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Category Archives: The Best Band You’ve Never Heard
The best Band You Never Heard – The Singing Postman
I began to thinking the other day about someone who was quite big in 1966, infact he outsold the Beatles and the Stones, well, for one week anyway. That man was the singing postman AKA Alan Smethurst. He really was a postman. He lived in and loved Norfolk, its people, its dialect and its ‘not […]
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Tagged as: alan smethurst, norfolk, outsold the beatles, outsold the Stones, parlaphone, ralph tuck, rock and blues, the singing postman
Think Floyd – The Best Band Youv’e Never Seen
We went to see Think Pink at the weekend. It is a venue that is drawing better and better bands. (Gone are the God Squad days….) In the recent past they have hosted the excellent Blockheads and the totally wonderful Wilko Johnson. Anyway, the set list was different from last year. The newer stuff (post […]
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Tagged as: classic rock music, dave gilmour, nick mason, pink floyd, real rock and blues, ricahad wright, rock music, roger waters, Think Floyd
The Best Band You’ve Never Heard – Click
I have just come across this group, Click. A vocal jazz group out of London. Click are a six-piece London-based vocal jazz group with a strictly voice-only policy. They aim to recreate the sounds of big band jazz without instruments. I hear that they are a fun group to watch and I am not sure […]
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Tagged as: big band jazz, click, oxford gargoyles, real rock and blues, rock and blues, vocal jazz
The Best Band You Never Heard 1
Over the last couple of weeks I have been two stonkingly good gigs. Both by the same duo Akoustic Soul. Now, I know them, but that does not mean that I am biased. I know some of the other local bands but they will not feature in this series. Akoustic Soul Are; Andrew Wilson (guitars) […]
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Tagged as: akoustic soul, live music, love rock music, new bands, rock and blues
Vamika – The Best band You’ve Never Heard (2)
Well, you would not have as they have only played one gig so far with another lined up for 7th May at 9.00pm at The Pleasant Retreat in Lostock hall, Lancashire, UK. However, they have previous. Until part way through 2009 they were Crimzon, a gigging band with a dedicated local following in this part […]
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Tagged as: amy murrell, dave sharples, love rock music, real rock and blues, rock and blues, vamika