I’d forgotten how much time these things took to write! Obviously these are a bit wordier than the usual posts, but there’s the added fun of sitting down and listening to each of these again in turn whilst trying to come up with something different to whatever I wrote the first time around. Thankfully, the [...]
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The nature of musical “supergroups” has changed a lot since the heady days of the 1970s. Instead of lurching around the globe in individual monogrammed articulated lorries, only meeting bandmates at motorway service stations while conspiring to sound louder and dress more egregiously than each other, all the fun ones nowadays have ambitions no loftier [...]
I’m writing this in a bit of a mood, to be honest. I was flattened by a migraine yesterday so missed the first of two shows at Jodrell Bank (last year’s show with the Flaming Lips was a stunner), and overnight we had a month’s worth of rain in one go, so tonight’s gig with [...]
Approaching this one was a strange experience. I had bought their previous album Fever on the strength of their co-vocalist Rachel Fannan’s stunning work on that year’s UNKLE album, and was introduced to a band and record that absolutely floored me. And now Rachel’s not part of Sleepy Sun any more, departing suddenly and pointedly towards [...]
Yes, quite. Just realised that in doing a top 35 (which isn’t exactly 35 anyway), splitting it into chunks of ten will eventually offend some law of mathematics or other. Whoops. Undeterred by this, the last five(ish!) will be individually added daily next week from Monday – although as I’m attempting a jaunt off down [...]
I must admit to not having listened to any of Sleepy Sun’s output until very recently, and it was only because of a couple of great contributions to recent 3rd party output that got me to finally shell out on their latest work to see what they are like when left to their own devices. [...]
This week’s venture into the world of Various Artists is a new album, recorded as tribute to an old album. Graham Nash’s Songs for Beginners was his first solo outing and as fine a chronicle of the time as any. Released in 1971 and at a time when Nash was at a fairly low ebb [...]
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