Festivities at Stuttgart, Germany

Wednesday 22 July 2015 • pictures (1) by Uta Köhler

Webmaster Jens, always the genial master of ceremonies, welcomes all the revellers to the house and garden of Paul (pictured, right)
and Marion ... and explains that (though it is of course a BtP party) he and Roland (pictured left) have been almost entirely idle

Heidi Widmer -- gig-review-blogger par excellence -- was ushered into the party to the strains of Happy Birthday to You.
What's more, it was actually her birthday. Also pictured, her husband Jakob, and Rolf Kindler

From Oman, Ian Hockley, shortly to play a few tunes at the piano

From Helsinki in Finland, Markku and Sari (who were also at the Freising party the year before)

Very special and unexpected guest, Gary Brooker. Not pictured, the wasp that has just stung his lip

Back in good health, Geoff Curtis, Procol's soundman, who had to miss the Dominion Theatre gig in November, with Thomas Raa Olsen from
Denmark and of course Matt Pegg from Procol Harum ('the only Brummie in the band' by his own admission, an observation prompted by his
being offered the use of an insect-repellent spray called something like 'Brumm-Away')

The Commander insisted on being photographed with this dog, part of the extended entourage of
monitor-engineer Thomas Wyler, who had driven up to Winterbach from his home in Switzerland

Geoff Dunn, Peter Christian. A drummer and a writer about genealogy

Whaler-in-Chief Michael Ackermann, exhibiting to fellow guests the self-inflicted shinjury he
suffered during the Wuppertal Chainsaw Massacre just a few hours before the party

Procol dates in 2015