contents ISSUE 154, AUGUST 2024 Features Ten Years After 30 That time Alvin Lee couldn’t cadge a ciggy off anyone at Woodstock

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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

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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

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Family Album

Harpers Bizarre’s ambitious 1969 swansong

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Songbook

Ssshhh… Kenny Rankin’s ‘Peaceful’ and its quiet journey

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Deep Cuts

Laidback funky hippy summer vibes

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Reviews

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

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Prize Crossword

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

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Vinyl Art

Joan Armatrading’s debut Whatever’s For Us

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Vinyl Clicks

Chopyn’s explosive 1975 outing Grand Slam

20 Questions

Heavy blues, jazz-fusion, throwback rock ’n’ roll, The Wombles… Chris Spedding has done it all “You could give licks to people, and, as they’ve already written this song, they’re not going to share the publishing with you. I did that a lot of that”

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