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Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs Present Incident At A Free Festival [ Ace Records / CD - released 24/Nov/2023 ] "Incident At a Free Festival" is a tribute to the mid-afternoon slots at Deeply Vale, Bickershaw, Krumlin, Weeley, and Plumpton - early 70s festivals that don't get the column inches afforded the Isle of Wight or Glastonbury Fayre, but which would... |
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Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs present Paris In The Spring (Double Gatefold LP) [ Ace / 2 LP - released 25/May/2018 ] In May 1968, Paris was burning. Out of the student uprising came a new wave in French music that matched the country's mood - darker, and more introspective than yé-yé, France's cultural revolution allowed the previously separate worlds of chanson,... |
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Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs Present English Weather (Double Gatefold LP) [ Ace Records / 2 LP - released 27/Jan/2017 ] Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs Present - English Weather The latest project from two-thirds of Saint Etienne is a compact disc and deluxe double LP of English music that represented the transition from psychedelia to prog as the 60s moved into the 70s.... |
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Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs present Paris In The Spring [ Ace / CD - released 25/May/2018 ] In May 1968, Paris was burning. Out of the student uprising came a new wave in French music that matched the country's mood - darker, and more introspective than yé-yé, France's cultural revolution allowed the previously separate worlds of chanson,... |
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Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs Present Fell From the Sun: Downtempo and After Hours - 1990-91 (Double Gatefold LP) [ Ace / LP - released 19/Aug/2022 ] 1989 had been a long hot summer, but 1990 felt longer and hotter. Since the house music explosion of 1987, Britain had had a whistle in its mouth, and it needed a lie down. February 1990 brought two records that were made to accompany the... |
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Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs Present Three Day Week: When The Lights Went Out 1972-1975 [ Ace Records / CD - released 29/Mar/2019 ] 2019 collection. Britain wasn't on it's own in having a thoroughly miserable 1973. Tens of thousands of Britons remained housed in wartime pre-fabs and sub-standard dwellings. The bright new colors of the post-war Festival of Britain and Harold... |
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Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs Present Three Day Week: When The Lights Went Out 1972-1975 (Double Gatefold LP) [ Ace Records / 2 LP - released 29/Mar/2019 ] 2019 collection. Britain wasn't on it's own in having a thoroughly miserable 1973. Tens of thousands of Britons remained housed in wartime pre-fabs and sub-standard dwellings. The bright new colors of the post-war Festival of Britain and Harold... |
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Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs present State of the Union: The American Dream in Crisis 1967 - 1973 [ Ace / CD - released 16/Nov/2018 ] By mid-1968 there was a growing consensus that something had gone horribly wrong with the American dream. The nation s youth had loudly made their feelings clear, but now the older, pre-Beatles generations began to look at the country with urban... |
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Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs present State of the Union: The American Dream in Crisis 1967 - 1973 (Double LP) [ Ace / 2 LP - released 16/Nov/2018 ] By mid-1968 there was a growing consensus that something had gone horribly wrong with the American dream. The nation s youth had loudly made their feelings clear, but now the older, pre-Beatles generations began to look at the country with urban... |
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Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs Present: Tea & Symphony: The English Baroque Sound (1968-1974) (Double Gatefold LP) [ Ace Records / 2 LP - released 7/Feb/2020 ] The English baroque sound of the late 60s and early 70s shunned guitar solos for string quartets and woodwind, drenched in summer-into-autumn melancholy, as heard on this collection of the genre's finest moments. |