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July 1, 2025

Week four of seven in the Gulls Window Circus New England series starts the CD portion, and also provides an in-studio interview with Tommy White of The Mighty Ions, Unnatural Axe, The Fabulous Billygoons, The Beachmasters and The Beachcombers. Most enjoyable new find was the Calef Brown/Clementown CD, which takes the two children’s books Polkabats and Octopus Slacks, and Dutch Sneakers and Flea-Keepers and puts the books to song. Every single track in parts 1 and 2 are rather crucial, I really hope you get to listen to them all.

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Artist	Song	Release	Label
Willie Alexander And The Persistence Of Memory Orchestra	Bass Rocks	The East Main Street Suite	Accurate Distortion
The Atlantics	Big City Rock	Big City Rock	ABC Records
Audioscam	Get Used to This	#Kickingandscreaming – EP	Audioscam
The Beachcombovers	Satan’s Holiday	Shake and Stomp	American Independent Records Inc.
The Mighty Ions	Andy & Bill	Face Rakin’ Rock	Dino Records
The Mighty Ions	Australopithecus	Face Rakin’ Rock	Alien Snatch! Records
The Beachmasters	Surfin’ Ayatollah	Beachmasters	Kleen Kut Records
The Fabulous Billygoons	The Goons Are Drinking Again	Rhapsody In Flatulence	Modern Method Records
Betwixt	Sundown, Sundown	Moustache	Archenemy
Big Meat Hammer	City Kids	Please Keep Portland Clean	Goreprod
Black Cat Bone	Judas Tree	Homework #10 DIY/postpunk/No Wave/experimental: ABC ’79-89	Hyped To Death
Darryl Blood	Unsettling Sweet	This Isn’t Goodbye	Bluesanct
Clementown and Calef Brown	The Bathtub Driver	Polkabats and Octopus Slacks-The MUSIC!	Clementown Records
Clementown and Calef Brown	The Lonely Surfer	Polkabats and Octopus Slacks-The MUSIC!	Clementown Records
Carden & Wallace	Untitled	The Dinosaur Gardens	Music To Dream To…Recordings
Seana Carmody	Oh Tokyo	Not Foolin You	Not On Label
The Cars	I’m In Touch With Your World	The Cars	Elektra

Artist	Song	Release	Label
Cheesecake	So What	You’re Soaking In iIt	Girlie
Cookiepusher	The Worst Spy	Heavy Is Disheveled	Not On Label
Combustible Edison	Solid State	Schizophonic	Subpop
The Complaints	Can’t Kill A Killer	Chasing Light	CompRecords
The Crimson Ghosts	Last Caress	Some Kinda Hits	Necro-Tone Records
Crow Follow	Brambles	Red Velvet Radio	Band 4 Band Records
Cyclones	52 Chief	Viva La Sardina Loca!	xxx
The Dambuilders	Candy Guts	Tough Guy Problem – EP	The Dambuilders
Peter Dayton	Falling In Love With Myself	Peter Dayton	Smasheasy
The Demon Seeds	One Foot In the Grave	Have a Date With Death	Necro-Tone Records
Dirt Merchants	Headdress	4 Song Promo Sampler	Epic
Dogmatics	Teenage Lament	1981-1986	Vagrant Records
The Ekphrastics	A Good Day for Sailing	Make Your Own Snowboard	Harriet Records
The Elevator Drops	Proto	People Mover	UMG – The Bicycle Music Company
Flying Nuns	Submarine	Pilot	Matador
Drekka	Secrets Without	Exactioning	Bluesanct

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June 24, 2025

Week three of seven in the Gulls Window Circus New England series continues with vinyl releases, both LP and compilations on Throbbing Lobster, Modern Method, Arf! Arf!, and Conflict/Radiobeat. That will cover tracks by Busted Statues, Beanbag, Sorry, Moose And The Mudbugs, Kenne Highland, The Oysters, The Underachievers, Christmas, Wild Kingdom, 21-645, Chain Link Fence, Noise Pencil, and La Peste. On. The LP front, you will hear November Group, Morphine, Robin Lane & The Chartbusters, ‘Til Tuesday, Leah Callahan, Scruffy the Cat, O Positive, Richie Parsons, Mini Dresses, The Secret Stars, Doug Tuttle, The Neighborhoods, Betwixt, Combustible Edison, The Screaming Pope, The Modern Lovers, Karate, Salem 66, and Helium. Much goodness within.

