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The Hillbilly Moon Explosion featuring Mark ‘Sparky’ Phillips – The Sparky Sessions

This is an excerpt of an article written by Tom Girard While it’s only in the last few years that I discovered Swiss rockabilly swing band The Hillbilly Moon Explosion for reasons I’m not quite sure of Welsh psychobillies Demented Are Go and their unmistakable frontman Sparky (aka Mark Phillips) have been on the edge of my knowledge for far...
February 24, 2020 by Tom Girard
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Tiger Army, Grave Pleasures and The Nightmares – O2 Islington Academy – 29/11/19

This is an excerpt of an article written by Tom Girard Tiger ArmyDespite this being my fifth time seeing Tiger Army this was my first time seeing them in my usual gig going location of London – on their last UK tour I caught them in Manchester and otherwise attended Octoberflame in 2015 and 2017 at The Observatory in Santa...
December 3, 2019 by Tom Girard
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Tiger Army – Retrofuture

This is an excerpt of an article written by Tom Girard When Tiger Army released their fifth album, V…-, a couple of years ago it felt like Nick 13 and his crew had closed the book on past debates as to their status as a psychobilly band with a set of songs immersed in a kind of 50s film noir...
September 21, 2019 by Tom Girard
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Stray Cats – 40

This is an excerpt of an article written by Tom Girard After great ‘comeback’ albums from both The Wildhearts and Rammstein dropped in May 2019 after a 10 year break, rockabilly revivalists Stray Cats outdid both and, almost out of the blue, marked their 40th anniversary with their first album of new material in 27 years, appropriately named 40. While...
May 29, 2019 by Tom Girard
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Tiger Army – Dark Paradise EP

This is an excerpt of an article written by Tom Girard As Tiger Army albums tend to come along only every once in a while an EP from the band two years after their last full album, V…, is always going to be something for fans to celebrate. With that in mind the band held a pair of special shows,...
June 26, 2018 by Tom Girard