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Live Review: Michael Head and The Red Elastic Band / Astles – Crookes Social Club, Sheffield 13.12.2022
I’ve got to be careful here. As I gathered with the worshippers at the brilliant Social Club in the Sheffield suburb of Crookes, I’m well aware that although I’ve loved Michael Head records over the years I’m not at the level of a good proportion of the gathered throng who know every word, every chord …
SEE: The Departure Lounge – ‘Mercury In Retrograde’: indie prodigals return on Michael Head’s label
SEVENTEEN long years away; but you can’t keep a decent indie songsmith gone forever. You may well recall the graceful indie of the Departure Lounge; they released two sweet and underappreciated albums for Bella Union, 2001’s Jetlag Dreams and Too Late To Die Young a year later. You may be even longer in the indie …