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Richard Farnell

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Album Review: The Bachelor Pad – All Hash & Cock (compilation)

  • October 13, 2020
  • Richard Farnell
Many folk of a certain age will recall the NME’s 1989 charity compilation video “Carry On Disarming”. One of the standout tracks was The Bachelor Pad’s “Country Pancake” – a riotous…
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Album Review: The Loved Drones – Conspiracy Dance

  • October 12, 2020
  • Richard Farnell
I confess I’d not heard of this Belgian psych-pop band before now but it’s immediately clear I’ve been missing out in a big way! The band’s improvised spaced-out style blends…
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Album Review: Arrest! Charlie Tipper – ‘Red’

  • September 19, 2020
  • Richard Farnell
STARTING out in 2013 as The Charlie Tipper Experiment, then The Charlie Tipper Conspiracy and more recently adopting the Arrest! Charlie Tipper moniker, these Bristol-based indie stalwarts have certainly kept…
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Album: BOB – You Can Stop That For A Start

  • September 10, 2020
  • Richard Farnell
I recall a time in the late eighties and early nineties where one could venture out to see a band and BOB were almost always the support act! One of…
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Track: Smokescreens return with new single ‘Fork in the Road’

  • August 19, 2020
  • Richard Farnell
Since their superb 2017 debut album Smokescreens have steadily grown into a solid jangle-pop band packed with melodic hooks and chiming guitars. Second album “Used To Yesterday” emerged a year…
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Album Review: The Wee Cherubs – The Merry Makers

  • July 30, 2020
  • Richard Farnell
The ever-reliable Optic Nerve label are shedding some light on this obscure gem of a band who featured Martin Cotter, later to resurface in The Bachelor Pad, (chiefly remembered for…
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Track: Bob Mould releases new single / lyric video for Forecast of Rain

  • July 14, 2020
  • Richard Farnell
Following hot on the heels of last month’s blistering single ‘American Crisis’, comes this second track from Mould’s forthcoming album ‘Blue Hearts’. ‘Forecast Of Rain’ has all the hallmarks of a…
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SEE: Guided by Voices’ ‘Haircut Sphinx’

  • July 13, 2020
  • Richard Farnell
THERE’S every chance that by the time you’ve finished reading this sentence Guided By Voices will have recorded and released their next three albums, such is their legendary work ethic…
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Feature: Scratch the Surface: The Wolfhounds albums Bright and Guilty / Blown Away (1989), and an interview with Dave Callahan

  • July 6, 2020
  • Richard Farnell
THE WOLFHOUNDS formed in Romford, Essex in 1984, plying their trade in the local Rezz Club before playing gigs further afield, notably at The Clarendon in West London. Debut single…
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Album Review: The Total Rejection – The Time Traveller’s 3rd Will And Testament

  • June 25, 2020
  • Richard Farnell
Remember when gigs were a thing? Last year I went to a pub in Salford to see Bristol’s The Total Rejection in all their raucous glory. The gig was fantastic, like…
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