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Tallulah Rendall – The Lioness Is Ready To Roar

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9 o’clock on the dot and Tallulah steps on stage, bare foot and almost primeval, she picks up and plugs in her amazing antique Gretch, an axe heavy and warrior like, a Boadicea for modern times. She readies and steadys herself in front of the classic retro microphone. Feet firmly planted.

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Robyn Hitchcock: 20 Questions

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I wanted to play ‘psychedelic’ music in anti-psychedelic times: in some ways 76 was 67 through the looking glass.

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The Astral Game of Chess…

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“that this was not the feather of angel that has fallen…but more the feather from a FALLEN ANGEL”

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David Devant And His Spirit Wife – at the Firestation, Reviewed

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The atmosphere is electric, a metal saw is bowed, that mysterious changing filter of eerie sounds….

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The Astral Kings

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Yet the kings, with lack of chivalry and dreams, would neither let the other pass, and fought, like fops upon their rowing boat

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The Astral Voyage

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behind them swam, a soldier true, a soldier who, through combat due, had forgot which side, his loyalties too, and he kicked his legs, like a stoic human motor….. his epaulettes, and silver buttons ruffled by the waves…..

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Tunng, the experimental folk band – Interviewed

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How would you most like to change the world?
Compulsory bouncy castles for all households..

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The Astral Ark

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and then, as if to sing a lullaby or union tune, she plucked, like harp, the silky strings of light she shone upon this island shell, and so we heard a vibrant, cosmic sitar drone….. a sound at first like ten thousand worker honey bees, as two giant bears appeared, climbed down they did from ‘mongst the stars…..”I send you friends” whispered Moon ..

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Arthur Brown: The God of Hellfire….and man of peace – reviewed

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His vocal display is a wonder.. this man is 68! But he still has a full, throaty voice, a thick red wine, which hits the high notes in a blistering blast as he dances like a man of even half his age, a nimble Pied Piper, or Pan…

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Ana Silvera, Hannah Masters-Waage and Absinthe – an accidental review

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A night then, of indefinable culture…all Gitanes….and Absinthe glasses….a Sally’s ‘Cabaret’

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