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    Album Of The Week Album Of The Week - 11/07/2026 The Hit Men – The Stranglers   This week we feature the nineth of my Stranglers albums to be selected with the 1997 compilation release, The Hit Men, The Complete Singles 1977 to 1991. Over their long and varied recording career there has been a slew of Stranglers compilations, some very good and others clearly being nothing more than a way for a label to rake in a few pounds. By the time EMI released this collection the bitter departure from the recording giants was just a distant memory and The Stranglers were now a 5 piece band following the departure of Hugh Cornwell in 1990.  The band were on a much less prominent label and they had just released their 3 rd post-Cornwell album, which was not greatly received by the bulk of the Stranglers followers. On top of this, bassist Jean Jacques Burnel had lost interest in the band and a fractious relationship with guitarist John Ellis had the Stranglers in a downw...
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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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