FROM BETWEEN THE CRACKS

...you sometimes find gold

Thursday, 30 November 2023

SCOTT WALKER - Scott 0

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Wednesday, 12 April 2023

JEFFERSON AIRPLANE - Volunteers, Dick Cavett and Hampstead Heath

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(MS) Oh the after-tram-ride quiet, when we heard a mile beyond, Silver music from the bandstand, barking dogs by Highgate Pond "Parl...
Friday, 11 November 2022

VIV STANSHALL & SEAN HEAD SHOWBAND -Labio-Dental Fricative

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(PS) Much has already been written elsewhere about the bizarre and unpredictable career of Viv Stanshall, with good reason. His best-known w...
Sunday, 12 June 2022

THE SPECIALS - I Can't Stand It

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  (MS) In the summer of ’81, we had a family holiday on the Broadwater Farm Estate in north London. The previous summer Jerry Dammers had ...
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Friday, 24 September 2021

HUMBLE PIE - As Safe As Yesterday Is

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  (MS) … I'm not quite done with the Small Faces yet. I'd argue the band peaked a little before “Ogden’s” with the barnstorming ...
Saturday, 28 August 2021

THE SMALL FACES - Ogden's Nut Gone Flake

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(PS) As I see it there seem to be two distinct versions of the Small Faces, principally defined by the drugs on the scene at the time: the...
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Mat Schofield
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This is commentary on my listening and viewing habits. (Though by listening we are forever viewing, if you know what I mean ). It's also an attempt to rescue the gold that got lost when the industrial scale of music and film production in the 1960's and 70's outstripped the revenue required to effectively market it all. Thus there is a lot that fell between the cracks. I believe it's only now that we can pull it out, give it a wipe and understand what was going on.
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