From Honeymoon to Houses and homes – The Bye Bye Blackbirds’ new album offers memorable songs and lyrically a heightened sense of place, not straying much beyond the edge of town, but alive to the ghosts who have walked the same streets and leant against the same bars.  The set leads off with the song [...]

‘The type of pop band that the great John Peel would have championed’ says label American Dust of the Bye Bye Blackbirds.  Possibly not, for on occasion John’s ears were resolutely cloth; he failed to pick up on any number of great groups who chose to major on the song rather than on sound and/or [...]