Music Update

Although originally scheduled for release on 10 July, the new Hawkwind mini album Take Me to Your Future will now come out on 28 August. It will be a dual disc (CD one side, DVD on the other). The CD side will consist of five songs: the Reality of Poverty, Ode to a Time Flower, Small Boy plus re-workings of Uncle Sam’s on Mars and Silver Machine. The DVD side will contain a selection of concert performances. Full details have not been issued but it will include Utopia and Assassins of Allah.


Last Friday saw the release of Fall of Iron by folk-punk band Blyth Power. Blyth Power are very much an acquired taste, in no small part due to the distinctive voice of singer/drummer Joseph Porter. Sadly the not-wife has never acquired the taste so I am forced to listen to them when she is not around; unless I want the CD inserted into a non playing slot!


Finally Robyn Hitchcock will be releasing his new album Ole Tarantula in October. Recorded with Peter Buck (of REM), Scott McGaughey and Bill Rieflin as the Venus Three it includes Adventure Rocket Ship, Ole! Tarantula and (A Man's Gotta Know His Limitations) Briggs which I have heard him play live and are excellent. Other tracks include NY Doll, the Museum of Sex and Underground Sun which was written for a friend of Hitchcock's who died last year. Hopefully he will be touring the album later in the year.

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