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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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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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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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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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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“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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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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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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Oslo, Hackney, London Friday, 25th April 2024 LEONI JANE KENNEDY A solo spot opens the entertainment tonight, with Leoni Jane Kennedy accompanied by her acoustic guitar, played with consummate skill. Her set includes a Rush cover, pleasing the prog audience,…
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Signature Brew, Blackhorse Road, London Saturday, 20th April 2024 For once in this Biblically wet year, a dry and even occasionally sunny day precedes another trip to the capital for me, where I meet up with my gig-going companion and…
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