Chris Farlowe is an English rock, blues and soul singer. He is best known for his hit single ‘Out of Time’. written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, which rose to No 1 in 1966, and his association with backing band the Thunderbirds and later Colosseum, with whom he recorded the 1970 album Daughter Of
Mo-dettes were an all-female post-punk band, formed in 1979 by guitarist Kate Korris (an original member of The Slits and brief member of The Raincoats), bassist Jane Crockford, vocalist Ramona Carlier and drummer June Miles-Kingston. Their best-known song is the lo-fi ditty ‘White Mice’, used recently in Mothers Of The Revolution; a feature-length
Orange Goblin are a pioneer stoner metal band who are still going strong today. Formed in London in 1995, they evolved a sound which explored the stoner and doom genres, before adding elements of punk and space rock to their sound for later albums with
Alternative TV were at the vanguard of the original Punk scene of the late 1970s. Led by Sniffin' Glue fanzine writer Mark Perry, they released a string of incendiary 45s, including the clarion call that was 'Action Time Vision' in 1978. The track is being used for a major new continental TV and online
Strike Back is a hugely popular UK/US action-adventure/spy-drama TV series based on a novel by former S.A.S. soldier Chris Ryan, available to view in the UK on Sky One. First aired in the spring, Season 8 includes, in its soundtrack to one episode, 'Getting Nowhere Fast', a post-punk
Five decades ago, Radio 1 DJ John Peel launched his own record label, Dandelion. And one of their strongest signings were blues/roots band Medicine Head, who tasted chart success with hits like '(And The) Pictures In The Sky'. In addition to their debut album New Bottles
The Mickey Finn were a London-based beat/R&B band who recorded for a variety of labels across the Sixties. Produced by Shel Talmy (The Who, The Kinks), their 1965 single, a version of Ian Whitcomb's 'The Sporting Life', has just been used in HBO's US TV mini-series I Know This Much Is True. Based on
One of Britain's finest rock'n'roll revival bands, Fumble toured with David Bowie, Chuck Berry and Bill Haley and played thousands of gigs across the UK and Europe between the late 60s and early 80s. Cherry Red now control the rights to Fumble's under-utilised back catalogue of recordings, consisting of four albums (Fumble [pictured], Poetry In Lotion, Rumble with Fumble! and It's
Cherry Red now represent the rights for the recordings of psychedelic pop band Jason Crest, who hailed from Tonbridge, Kent. Between 1967 and 1969, they issued five singles, which have been frequently compiled since then. Key tracks include 'Black Mass', 'Turquoise Tandem Cycle', 'Place In The Sun' and a cover of The Move's '(Here
Matchbox were at the vanguard of a burgeoning rockabilly / rock'n'roll revival in Britain across the 1970s. This culminated in a purple patch, when the band enjoyed various chart hits. Immediately prior to this, in 1978, they issued an acclaimed album Settin' The Woods On Fire on Chiswick Records. We're now the proud