MATTHEW COHEN HAS plenty of prog pedigree. As a result, much is expected from his new band, Omega Point, whose debut album A Great Escape has just been released. In September 2019, Cohen played his farewell show with The Reasoning, at The Robin 2, and started to contemplate his next move. Unfortunately, it was the wrong one.
“Once I’d done the last Reasoning show, I went out with a heavy metal band called Nine Miles Down,” he recalls. “We were supporting British Lion, and it was good fun, especially to play with one of my heroes, Steve Harris, but I actually hated the experience. I could see so many things being done and I’d be thinking, ‘No, I wouldn’t have done it that way…’ So I made my decision then,…
