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    Album Of The Week Album Of The Week - 11/04/2026 - Track 5 My final selection from October sees U2 firmly planted in their punk roots with the closing song on the album, Is That All? The song has a strident guitar riff that demands attention from the off and the riff was adapted into live versions of the song The Electric Co. from their debut album, Boy. The lyric is a committed plea of "what more do you want from me?" delivered with Bono's passion and urgency. Album Of The Week - 11/04/2026 - Track 4 My penultimate selection from October is one of most powerful and personal songs on the album. Tomorrow, is in hindsight, according to Bono, a song about his mothers death and funeral and his pain is felt across the vocal delivery. The song itself builds from a quiet intro on the uilleann pipes into a full on impassioned song giving the whole track a beautifully Celtic atmosphere. Album Of The Week - 11/04/2026 - Track 3 My third selection from Octobe has classic U2 stam...

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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...