Five more music things, another five? Already? The still thankless task? THank you sir, thank you. Did you read all this last time? Shall we? Did you? Why? Poo soldier.. Well shall we do it again? Back to back to back being back to the five musical things thing and the fractured music portal yet…
ALBUM REVIEW – Peter Hammill – In Translation – First thing to say is, well actually there’s lots of first things to say about this (or indeed any) new Peter Hammill album, but the first vital thing to say is that this might be his first ever collection of versions of other people’s songs but…
Organ thing of the day, a new relaase, a single or whatever people release these days, a track from her most recent album, a rather beautiful cover of a Van Der Graaf Generator song, and she has done it rather well, wonderful version. We’ve not heard from or indeed covered Katy for quite a long…
Okay, we’re in the Holiday period, we can’t avoid it, we might just pop up here now and again and post a bit of this or that so you don’t have to turn to that Phil Spector Christmas album too much There’s a free Cafe Oto download holidays mix that might help you get through…
Well now, what the hell is going on? Surely they just took him off the road to stop him doing more damage ahead of the election? Enough of that this cold wet Friday morning, the big news of the day is that a new slice of Cheer Accident was just let loose, another new album,…
A number of art and music events previously announce on these pages have now been cancelled due to the ongoing Covid-19 virus situation, the recently featured Twink event at Helgi’s here in Hackney, East London scheduled for this Saturday has now been cancelled as has the Turps open studio weekend we featured a couple of…
Stop Press: Van Der Graaf Generator announce UK dates. Seven years since the great band last toured and an amazing fifty years on from their debut UK album release, Van Der Graaf Generator will take the stage once again, back for a UK Tour in 2020. 03 May 20 Edinburgh, Queens Hall 04 May 20…
“I don’t normally big up bootleg Vids and the sound gets pretty murky here but, well, I guess a lot of people would be interested to see this…” so said Peter Hammill via his always interesting Twitter feed in response to a post from Isildurs Bane on their feed – “Somebody filmed the world première…
ISILDURS BANE & PETER HAMMILL – In Amazonia (Ataraxia) – An album arrives, without any real warning, no idea what to expect, well no, that’s not true, Peter Hammill is involved, well no, still don’t know what to expect, you’re kind of hoping to hear that voice, that wordplay, that learning not to shoot from…
“I’ve just put up a post at Sofasound about a live box set which is going to be released on the 29th of next month. Gallows humour, eh?” so announced Peter Hammill via his Twitter feed “And now, ladies and gentlemen, news of the release of a project on which I’ve been working for most…
