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Album review: UK SUBS – A Punk Rock Anthology 1978-2017

Edsel [Release date 28.1.22] The UK Subs back catalogue is the gift that keeps on giving, surely qualifying them as one of the most compiled groups of the punk/new wave era. The beauty of this 56 track 2CD set is … Continue reading
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Tagged A Punk Rock Anthology 1978-2017, album, Alvin Gibbs, punk, review, rock, UK Subs
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Book review: Some Weird Sin – On Tour with Iggy Pop by Alvin Gibbs

Extradition Publishing [Publication date 25.08.17] UK Subs bass player Alvin Gibbs and I share a birthday. I was born on his 16th birthday and as I celebrated my own 16th birthday he was playing the last of 230 nights over … Continue reading
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Tagged Alvin Gibbs, book, Hanoi Rocks, Iggy Pop, punk, review, rock, rock 'n' roll, Some Weird Sin - On Tour with Iggy Pop, UK Subs
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Album review: HEDERSLEBEN – Orbit

Cleopatra Records [Release date 19.05.17] There’s a time and place in everyone’s life for a little space rock. For many of us, that was around 1971 to 1973, but if you fancy reliving your youth (or indeed, were too young … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Alicia Previn, Hedersleben, Nicky Garratt, Nik Turner, Orbit, prog, progressive, review, space rock, UK Subs
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Gig review: THE CRUNCH & JOE STRUMMER TRIBUTE BAND – KOKO, London, 25 March 2015
This was part of Koko’s occasional Rock ‘n’ Roll Cinema series, tonight featuring the biopic of Joe Strummer’s Spanish sojourn in the mid-80’s: ‘I Need a Dodge – Joe Strummer on the Run’. And all the stops had been pulled … Continue reading