The current live band as of March 2024 consists of the above three members plus: Although heavily influenced by progressive rock, Reed is a professional songwriter and has done many other projects for both film and television.

Reed asked Christina to be lead vocalist for a progressive rock project he had in mind, and the initial ideas for Magenta were born.

While shorter than any of the epic tracks on Seven, Broken retains the classic prog rock sound of Magenta, with a slightly more modern edge.

Musically, Home represents a further development for the band, combining the Magenta sound established on Revolutions, Seven and the two singles Broken and I'm Alive.

On 11 December 2007 it was announced that rhythm guitarist Martin Rosser had also left the band to work with Dan Fry and Allan Mason-Jones on their new C-Sides project.

The concert was notable for featuring a wind section, and the one-off return of Martin Rosser on rhythm guitar – Colin Edwards having recently departed the band.

On 4 March 2010, it was announced on the Magenta homepage that bassist Dan Fry had left the live band, to pursue his MLE project.

This caused two shows in the Netherlands set for May to be cancelled, and the band went on an extended hiatus while other projects were being worked on, such as Christina Booth's and Chris Fry's solo albums.

Magenta returned to the live scene at the Summer's End Festival in October 2011, with Dan Nelson and Steve Roberts (from Godsticks) on bass and drums respectively.

At this time, Magenta's full members were confirmed to be Rob Reed, Christina Booth and Chris Fry, with other musicians brought in for studio recordings and live gigs.

This features six tracks dedicated to musicians who died at the age of 27, including Jim Morrison, Brian Jones, Janis Joplin, Amy Winehouse, Kurt Cobain and Robert Johnson.

We were also very lucky to have Pete Jones (Tiger Moth Tales) to play saxophone on the track "Moving On", like he did at the recent Magenta 20th Anniversary Show.

A new lineup featuring Tiger Moth Tales/Red Bazar/Camel musician Peter Jones was formed, re-recording the debut album For King And Country in 2021 and performing it live.

In April 2015, Rob Reed and Christina Booth collaborated with Big Big Train’s David Longdon and Nick D’Virgilio, Steven Wilson band’s Nick Beggs and Steve Hackett (ex Genesis) on a new version of Hackett’s 1979 instrumental track "Spectral Mornings", with new lyrics written by David Longdon, in support of the Parkinson’s Society UK.

Christina Booth has, as of March 2024, released three solo albums: Broken Lives And Bleeding Hearts (2010), The Light (2015), and Bar Stool Prophet (2023).

The Classic Rock Society (CRS) honours groups or artists who are popular with the public, but whose music remains unpublicised by national media and radio station programmers.

Other past contributors and recipients have included Pallas, IQ, Spock's Beard, Flower Kings, Mostly Autumn, Karnataka, Pendragon and many others from the progressive rock genre.