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Quick plays: MATT MITCHELL & THE COLD HEARTS, A NEW REVENGE, RAIN OR SHINE
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Album review: TORA TORA – Bastards of Beale
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Album review: JOURNEY – Live In Japan 2017: Escape + Frontiers
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Album review: KEITH HOWE – That’s The Vibe
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Album review: DATURA4 – Blessed Is The Boogie
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Album review: BECKY MILLS – Tall Tales and Home Truths
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Gig review: TYKETTO – Islington Academy, London, 12 March 2019
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Gig review: JOANNE SHAW TAYLOR – O2 Ritz, Manchester, 17 March 2019
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Gig review: DAVE BICKLER/Chrome Molly – Highbury Garage, London, 11 March 2019
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Gig review: BOB SEGER AND THE SILVER BULLET BAND – Tingley Coliseum, New Mexico, USA, 5 March 2019
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Gig review: FM/DARE – Sub 89, Reading, 1 March 2019
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Tag Archives: Ray Davies
Album review: SHEMEKIA COPELAND – America’s Child
Alligator Records[Release date 03.08.18] Shemekia Copeland’s ‘America’s Child’ is very much an album of our times. The title is an all enveloping concept that leads into a bunch of related, philosophical and at times analytical songs that shift from the … Continue reading
Album review: DS4 – Sweet Georgina
Critical Discs [Release date 11.05.18] DS4′s ‘Sweet Georgina’ is a lyric-led album, full of Ray Davies style vocals and coloured by imaginative narratives that leap from the page. And right there at the bottom of the credits is the great … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Becci Wallace, blues, Bob Dylan, David Sinclair, Derek White, DS4, Geoff Peel, Jimi Hendrix, Keir Adamson, Laurie Garman, Neil Young, Ray Davies, review, rock, Rolling Stones, songwriting, soul, Sweet Georgina, The Beatles, Ursula K. Le Guin
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Album review: BRUCE FOXTON & RUSSELL HASTINGS – From The Jam Live!
Basstone via Absolute [Release date 01.12.17] Bruce Foxton and Russell Hastings’s ‘From The Jam Live!’ ticks all the right boxes. It does what it says on the tin with an updated appraisal of music that stoked a generation some 40 … Continue reading
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Tagged Bruce Foxton, From The Jam Live!, live album, mod, Motown, Paul Weller, R&B, Ray Davies, review, Russell Hastings, The Beatles, The Kinks, THE WHO
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Book review: BOB HENRIT – Banging On!
Bank House Books (2014) Bob Henrit’s ‘Banging On’ is the opposite of the usual sex, drugs, rock and roll and oblivion confessionals. It’s a lightly humorous recollection of his role in the drift of pop toward rock and beyond, but … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Faith, Argent, Banging On!, Bob Henrit, book, Chas Hodges, Dave Davies, Don McClean, Ian Matthews, Jim McCarty, Jim Rodford, John Verity, Phoenix, Ray Davies, review, Richard Anthony, Richie Havens, Ringo Star, Robert Plant, Rod Argent, Roger Daltry, Russ Ballard, Sandie Shaw, Stevie Nicks, The Kinks, The Roulettes, The Yardbirds, The Zombies, Unit 4 + 2
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Gig review: HOP FARM MUSIC FESTIVAL – Hop Farm, Paddock Wood, Kent 4/5/6 July 2014
The Hop Farm Music Festival 2014 is a reconfigured broad based festival. While previous years included Neil Young, Dylan and The Eagles, the new promoters focused on striking a musical balance that pleased more than it alienated. The result was … Continue reading
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Tagged 10 CC, All Stars Collective, Babajack, Big Boy Bloater, Bryan Wilson, Cameron Pierre, Charles Bradley, Chas & Dave, Chicken Shack, Courtney Pine, Daptone Soul Review, Grace Jones, Hop Farm Festival, Ian Mclagan, Ian McNabb, Joanne Shaw Taylor, John Notar Thomas, Laurence Jones, Marcus Malone, Mark Almond, Maximo Park, NICK LOWE, Pacifico Blues, Paul Carrack, Polly & The Billet Doux, Polly & The Billets Doux, Ray Davies, Roger Beaujolais, Royal Southern Brotherhood, Soft Machine Legacy, Stan Webb, The Lightning Seeds, The Strawbs, Toby Jepson, Tony Joe White, Virgil & The Accelerators
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Gig Review: DAVE DAVIES – The Barbican, London, 12 April 2014
Given Dave Davies current spiritual bent, he’s probably a firm believer in karma. And it is that principle of causality that works for him at The Barbican tonight, a venue not totally unfamiliar with rock music, but still lacking any … Continue reading
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Tagged Dave Davies, gig, guitar, Ray Davies, review, rock, Teddy Freese, The Jigsaw Seen, The Kinks, The Move, Tom Currier
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Album review: STEPHEN DALE PETIT – Cracking The Code
333 Records [Release date 16.09.13] ‘Cracking The Code’ is an apt title for an album that counter balances some retro sounding material with a contemporary production. There’s something lying underneath the frisson busting energy levels but … Continue reading
Album review: SEAN TAYLOR – Chase The Night
Sean Taylor Songs [Release date 23.09.13] ‘Chase The Night’ confirms Sean Taylor as one of this country’s leading roots rockers. If New Orleans singer songwriter Anders Osborne sets the standard for crossing over roots rock to a bigger audience, then … Continue reading
Gig Review: RAY DAVIES, ELVIS COSTELLO, JUSTIN CURRIE – Hyde Park,12 July 2013
Old hippies of a certain vintage reminisce fondly about the days of free festivals, which has been unthinkable to my generation, once the corporate world cottoned on to the fact there was money to be made out of live rock … Continue reading
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Tagged 12 July 2013, Del Amitri, Elvis Costello, festival, Hyde Park, Justin Currie, Kinks, London, Ray Davies
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Album review: DAVE DAVIES – I Will Be Me
Cleopatra [Release date 04.06.13] Partly autobiographical and partly fictive imagery but always routed in a spiritual feel, Dave Davies’s ‘I Will Be Me’ is an uneven but ultimately enjoyable album. He veers from the past – referencing his riff driven … Continue reading
