GOODNEWS GOOD AmericanCult


UK pop-psych heroes Nirvana gain their first-ever official US release this month with the career-spanning Cult featuring 22 songs from their Island-era back catalogue and one newly penned number, ‘Our Love Is The Sea’. Patrick Campbell-Lyons and Alex Spyropoulos are very excited about the collection, which is to be released by Global Recording Artists on April 20th. (Burger Records will also issue the set on vinyl.) As Alec Palao exclaims in his thorough liner notes, “Let’s hope Cult does its intended job and shows America where Nirvana is.” www.gragroup.com


AgogWithProg


Jan Pettersson has been a busy boy compiling data for all of you prog ’eads. Labelography Volume 2: Progressive UK Record Labels (Premium Publishing) is, as it says on the spine, “A Dating Guide For Original Progressive UK Vinyl Records” that follows on from Pettersson's first book – a labelography that covered the


major labels of the UK beat boom. Deram, EMI, Harvest and Regal Zonophone are all thoroughly explored from their inception in this volume, featuring illustrations, facts and label scans galore.


ChutesAway!


Although SF Sorrow seems to be the Pretty Things album that gains all the attention we at Shindig! adore the 1970 follow up Parachute equally. It’s a record that maintained elements of psychedelia (in a similar manner to what The Beatles did with Abbey Road) and clearly lay the harmonic path that Queen would later make millions from. Already having revisited SF Sorrow as a live in the studio DVD/CD album in 2003 at Abbey Road, Wally Waller, Jon Povey, and Skip Alan (minus front man Phil May) reconvened to rework Parachute 40 years after the original with Pretty Things Mk 2 guitarist Pete Tolson. The XPT’s (ex-Pretty Things) have assembled a remarkable work, which celebrates the original material, whilst successfully bringing a new edge to such classics as ‘The Good Mr. Square (She Was Tall, She Was High)’, ‘Cries From The Midnight Circus’, ‘Grass’ and ‘The Rain Trilogy’. The harmonies of Waller and Povey are as sharp as ever, Pete Tolson’s guitar playing maintains that period vibe and Skip Alan remains the rhythmic powerhouse of the group. The original album is rounded off with two new compositions, ‘Here We Go Again’ and ‘Think Of Me Sometimes’.


TheStarmanWozEre


Heddon Street in Central London has become the home of a blue plaque for Ziggy Stardust – David Bowie’s alien alter-ego that the star killed off at The Hammersmith Odeon in 1973. London’s many blue plaques usually pay respect to past residents who have left this mortal coil and achieved respect in medicine, architecture, exploration, music, art or film and theatre. Stardust is only the second fictional character to gain this iconic homage – the other being Sherlock Holmes!


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IT’S A HAPPENING THING


FromCorrieTo California:Frito’s LastDance


RACHEL LICHTMAN remembers Davy Jones (1945-2012)


I don’t even remember a time when I didn’t love Davy Jones. When I was very little, my parents let me


play with their record collection. This is where my lifelong love affair with The Monkees began, endlessly spinning their scratchy LPs and dancing around with my sister in a mostly empty room covered in white shag carpeting. Of course, we were both in complete love


with Davy. No young girl is immune to that rite of passage. There was something so appealing about him; his cheeky humour, approachable


cuteness, and of course the accent. It was a perfect storm that completely imprinted itself on my being. As I grew older, my taste for The Monkees broadened, deepened and evolved. My love for and knowledge of the band only grew with time – they seemed to be an omnipresent factor in my life, almost a familial presence. Last year, I was fortunate enough to have


had the opportunity to write liner notes for Rhino’s HEAD soundtrack reissue, in addition to authoring a cover story on the film for Shindig! I was interested in discussing Davy’s brilliant


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