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Tracklist:

1. Blank Page

2. 504

3. In and Outta Love

4. I Don't Know

5. Nothing Means Nothing

6. 65th Prayer

7. Stand in Line

8. Forget My Hat

9. Killing Line

10. Shifting Sands

11. Strummerville

12. Like an Elvis Song

13. Modern Life Blues

14. Cherry Blossom Back Tattoo

15. Angels Cry

16. Little Mystery


CREDITS:

Dave Earl - Vocals - Guitars
Peter Assirati - Guitars - Vocals - Harmonica
Tony Cosaitis - Keyboards
Bob Wond - Drums
Martin Campbell - Bass

Recorded at Perry Vale Studios.

Produced and mixed by Pat Collier and BOTU.

Released: 2019

'A Long Way HOme'

REVIEW:

The best music hits you in the head and heart, before it moves you to different places and fills spaces. 


Rock'n'Roll is not just youthful rebellion, it's for life, Band of The Underhand are a testament to that; several of these guys are veterans with a couple of 'em have paid their dues in late 80's bands 'Under Two Flags' and 'Lightning Strike'. 


The music they make floors you with a right hook and a cardiac arrest.


Their debut album 'A Long Way Home' is packed to the rafters with big bold anthems and ballsy ballads that could pack a stadium never mind the backroom of a spit'n'sawdust pub. 


It's an expansive and enthralling, bluesy and rootsy Rock'n'Roll record, soulful, uplifting and funky. 


A life affirming listen that raises you up and loses you in a soundscape of weeping and screaming guitars, rattling, tinkling pianos solid rhythms, horns and harmonicas. 


The lyrics tell tales of loneliness and isolation, hope and frustration with a bit of social comment and politics thrown in for good measure. 


It's polished and pure, packed with raw emotion and a passion that isn't a fashion. Another contender for my album of the year?....most definitely!

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Featuring former members of Under Two Flags and Lightning Strike, this may be a relatively new band but they already have plenty of musical experience under their collective belt.

This is a double-CD package featuring music written and recorded between 2013 and 2019, but the selection of songs work really well as one cohesive album.

The sound and atmosphere that Band of the Underhand are going for is very much in the realm of contemporary rock’n’roll and obvious reference points would probably be the Clash (circa ‘London Calling’) tempered by Bruce Springsteens’ livelier moments, but you can also hear hints of the Rolling Stones, Mott the Hoople and even Jesse Malin. Although working on a self-funded basis at the moment, it certainly hasn’t stifled their musical vision or ambitions.

They go for a large studio sound and achieve it quite impressively, although it’s the soul of the songs that Band of the Underhand are all about.

They take that emotional core and elaborate it with a great production which brings out the full character of the music. Having not seen them live as yet, I can’t really comment on how these songs sound onstage, but  they have the kind of approach which you could imagine would be highly effective.

Band of the Underhand have written some great songs and combined them with imaginative arrangements to produce a very interesting and entertaining record. I strongly suggest that you should investigate it at your earliest opportunity.  

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