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Good news for Martin Gordon fans this month. Ace have just signed a distribution deal with his label Radiant Future Records. For the array of riches now on offer, please check out his website:

radiantfuture.eu

I was saddened to learn of the death last Wednesday of Phil Taylor, the great Motorhead drummer. I first met Taylor when Lemmy brought him and Eddie Clark to meet me in a pub opposite our office in Camden Town in March 1977.

If you go to the Media Space at London’s Science Museum between now and 27^th July you can experience the remarkable sound of the 27 feet long Exponential Horn built in 1929 by R. P. G. Denman, then the museum’s curator. The man behind the restoration is Aleksander Kolkowski, who Damned fans will recognise as the violin player on the alternative version of ‘Anti-Pope’ currently featured on ‘The Chiswick Singles: And Another Thing’. But this is a minor part of his extensive CV and since those heady youthful days Aleks has moved relentlessly into the past whilst creating the most contemporary of music using archaic instruments and recorders long abandoned by others to produce original and at times challenging music. The Exponential Horn fits into this picture perfectly and delivers a unique and spectacular sound impossible to reproduce using more contemporary equipment.

The 28th edition of the Porretta Soul Festival was no less essential than the previous 27. Il nostro uomo sul posto, Tony Rounce, dice tutto...