What are you currently listening to?

Stones latest long player: Hackney Diamonds and I am impressed, the first half of the album is stronger but still overall a good album, these young lads might have a future in the business.

I think it’s half decent and makes me curious for an album. I think Squire is very good but is way overrated by people that don’t listen to guitarists outside of British indie stuff (and even then I’d put Steve Craddock and Bernard Butler up against him any day).

This isn’t as good as the best of Liam’s ‘solo’ stuff but the concept of the supergroup is always an alluring one so I do look forward to more.

I saw Liam at Knebworth last time and Squire came out for Champagne Supernova, his guitar tone just wasn’t there - if you are going to use a Strat you need to give it a bit of b*llocks on the amp or pedals in a rock setting.

I hear Oasis and the Roses and all their usual influences but there was one bit that sounded quite like the Who which was nice. There’s also a guitar break that is like a stumbling/stepping rhythm near the beginning that should have been used as a hook throughout, and it doesn’t reprise until the end.

Squire is definitely channelling his Hendrix influences here, much like the era of those Roses singles that all used the same drum loop (Something’s Burning et al).

Better than All For One/10.

Weirdly I first heard this song at the end of Austin Powers. It's a little gem though.

Night of the Hunter by The Libertines.
I didn’t realise they were releasing a new album in March, and I don’t know how representative this is, but it’s right up my street. Lovely, dark , sinister track.

Randomly discovered this and quite like it. Not heard any of their other stuff.


Starbenders: If you need it

I always get in a Lanegan phase at the start of a new year whilst in the post-Christmas depression stage... yesterday, I went on a long walk in the heavy snow before school pickup, listening to Whiskey for the Holy Ghost. It was so bloody beautiful and depressing.

Another random find. Old school guitar blues.


Joe Bonamassa - "Twenty-Four Hour Blues"
Nice outro

Greatest band (along with Pavement) to never hit the big time.

Chrome Hoof are a band I adore, but who seem to fade in and (mostly) out of existence. Their social media is sporadically updated, with gaps of years and often is just pointing towards members other projects, but there's not many funk-prog-disco-(occasionally)metal acts out there. This is one of their more funk-disco based tunes, off their most recent, but still years and years old, album.

Great version, I love Dylan's though.