So, @AdrianTudorDr asked me to review two records and first was The Housemartins, magic love them and listened many a time the other request was Oysterband, you know what’s coming, yep not got a clue. Usual read of the internet and they formed in 1976, so they have been around for the bare fifty years and I had no idea and they have released twenty four albums (they were previously known Oyster Ceilidh Band and Oyster Band) and their website is telling me that they have ret

I had certainly heard her voice as I was fifteen when Birthday came out and was on my voyage of discovery with music, and when I first heard it there was a “what the hell is that?” and you had to hear it again, It was no surprise that it made the number one spot in John Peel’s Festive Top fifty and The Sugarcubes followed it up with Hit a few years later, which was a welcome addition to the charts and although they split the following year in 1993, I had no idea the lead sing

A request, not mainstream and I have heard of them, what’s going on? Now when I say I have heard of them, that’s it, I have never actually heard a note, have no knowledge of what they are like and despite racking my brain cannot for the life of me think why I know them. Time to turn to the internet. Formed in 2009 in San Francisco they are a four-piece band who have released five studio albums but there has been no recent music from them since this record was released in