Stephen Duffy & The Lilac Time

1. Another Time

2. Driving Somewhere

3. A Dream Of A Girl

4. Desert Shore

5. Dark Squadrons

6. Until I Kissed You

7. Aldermaston

8. Pruning The Vine

9. Happy Go Lucky

10. Parliament Hill Fields

11. No Direction

12. The Kite and the Sky

Stephen Duffy & The Lilac Time releases their first album in five years, Runout Groove though ? on Monday 22nd October.

In the late 70s, Stephen fronted an early incarnation of Duran Duran. In the 1980s, he briefly became a pop star, made an experimental album about MDMA, ran away to the country and formed The Lilac Time. In the 1990s, he made a great undiscovered prog-pop album with Nigel Kennedy, lost and found himself in Alaska and returned to Camden. In 2002 he released the highly acclaimed Keep Going and in 2004 co-wrote and co-produced Robbie William’s most successful album “Intensive Care.”

You might say Runout Groove is Stephen’s most contented set of songs, except that the easy listening connotations might, at times, be misleading. True, there’s a song called Happy Go Lucky on here – a title drily suggested by a friend who heard his last album. The song draws a line between the suburban life from which he ran away and the complicated one from which he can’t bear to retreat: “I hated my labour/And I hated my life/I got drunk on that hatred/And made her my wife” Well, it’s probably not what his friend had in mind, but it is, by way of compensation, one of the best songs to ever bear the Lilac Time imprint.

Claire Worrall’s voice can be heard on the yearning drivetime pop of first single Driving Somewhere and Aldermaston. Quoting Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger along the way, the latter song sees Stephen attempting to make sense of a world which has changed alarmingly little since the third Aldermaston march drew crowds larger than V.E. Day and the Coronation: “I was born along the Aldermaston March/Now I’m older and still marching through the dark.” Amid all this, the album’s sole cover, Don Everly’s Until I Kissed You, comes on like the morning glory of a sunny Sunday you thought you might never see again.

Alongside comparative Lilac Time veterans such as mulit-intrumentalist & vocalist Claire Worrall is Stephen’s ever-present brother Nick and jazz-folk icon Danny Thompson.

The Lilac Time’s next release (WHEN ?), also entitled Runout Groove, will take the form of a DVD telling the story of Stephen and The Lilac Time up until this point and will include footage of the bands appearance at the Green Man Festival last month.

Release Date:

2007/10/22 18:00:00 GMT-5

John Foxx

John Foxx Box Set

Contents

1 Crash and burn
2 Nation 12
3 Cathedral oceans 111
4 From Trash
5 Tiny colour movies
6 Cathedral Oceans DVD
7 6 artprints of ech cover

‘Cinemascope’ is the first box set of John Foxx’s 30 year career and includes five critically acclaimed albums – ‘Crash and Burn’ (2003), ‘Electrofear’ (2005), ‘Cathedral Oceans III’ (2005), ‘Tiny Colour Movies’ (2006) and ‘From Trash’ (2006), plus the full ‘Cathedral Oceans’ DVD. The box also contains six small art prints of Foxx’s work. There’s a fantastic range of material across these albums, from the ‘Eno-esque’ ‘Tiny Colour Movies’ and ’static beauty’ (Mojo) of ‘Cathedral Oceans’ to the darker ‘Crash and Burn’, with Uncut enthusing about the latter’s ‘cruel and twisted’ electronic pop, adding – ‘Not content with being merley relevant, Foxx is still capable of being very good indeed.’ In 2006 ‘From Trash’ received some of the best reviews of his career with Fritz Lang, Bowie and Laurie Anderson reference points in glowing praise that appeared in everything from DJ Magazine to Classic Rock! Nation 12’s ‘Electrofear’ is also included in the package – an extremely rare albums including collaborations between John Foxx and Bomb The Bass’s Tim Simenon. All the albums are now housed in wallets, featuring new artwork created out of images taken from the original releases.

Release Date:

2008/12/12

Jerry Lee Lewis

Just shy of his 71st birthday, Jerry Lee Lewis – who had his first hell-raising hit 49 years ago with Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On – is releasing his first studio album in more than a decade.