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Artist	Song	Release	Label
November Group	I Live Alone	Persistent Memories	Brain Eater
Morphine	French Fries With Pepper	Live At The Warfield 1997	Run Out Groove
Robin Lane & The Chartbusters	I Don’t Want To Know	Robin Lane & The Chartbusters	Warner Bros. Records
‘Til Tuesday	Don’t Watch Me Bleed	Voices Carry	Epic
Leah Callahan	The Red Eye	Even Sleepers	Baraca
Scruffy the Cat	Shadow Boy	Tiny Days	Relativity
O Positive	Weight Of Days	Only Breathing	Throbbing Lobster
Richie Parsons	Blue Sands	Honey And Tears	Lawless Records
Mini Dresses	Emily	Mini Dresses	Joy Void
The Secret Stars	Sister…Brother	Genealogies	Shrimper
Doug Tuttle	Weak Ends	Pinecone	Wild Honey Records
The Neighborhoods	It All Makes Sense	Fire Is Coming	Mustang Records
Betwixt	Stop & Start	The Salty Tang	Woodside Records
Combustible Edison	Carnival Of Souls	Forbidden Isle Of Demos	Modern Harmonic
The Screaming Pope	Ganymede	The Old Silk Road	Gaia Records

Artist	Song	Release	Label
The Modern Lovers	Old World	The Modern Lovers	Sanctuary
Karate	Sever	Unsolved	Numero Group
Salem 66	Seven Steps Down	Salem 66	Homestead Records
Helium	Baby’s Going Underground	The Dirt Of Luck	Matador
Busted Statues	Blue Cheer	Bands That Could Be God	Conflict Records
Beanbag	Harassment	Bands That Could Be God	Conflict Records
Sorry	One More Step	Bands That Could Be God	Conflict Records
Moose And The Mudbugs	Crawfish With A Vengeance (Revisited)	These Dogs Live In The Garage (The Arf Arf Music Sampler Volume II)	Arf! Arf!
Kenne Highland	Money	These Dogs Live In The Garage (The Arf Arf Music Sampler Volume II)	Arf! Arf!
The Oysters	Headhunters	Mr. Beautiful Presents All Hard	Modern Method Records
The Underachievers	I’ll Be There For You	Nobody Gets On The Guest-List!	Throbbing Lobster
Christmas	Our Mutual Friend	Nobody Gets On The Guest-List!	Throbbing Lobster
Wild Kingdom	The Way To Love	Nobody Gets On The Guest-List!	Throbbing Lobster
21-645	Red Red	Nobody Gets On The Guest-List!	Throbbing Lobster
Chain Link Fence	The Happening	Nobody Gets On The Guest-List!	Throbbing Lobster
Noise Pencil	Weirton, West Virginia	Nobody Gets On The Guest-List!	Throbbing Lobster
La Peste	Lease On Life	A Wicked Good Time!	Modern Method Records

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June 17, 2025

Week two of seven in the Gulls Window Circus New England series continues with vinyl LP tracks, going back in time as far as Taxi Boys (pre-Real Kids) and up to Swirlies from their 2018 LP and The Martha’s Vineyard Ferries from their 2021 LP. Lots of 80s and 90s records and lots of well-known bands of punk [Nervous Eaters, The Mighty Ions, Lemonheads, Tommy Gun & The Hit Squad, La Peste, Unnatural Axe], post-punk [Neats, Native Tongue, Mission Of Burma, Turbines, The Young Snakes, Vitamin, Band 19, The Martha’s Vineyard Ferries, The Neighborhoods, Pixies, Swirlies], garage [The Real Kids, Lyres, Taxi Boys] and hardcore [Negative FX, Straw Dogs, SSD, Psycho, Wrecking Crew, Red Bliss, Kudgel, P.T.L Klub, Outpatients, Slapshot, The Proletariat].

