I like the Dead C but most of what I've heard hasn't moved me enough. Gate rate a bit higher, and I don't know them well enough to say how much I like them.
The Shadow Ring I don't know well, and liked little of what I've heard. It's not just that their weirdness wasn't weird to my ears (and it's never been so far), again, I don't get it. Graham Lambkin's solo work, though, it's probably up there with my favourite music at this stage, and his visual art is fucking brilliant. Eat Skull are good, even though live the other night played a bit too much like Tom Petty/Johnny Thunders for my liking. Blues Controls are one my most played bands in the last two years, they're amazing live, I need to go to bed. Also, BC like not only Cluster, but Roxy Music and Dio too. That's perfect.
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