The Pete Roth Trio in Cranleigh last night.

Guitarist Pete Roth, bassist Mike Pratt and a rejuvenated recently out of retirement former Yes and King Crimson stick swiper Bill Bruford gave us two sets of beautifully complex jazz rock fusion executed with pleasure and consummate skill.

Having enjoyed Bill Bruford's expertise since I first saw him back in 1987 on BBC 2's Rock School demonstrating the then new-fangled Simmons electronic percussion, and discovering the magic of his work with Yes and King Crimson later on, it was a joy to see him at 76 years young having so much fun just being the drummer in a band again.

A tight and very entertaining unit, I'd love to see them again at some point.

Thanks for keeping me in the loop

Three weeks in Rajastan softened by a dozen plus cricket TV channels, early 70's Peel and Freakzone programmes from Mixcloud and Iain Anderson on Radio Scotland.

The other band we recently saw…I have decided to confess…was The ELO Experience!

The front man, Brian Cummings, was totally hilarious…in fact, his first joke was a bit ‘near the mark’ for me and I wondered if it was going to be like that throughout, but actually he was very funny. However, throughout they showed massive respect to the music and to the work of Jeff Lynne. The lead violinist was especially impressive, taking the solos in Living Thing and singing the operatic parts in Rockaria.

The theatre of around 1500 was sold out with mainly more mature folks, all of whom ended upsinging along and some of whom were dancing in the aisles.

So all in all, and entertaining evening, giving due respect to the originals, whom they clearly held in high esteem.

Just saw that .

I remember the Kossoff Kirke Tetsu Rabbit album,  way back.

I literally have never heard it before.

Jules

Iron Maiden's Prowler as you've never heard it before.

It's M G Boulter https://www.mgboulter.co.uk/ & Steven Paul Collins (of the Owl Service).  I think they're planning a whole album.  I'm in...

https://theowlservice.bandcamp.com/album/prowler

And The Memory Band - another fine beast ploughing a similar furrow - discography is available for £29.10 (70% off)

https://thememoryband.bandcamp.com/album/a-fair-field

A charming first hand recollection from my friend Simon: https://open.substack.com/pub/simonberrill/p/steve-cropper?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

The entire Owl Service discography on Bandcamp.  40 releases: £18.60 (85% off)

You need to go to one of the releases and then click on purchase options, and it'll show... https://theowlservice.bandcamp.com/album/dead-hour-of-the-night

Today only.  Bargain of the century....