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08/08/2025

Original member of The Seeds, Daryl Hooper still Pushin Too Hard on those keys. V cool. And well played Alec Palao for bringing this all together helping Ace Records celebrate their 50th anniversary.

08/08/2025

Those hardworking folks at Grapefruit Records are releasing their next groovy looking boxset this month. It includes our 1969 Uk bubblegum track 'And The Rains Came Down' by U.K. Jones.

Coming in August, All Things Bright And Beautiful - The UK Pop Explosion 1967-1969. A four-hour, 3CD anthology of the late 60s British pop scene during the early years of Radio 1. Big hits and intriguing misses from some of the biggest acts and most prominent writing/ production teams of the era. 👉 cherryred.co/BrightandBeautiful

08/08/2025

Still on the Classic Synth trail, an Ian North track we licensed out has just been released on this comp in Germany. It's been treated to a wonderful edit by MARCEL DETTMANN.

Have a listen/buy here https://runningbackrecords.bandcamp.com/track/edits-cuts-dj-mix

28/07/2025

More on the DROIDS front, it charted !!!
no.41 on the Official Albums chart for Compilations.
Congratulations Night School who run the School Daze label.

Carrying with it as it does our songs by Ian North and John Howard, will have been some time since either of they got a sniff, so good news all round!

28/04/2025

and for Record Store Day, John Howard's lost single.
Go to John's FB page for the story behind the recording.
John Howard
and Night School Records for a copy .
Night School

Record Store Day UK

28/04/2025

more on the 'Droids compilation, this is the complete package, pretty cool.

28/04/2025

The Boom Boom book now in the hands of the person who wrote the foreword, blues band legend Paul Jones. Here being presented with his copy by Mississippi MacDonald.

Remember if your local store has sold out, you can get your copy direct here:
https://easyontheeyebooks.co.uk/fort.../boom-boom-boom-boom/

29/03/2025

https://youtu.be/gM5d9FI62uc?si=XNoGT11DQuf9c9v4
A song we publish from the illustrious catalogue of John Howard has made it onto this amazing compilation produced by Phil King , on Nightschool Records.
Howard continues to write highly regarded baroque tunes and cleverly observed songs , currently signed to the hip US label Think Like A Key. All the while his extraordinary back catalogue keeps turning up surprising nuggets.

I Tune Into You was the first single to be released in March 1980 from John's 'Cal Mylar' sessions with producer Nicky Graham. It was planned for the album T...

07/03/2025

We've licensed a track from this album (Lonely Town,Lonely Street) onto a forthcoming Cherry Red Records compilation entitled:
TIME! GENTLEMEN! - Pub Rock Rhythm ‘N’ Grooves - Classic Cuts and Rarities 1974-1982, Various Artists 3CD Box Set out at the end of March.

Listen to that track and the rest of what Kokomo were upto in early 1974 here.

14 track album

05/03/2025

This guy really has become a Complete Unknown. Newly reissued on digital later this month is our collection of the Singles this US americana troubadour recorded in the late 60s flitting between his homeland and adopted land of Sweden.
The title track,a version of the Dylan classic, is itself a bit of a stormer, recorded by Downing as The Otherside. It's a recording drowning in fuzz guitar and attacked with such verve they manage to make a 6 min song last half the time.
Helping us to bring this all together originally on CD a decade ago was keyboardist David Hynes, and he was the force that drove the recordings forward being able to skillfully interpret Downing's pioneering roots rock musical ideas.

05/03/2025

No connection other than once compiling the wonderful song 'Beat The Reaper' by Laurie Styvers on an edition of the Lipsmackin' 70s series called ZigZag. Didn't know much about the singer at the time, and back then hardly any information was in circulation. Now the estimable curator Alec Palao has put that right with the most comprehensive collection of Styvers recordings possible.
It is mightily recommended. Both LPs as released by Chrysalis in the 70s, plus some unissued songs and alt. versions, and all from the original master tapes. Tapes which Alec has been rescuing over the past few years as custodian of the Shel Talmy archive. This also includes photo archives and the shots in this 48 page booklet are wondrous to behold. So too the full story which at last we can all catch up on about this previously long lost performer.
Released by High Moon Records head here for the CD and also Vinyl option https://lauriestyvers.bandcamp.com/merch

High Moon Records Shel Talmy (official page - stories and tributes)

18/02/2025

So this is the Book we've been helping with -
'Boom Boom Boom Boom' American Rhythm & Blues In England 1962 - 1966 The Photographs of Brian Smith ..now at the Printers.

Great 2 page review in this month's Blues in Britain
https://easyontheeyebooks.co.uk/forthcoming/boom-boom-boom-boom/