Articles by Garwood Pickjon

If someone turns his record store into the record label just to have an album(s) released by a certain band, than there really must be something about this band, right? After they’d named themselves after […]

Well, if you’re a sixties fan, a look at the album cover will be enough to get you interested. And then again, if you’re a contemporary-sounding-sixties-influenced-pop fan, without much of a sense of humor, you’ll […]

Another one of the (mostly) unknown treasures of the late’70s/early’80s British post-punk scene, unearthed by the Detour. The label itself has always been associated exclusively with the mod/power pop sounds of the period, and this […]

– A collection of rarities from the vault 1972-1979 – I am sorry to admit that I’ve never had a chance to hear Blue Ash’s two studio albums (No More, No Less, 1973 & Front […]

As the band name already suggests, this is a supposed conceptual musical tale about the moods and feelings that the character named Pubert Brown-Fridge was experiencing on the last day of his life (!?). However […]

Even if didn’t like it, I’d probably lie to my own self that this is a great album, since having a new project featuring the legendary producer/arranger Mark Wirtz of Tomorrow from yesterday, is something […]

– Gemini Anthology – As it is nicely put the in the liners by David Wells, in an attempt to make a more detailed Brumbeat scene family tree, Pete Frame would’ve probably hang himself right […]

Bob Kelly’s basic mission is to squeeze as much as possible into the 2,5 minute audio-space ….. and he does it wonderfully, sticking his heels deep into the traces of mid-sixteez pop legacy. As for […]