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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. |
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Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs Present: The Tears of Technology [ Ace Records / CD - released 28/Aug/2020 ] At the turn of the 80s, a new generation of musicians appeared who saw synthesisers not as dehumanizing machines but as musical instruments that could be coaxed into creating modern, beautiful and decidedly emotional music. It was almost as if the... |
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Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs Present: Winter of Discontent [ Ace Records / CD - released 27/Jan/2023 ] WINTER OF DISCONTENT has been compiled by Saint Etienne's Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs, the latest in their highly acclaimed series of albums that includes The Daisy Age, Fell From The Sun and English Weather ("really compelling and immersive: it's a... |
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Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs Present: Winter of Discontent (Double Gatefold LP) [ Ace Records / 2 LP - released 27/Jan/2023 ] WINTER OF DISCONTENT has been compiled by Saint Etienne's Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs, the latest in their highly acclaimed series of albums that includes The Daisy Age, Fell From The Sun and English Weather ("really compelling and immersive: it's a... |
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Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs present English Weather [ Ace Records / CD - released 10/Feb/2017 ] The latest project from two-thirds of Saint Etienne is a compact disc and a deluxe double LP of English music that represented the transition from psychedelia to prog as the 60s moved into the 70s. Most of it is not an easy listen, but it's always... |
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Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs Present: Tea & Symphony: The English Baroque Sound (1968-1974) [ Ace Records / CD - 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. |
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Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs Present Incident At A Free Festival (Double Gatefold LP) [ Ace Records / 2 LP - 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: Occasional Rain (Double Gatefold LP) [ Ace Records / 2 LP - released 2/Jun/2020 ] This is England, the day after the 60s. It's a time of flux. On the cusp of progressive rock but without a rule book, many groups hold fast to psychedelia's adventurousness and melodic delights, while they are also happy to venture deep into the jazz... |
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Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs Present: Occasional Rain [ Ace Records / CD - released 2/Jun/2020 ] This is England, the day after the 60s. It's a time of flux. On the cusp of progressive rock but without a rule book, many groups hold fast to psychedelia's adventurousness and melodic delights, while they are also happy to venture deep into the jazz... |
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Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs Present Fell From the Sun: Downtempo and After Hours - 1990-91 [ Ace / CD - released 1/Jun/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 sunrise... |
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Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs Present: The Tears of Technology (Double Gatefold LP) [ Ace Records / 2 LP - released 28/Aug/2020 ] At the turn of the 80s, a new generation of musicians appeared who saw synthesisers not as dehumanizing machines but as musical instruments that could be coaxed into creating modern, beautiful and decidedly emotional music. It was almost as if the... |