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Artist	Song	Release	Label
Neats	Same	The Monkey’s Head In The Corner Of The Room	Ace Of Hearts Records
Native Tongue	Speaking In Captions	Native Tongue	Détente Records
The Real Kids	Can’t Talk To That Girl	Outta Place	Star Rhythm Records
Nervous Eaters	I’m A Degenerate	Eaterville #2	Penniman Records
Mission Of Burma	Dumbells	Mission Of Burma	Taang! Records
The Mighty Ions	Pedro Morales	Face Rakin’ Rock	Alien Snatch! Records
Lyres	Buried Alive	AHS 1005	Ace Of Hearts Records
Lemonheads	Sunday	Creator	Taang! Records
Taxi Boys	Bad To Worse	Real Kids / Taxi Boys – Girls! Girls! Girls!	Lolita
Turbines	That’s The Way	Last Dance Before Highway	Big Time
The Young Snakes	Give Me Your Face	Bark Along With The Young Snakes	Ambiguous Records
Vitamin	Sinner	Recordings 1981	Don Giovanni Records
Out Of Band Experience	Genius	Call Now! 1-800-OUT-BAND	Immortal Records
Out Of Band Experience	1-800-OUT-BAND	Call Now! 1-800-OUT-BAND	Immortal Records
Negative FX	Mind Control	Negative FX	Taang! Records
Straw Dogs	In Deep	We Are Not Amused	Restless Records
SSD	How We Rock Intro	How We Rock	Modern Method Records
SSD	How We Rock	How We Rock	Modern Method Records

Artist	Song	Release	Label
Band 19	No Why	Dictate	Modern Method Records
La Peste	Leave Me Alone	Better Off Dead	Rave Up Records
The Martha’s Vineyard Ferries	After You	Suns Out Guns Out	Ernest Jenning Record Co.
Tommy Gun & The Hit Squad	Hail To The Chief!	Hail To The Chief!	Spit Records
The Neighborhoods	The Man I Don’t Want To Be	A Tribute To Unnatural Axe – Ruling The World From The Backseat	Lawless Records
Unnatural Axe	Youth Corps	Is Gonna Kick Your Ass	Alternative Action Records
Psycho	No Way	Hosebags From Hell	Ax/ction Records
Wrecking Crew	In Your Head	Balance Of Terror	Hawker Records
Red Bliss	Towels	Fishkill	Axis Records
Kudgel	Pallet Jack	Sea Monkee	100% Breakfast!
P.T.L Klub	Real Thing	13 Comandments	Mystic Records
Outpatients	The Necessary Piece	Free Association	Incas Records
Slapshot	Show The Way	Step On It	Taang! Records
The Proletariat	Bread And Circus	Soma Holiday	Radiobeat Records
Pixies	Dead	Doolittle	4AD
Swirlies	In Harmony Newfound Freedom (Part Time Punks Session)	Swirlies’ Magic Strop: Tonight…	Sneaky Flute Empire

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June 10, 2025

Week one of seven in the Gulls Window Circus New England series. Most of the bands are Boston-based, but the allowance for neighboring states [ME, RI, NH, VT, CT] was added to allow inclusion of some very worthy bands. The first three weeks are vinyl-only, and last two weeks are CD-only. As usually, Gulls Window Circus only plays physical product [would love to play cassettes, but my player gave up the ghost]. This series focuses on bands that appeared during or after the punk revolution. There are a ton of 80s release, many 90s releases, some 70s, and some post-00 bands. Sperm Bank Babies = Will Alexander, Chord Rockers & Future Dads = Richie Parsons, Hypnosonics are Morphine related (you probably knew all that!). Now lets listen and discover some new music.

