Spin Cycle

Review: Action Time Vision – Independent UK Punk 1977-1979

December 28, 2016 | Dave Thompson | 0

various Action Time Vision – A Story of Independent UK Punk 1976-1979 (Cherry Red) Strange, but true. The most telling observation on the post-punk passage of time is the scene in the video for Shampoo’s “Trouble.” A middle-aged dad is … ►

Spin Cycle’s Twelve Days of Christmas, 2016

December 7, 2016 | Dave Thompson | 0

A countdown of this year’s top releases according to Goldmine’s Spin Cycle’s columnist Dave Thompson. ►

Reviews: John Cale, Jethro Tull, Dave Swarbrick, Adrian Sherwood, Black Sabbath, Glitter Band, Theatre of Hate

December 5, 2016 | Dave Thompson | 0

John Cale Fragments of a Rainy Season (Domino 2CD) First released back in 1992, in an age when you didn’t trip over Cale live albums every time you left the house, Fragments of a Rainy Season was also issued in … ►

Reviews: Mortlake Bookclub, Sleepyard, Paolo Sala, Sendelica, A Year in the Country, United Bible Studies,

December 2, 2016 | Dave Thompson | 0

Mortlake Bookclub Exquisite Corpse (Reverb Worship) You know what the problem is with modern music? There’s not enough secret societies, gathering in the shadows to make deliciously dismal sounds, which they then unleash upon a world which… well, you can fill … ►

Book Reviews: TV Smith, David Bowie, Electronics, Disco, Japan and the Blues

December 2, 2016 | Dave Thompson | 0

TV Smith Alternative Top 50 (Foruli Codex – isbn 978-1-905792-68-9) The safety pins have rusted now, the headlines have all yellowed, and the T-shirts aren’t even fit for purpose, let alone fitting your frame. But still the fortieth anniversary of … ►

Review: Pink Floyd – The Early Years 1965-1972

November 13, 2016 | Dave Thompson | 0

The real question with Pink Floyd box sets became which would come first: the Barrett Years, the Animals years, or the middle years? ►

Christmas is Coming… Adam & The Ants: “Kings of the Wild Frontier” super deluxe edition

November 4, 2016 | Dave Thompson | 0

It was released back in May, but if any recent(-ish) box set deserves a place beneath the tree, it’s the one that will make you dress up as a Native American Pirate Dandy and race around the living room singing … ►

Reviews: Us and Them, Hawkwind, Terry Dolan, Ian Lowery, Sendelica, Quiet World, Croydon Municipal, Iggy Pop and 1967

November 2, 2016 | Dave Thompson | 0

Us and Them Fading Within the Dwindling Sun (10-inch EP) (Fruits de Mer CRUSTACEAN 75) Love her or loathe her, there is no denying that Sandy Denny left a monstrous footprint upon the soul of traditional music, one of the … ►

Bigger Than a Bread Bin, Better than the Beatles. The Story of the Bay City Rollers

October 26, 2016 | Dave Thompson | 0

Abba, Cheap Trick, that-guy-from-the-Boxtops. if the modern preoccupation with prehistoric kitsch maintains its current apocalyptically alphabetical course, we’re in for the DeFranco Family revival next, and we’ll never see the Bay City Rollers again. Sometimes life is so unfair. Ah, … ►

Steve Hillage – Searching for the Spark: an Interview

October 21, 2016 | Dave Thompson | 0

With the last months of 2016 dominated by a maniacal flurry of “essential” box sets, with Pink Floyd, Bob Dylan, the Stones, Lou Reed, David Bowie, Ian Hunter and even Adam and the Ants all unleashing art-form defining anthologies, it … ►