As a pioneer for Sam Phillips’ legendary Sun Records, Lewis was a member of the ‘Million Dollar Quartet’ with Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins and Johnny Cash. Together, the young Sun stars carved a special place in the history of American music, which is now acknowledged in the extraordinary list of artists who have taken part in this new project -

Last Man Standing duets with Jerry Lee Lewis -

Rock and Roll – with Jimmy Page

Before The Night Is Over – with B.B. King

Pink Cadillac – with Bruce Springsteen

Evening Gown – with Mick Jagger & Ronnie Wood

You Don’t Have To Go – with Neil Young

Twilight – with Robbie Robertson

Travelin’ Band – with John Fogerty

That Kind of Fool – with Keith Richards

Sweet Little 16 – with Ringo Starr

Just A Bummin’ Around – with Merle Haggard

Honky Tonk Woman – with Kid Rock

What’s Made Milwaukee Famous – with Rod Stewart

Don’t Be Ashamed Of Your Age – with George Jones

A Couple More Years – with Willie Nelson

Old Glory – with Toby Keith

Trouble In Mind – with Eric Clapton

I Saw Her Standing There – with Little Richard

Lost Highway – with Delaney Bramlett

Hadacohl Boogie – with Buddy Guy

The Irish Heart Beat – with Don Henley

The Pilgrim Ch.33 – with Kris Kristofferson

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Mark Morriss

OUT 26TH MAY!

SOLO UK SHOWS…

19/04 Dry Bar, Manchester

24/04 Rios, Leeds

25/04 Fibbers, York

27/04 The Social, Nottingham

28/04 Tap & Tin, Chatham

29/04 Cellars at Eastney, Portsmouth

30/04 Waterats, London

Release Date:

2008/03/26

John Martyn

1. Easy Blues

2. May You Never

3. Dealer

4. Outside In

5. Never Let Me Go

6. Sapphire

7. Deny This Love

8. Sweet Little Mystery

9. The River

10. The Apprentice

11. John Wayne

12. Look At The Girl

13. One World

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Stephen Duffy & The Lilac Time

1. Home

2. Don’t Feed the Rats

3. Nothing Can Last

4. I Wasen’t Scared Of Flying

5. Bank Holiday Monday

6. We Used to Be So

7. Keep Going

8. So Far Away

9. The Silence

10. Oh God

11. The Twelve Tones

12. Already Gone

13. Open Book

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John Foxx

1. Stray Sinatra Neurone

2. Lost New York

3. Projectionist

4. Kurfurstendamm

5. Skyscraper

6. A Peripheral Character

7. Looped Los Angeles

8. Points Of Departure

9. X-Ray Vision

10. Smokescreen

11. Underwater Automobiles

12. Shoadow City

13. Interlude

14. Thoughts Experiment

15. Hand-Held Skies

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Veruca Salt

Tracklisting-

1. So Weird

2. Centipede

3. Innocent

4. Circular

5. Perfect Love

6. Closer

7. Sick As Your Secrets

8. Wake Up Dead

9. Damage Done

10. Blissful Queen

11. The Sun

12. Comes and Goes

13. Save You

14. Salt Flat Epic

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John Martyn

Double CD

CD1-

1. Lonely Road

2. Couldn’t Love You More

3. Sweet Little Mystery

4. Head and Heart

5. Could’ve Been Me

6. Over The Hill

7. Fine Lines

8. May You Never

9. One World

10. Ways To Cry

11. Angeline

12. Man In the Station

13. Solid Air

14. Never Let Me Go

15. I Don’t Wanna Know

16. Bless the Weather

CD2

1. Pascanel

2. Rock Salt and Nails

3. Sunday’s Child

4. Just Now

5. Johnny Too Bad

6. Sapphire

7. Fisherman’s Dream

8. Big Muff

9. Easy Blues

10. Dealer

11. John Wayne

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Durutti Column
1. Love Is a Friend
2. Spanish Lament
3. Somewhere
4. Somebody’s Party
5. Requiem For A Dream
6. Remember
7. Vigil
8. Blue
9. No More Hurt
10. Spasmic Fairy
11. American View
12. Drinking Time
13. Woman
14. Goodbye

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