Tag Archives: Dave Gregory

XTC – Skylarking

January 1, 2025

Virgin 1986 / Ape House 2024 Troubles on cloud nine: British pop-art proponents seek storms in Transatlantic paradise. It’s all fun and games until somebody gets offended – or have their album overshadowed by a song which wasn’t there in … Continue reading →

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XTC – The Big Express

January 14, 2024

Virgin 1984 / Ape House 2023 Dressed in the cleanest dirty shirts, Wiltshire wardens of traditional wisdoms repair their engine to roll on down memory rails. There are records that, in time, acquire a film of patina – and there … Continue reading →

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JJ CHARDEAU – Ombres And Lumières

November 23, 2023

L 2023 From Gallia and across the mainland, globe-trotting artist focuses on western fronts. Subtitled “In Terra Cognita 2 – Europa 1: Occidentals” and picking up where of the “Magical Musical Man” rock opera left off, this part of Jean-Jacques … Continue reading →

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STEVE McALLISTER – I Hope You Are Okay

July 12, 2023

Vari-Tone 2023 Texan auteur returns to the pop-rock fray under his own name and brings back the light even elephants could forget. “My contribution is more like an undertow”: creative spirits rarely see their place in the grand scheme of … Continue reading →

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THREE COLOURS DARK – Love’s Lost Property

October 17, 2021

Firefly Music 2021 British weavers of art-rock reveries return to the place where absence reign to fill the void with a feeling. The last thing one could accuse this small ensemble of would be slyness, yet Jonathan Edwards and Rachel … Continue reading →

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