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Dear Shindiggers, This time last year was boiling. So whether grey or bright, we’ve come up with something of a “Sunshine Special ”. It ’s a very loose theme of sorts. Basically, I said to the team “Let ’s work around something ‘hot ’.” This isn’t a genre-specific focus on sunshine-pop, although we do have Spanky & Our Gang on the cover. It ’s not centred around chilled, stoned, liquid guitar hippie bliss outs, although we do have Space Opera and Home. What you've got here are an array of acts and styles that you could listen to on your headphones under a tree in the blistering heat without breaking too much of a sweat, whatever your mood.

First, allow me to state that Stewart Lee detests August, but he opens this issue with a philosophical look at psychedelia. As we move on, we take in the Californian ’60s delights of Harper ’s Bizarre and Jan & Dean, that gorgeous song ‘Peaceful’, offer some relatively obscure folky, funky, jazzy deep cuts, consider a wealth of albums baked in the sun, and pose 20 questions to the musically wide-ranging Chris Spedding. Granted, he ’s the wildcard, but his first two solo albums were inspired by The Byrds, Dylan, The Band, Poco, and The Flying Burrito Brothers, so he just about fits.

We’re never really a magazine to compartmentalise or play by the rules. Essentially, we just hope that you enjoy the articles, whatever the weather. I think it ’s a corking spread, but then I would.

As always, do write in and converse on the socials. It ’s important for us to have a dialogue with our readers. On that note, it ’s lovely to meet you out and about when deejaying shows, putting on our monthly nights, or just being a punter at gigs. Without you lot, there ’d be no Shindig!. Lay back and enjoy, Jon ‘Mojo’ Mills Editor-In-Chief

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