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Artist	Song	Release	Label
Billy Bacon	Boss City	Billy’s Revue	Memoire Music
The Sperm Bank Babies	Jack	The Sperm Bank Babies Featuring Al “Lorenzo” Drake	Varage Records
The Bags	What Do You Want?	Rock Starve	Restless Records
E	The Projectionist	Negative Work	Thrill Jockey
The Chord Rockers	Subway	Salaria	Surfin’ KI Records
Girls	Pedestrian Walk	Reunion	Brasch Music
The Gore Hounds	Serenade	Halloween Everywhere	Alien Cactus Records
The Blackjacks	Dead Flowers	Dress In Black	Throbbing Lobster
Big Dipper	What In Sam Hill…?	Boo-Boo	Homestead Records
The Fools	She Makes Me Feel Big	World Dance Party	PVC Records
The Dawgs	Chicken	My Town	Star Rhythm Records
Peter Dayton	Stuck On The Same Refrain	Love At 1st Sight	Shoo-Bop Records
Future Dads	Tree Outside	24 Winship	Rave Up Records
The Flies	Fall Into Your World	The Flies	Czech Records
Eighth Route Army	Outside My Window	Nihilist Olympics	1 Dimensional Records
Bullet LaVolta	Over The Shoulder	Bullet LaVolta	Taang! Records

Artist	Song	Release	Label
The J. Geils Band	No Doubt About It	Ladies Invited	Atlantic
The Del Fuegos	Missing You	The Longest Day	Slash
Dogmatics	Everything Went Bad	Everybody Does It	Homestead Records
Dumptruck	Friends	For The Country	Big Time
Gang Green	I’m Still Young	Older… Budweiser	Emergo
F.U.’s	We’re An American Band	My America	Xclaim!
Cancerous Growth	Had Enough	Late For The Grave	Ax/ction Records
Fat Day	Cleft	My Name Is I Hate You	100% Breakfast!
DMZ	Mighty Idy	DMZ	4 Men With Beards
Human Sexual Response	Pound	In A Roman Mood	Passport Records
Hypnosonics	Where’s The Girl	Someone Stole My Shoes: Beyond The Q Division Sessions	Modern Harmonic
DYS	Closer Still	DYS	Modern Method Records
Neutral Nation	Streets	It’s A Bash	Bigbone Records
GingerBread Men	Battle Bones	Witches House	Gull Records
Executioner	Break The Silence	Break The Silence	New Renaissance Records
Jerry’s Kids	Twisted Brain	Kill Kill Kill	Taang! Records
Kilslug	Tart Cart	Answer The Call	Taang! Records

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June 3, 2025

The third of 3 weeks of CD shows has Gulls Window Circus’s first interview in ages – at the start of the second hour The Yellow Melodies talk about their ‘Pleasant Dreams’ record, which is a song-by-song Ramones cover record. That should not reduce excitement about the other tracks. Every single track is a thrill that it would be a shame for you to miss. Florida’s The Stargazer Lilies are here from a Part Time Punks session, Oslo faves Mats Wawa are here (just announced a new record!), Wreckless Eric is here as The Len Bright Combo. The Strait-Jackets (Allen Esser just released a Primitive Romance CD) are here. Catalonia duo Tarta Relena and another track from the impossible-to-find Catamount CD appear as well.

