The Vic, Swindon Monday, 9th March 2020 I’d been looking forward to this. It all started for me with a Facebook Messenger message from an extremely excited Ken Wynne, swearing me to secrecy about a new band led by Terry…
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Davey Dodds – Toadstool Soup
I confess, I was not aware of Davey Dodds until the opportunity to review this album came up. The Interwebs and his press release tell me that Davey wrote the songs for and fronted a symphonic folk rock band called…
View More Davey Dodds – Toadstool SoupBoz For Oz – Boz For Oz
We all know what’s been happening down under. For getting on for six months, Australia’s bush has been burning. People have died, thousands of homes have been destroyed, the sky has been turned toxic and wildlife has been devastated. This…
View More Boz For Oz – Boz For OzStick Men feat. David Cross – PANAMERICA
“Across five themed discs we present the band’s progression throughout the tour using material and preferences that resonated with us.” – Markus Reuter. The odds were stacked against this release coming into being. Originally intended solely as a live album,…
View More Stick Men feat. David Cross – PANAMERICANoisepoetnobody – Concrete Vitalist
When the opportunity came to review Concrete Vitalist, I had to review it. I didn’t know why, but I felt compelled. It turns out that, some time ago, while I was dabbling with making some ambient music, I’d been listening…
View More Noisepoetnobody – Concrete VitalistNick Beggs
With his third solo album, Words Fail Me, being released imminently by Esoteric Antenna, TPA’s Phil Lively spoke to Nick Beggs about Chapman Stick and music and the new album and lots of things… and it went like this: PHIL:…
View More Nick BeggsNick Beggs – Words Fail Me
Esoteric Antenna are about to release Nick Beggs’s new solo album, Words Fail Me. It is impossible to review without mentioning his other solo works and the instrument he uses to deliver them. It is for me, anyway. Much-loved and…
View More Nick Beggs – Words Fail MeCIRCU5 / I Am The Manic Whale / Let’s Swim, Get Swimming
Level 3, Swindon Saturday, 30th September 2019 This is as much a review of this fantastic little sticky-floored venue with its inexpensive bar, as it is the bands I saw. Apparently, Level 3 closed because another Swindon venue was getting…
View More CIRCU5 / I Am The Manic Whale / Let’s Swim, Get SwimmingCharlie Cawood – Blurring Into Motion
This is Charlie Cawood’s second solo album. Unlike The Divine Abstract, his first solo album, which took several years to write and record, this one came about more quickly. Not only is Charlie the bassist with Knifeworld and Lost Crowns,…
View More Charlie Cawood – Blurring Into MotionThe Bob Lazar Story – Vanquisher
Welcome to my review of Vanquisher, in which I use the word “titular” and the phrase “…had been written by Jason Voorhees”. It was partly written based on a version of this album from an alternate reality. Want to know…
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