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    Album Of The Week Album Of The Week - 25/04/2026 The Perfect Crime – Anti-Nowhere League   This week we head back to 1987 with the second album, The Perfect Crime, from the longstanding punk band, the Anti-Nowhere League. It took 5 years for the League to follow up their notorious and controversial debut, We Are…The League and their 1987 follow-up, The Perfect Crime they also caused a stir but for completely different reasons. As we covered with my album of the week piece for We Are The League in January 2022 their first album was a full on punk rock assault laced with biting, expletive laden lyrics filled with critical yet tongue in cheek observations. With The Perfect Crime there was a major shift away from the style and sound which took many by surprise. The band had added a second guitarist to their ranks and there had been a change of drummer but the biggest change was moving to a new record label which was not punk orientated. The intention with The ...
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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...
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