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Artist	Song	Release	Label
Silver Jews	Let’s Not And Say We Did	Bright Flight	Drag City
Chris Stamey	The Great Escape	The Great Escape	Schoolkids Records
Catamount	Been There All Summer	No Joy in Hurrayville	no label
The Royal Opposition feat. Lynn Blakey & Mitch Easter	Room With A View	Yesterday’s Tomorrow: Celebrating The Winston-Salem Sound	Omnivore Recordings
Zorch	Cosmic Gloss (radio edit)	Zzoorrcchh	Sargent House
The Stargazer Lilies	We Are The Dreamers	Part Time Punks Sessions	Casa del Puente Discos
Tarta Relena	El Suïcidi I El Cant	Fiat Lux	La Castanya
10¢	Red Rubber Ball	Buggin’ Out!	Hi-Ho Records
Throwing Muses	Shimmer	MSN On Air	Microsoft
The Stroppies	Look Alive	Look Alive	Tough Love Records
Russ Tolman	Yuba City	Goodbye El Dorado	Lost Records
Thin White Rope	Red Sun	When Worlds Collide	Munster Records
The Strait-Jackets	Fool Protection	The Strait-Jackets	Strait-Jacket Records
Gary Valentine	Infatuated	Amor Fati	Not On Label
Vinyl Devotion	Aren’t You Bored California	If They Know You’re Trying	Widely Distributed Records

Artist	Song	Release	Label
The Yellow Melodies	7-11	Pleasant Dreams	Discos Imprescindibles
The Yellow Melodies	Come On Now	Pleasant Dreams	Discos Imprescindibles
The Yellow Melodies	The KKK Took My Baby Away	Pleasant Dreams	Discos Imprescindibles
Julienne Clark	Girl Don’t Come	Dream Girls At Direct!	Blaamm! Records
Mats Wawa	Bed Of Love	Classics EP	Not On Label
The Bubble Gum Machine	You Make Everything Right	Senate Single Collection	Area251 Records
Paula Wayne	It’s A Happening World	It’s A Happening World	Area251 Records
The Windmills	Pounds, Shillings And Pence	Sunlight	Matinée Recordings
Weekend With Keith Tippett	Nostalgia	Live At Ronnie Scott’s	Cherry Red
Irmão Victor	Tristinha	Mariposario	Pop Supérette
Charlie Rodriguez	It’s Alright	Senate Single Collection	Area251 Records
The Veees	On The Road	The Veees	Environmental Studies
The Len Bright Combo	Lureland	Wreckless Eric Presents The Len Bright Combo By The Len Bright Combo	Fire Records

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May 27, 2025

The second of 3 weeks of CD shows on Gulls Window Circus brings a wide group of artists of various era and geographies together in two one hour sets of complimentary tracks. Form 1972 Spanish band Formula V and Los Angeles Rock Flowers (associated with Mattel dolls of the same name) to 1980 former Milk ‘N’ Cookies member Ian North and 1982 US Power pop great unknown Bruce Moody, every artist has a story on this show, and all have great sounds to accompany them.

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Artist	Song	Release	Label
Roy Moller	Red Jeep	There’s A Thousand Untold Stories	The Beautiful Music
Ian North	The Naked City	My Girlfriend’s Dead	Repressed
Bruce Moody	Simple Love	Forever Fresh!	Counterfeit Records
Summer Factory	Las Migas	Into The Jet Stream Of Pop	The Beautiful Music
Nymphs	Alright! (Demo Version)	A Practical Guide To Astral Projection	DGC
Permanent Green Light	(You & I Are The ) Summertime	Hallucinations	Omnivore Recordings
Pointed Sticks	True Love	Perfect Youth	Sudden Death Records
Personal Effects	So Hard	A Collection	Earring Records
Jowe Head And The Demi-Monde	I Hear A New World	See Dee Four	Topplers Records
Opal	Grains Of Sand	Early Recordings	Rough Trade
Philip Rambow	Big Tears	The Rebel Kind Anthology 1972-2020	Cherry Red Records
Catamount	It’s Not 1996	No Joy In Hurrayville	no label
Rock Flowers	Uptight World	The Complete Rock Flowers	Area251 Records
Jenny Brett	I Say A Little Prayer	Dream Girls At Direct!	Blaamm! Records
The Hepburns	The Last Thing I Saw Before I Said Goodbye	Something Worth Stealing	Radio Khartoum

