Title: AndOarAgain Label: Sundazed Like his cultural compatriot, Syd Barrett, Alexander Spence – at least in those quarters that are unfamiliar with his brief creative output – is best known for…
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Title: The Island Years Label: Caroline If you ever see one of those TV documentaries on the history of punk you’re bound to have experienced a brief introduction on the range…
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Title: Sukram Gurk/Siloah Label: Wah Wah A German band touching on classic krautrock, prog, a bit of psych and folk too. Siloah really were a group, living on a farm as a commune,…
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Featuring remixes, rarities, hi-res digital audio and more, Paul Rigby reviews the Super Deluxe box set version of Sgt Pepper and compares it with previous stereo and mono editions The original…
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Title: Drive On Label: Floating World Mott was a derivation from the successful rock band, Mott the Hoople. That band was beset by a revolving door of band line-up changes that…
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Title: Fall Of The Peacemakers 1980-1985 Label: HNE When you have a band name that apparently was drawn from a Southern prostitute who apparently beheaded her clients but not before dabbling in…
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Title: Schaum Label: Tapete This is the first album by Unhappybirthday in three years. That album, Schauer, was influenced by the Georges Perec novel, Un Homme Qui Dort. Lots of melancholy…
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Title: Squier Label: Stolen Body A second album from Dr Chan. Uh-oh. But no, let’s pretend we don’t know and see what happens. Based upon classic nasty rock’n’roll rhythms this French…
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Tite: Easy Label: Stolen Body All the way from Montreal Quebec, ex-one man band the now band-bedecked Paul Jacobs wrote, performed, recorded and mixed this album. Anyone how has seen his…
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Title: Free Spirit Label: Quarto Valley Records This is a 3LP set, presented in a double fold-out gatefold sleeve, captures Paul Rodgers in a live setting, the Royal Albert Hall in…
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Title: Phantasmagoria Label: Esoteric An expanded two disc edition of the original Phantasmagoria album. Originally released in 1972, the album was the first to feature the line-up of Sonja Kristina (vocals,…
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Title: Paradox Label: Reprise Most musicians tend to become increasingly safer in terms of their art and more conservative with age. It’s to do with increasing money and power plus a…
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Title: Singles Label: BMG Formed in Derry in 1974, The Undertones consisted of the O’Neill brothers – John and Damian on guitars, Michael Bradley on bass, Billy Doherty on drums and…
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Title: Carl Palmer’s ELP Legacy Live Label: BMG This set features two live shows. On the CD is a show from 25 November 2015, featuring the ELP album, Tarkus alongside Mars,…
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Title: Best Of Label: Angel Air Scotland-spawned Stone the Crows had everything going from them but luck. They were talented, well known and respected but never received the success they deserved.…
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Title: Heavy Horses Label: Chrysalis Not only is this year the 50th anniversary of the band but also the 40th anniversary of the album Heavy Horses. Presented as a 3CD/2DVD book-type…
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Title: Watchin’ TV/You Can’t Get Off Label: Floating World The band itself has a bit of a convoluted history and most of it surrounds the constant presence in the band of…
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He should have been a big star, says Paul Rigby, but Jack Scott’s music career perfectly followed the ups and downs of the pop music business of the time. Jack Scott…
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Presenting the magnificent George Harrison 16LP box set, Paul Rigby undertakes a detailed sound test and talks to the mastering engineers behind it, Lurssen Mastering’s Gavin Lurssen and Reuben Cohen George…
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Title: Krauter der Provinz Label: Bureau B A krautrock-style group or artist’s ‘collective’ (now, tell me, what’s more krautrock than your common or garden ‘collective’, eh? A classic musical collection if…
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Title: Firm but Fair Label: Stolen Body This band has been about a bit. Names such as Phantom Limb, This is The Kit, Zun Zun Egui and Port Erin spring to…
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Title: Night Leaf Label: Stolen Body Album number two from BoyToy with a quite brilliant pictorial chart on the rear of my promo CD, at least (I hope it’s on the…
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Title: Muck Label: Stolen Body So let’s see here, within The Evil Usses we’ve got Leon Boydon on bass with Dan Truen on drums. The intriguing mixture of tenor sax with…
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Title: Volume 2 Label: Jasmine It’s interesting isn’t it that the entire rock’n’roll genre found film so important. There seemed to be plenty of feature films out and about during the…
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Title: Love is Strange Label: Jasmine This is a 2CD package cramming 56 tracks within from Sylvia Robinson (nee Vanderpool) and Mickey ‘McHouston’ Baker (an unruly child, ex-pool hustler and rock…
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Title: Crabby Appleton Label: Man in the Moon The band’s name is an intriguing one because it derives from a kids cartoon show. O’lCrabby was a cartoon villain on the Captain…
