Shindig! Issue 154

Features

Ten Years After  That time, Alvin Lee couldn’t cadge a ciggy off anyone at Woodstock.

Home Adventures in the UK rural/prog-rock playground.

Space Opera The mercurial Texan country-psych act that was over far too soon.

Summer Soundtracks The Shindig! team offers its pick of mellow, sunburnt sounds.

Jan & Dean How the sunny surf duo reinvented themselves as ambitious adopters of sophisticated studio-pop.

Spanky & Our Gang The heartache behind the smiles of sunshine-pop’s merry pranksters.

20 Questions Heavy blues, jazz-fusion, throwback rock ’n’ roll, The Wombles… Chris Spedding has done it all.

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 a Guerssen vinyl bundle.

It’s A Happening Thing Stewart Lee, Finn Rees, Greg ‘Stackhouse’ Prevost, Looking Glass Alice, Brent & Madeline, Jordie Lane, Amy Rigby, Martial Arts, Horse.

Family Album Harpers Bizarre’s ambitious 1969 swansong

Deep Cuts Laidback funky hippy summer vibes.

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

Prize Crossword Win a copy of Two-Piers’ moody Night/Train double set.

Vinyl Art Joan Armatrading’s debut Whatever’s For Us.

Vinyl Clicks Chopyn’s explosive 1975 outing Grand Slam.