Released via Bandcamp towards the end of last year, EP2 is the second live in rehearsals set by ROB PETERS & THE SLAPDASH COWBOYS, recorded in the run up to the Alive album. Kicking off with the brief strummed sway love song to his wife, This Is Love, it gives way to the surging drive of Jesus In The Parking Lot with its punchy drums and dirty electric guitar, slowing down again for the sparsely accompanied Alive from The Moon That Thought It Was The Sun. It ends with the eight minute Finger Rain, originally from A Copper Heart, with its psychedelic swirl and George Harrison nods. A third is due later this year.
A taster for his upcoming Troubled Delight album, SICKY aka Mick Butler releases I’m Happy If You’re Happy, a jaunty, upbeat little number about seducing someone’s heart, which, Jen Bone on double bass, scuffed percussion, a broken violin, ukulele, glockenspiels, bells, drums, mouth organ, random noises and backing vocals from daughters Lily and Scarlet, has the lazy purring feel of vintage Britpop and most definitely has the effect the title suggests.
Looking ahead, having not released anything since 2023’s sonically experimental Dissolution II, KATY ROSE BENNETT is working towards a new album featuring settings of poems by Scottish poet Donna Ashworth, terrific early unaccompanied tasters of which can be heard on the YouTube videos for When I’m No Longer Here (www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1051695302724019) and The Stars Called You Home (www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6MuAnRBeXg)
