Kevin Hedgehog Comes To Light

Kevin Hedgehog Comes To Light


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White Magic
Steve Kilby & Martin Kennedy
Released 25^th February 2011 through MGM




A collaboration that appears to be gaining more substance with the release of their second album together is that of Steve Kilby and Martin Kennedy.


Their debut, “Unseen Music Unheard Words” is now followed by “White Magic”, an ambient mix of acoustic rock and spacious textures swimming under the distinctive lead vocals of Steve Kilby and hypnotic backing vocals of Leona Prue and Selena Cross.



I have endeavoured not to make comparisons, but Steve’s voice is so unique it’s hard not to make connections with his former incarnate, “The Church”. For that matter the textural layers that the music creates are, in part, also reminiscent of Martin’s band,“All India Radio” (they actually feature on the song Close...

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Tone Baked Goodness

The Dillion James Band
Independent release: www.dillionjames.com



Fresh sounds out of Brisbane with a new release from the Dillion James Band. Not a name that might easily spring to mind, the band consists of Dillion James up front as main vocalist as well playing organ, keyboards, percussion and guitar, Lenny Aitken on Didgeridoo and percussion, David Griffiths on bass and rhythm guitar, Norman Baquiran on guitar and vocals, David Gilbert tickling the ivories and clavinet and Michael Tonks on the pots ‘n pans.

“And what makes this so fresh”, I hear you eagerly enquire. The answer is that they have melded some solid blues and tasty reggae beats onto the one album. No, not together, that would be silly. But from one track to the next it flows, and I must add, very smoothly from one genre to another. At first it may seem an incongruous mix but the end result is akin to a live gig where you just want to party!...