Artist	Song	Release	Label
The Social Icons	Grey	I’m There…You’re Here	The Beautiful Music
Das Blaue Palais	Zeeland	Skullduggery (A selection of tracks from “Heads Together”)	Fruits de Mer Records
Malcolm Ross With The Delancy St. Group And The Magic Clan	Low Shot	Low Shot	The Bus Stop Label
Alastair Riddell	And Up To Now	Space Waltz	RPM Records
Scarlet Drops	I Don’t Want To See You	Scarlet Drops 1984-1992	Harriet Records
Roy Moller	Rhythm From The Rails	Playing Songs No One’s Listening To	The Beautiful Music
Kevin Rowland	It’s Getting Better	My Beauty	Cherry Red
Michael Horn	Charlotte Was My Cousin’s Duck	Senate Single Collection	Area251 Records
Bartlebees	Hollywood Holiday	Into The Jet Stream Of Pop	The Beautiful Music
Sleepers	Mirror	The Less An Object	Tim/Kerr Records
Smokescreens	Waiting For The Summer	Used To Yesterday	Slumberland Records
Skytone	Springtime	Echoes In All Directions	The Beautiful Music
Formula V	Vacaciones De Verano	“Ayer Y Hoy”	Philips
Paul Haig	Summertime	Metamorphosis	Les Disques Du Crépuscule
Kosmonaut	Never Realized	Into The Jet Stream Of Pop	The Beautiful Music

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May 20, 2025

The first of three weeks of CD shows. 5 songs from The Beautiful Music label, 3 from Blaamm! Records, 2 from Igor Records, Area251 Records and Slumberland Records, plus lots of special tracks from other favorite independent labels including Harriet, Blue Élan, Mega Dodo, Vogon, Think Like A Key Music, Fruits de Mer, Radio Khartoum and others.

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Artist	Song	Release	Label
Bone Of Contention	Yugoslavia	Fun	Igor Records
Cherie Currie & Brie Darling	Do It Again	The Motivator	Blue Élan Records
BPA	Thorazine Cheerleader	Maybe Use My Knife 1980-1986	Shake It! Records
Julian Cope	The Dogshow Must Go On	Friar Tuck	Head Heritage
Brinsley Schwarz	(What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love And Understanding?	Live Archive Vol. 4 Köln And Paris	Vogon
The Cherry Boys	Why Don’t You Write	Kardomah Café	Good Time Records
Armstrong	Pilgrim Heart	Fragments & Curiosities (The 4Track Sessions)	The Beautiful Music
Baskervilles	A Free Show In Battery Park	Into The Jet Stream Of Pop	The Beautiful Music
Good & Plenty	Ain’t Life Grand	The World Of Good & Plenty	Area251 Records
Skytone	Never No Never	Shining Over You	The Beautiful Music
The Hepburns	Devil Up A Drainpipe	Something Worth Stealing	Radio Khartoum
Robyn Hitchcock	Cavendish Square	The Man Downstairs: Demos & Rarities	Tiny Ghost Records
The Hung Jury	Buses	The Single (s)	Area251 Records
Tommy Hoehn	Blow Yourself Up	Losing You To Sleep	Air Mail Recordings
The Honey Pot	The Outskirts Of Your Mind	Inside The Whale	Mega Dodo
Julia Jones	Superstar	Dream Girls At Direct!	Blaamm! Records

Artist	Song	Release	Label
Roy Moller	Byres Road Saturday	Playing Songs No One’s Listening To	The Beautiful Music
Samantha Pride	The Only One	Dream Girls At Direct!	Blaamm! Records
Jeanines	Hits The Bone	Jeanines	Slumberland Records
Donnie Iris	Shock Treatment	Back On The Streets	Razor & Tie
Minimalist Love Gods	Hit The Ground Running	Devolver	Igor Records
Lmnop	Comparative Analysis	LMNO3 Deluxe	Think Like A Key Music
High Risk Group	Pulsed	Seconds Away	Harriet Records
Smokescreens	Fork In The Road	A Strange Dream	Slumberland Records
Gang	Why Can’t You Just Be	See Dee Four	Topplers Records
Gill Smith	Johnny Reggae	Dream Girls At Direct!	Blaamm! Records
The Lune	Again	Blameless	Crow Point Records
Eisberg	Südpol	Skullduggery (A selection of tracks from “Heads Together”)	Fruits de Mer Records
Stephen Malkmus And The Jicks	Future Suite	Sparkle Hard	Matador
The Mommyheads	Mutual Enemy	Future You	Fanfar!
Lloyd Meadows	Oxford Guitar Club	Oxford Synthesiser Club	The Beautiful Music
The Social Icons	Pop Is Falling Apart	I’m There…You’re Here	The Beautiful Music

