Town Hall, Birmingham 21st February 2022 by Roger Trenwith 21st February 2022 was a significant date, as it was the first date of Van der Graaf Generator’s much Covid-delayed tour, and also my first venture out to a gig for…
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Featured artists: Regal Worm | Jah Wobble | Aquaserge | Stephan Thelen ||: A round-up of some corkers from 2021 that I should have reviewed at the time, but didn’t, and for whatever spurious reason did not make it into…
View More A Different Aspect #73
It was only last May that the second album by this simmering trio dropped. Gawd, I hate that expression! You drop yer kecks or your keys. Could have been worse, I could have used “sophomore”, too. Anyway, let’s start again……
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Featured artists: Jumble Hole Clough | Annie Barbazz | Vasko Atanasovski Adrabesa Quartet | Taras Bulba | Bunny & The Invalid Singers | Giant Sky ||: In this ADA (shorter reviews) update Roger Trenwith takes a look at recent releases…
View More A Different Aspect #69
In this book-centric ADA update we feature: • Steve Davis & Kavus Torabi – Medical Grade Music • Hamish Kuzminski – Camel: Every Album, Every Song (On Track) • Kevan Furbank – Gong: Every Album, Every Song (On Track) Steve…
View More A Different Aspect #65 – Book Special
Dragging his sorry ass to the laptop, the writer desperately attempts over several whiskies and incantations to summon his muse, long confined in the depths of Purgatory, from whence there seems no escape. The writer has done this in order…
View More Ske – Insolubilia
Plenty enough… geddit? Actually, I could listen to this highly skilled tranche of dream-pop all day long. Well, maybe until just after lunch, when a rising need for low-slung loud guitars will probably be scratching at my perineum. The thing…
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My initial thoughts were, “Can I just say… this album is fucking tremendous!” Read on further if you want the long version. 🙂 One of my go-to “altered state” albums has long been The Isness by Amorphous Androgynous – those…
View More The Holy Family – The Holy Family
The latest chapter in the endlessly fascinating musical chronicle of Damon Waitkus sees the criminally little-known alt-Americana exponent par excellence continue to finely hone his songwriting craft at the helm of the good ship Jack O’the Clock, and seemingly, much…
View More Jack O’the Clock – Leaving California
The Other Place is the fourth and final part of a naturally evolving vox pop drama-documentary-rock opera (!) that incongruously started with an appearance on trash karaoke show The Voice, Part II then progressed from deepest Devon via a South…
View More Billie Bottle & The Multiple – The Other Place