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Jared wrote: lazland wrote: Ale of the Week updated and some sports musings in the Beer & News Pages. Album reviews updated with Comedy of Errors from 2013, and Airs, Hogarth & Barbieri, 3rd Degree, Steve Hackett, The Minstrel’s Ghost, and Mudway from 2012. I'm intrigued, Steve. how many times on average would you say you listen to an album, before you put pen to paper, so to speak?

lazland wrote: Jared wrote: lazland wrote: Reviews of new albums by Pure Reason Revolution and Talisk (a Scottish modern folk band) added to Album Reviews of 2022. Now, you have piqued my interest...  It may not be today (working long hours this Bank Hol weekend) but I'll certainly head over there for a read...   I think you will enjoy both the album and the review.

Once again, a very enjoyable review Steve. I must pick this up at some stage, along with the 2CD reissue of their debut. I have to confess that by 'Hammer & Anvil', they had lost me a bit, but mercifully they seem to have been reborn and returned to the complexity of their roots.

Jared wrote: lazland wrote: Reviews of new albums by Pure Reason Revolution and Talisk (a Scottish modern folk band) added to Album Reviews of 2022. Now, you have piqued my interest...  It may not be today (working long hours this Bank Hol weekend) but I'll certainly head over there for a read...

Reviews of new albums by Pure Reason Revolution and Talisk (a Scottish modern folk band) added to Album Reviews of 2022.

lazland wrote: nick_h_nz wrote: And while you’re reading All In It Together, you could listen to We’re All In This Together. 😜 https://itofficial.bandcamp.com/album/were-all-in-this-together  Fantastic! Review will come, I promise!

Oh, a wise guy, huh? Yuk, yuk, yuk.

lazland wrote: SteveG wrote: Steve, I just ordered "Stop Bloody Bossing Me About" by Letts. I know that this is geared to the English public, but I'm sure there's enough crossover into the American cancel culture to make it worth it, and Letts should be a good read, no matter if there isn't. Hi Steve. I think you in particular will take a great deal of pleasure from it. Next review, when I finish, by the way, will be All In It Together, a really interesting, and funny, history of 21st century (mainly) British political and social history. There are some gems in that, and you will appreciate much of it.

Thanks for the info, Steve. Sounds like another read that's right up my alley!

Edited by SteveG - May 31 2022 at 11:48

Steve, I just ordered "Stop Bloody Bossing Me About" by Letts. I know that this is geared to the English public, but I'm sure there's enough crossover into the American cancel culture to make it worth it, and Letts should be a good read, no matter if there isn't.

Edited by SteveG - May 31 2022 at 08:01

Steve, it's becoming a really great blog, very well done! You've put a tremendous amount of work into this and it's really beginning to show. You're a great interviewer, who has elicited some revealing answers and comments. A few weeks ago, I enjoyed the Three Colours Dark interview and this evening, I have gone back to read the Panic Room one. I have just noticed the mention of Mermaid Kiss, which brought to mind a gig in Lydney I attended back in 2008 when MK supported Panic Room when they released Visionary Position. I remember the band were from the small town in Herefordshire I was living at the time and rehearsed in a large shed behind a field of Llamas!

I'm only occasionally getting to your blog/site, Steve, but every time I enjoy reading the reviews and/or interviews I stumble upon. They've led to some musical explorations I wouldn't have come to otherwise. Many thanks, and keep them coming!