Hawkwind – ‘Space Ritual 50th Anniversary’ (2023)
It’s hard to believe that the hardy genre of Space Rock first took off fifty years ago, as anniversary pods of Hawkwind’s classic live double 'Space Ritual' from...
Brian R. Banks
Deviation Street: High Times In Ladbroke Grove – 1967-1975
For the first time we’re living in a cultural age when last or even "best of" selections are somehow defining or equal to past classics, why else bandy...
Catching Up With Carol Grimes, Whose Singing Career Started In The Sixties
Carol Grimes is a British singer and songwriter that joined the band Delivery in 1969 and recorded one album before departing for a solo career. Her debut solo...
Blowing Free – Underground and Progressive Sounds of 1972 (2022)
Recently released is an above-ordinary four CD compilation from Cherry Red, looking at underground and progressive sounds of 1972. In that pre-Punk era B.G. (Before Google, Before Grossly...
Stray Singles
The albums of hard-gigging English groups (Stray, Medicine Head, Edgar Broughton, Groundhogs, Strife etc.) were consistently good value. A well-kept secret back then was that their (often non-LP)...
Beau – ‘Al Killem’s Final Show’ (2022)
Two hundred years ago (i.e. B.G., Before Google), he’d have been a contributor to The Republican, a paid-up member of the Dissenters perhaps, a participator in the Peterloo...
Medicine Head – ‘Warriors Of Love’ (2021)
Just out is a new album by Medicine Head, highly praised by such as John Peel, Pete Townshend, John and Yoko around 1970 and in this century by...
Breakthrough – ‘Underground Sounds of 1971’ (2022)
The year 1971 is celebrated in a lush anniversary four CD box set from Esoteric Records via Cherry Red. That time saw vinyl albums emerging as serious market...
Gypsy – ‘Comes A Time, The United Artists Recordings’ (2021)
When we look back into modern music’s history, it’s made more difficult (not just clouded) unfortunately because of some fad called the internet, a tool which assumes it...
Global Village Trucking Company – ‘Dancing In The Street With Smiling Revolutionaries’
An east coast band in a different country nicknamed the British Grateful Dead due to extended jams? A co-founder who was a close cousin in regal line to...