19 or 20 August 2006?
My name is Bo Østlund.

I am a 69-year-old Danish author, journalist and podcast host, currently working on a project related to those two concerts, and I would very much like to get in touch with people who were there on either of the two days.
To keep things manageable, I would be very grateful if replies could go through this short form rather than the comment thread:

https://forms.gle/ZQ32iBQiHRPP3xdQA

This first contact does not commit you to anything.

If you know others who were there, you are very welcome to share the form with them as well.

Thank you very much.

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Var du til Procol Harums koncerter på Ledreborg Slot i Danmark den 19. eller 20. august 2006?
Mit navn er Bo Østlund.

Jeg er 69-årig forfatter, journalist og podcastvært og arbejder i øjeblikket med et projekt med udgangspunkt i de to koncerter, og jeg vil meget gerne i kontakt med personer, som var til stede en af de to dage.
For at bevare overblikket vil jeg være meget taknemmelig, hvis svar sendes via denne korte formular frem for i kommentarsporet:

https://forms.gle/ZQ32iBQiHRPP3xdQA
Denne første henvendelse forpligter ikke til noget.

Hvis du kender andre, som også var der, er du meget velkommen til at sende formularen videre til dem.
Mange tak.

I am Bo Østlund, a Danish author, journalist and podcast host currently working on a project related to Procol Harum’s concerts at Ledreborg Castle, Denmark, on 19 and 20 August 2006. At this stage, I am simply hoping to get in touch with people who were there. This first contact does not commit ...

12/04/2026

Go to 'Beyond the Pale' for sad news about our good friend David Knight ... https://procolharum.com/whatsnew.htm

01/04/2026

'Beyond the Pale' updated for the first time this month, with new news of a Procol-related release: https://procolharum.com/whatsnew.htm

04/09/2025

Added sad news of the death of a celebrated organist, the competition prize solution, and a droll observation ... a paradoxical feature of Franky Brooker's eBay auction, in which 'items with Whiter Shade of Pale in the title have thus far attracted almost no attention at all, despite the fact that one of them is probably the rarest surviving 45 rpm version of the famous tune.'

All at https://procolharum.com/whatsnew.htm , naturally

01/09/2025

Reminder (if there's anyone here who hasn't yet played) ... big Procol competition ends just after Monday midnight. How to win both new Brooker DVDs? Go to https://procolharum.com/gb-2025-competition.htm ... get your name in that lucky hat ...

 Carefully read the webpage at ebay-marsden2.htm and familiarise yourself with all the items, from ‘A’ to ‘Z’, that we’re going to auction in aid of the Royal Marsden Cancer Charity (29 May’s auction raised 1,600+ GBP) Carefully watch the YouTube film here in which Franky Brooker introd...

28/08/2025

Illustration: prizes for the Brooker 2025 competition, at the UK HQ of ‘Beyond the Pale’, www.procolharum.com . The instructions are at https://procolharum.com/gb-2025-competition.htm . We already have correct entries but everyone’s in with an even chance to win: names will be drawn from a hat at the start of 2 September UK time. Each winner gets 6 discs, worth about 80 USD (free shipping): 3 CDs, 2 DVDs, 1 Blu-ray … all new and shrink-wrapped … big thanks to Esoteric Records and MadeInGermany. Head for https://procolharum.com/gb-2025-competition.htm now and send in your entry. It’s pretty easy!

Since 1997 ‘Beyond the Pale’ has been creating events and opportunities for Procol Harum fans, as well as being the go-to site for information, pictures, dates, biographies and much more. An enormous crowd-sourced website, it’s operated by volunteers entirely for fans’ benefit. This competition is the latest in a long series going back to 1997. If it looks too good to be true, it’s just because the band and the record companies have trusted us to keep fans in touch with them, for mutual gain. In a nutshell, we get freebies and we give them away.

27/08/2025

Release date change for Brooker Memorial DVD ... details at https://procolharum.com/whatsnew.htm

Coming soon, a straightforward prize competition in which you can win this excellent item and own it before the new release date.

Esoteric Records / Cherry Red have informed 'Beyond the Pale' that the release date of the Gary Brooker Memorial Conecrt four-disc set has been put back again. Full details here

23/08/2025

Building on the success of the new YouTube film [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zUUvElHGfw ] we've just added pictures and dimensions of memorabilia that will be in the upcoming auction to https://www.procolharum.com/ebay-marsden2.htm

23/08/2025

We announce a new auction of Brooker/Procol memorabilia, again in aid of the Royal Marsden Cancer Charity. Watch the film at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zUUvElHGfw to get a taste of what's on offer, and keep an eye on the webpage [at https://www.procolharum.com/ebay-marsden2.htm ] which will be populated in coming days with detailed descriptions and illustrations of what's on offer. Please bid generously to keep up Gary Brooker's great work!

The items in the forthcoming auction range from the tiny to the enormous, from the mass-produced to the unique, from the personal to the public, and from the wearable to the hangable to the edible.

09/06/2025

Read https://procolharum.com/2025_gb-vinyl-legacy2.htm ... excellent auction result, competition result, and a fantastic sum raised for Cancer Charity. Well done all :-)