Love - The Blue Thumb Recordings Personal Review

I was surprised to find a copy of this in HMV - nearly 17 quid for the box set. If you have Out Here and False Start then you're really paying a lot of money for the third album of live tracks (eleven in total) gleaned from performances in London and Coventry in 1970.

There is little new here - the two studio albums' sound seems to have been cleaned up but I'd have preferred some new tracks to have been unearthed from the studio tapes. The live tracks have Arthur on reasonable form but most are too self-indulgent, glorified jamming sessions with five of the eleven tracks exceeding five minutes duration. Still I suppose it adds to the canon. The packaging and liner notes are nothing to enthuse over either. One for the completists.

I also hear that Arthur's solo album Vindicator has also been re-issued on CD. Cue the price of the A&M edition plummeting on ebay and Amazon.

What we need now is a long-overdue CD edition of Reel To Real though we won't hold our breath.



Elsewhere Robyn Hitchcock has released American tour dates commencing November that will see him Stateside till the beginning of December. He normally makes it to Glasgow early in the New Year.


Scouse Love acolytes Shack play Glasgow's Classic Grand on October 29th.







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