All Night Sinnin’, the fifth album release from Chesterfield’s The Idle Hands, does what you’d expect from a modern-day blues rock combo without straying onto the path of mundane pedestrianism that often waylays lesser acts in a musical genre nowadays championed by greying men old enough to remember the original Brit blues invasion of [...]Post from: Head Full of SnowThe Idle Hands – Al
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1970’s Looking On, the third album from The Move, came complete with yet another new member. Following the departure of chief vocalist Carl Wayne, Roy Wood, Bev Bevan and Rick Price were joined by Jeff Lynne. Lynne was an old friend of Wood’s and had even replaced the bearded bard in Birmingham beat group, The [...]Post from: Head Full of SnowThe Move – Looking OnRelated posts:The Move – S
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As mentioned on Friday, there’s not only a new album by barking mad, 70’s progressive space rockers Gong, out on 21st September 2009, but they’re also embarking on a UK tour in November; featuring sometime Soft Machine member and founder of the group Daevid Allen, along with former core members Steve Hillage, Gilli Smyth, [...]Post from: Head Full of SnowGong UK Tour Dates and Live ShotsRel
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All This and More, a four-disc Procol Harum compendium has been announced by Salvo Records as part of their 40th anniversary reissue campaign.To me, just from the scant information at my fingertips, it looks to be a dead cert for the Christmas list.As I said, details at the moment are sketchy aside from the promise [...]Post from: Head Full of SnowProcol Harum 4-disc Anthology on the wayRelated...
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Following on from the August and September release schedule for prog rock reissue merchants, Esoteric Records, October continues in earnest with the following CDs possibly of interest to Head Full of Snow readers.First up is the reissue of Genesis keyboard-noodler, Tony Banks’ 1979 debut solo album A Curious Feeling. Released at a time when the [...]Post from: Head Full of SnowEsoteric Recordin.
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Next month sees the release of a brand new album from bonkers 60s-70s experimental/psychedelic/space rock/progressive avant-gardistas of the Canterbury scene, Gong.2032 is released on 21st September (2009) and sees Steve Hillage back in the recording studio with Daevid Allen for the first time since creative differences saw them part company following 1974’s You.The new Gong [...]Post from: Hea.
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It’s a new look for the latest issue of Shindig, as the magazine “for people who want more” celebrates two whole years at the forefront of underground music reportage. Yes, it’s 12 issues down the line since the magazine’s glossy relaunch (Shindig is published bi-monthly) and what better than a brand new design?Following the last [...]Post from: Head Full of SnowShindig Magazine – Sept
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Not to be confused with the superior The Yes Album, this self-titled debut by the progressive rock behemoths is a patchy affair, reasonable in places, boring in others. On a more positive note, it doesn’t reach the boredom threshold set by 1974’s Relayer, an album that really does test the patience.Yes have always been a [...]Post from: Head Full of SnowYes (1969 debut album)Related posts:The
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“… it enforces the argument that the only place for children in Spaghetti Westerns is sprawled across the floor, riddled with lead …”HFoS spreads its wings over at LateMag, once again waxing lyrical about Spaghetti Westerns with a review of Cjamango.Take a peek if you think it might float one’s boat:Cjamango reviewSee also:Spaghetti Western Article [...]Post from: Head Full of SnowHFoS r
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Many has been the day when I have found myself deep in thought, pondering on what it is my life has been missing. I have endeavoured to seek solace within the realms of psychedelic and prog rock and it was through this that I found the source of my discontent was concept album based.I have [...]Post from: Head Full of SnowThe Duckworth Lewis MethodNo related posts.Related posts brought to you b...
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Esoteric Recordings, purveyors of fine prog and psychedelic rock reissues have announced their releases for August – okay, I’m a little late on this one, but things have been hectic of late – and September.Esoteric really has some good stuff on its books, some of which hasn’t seen the light of day since the late [...]Post from: Head Full of SnowEsoteric Recordings August/September Releases
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Following the Salvo/Fly Records reissues of the first four Procol Harum albums earlier this year, the sterling work continues unabated with Salvo’s reissues of the next three albums in the Procol backcatalog, available now!1971’s Broken Barricades carries on the tradition started on Home with a harder rock sound, Robin Trower’s guitar taking the lead in [...]Post from: Head Full of SnowProco
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Just a quick note to say that none of these things have happened here at HFoS towers:We haven’t been snatched away into interstellar overdrive on a UFO captained by George Clinton and crewed by the 1972 line-up of Yes.We haven’t joined the likes of Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janice Joplin or Jim Morrison in [...]Post from: Head Full of SnowNormal HFoS Service will be Resumed!Related posts:HFo
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To my mind, ‘The Words of Aaron’ from 1971’s Message From the Country, is one of The Move’s finest compositions. With Jeff Lynne at the helm it sounds very much like early ELO, which is understandable as this song came out during the drawn out disintegration of The Move, at the overlap point between [...]Post from: Head Full of SnowThe Move – The Words of AaronRelated posts:The Move –
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The quirky, lyrical and often whimsical Idle Race emerged out of the ashes of The Nightriders – the Birmingham beat group that had one time counted Roy Wood amongst its ranks – following the arrival of Jeff Lynne, Wood cohort in The Move and then the Electric Light Orchestra. With the core Nightriders line-up of [...]Post from: Head Full of SnowThe Idle Race – The Birthday PartyRelated posts
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And the prog gods did look down upon Roy Wood, and they did approve.Boulders is a remarkable feat and testament to thePost from: Head Full of SnowRoy Wood – Boulders Post from: Head Full of SnowRoy Wood – Boulders
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Here’s a rare treat. Some live footage of the Edgar Broughton Band taken from the early ’70s (well until Warner Bros. buy up the Broughton back catalogue and demand it’s taken down, that is).‘Love in the Rain’ is taken from the debut album Wasa Wasa and is presented here in a shorter version -- the [...]Post from: Head Full of SnowEdgar Broughton Band – Love in the RainRelated posts:Th
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Smiley Smile by The Beach Boys is particularly notable for two things. Firstly, it featured the chart-topping psychedelic experience that is ‘Good Vibrations’ (much to the chagrin of Brian Wilson); and secondly, it replaced the cancelled and much-hyped Smile (available only in bootlegged versions until 2004 when a revised “official” version, SMiLE, was released as [...]Post from: Head Fu
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The world of Arthur Brown is indeed a crazy one. In 1968 he and his band, the Crazy World of Arthur Brown, terrorised the charts with the incendiary psychedelic stylings of ‘Fire’, a song for which a burning cake tin balanced precariously on the head became an onstage necessity.Although the group only released one self-titled [...]Post from: Head Full of SnowThe Crazy World of Arthur Brown - N
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In need of cheering up? I certainly am. Following a week of unbearable heat and now thunderstorms, lightning and perpetual rain (not so bad, in my opinion), a dose of the absurd might be in order. What better than the Idle Race?Birmingham’s very own kaleidoscopic curios blossomed out of beat group The Nightriders, who at [...]Post from: Head Full of SnowThe Idle Race - I Like my Toys
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