Brinsley Schwarz – Thinking Back, The Anthology 1970-1975 : Boxset Review
A few beers, a band and a Saturday night,. The ensemble that made pub rock a brand. The Brinsley Schwarz anthology.
Edgar Broughton – Break The Dark: Album Review
Wilfully avoiding the mainstream, Edgar Broughton remains resolutely underground and genre curious. Welcome back!
Kevin Ayers – Falling Up: Album Review
Latterday Ayers polishes up pretty well, providing a rare treat.
Stackridge – The Man In The Bowler Hat & Extravaganza: Album Reviews
The story continues – two more albums from National Treasures Stackridge get the Cherry Red deluxe reissue treatment
Hawkwind – Days Of The Underground: Album Review
Late Seventies Hawkwind collected – the Studio & Live Recordings 1977-1979. A huge 10 disc set brimming with content!
John Martyn – The Apprentice : Album Review
Expanded version of the end of Island’s love affair with Martyn, studio, live and with added Dave Gilmour.
Roger Chapman – Turn It Up Loud: The Recordings 1981-1985: Boxset Review
The Family man’s solo adventures continue: Installment 2 in the Cherry Red/Esoteric Roger Chapman reissue programme
Keef Hartley – Sinnin’ For You; The Albums ’69 -’73: Boxset Review
Astonishing game, set and match from Hartley, overlooked and underloved bandleader with a prescient knack for where blues, soul and jazz meet, his band(s) masters of all.
Babe Ruth – Darker Than Blue: The Harvest Years 1972-1975: Album Review
1970s Rock band Babe Ruth are celebrated in a collection of their three albums for the Harvest record label.
Roger Chapman – Moth To A Flame, The recordings 1979-1981: Boxset review
The earliest solo ventures of Family’s dynamic frontman, Roger Chapman – remastered and expanded
The Cult – Born Into This, Savage Edition: Album Review
The 2007 album from The Cult, expanded with a disc of bonus material. Astbury and Duffy, friends briefly reunited.
Various Artists – Riding The Rock Machine: British Seventies Classic Rock: Album Review
An alternative appraisal of those classic 70s years when may were Riding The Rock Machine – by Grapefruit Records
Bruford – Rock Goes To College: Album Review
A live vintage recording from Yes member Bill Bruford’s band, Bruford, to rival more recent recordings from his Yes colleague’s current new releases and re-releases.
Sigue Sigue Sputnik – Flaunt It: Album Review
The debut album by the glam-punkers Sigue Sigue Sputnik is given the Cherry Red box-set treatment.
1978 – The Year The UK Turned Dayglo: Album Review
An excellent Cherry Red compilation thats sets the time machine dials to 1978 when the backlash punk had evolved in all sorts of directions.