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    Album Of The Week Album Of The Week - 07/03/2026 Go Away White - Bauhaus   This week we have the first selection from my 7 albums by the iconic and influential post-punk band Bauhaus. For many, Bauhaus will be hailed as one of the first goth rock bands, a genre that evolved in the late 1970’s and has gone hand in hand with post-punk from the outset, as the punk scene branched into a more introspective and sombre direction. Moving away from some of the direct confrontation of punk, bands like The Cure, Siouxsie and the Banshees and Joy Division along with Bauhaus introduced more gloomy and subdued themes into their music as well a generally “darker” presentation. The music captured the ethics of punk combined with the artistic and musical experimentation of post-punk that led to the results from the bands mentioned above. Among them Bauhaus really embraced that openness and experimentation that when coupled with influences from 70’s glam rock gave them a very distinct ...

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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...