There are many stereotypes surrounding prog music fans, from the middle aged man with a mancave with audiophile hi-fi equipment who buys back his vinyl after he sold it when CDs took over to the modern day nerd who likes their music as technical as possible. I don?t believe in stereotyping people, but still even I was taken by surprise as I stepped into the Kentish Town Forum on Saturday night.
As I was setting up in the photo pit, I noticed one videographer in a tiger onesie. I thought - odd, but fine. But then I spotted a shark, multiple cats and even some monkeys among the audience. I straight away realized we were not at any other ordinary gig. We were there to celebrate Haken for full 3 hours and the animal onesies were a response to a call to action by the band to dress up to the theme of their recent album ?Fauna?, which we were about to hear live from start to finish, and the atmosphere was full of giddiness.