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After 15 Years The Durutti Column Rise Again

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New Durutti Album Out 31st July 2026 Album Review My immediate response to this album of newly released, but not necessarily new compositions, was that Renascent is a near perfect album for these Dog Days of summer.  I have played and replayed the collection in its entirety repeatedly since the moment I clicked on the opening file, Echoes in The Memory . The brief introductory track has a deceptive beginning. It is slow to build and slightly threatening in tone. It develops, with a change of tempo, into what might be a musical synopsis of the complete album. The brevity of the first track and its broken rhythm leads beautifully into the cool of Your Shadow at Morning , where  use of steady piano chords working through a series of cycles, provides the background to some finely-etched guitar details, before the piano eases its way into the foreground, completing a wholly satisfying piece.  Harold Budd would have been proud to issue this in his creative prime. Vini Reilly (...

A Wilde Night At The Memorial Hall Dereham

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Dereham Blues Festival 2026 Dereham: Wednesday 1st July / Sunday 5th July 2026 Will Wilde: Harp-led Blues at Dereham Memorial Hall 1st July 2026  Whoah, the summer we have been having has been real Blues country weather!  The unrelenting, enervating heat and hot breezes, have set up the 14th Dereham Blues Festival perfectly. Five straight days and nights of the finest, free, live blues music in the country are on the way in the old market town and it looks like all its hours will be blessed with good weather for wandering from pub to pub to cricket club and the Ellenor Fenn Garden to soak up the free music on offer.  The whole shebang kicked off last night with another stunning opening show at the Dereham Memorial Hall . It was sold out  of course.  The star attraction for the opening night was Will Wilde and his band, who hail from the Brighton.  Will’s specialism is playing the blues harp, the entry level instrument for so many to blues musicians. Whet...