I have so many new albums over the last two months I do not have time to listen to them all. The best buy was probably The Almighty’s Just Add Life, which looks like a Brit pop album and sounds like punk, but for 75p who can complain. I bought another two from Amazon, one from the US that arrived in two weeks and another from the UK that took five, one had to cross the Atlantic and the other just a hundred miles or so, that does not seem right in my opinion.
At the moment I am listening to Ozzy's new album Black Rain which is quite enjoyable, I’m always a bit wary of Ozzy as I find him a bit hit and miss but this is quite satisfactory.

Finally got round to replacing all the Iron Maiden stuff I have on vinyl with CDs so anything I get from now on will be effectively a new purchase and I like the idea of the whole collection making up a picture of Eddie, small things eh?

On the subject of Iron Maiden a friend of mine managed to blag a couple of free tickets to the Brixton academy gig last month, jammy tosser. He doesn't even like Maiden as far as I know.

The Almighty

I was introduced to the Almighty (the band not God) in 1991 when I saw them play at the Cliffs, I bought the ticket without having a clue what they sounded like and none of my friends knew them either. We did get a taste before the gig when their video was shown on the Friday rock show on itv, I don’t remember what the show was called though it was hosted by some bloke called Masher or Krusher or something suitably “ROCK”.

Live they were fantastic, even without knowing most of their set; they came across a bit like Motorhead lite, still quite heavy but easier to follow. A couple of days later I bought Soul Destruction which was the Almighty’s second album, and I loved it, its another that I went back to about a year ago, and last week I purchased Wild and Wonderful which is a compilation of stuff up to ’94, they do a fantastic cover of the Sex Pistol’s Bodies and Keep On Rocking In The Free World is always brilliant no matter who does it. Again I lost track of the Almighty as my tastes changed around ’92-‘93

It was only very recently that I discovered Ricky Warwick (check out his cover of Running Free)the lead singer had been a bassist for New Model Army, if I had known that back in 1992 then I would probably followed them through to today. New Model Army is something of a mild obsession with me but I’ll cover that later.


P.S. the support at the gig was Junkyard (its shite)