Taken from the 1974 album "The Exciting Sounds of..." on Hillside records (HILLP3002). What a bizarre artefact this album is. Another early release on Ipswich label Hillside (see Working Man's Soul for more information), it was recorded in the barn-conversion studio manned by brothers Richard and David Allison. The recording quality is dreadful and there are absolutely no details on the sleeve about the band apart from their names. So, all we know is that this organ-lead four-piece consisted of Chris Haste, Colin Thrower, Kevin Sharman and Dudley Goodchild. Their one and only LP is adorned with an absolutely awful stock photograph of some thatched cottages that in no way reflects the merits of the recorded material within the grooves. The band come on like a poor man's Peddlers and have a jolly good bash at a wide range of underachieving covers. However, it is on the frenetic run at Uriah Heep's Easy Livin' where they really give it some, and this sprawling, wah-infested power-pop confection leaves us all begging for more. |
 |
