Live albums are often a ‘hit or miss’ affair but ‘Live Oblivion’ 1 & 2 buck that trend, Recorded across 2 nights in 1974 at the Hollywood venue The Whisky A Go Go. The group were finishing off a huge US tour that had roared down the east coast then across the Midwest and by […]
‘Flicker’ is the second album from Ride guitarist and songwriter Andy Bell. Written almost as a conversation with his teenage self, it follows the triumphant solo debut that was 2020’s ‘The View From Halfway Down’. This 18-track double album finds Andy moving towards classic songwriting, notably on the reflective lead single ‘Something Like Love’, the […]
Andrei Tarkovsky directs this Russian sci-fi drama about two men who are led to their innermost dreams in a strange place once inhabited by aliens. A Stalker (Aleksandr Kaidanovsky) leads writer Pisatel (Anatoli Solonitsyn) and a Professor (Nikolai Grinko) through an industrial wasteland called the Zone, in search of a room where truth is contained […]
5 CD The following week 27thNovember, The Collection, a 5CD collection featuring the albumsFrank, Back To Black and Lioness: Hidden Treasures, will be released via UMC/Island.Frank was Amy’s debut album, originally released on 20thOctober 2003 and featuresthehit single ‘Stronger Than Me’ for which Amy won an Ivor Novello Award in 2004. Back To Black, widely […]
In September 1968, AMON DÜÜL played the “International Essener Songtage”, Germanys first rock festival of five days duration, which was initiated by the later Ohr label boss Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser. The Berlin hit producer Peter Meisel heard and saw the band there and spontaneously signed them, along with Tangerine Dream and Birth Control. AMON DÜÜL was […]
Press play on Lanois’ captivating new instrumental collection, Player, Piano, and you’ll be transported, too. Each song here is a portal, an invitation to lose yourself in the moment and disappear into a world of imagination and memory. Lanois recorded the entire collection himself, capturing a series of gentle, exotic piano performances at his studio […]
Utopian Ashes is an album, to borrow from William Blake, of songs of experience. Bobby Gillespie and Jehnny Beth’s collection of duets is not a break-up record, but it does tell the story of a married couple facing up to love breaking down, the impossibility of real communication and other unavoidable outcomes of a full […]
THE COMEDY MAN is a 1964 British kitchen sink drama directed by Alvin Rakoff, featuring a performance from Kenneth More critics hailed as his finest work. With a superior supporting cast in Cecil Parker, Dennis Price and Billie Whitelaw, THE COMEDY MAN depicts the life of a struggling actor in Swinging London. Fired from his […]
Windows And Walls 1-01 The Language Of Love 3:46 1-02 Windows And Walls 4:59 1-03 The Loving Cup 5:01 1-04 Tucson, Arizona (Gazette) 8:38 1-05 Let Her Go 4:59 1-06 Sweet Magnolia (And The Travelling Salesman) 4:42 1-07 Believe In Me 4:38 1-08 Gone Too Far 4:31 The Wild Places 2-01 Aurora Nova 1:38 2-02 […]
In 1977, Daisy Jones & The Six were on top of the world. Fronted by two charismatic lead singers Daisy Jones (Riley Keough) and Billy Dunne (Sam Claflin) the band had risen from obscurity to fame. And then, after a sold-out show at Chicagos Soldier Field, they called it quits. Now, decades later, the band […]
