Shindig! Issue 170

Features

The 2025 Shindig! Writers’ Poll: The team offer their highlights of an exceptional year for new music, archival reissues, box sets, books, live shows, TV, radio and more.

Robert Plant: How the determined hippy troublemaker got his break.

20 Questions: Bill Nelson 34 The veteran all-rounder discusses psychedelic beginnings, commercial pop, art-rock and much more.

Super Sister: They came from The Hague… Naked!

Nino Tempo: The MOR singer who worked with Spector and worshipped Pet Sounds.

The Pandoras: Back on the road with the all-female LA garage-punk legends.

Humble Pie: “Don’t call us a supergroup!” Behind Marriott, Frampton and co’s explosive first two years together.

Regulars

Thoughts & Words: Your letters, tweets and emails.

Shindiggin’ What’s hot on the Shindig! turntable.

Subscribers’ Prize Draw: Subscribe now and you could win The Beatles Anthology 2025 hardback.

It’s A Happening Thing: What’s Cooking In 2026?, Ger Eaton, Fire In Her Eyes, Melody’s Echo Chamber, Edgar Jones, The Goods, Rose IO, Peter Daltrey, Trimdon Grange Explosion, Temporary Blessings.

Family Album: Inner Dialogue’s slick, slightly spooked self-titled 1969 debut.

Deep Cuts: “Who?” Some of our favourite pseudonyms and aliases

Screen Time: Witchcraft and paganism in superb documentary movie The Last Sacrifice.

Reviews: The best in reissues, new releases, books and live shows.

Prize Crossword: Win a copy of Faces’ Early Steps on vinyl.

Vinyl Art: Horse by Horse by Comus!

Vinyl Clicks: Head’s 1973 jazz-rock rarity GTF