Album Of The Week Album Of The Week - 11/07/2026 - Track 6 The final selection from The Hitmen is another cover version that did very well for The Stranglers. All Day And All Of The Night, although a studio recording, was released prior to the bands second live album, All Live And All Of The Night. Unlike the cover of Walk On By, they stayed true to the original Kinks version of All Day And All Of The Night with its iconic guitar riff but with the addition of a horn section. The release performed well commercially and reached number 7 in the UK singles chart. Album Of The Week - 11/07/2026 - Track 5 It is fitting that my fifth selection from The Hitmen is the song 5 Minutes. The song was released as an interim single in 1978 between the No More Heroes and Black & White albums and to this day remains one of the Stranglers most recognisable tracks. This is probably the most punk song they ever did, the song is about how the girlfriend of Wilko Johnson, the flatmate of Je...
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Album Of The Week 2026 - Archive Album Of The Week - 03/01/2026 Dark Fields - Show of Hands We kick off 2026 with a band that have made a massive impact on my music listening, the Devon based folk duo, Show of Hands, who comprise of singer/songwriter/musician Steve Knightley and the multi-instrumentalist and folk legend Phil Beer, formerly of the Albion Band. This week’s album, Dark Fields, is the fourth of my 32 Show of Hands albums to be selected as my album of week and its an album that has a special memory, as I bought it at a gig we attended at the Exeter Phoenix soon after Julie & I started following them. Dark Fields, released in 1997, is actually the bands 6 th album although the first 3 were cassette only and are now long out of print. Therefore, Dark Fields is the third main release album and continued the success and acclaim Show of Hands had garnered from their previous 2 albums. In 1996, Show of Hands surprisingly booked the Royal Albert Hall and even...