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Jo Duddridge Addresses Growing Up Pains. Later Youth: Living History Album Review Break up. Illness. Incapacity. Heartbreak. Death. Grief. Not necessarily in that order, but what can an artist do with all that? Such universal themes could be examined in a poetry collection, or if verse is not your thing, on an album, obviously. Jo Dudderidge has a lot to get through in this review of his early adult life.     We are all of course products of our own history, but the question is and challenge is whether we let the history dictate our current path, or learn from mistakes, difficult moments, events and move on.     In this album, Dudderidge does his best to excise, exorcise and excuse his past, with some hints at future wishes and dreams. The album  Living History  is led by Jo Dudderidge, operating under the collective name of Later Youth.  Dudderidge, a Mancunian multi-instrumentalist, producer, session musician produces a report on the findings o...

SNAKEMILK Launch New EP 'Into The Snake Pit' Voodoo Daddy's Showroom,  London Street, Norwich Friday, 11 th  July 2025 Photograph copyright Gordon Woolcock “I am looking for something a bit different.” says a man you don’t meet every day, Robin Evans, esquire.  This is certainly the case when you get to see and hear the duo  Lassie  embark on the opening act, who he has invited to open the launch party for SNAKEMILK 's first EP, Into the Snake Pit .  The wild, flame-haired Emily Winng and sleek Camille Davila present psyche-folk in its simplest form, with tub-thumping drum and scratchy electric guitar. The two women command full attention from the audience, visually and aurally.  They produce an enjoyably different set, spiced with light humour and present it in fine style.   Dog At The Opera  follow. This was only their second stage performance and at times it showed, but there is something very interesting about this gr...

Sunday Playlist 20th July, 2025 A funny day. Sun comes out in the end, after gloom and showers after a very wet 24 hours. I spent the day reading and listening to music.  1.           The Comet is Coming: Channel the Spirits 2.           Cesar Latorre & Andreas Polyzogopoulos; Music for The Future: Jazz Comes to Wiveton Church 3.           Frank Harrison Trio: First Light 4.           Alex Merritt / Steve Fishwick Quintet:  Mind-Ear-Ladder 5.           Hugh Pascall:  Borderlands 6.           Dave Stapleton Quintet:  Between The Lines  Spencer Ide 20th July 2025  

Quite Possibly (Country) Album of the Year Like an Echo  -  The Gleaves   Every now and then, perhaps once every five to ten years, you discover an album that completely knocks you over.   Buena Vista Social Club ,  Definitely Maybe , and  Seventeen Seconds  are good examples.  The genre is unimportant, but the overall impact of the album, which is a record studded with jewels, makes you want to listen to it time after time.  While each track has its own appeal, it is the complete package that makes it special.  I have played The Gleaves debut album,  Like An Echo  so many times today   that I have lost count of how many plays it's had.  It is a quite beautiful, complete album of Country & Western songs that, even if you were into Metallica, you could proudly hold in your music library, justifying your ownership of it to sceptical friends with a phrase like, “So what if its country, it’s a clas...