ONCE UPON A TIME IN ENGLAND VOLUME 2

PENDRAGON is releasing 2 CDs containing archive material together with some other rarities. Vol. 1 is given away gratis when you subscribe to the fan club "The Mob". As usual when bands are releasing archive albums it's quite often that the recordings are poor, so are the quality of most of the material on these two CDs. The highlights on Vol. 2 are "Time for A Change" and "The Mask", both from a time when PENDRAGON consisted of just Nick Barrett and Peter Gee, and the two classics "Victims of Life" and "The Black Knight". Overall the sound quality is slightly better on Vol. 2; it's also my favourite of these two CDs. The artwork as well as the CD booklets are very nice and informative, complete with the PENDRAGON story and loads of archive photos. Both releases are quite interesting if you (like me) have heard PENDRAGON's entire back-catalogue. Yet you can question whether these releases are necessary or not. If you're a die-hard PENDRAGON fan they surely are justified, but if you haven't heard PENDRAGON before, they have put out many great albums that you could get instead of these ones.