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    Album Of The Week 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 stamped all over it. From the opening, trademark Edge riff the song Rejoice is a captivating song with a lyric about inner change. Album Of The Week - 11/04/2026 - Track 2 My second selection from October is the title track from the album. The song takes us away from the guitar led theme of the album and instead gives us a piano based lament on the bleak nature of the times the song was reflecting. This is a beautiful, thoughful refrain from the an...

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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...