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'The Light Of Ancient Mistakes' is Hats Off Gentlemen It's Adequate's seventh album.

Although not a traditional concept album, many of the songs have been inspired by books.

The centrepiece of the album is ‘Walking To Aldebaran’, inspired by the science fiction novella of the same name by Adrian Tchaikovsky. The tracks ‘Avrana Kern Is Made Of Ants’, ‘The Requisitioner and the Wonder’ and ‘Gothi and Gethli’ are references to a character, two spaceships and a pair of crow-like creatures which insistently deny they are sentient in Adrian Tchaikovsky’s ‘Children of Time’ series.

Science fiction author Iain M Banks’ novel ‘Look To Windward’ is the inspiration of the title track. The track ‘The Man Who Japed’ is named after the Philip K Dick novel.

The childhood experiences of David Cornwell, who wrote as John le Carré are the inspiration behind ‘Sixteen Hugless Years’.

‘The Glamour Boys’ was inspired by Labour MP Chris Byrant’s book of the same name about the experiences of a group of mostly homosexual or bisexual Conservative MPs who argued against appeasement, despite the threats from Chamberlain’s government to expose their secrets. Many went on to risk, and in some cases lose their lives in the Second World War.

The album also features ‘The Anxiety Machine’, a three part instrumental interspersed within the album, ‘Goodbye Cassini’, a flute led tribute to the space probe, and ‘imtiredandeverythinghurts’, which is about Malcolm’s experiences with invisible disability due to Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, and the difficulty in knowing how to respond to the well-intentioned routine question ‘how are you’?

The album ends with the climate change inspired ‘Burn The World’.


The album is available to pre-order on Bandcamp.

Those who pre-order the album will get immediate access to the radio edit of the title track, and the instrumental ‘Avrana Kern Is Made Of Ants’. The first 40 people to order in June will also have the option of having their name in the album credits as pre-order supporters.


We are also looking forward to playing tracks from the new album in our forthcoming 2023 concerts

Friday 16 June - The Northcourt, Abingdon. Malcolm solo set. https://fb.me/e/1fGmN6PWW
Thursday 6 July - The Fiddler’s Elbow, Camden. Science fiction music night with the Yuval Ron Trio from Germany and Splink. https://fb.me/e/2jOaS88jO
Saturday 5 August - The Prince Albert, Brighton with The Emerald Dawn. https://fb.me/e/YKcwx4d0
Sunday 24 September - The Camden Club, album launch. Malcolm and Mark’s combined 100th birthday celebrations and belated 10th anniversary of the first HOGIA album. https://www.wegottickets.com/event/585031
Sunday 3 December - Prog The Forest, The Fiddler’s Elbow, Camden. With The Blackheart Orchestra, This Winter Machine, Ebony Buckle, Ebb and Guranfoe. https://fb.me/e/3yitpovAv




BAND NOTES

Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate are an eclectic band, combining progressive/alt-rock, classical, experimental, electronic, and metal influences. Their performances are passionate and charismatic.

They have been Prog Magazine Limelight artists. In November 2017 hey stepped in at the last minute to replace an injured band on the main stage at Hard Rock Hell’s Prog Festival, 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’, and by eFestivals as the ‘highlight of the festival’.

Hats Off Gentlemen It's Adequate are Malcolm Galloway (vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and producer) and Mark Gatland (bass, Chapman stick, backing vocals, additional guitar, keyboards and co-producer), on their own, or with Kathryn Thomas (flute, backing vocals). Kathryn is the flautist of the award winning BBC New Generation Artists The Galliard Ensemble (wind quintet), and is also married to Malcolm.

They have regularly broadcast on a wide range of radio shows internationally, ranging from shows focused on metal to ambient stations. The are the co-organisers with London Prog Gigs of the charity festival Prog The Forest.

Their music has been recommended by Steve Hackett ("I particularly enjoyed this album and I thoroughly recommend it”) and won many awards including:-

Prog Magazine Reader’s Poll Top 10 Unsigned Bands
Beasties Rock Show's album of the year award (shared with Alice Cooper and Roger Waters)
Bandwagon Network Radio Song Of The Year
Banks Radio Australia's best album and best producer category shortlist
Radio Wigwam Single Of The Year shortlist
Metal Mayhem Radio band of the month
American Veterans Radio artist of the week
NewEARS Album Of The Month award
Malcolm Galloway is also a contemporary classical/minimalist composer and a former neuropathologist and medical school teacher.




The album is broadly within the genre of progressive rock, but includes elements of alt-rock, metal, contemporary classical music, minimalism, and electronic music.

Cover art copyright Malcolm Galloway. Booklet art copyright Malcolm Galloway and Mark Gatland.
Music copyright Glass Castle Recordings / Malcolm Galloway / Mark Gatland / Hats Off Gentlemen It's Adequate 2023.



Reviews

"...We are drawn into a foreboding, disturbing, unsettling world in which we begin to realize we have only ourselves to blame. All set to impeccably engineered, mostly-restrained, Floyd-inspired, brooding music with lyrics telling tales of quiet horror and devastation.
Impeccably engineered and produced musical greatness... brimming with excellent music and thought-provoking lyrics.
My rating is nine dystopian solar systems out of ten." Progressive Rock Fanatics

London based Hats Off Gentlemen It's Adequate are Malcolm Galloway and Mark Gatland on their own or with Kathryn Thomas.

They combine prog/alt-rock, classical, minimalist, and electronic elements. They often explore scientific, sci-fi, and historical themes.

Hard Rock Hell magazine -'unlikely stars who stole the show’

Recommended by Steve Hackett

Beastie's Rock Show Album Of TY

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