Beth Gibbons - Lives OutgrownBeth Gibbons releases her debut solo album Lives Outgrown. Featuring 10 beautiful new songs recorded over a period of 10 years, the album was produced by James Ford and Beth Gibbons with additional production by Lee Harris (Talk Talk). Lives Outgrown is, by some measure, Beths most personal work to date, the result of a period of sustained reflection and change lots of goodbyes, in Beths words. Farewells to family, to friends, even to her former self.

There’s a mini-roundtable discussion on gay rights pioneer Morris Knight and San Francisco's brilliant hippie queer activist pranksters the Cockettes and the must see pages with Rachel Leah Gallo's eight-page bio-comic on the delightful and obscure kitchen-folk singer Connie Converse

and I know there are plenty of people who think this is my best work and I never got back to the blunt energy of these recordings

Tillman wrote the majority of Pure Comedy throughout 2015 and recorded all the basic tracking and vocals live to tape (in no more than two takes each) at United Studios (fka the legendary Ocean Way Studios

climaxing with the hypnotic guitar drones and cult-like chants of “TV In Jail On Mars

went on to become a larger part of British music history

When the Covid-19 pandemic shut down the promotional run and worldwide tour “everything came to this grinding halt

Coming out of Ann Arbor in 1964

guided through huge psychedelic rain clouds by Alex James' wandering bass

excitingly innovative‰۝ ****Wyndham Wallace

It is gorgeously ornate and antique

they have so much in them – but writing and singing

Jimi is able to refine new shades from his already impressive repertoire of talent