About six weeks ago, I met up with David Cross Band co-founder and keyboard player Sheila Maloney in a well-known meeting place/pub at the back of Kings Cross station for a good old natter. Read on… Roger Trenwith: Tell us…
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Author: Roger Trenwith
A founding member of TPA, Roger is TPA's HR man and all-round attack dog. When not straining at the leash, he has been known to scribble a bit.
Roger keeps his own blog called "Astounded by Sound"
David Cross Band / Maria Fausta
The Camden Club, London Sunday, 8th September 2024 MARIA FAUSTA From David Cross’s Italian connections comes this engaging solo artist, playing her electronically enhanced violin, piano and synth, and singing plaintive songs, with her sonorous alto voice adding a touch…
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Kyros / An Endless Sporadic / Kunal Singhal
229 The Venue, London Thursday, 22nd August 2024 KUNAL SINGHAL Kunal Singhal, as well as being an active and important music promoter, promoting new left-field musicians via his Chaos Theory operation, has a neat musical act himself, featuring improvised vocal…
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Vertiginous Musings – Part Three
Part Three reveals an overall musical quality dip, unsurprising given the number of “underground” labels now resorting to hoovering up the average bands by the denim-clad bag load. Our trawl is redeemed by a couple of real gems by unknowns.…
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Jon Hunt / MartPaul
The Water Rats, London Friday, 9th August 2024 A fine meal with some fine people at the venue preceded this album launch gig for An Explosion Of Nothing, the keenly awaited new waxing (well in my house, at least!) by…
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Vertiginous Musings – Part Two
My trawl through the formative years of the Vertigo label and its “spiral” imprint continues… After VO7, the catalogue numbers have changed, as has the decade. We are now into 1970 and the music biz is growing apace. The major…
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The Brackish / Sweetpool / Jon Hunt
Fiddler’s Elbow, Camden, London Sunday, 16th June 2024 JON HUNT Many, many moons ago I wrote an appraisal of Jon Hunt’s compilation album Morning Sun, which I am well chuffed to discover is still being used on his advertising flyer.…
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Kavus Torabi – The Banishing
“With every passing day it gets harder They tell you it’ll change, how can they know?” Borne from much turbulence in the form of the pandemic and a concurrent domestic upheaval resulting in estrangement from his family, this album has…
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Vertiginous Musings – Part One
Originally ‘released’ in 2016 under the title ‘Vertiginous Musings’ was a series of articles charting the albums released on the Vertigo ‘swirl’ label. So with micro-fibre cloth in hand, time to dust off this series of articles – kicking off…
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The Fierce And The Dead
Ramsgate Music Hall, Kent Saturday, 4th May 2024 Saturday night in Ramsgate, at the Ramsgate Music Hall, which apparently has earned the accolade “Best small venue in the country”. Certainly, the layout of the place and the superb sound earn…
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