Album Review Round-Up
❉ Musical excavations and explorations from Kevin Ayers & co, A Year In the Country and Marcus H.
Articles by Martin Ruddock
Tragedy: ‘Staying Alive: The Disco Inferno Of The Bee Gees’ reviewed
❉ This one of the best, and saddest, rock books you’ll ever read.
Keith Seatman – ‘all hold hands and off we go’ reviewed
❉ The fifth album of Electronica, Psych, Radiophonics, Drone and wyrd folk by Keith Seatman.
The Thirteenth Doctor: Our New Best Friend
❉ “Seeing Jodie Whittaker’s look of wonder as the hood came down sold it for me. That’s still my mate up there, my hero.”
‘Milk Of The Tree: An Anthology Of Female Vocal Folk & Singer-Songwriters 1966-1973’ reviewed
❉ A female folk Nuggets, from one of music’s most fertile periods.
A Year In The Country – ‘From The Furthest Signals’ reviewed
❉ Distant echoes of lost transmissions, wreathed in the music of the spheres.
‘Spaced Out: The Story Of Mushroom Records’ reviewed
❉ A fascinating document of an independent label from the hippy era.
The Doors on DVD reviewed
❉ Fabulous Films’ DVD triple bill marks The Doors’ half-century.
Whatever Happened To Sgt. Pepper?
❉ 50 years of the Beatles’ “Liverpool”, and the lost ‘Sgt. Pepper’ album.
‘Night Comes Down’ reviewed
❉ A bracing collection of British Mod, R&B, Freakbeat & Swinging London Nuggets.