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    Album Of The Week Album Of The Week - 09/05/2026 - Track 5 My final selection from The Hope is the closing song on the album, appropriately, a Celtic folk song sung at the end of  a meeting of friends. The Parting Glass is a well covered song that has been recorded by many folk acts with this version given a Ferocious Dog punk rock edge. Album Of The Week - 09/05/2026 - Track 4 My penultimate selection from The Hope is another very personal and touching song. The Broken Soldier was written to highlight the charitable work being done to support servicemen dealing with PTSD, a subject close to the heart of main song writer Ken Bonsall whose son took his life following a tour in Afghanistan. Its a powerful song given the personal tragedy that lies behind it. Album Of The Week - 09/05/2026 - Track 3 My third selection from this week's album is the title track from the release, The Hope. A powerful song about the ravages of depression and how there can be an escape from th...

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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...