Cosmo Sheldrake for Crossover Prog - Progressive Rock Music Forum

Lol forced by whom'st? Tellem i said thanks

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Hard to define. Non-prog? Crossover? Folk? RIO? Pretty good stuff at first hearing anyway.

On Crossover charts.

Crossover is just a three-man team these days, and a single 'no' vote is effectively a straight rejection for an artist - as it was even when there were four team members. Not all the votes cast have to be an outright 'yes' though - an artist can be accepted here in Crossover with just two 'yes' votes if the other vote(s) cast are for 'move', 'unsure', 'need time' or 'abstain'. One single 'no' vote means it's curtains at the moment though, I'm afraid. It was different when there were five team members. In those days just three 'yes' votes would get an artist through irrespective of what the other two votes were.

I tend to agree with you - especially in a four man team - but this is how the rules are written:

Band Admission Policy

4. Bands being evaluated by a genre team will be accepted on a majority vote of the active team members

4.1 A majority vote will be a number of positive votes in excess of 60% - on teams of 4 or less active members a single No vote should be taken as a veto, rejecting the artist, however this is left to the discretion of the Team Leader but should prompt discussion within the team to the suitability of the artist to the subgenre.
4.1.1 Three-man team = 2 Yes votes, 0 No votes
4.1.2 Four-man team = 3 Yes votes, 0 No votes
4.1.3 Five-man team = 3 Yes votes
4.1.4 Six-man team = 4 Yes votes
4.1.5 Seven-man team = 4 Yes votes
4.2 Past Yes/No votes by retired team members will be counted unless the artist was previously rejected, where on a unanimous "Yes" vote by all active team members will be required (see Controversial Bands Policy)
4.2.1 For example - if a band has 3 Yes-votes and 2 No-votes from past members then these 5 past members will be incuded in the majority vote, so for a team that currently has 4 active members the total number of voting members will be counted as 9 (4+5) and a total of 5 Yes votes will be the required majority vote for acceptance (ie in this example only 2 of the current 4-man team will be needed to clear the artist for addition instead of the normal 3).

And there we are...

Never come across this guy before, but what I've heard this morning sounds really interesting. Definitely looking into his stuff.
I understand why the x-over boys rejected him though. Doesn't really feel like prog to these ears. More like experimental music.

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