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MASK (Sonja Kristina and Marvin Ayres) Sound and Vision

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010 · Posted in Video Of The Week


Sonja Kristina sings and Marvin Ayres plays the violin on this haunting theme from Mask, their entrancing joint musical collaboration. They perform ‘Sound And Vision’ wreathed in clouds of smoke that suits the mood of a strangely hypnotic melody. It will entrance millions of YouYube viewers around the globe in the coming months. And all those attending dates on the upcoming Curved Air tour featuring Sonja will also get their chance to be mesmerised. She plans to screen the video at Curved Air’s UK shows which run from September 29th to October 22nd.

Stand by to download the single that could easily become a major hit. Electronica rules OK.

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ALVIN LEE RACING HOME

Friday, August 6th, 2010 · Posted in Video Of The Week

Alvin Lee and his trio made a welcome trip to Germany recently when they performed a special show at the famous Mercedes Benz Museum in Stuttgart. The museum has an open air stage where music events can be put on for visitors and so it was a lucky day for rock’n’roll and motoring fans when Alvin and friends roared in for a gig there on July 17.

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LESLIE WEST: ROCKY MOUNTAIN MAN

Wednesday, May 26th, 2010 · Posted in Video Of The Week


Leslie West in action always makes exciting viewing, as our latest YouTube clip shows. One of rock’s greatest guitarists and singer/songwriters, Mr. West has long been hailed as a performing legend and his albums with Mountain and West Bruce & Laing are among the hottest in the Repertoire catalogue.

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THE BALLAD OF TONY ASHTON

Wednesday, May 19th, 2010 · Posted in Video Of The Week


Who’s that sitting on the top deck of a bus singing his heart out on ‘The Ballad Of The Remo Four?’ Why it’s Tony Ashton, one of the happiest, jolliest and most talented of all great rock musicians. This engaging YouTube clip from the archives shows Tony with his most successful band, Ashton, Gardner & Dyke during their heyday in the Seventies. But they are singing about a group that set them on the road to fame, back in the Beatles era, when The Remo Four were young and full of ambition.

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Rock journalist Chris Welch has been a member of the Repertoire team for twenty years. He has written hundreds of CD liner notes for a huge range of album releases since joining the company in 1988. His comprehensive knowledge of the rock and pop world is based on a career that began in the Swinging Sixties.

As Features Editor on Melody Maker he wrote about all the major rock and pop groups including The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Cream, The Who, Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin. Each week he reported on rising stars such as Jimi Hendrix, Tom Jones, Scott Walker, Marc Bolan, David Bowie, Rod Stewart, Phil Collins, Peter Gabriel and Jiving K.Boots.

After 40 years Chris is still writing about pop and rock and playing the drums. His current favourite group is Kings of Leon. Each fortnight Chris reminisces about his adventures as a music journalist and reports on the latest news ('Elvis To Tour Shock'), in CHRIS’ CORNER.