TPA’s Richard Swan and Roger Trenwith caught two different live shows from the recent Pearl Handled Revolver, ably supported by Teiger, tour. We start with Saturday’s performance at Gravesend’s Red Lion and followed by the show at the Camden Club…
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Stereolab, a band, an enigma, a left-field art institution, and you can dance to them. Instant Holograms On Metal Film, the band’s first album in 15 years makes it sound like they’ve never been away from your record emporium of…
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Although I have known about this band for years and have reviewed their albums in the now worryingly distant past, I had no idea at the time that they were big Cardiacs fans, as this was before my own Cardiacs…
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Earlier this week saw the release of Beyond, the debut waxing of Darkfish, or Sheila Maloney as she is known to her friends, family, and bandmates in the David Cross Band, where she adds essential keyboard textures to that collective’s…
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Special Powers sees the first album of new songs by Craig Fortnam’s chamber pop ensemble North Sea Radio Orchestra since 2016’s Dronne, and as such this is an event of some note, certainly highly anticipated by this listener. In the…
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229, Great Portland Street, London Friday 23rd May 2025 The small room at 229, The Venue, is a nicely laid out space with great sound, and even better, a mere stroll from my mainline train station. Following some decent grub…
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With their eighth album, Hedvig Mollestad Trio are back, and then some! After a few highly appealing diversions under her own name, Hedvig is back firing out her nonconformist guitar shapes while leading her esteemed Trio further down their highly…
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Camden Club, London Sunday, 13th April 2024 An afternoon of what was going to be psychedelic and prog rock from Wales in this familiar comfy venue changed direction slightly with the withdrawal of headliners Sendelica due to health problems. Get…
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To tie in with the review of the new Lost Crowns album, The Heart Is In The Body, main man Richard Larcombe and I met up at the Restaurant At The End Of The Universe for a virtual lunch, and…
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Roger (R) – It falls upon me to guide our readers through the downuplands of this strange weather, otherwise known as The Heart Is In The Body, the new exercise in aural semaphore emanating from behind Richard Larcombe’s excitable brow…
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