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    Album Of The Week                                                                   Album Of The Week - 10/10/2026 From Inside (Soundtrack) – Gary Numan & Ade Fenton   This week we return to my Gay Numan collection with an album regarded as his first dedicated soundtrack album, with the 2014 release, From Inside. I do not usually buy soundtrack albums for films I have not seen, but I made the exception with From Inside as I saw this album as an essential addition to my Gary Numan collection. The music was co-written with long time Numan collaborator, Ade Fenton, who has been heavily involved in Numan’s work since the 2006 album, Jagged, and also includes the Savage and Intruder albums, both of which hit number 2 in the UK album charts. The film itself is a post-apocalyptic animated horror film based on...

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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...