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    Album Of The Week Album Of The Week - 28/02/2026 - Track 4 The penultimate selection from Legend is the instrumetal track Lady Marian. There is a beautiful Celtic folk feel to this gorgeous song which is one of the real highlights from the album. Album Of The Week - 28/02/2026 - Track 3 My third selection from Legend is the dual vocal song Strange Land. The atmospheric, ethereal beauty of this song, with its harp and layered atmospheric vocals captures of the essence of the forest domain in which much of this soundtrack is based. Album Of The Week - 28/02/2026 - Track 2 My second selection from Legend is Now Is Here, the second of the two singles released for the album though unlike the previous release this song had little commercial impact. The song is typical of Clannad at the time in that it is synth led overlaid with harp and layered, atmospheric vocals although the electric guitar lead at the end feels a little out of place but its still a strong offering from the so...
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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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