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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It’s been a while since I visited O.R.k.-land, a place where precision heaviness meets crunchy intent, and this multi-national outfit do not disappoint with their latest dispensation from on high, Firehose Of Falsehoods. This highly appropriately titled album arrives at…
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Keeping alive the flame of mostly improvised music in the fields of jazz and rock, up there in Sheffield is one Martin Archer, and his label Discus Music. There is a conglomerate of like-minded radical musicians in the locality who…
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“Thank you all, let’s levitate together” says an obviously well-chuffed Dave Brock after the end of the scorching opening track Levitation, the curtain raiser to this fabulous set of songs at that wonderfully appointed, cavernous, and prestigious venue, The Royal…
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