21 hours Ago
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet: discuss. Whereas some albums are named in such a way as to be stating the bleedin' obvious – Live, Greatest Hits, The Remixes etc. etc.
. you might need to be in on the reference points to realise that it's actually stating the facts in a slightly subtle manner. This is the Carlisle band recorded live in London at the Pizza Express in Holborn.
(Scoff not; there's quite a few well known acts who've played there, and not everyone wants to stand all night at gigs.) But if your response is simply to dismiss this album on those grounds alone, you might want to be a little more careful..
. Interviewing the band at the tail end of 2023, lead singer Jonny Foster talked about how they've had to make their own circuit – in fact, their earlier live album At Her Majesty's Pleasure was..
. Ed Jupp.
