Time Tunnel: Great Albums of 1971. Jethro Tull – Aqualung
Aqualung forms part of the pantheon of great records of 1971. This legendary Jethro Tull album gets a 50th anniversary reissue on 26th March.
Time Tunnel: One Thousand Nine Hundred & Seventy One Words about The Beatles in 1971
1971 was a year to savour, musically. So many great albums and bands, but one band that had run their course were The Beatles. Whilst the fab four had gone their separate ways, they were all still making fab music.
Time Tunnel: Great Albums of 1971. Fairport Convention – Babbacombe Lee
We continue our occasional series reappraising a selection of our favourite 1971 albums in greater detail. This time, we have a new close look at the album many saw as the First Folk Rock Opera: Fairport Convention’s Babbacombe Lee.
Time Tunnel: Great Lost Albums. Urban Nomad – Urban Nomad
A long overdue appreciation of one of the great lost albums – Urban Nomad – that welds together various Prog Rock influences.
Time Tunnel: Rick Pilkington’s 1971 Mixtape
Rick Pilkington of The Blackheart Orchestra joins us once again to help us celebrate a special year with his 1971 mixtape full of love.
Time Tunnel: Great Albums of 1971. Gene Clark – White Light
The first in a series of in depth retrospectives on the great albums of 1971. Gene Clark and White Light.
Time Tunnel: Farewell, Farewell, Fairport – 4th August 1979
John Barlass trawls his memory banks for a detailed piece of the first Cropredy Festival in 1979 and Fairport’s Farewell.
Time Tunnel: Does Anybody Remember Samplers?
How did we get to hear the music we loved back in the late 60s and early 70s, when it was never played on the radio and we were too impoverished to buy full-priced albums? By buying SAMPLERS – that’s how!
Time Tunnel: The Sensational Alex Harvey Band, B.I.T. Bolton, 1973
What happened when The Sensational Alex Harvey Band hit the stage in Bolton in 1973. John Barlass takes us back in time.
Time Tunnel: Yob, London Scala, 2016
Psych-prog-alt rock outfit The Bloody Mallard, the brainchild of guitarist Tom Walding, writes for us once again. This time he takes us back into the Time Tunnel to share his experiences of one of his greatest ever live experiences.
Time Tunnel: Captain Beefheart, Manchester 1973
Our man John takes us back into the Time Tunnel and to a time when he shook the shackles of pop music for the experimental side of the coin and ended up seeing Captain Beefheart in Manchester in 1973.
Time Tunnel – Marillion, Bangor University 1982
Mike Ainscoe travels back in time to 1982 when he had his first encounter with Marillion. A guilty pleasure for nigh on forty years.
Time Tunnel: Pink Floyd, Manchester 1974
Howard King looks back to 1974 when he was one of the lucky ones who saw Pink Floyd in their prime.
Time Tunnel: Buxton Festival 1973 & 1974
We take another trip into the time tunnel as John Barlass recollects his trips to Buxton and the Buxton Festivals of 1973 and 1974. Enjoy tales of Party Four cans, negligible use of polythene sheets, a lot of rain, and lots of great music.
Time Tunnel: Thin Lizzy – Manchester 1979
Mike Ainscoe looks back at his first ever gig – an encounter with thin Lizzy at Manchester Apollo in 1979.