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May 13, 2025

The third and final week of ‘proggy rock’ on Gulls Window Circus. The Dutch band Supersister provide the cover art and sound model for this week. Chicago’s Sidewalk also are perfect, with a Jackpot reissue of their sole 1975 private press LP. Simple Minds are the most recent artists, with a track from their 1983 Sparkle In The Rain LP. Well known artists Renaissance, The Soft Machine, Tangerine Dream, Traffic, Robin Trower, Uriah Heep, Utopia and Yes keep proginess going into the sky and above.

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Artist	Song	Release	Label
Renaissance	The Vultures Fly High	Scheherazade And Other Stories	Sire
Sidewalk	Open Up Midnight	Sidewalk	Jackpot Records
Simple Minds	White Hot Day	Sparkle In The Rain	Virgin Records Ltd.
The Soft Machine	As Long As He Lies Perfectly Still	Volume Two	Sundazed Music
The Soft Machine	Dedicated To You But You Weren’t Listening	Volume Two	Sundazed Music
Supersister	Bagoas	The Sound Of Music – The First Fifty Years 1970-2020	Music On Vinyl
Supersister	Hope To See You There Again	The Sound Of Music – The First Fifty Years 1970-2020	Music On Vinyl
Tangerine Dream	Ultima Thule Part One	Alpha Centauri	Esoteric Recordings
Tangerine Dream	Ultima Thule Part Two	Alpha Centauri	Esoteric Recordings
Traffic	John Barleycorn	John Barleycorn Must Die	United Artists Records
Robin Trower	A Tale Untold	For Earth Below	Chrysalis
Uriah Heep	The Magician’s Birthday	The Magician’s Birthday	Mercury
Supersister	Spiral Staircase	The Sound Of Music – The First Fifty Years 1970-2020	Music On Vinyl

Artist	Song	Release	Label
Todd Rundgren’s Utopia	Utopia	Todd Rundgren’s Utopia	Rhino Records
A. Vuolo – E. Grande	Drops In The Wind	Desert	Strut
Yes	South Side Of The Sky	Fragile	Atlantic
Al Di Meola	Elegant Gypsy Suite	Elegant Gypsy	mpex Records
Dixie Dregs	Wages Of Weirdness	The Great Spectacular	Iconoclassic Records
Midori Takada	Catastrophe Σ	Through The Looking Glass	We Release Whatever The F**k We Want Records

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May 6, 2025

The second week of ‘proggy rock’ on Gulls Window Circus. Only three USA artists this week [Holding Pattern, Moondog, Ram], so you get to travel around the world with the circus, enjoying prog sounds by bands typically associated with rock (Nektar and The Alan Parsons Project aside). Just as BOC gave us a prog-like moment on the Bad Channels soundtrack last week, Jimmy Page will make you say ‘wow’ on his Death Wish II soundtrack. Make sure to hear Connecticut’s Holding Pattern and Long Island’s Ram as well.

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Artist	Song	Release	Label
Group 1850	Avant Les Pericles	Polyandri	Pseudonym
Holding Pattern	Jigsaw Dream	Holding Pattern	Savy Records
Iron Butterfly	You Can’t Win	Heavy	Rhino Records
King Crimson	We’ll Let You Know	Starless And Bible Black	Discipline Global Mobile
Magma	Theusz Hamtaahk (Part 1)	BBC 1974 Londres	Music On Vinyl
János Másik	Trance Balance	Trance Balance	Foam On A Wave
Mahogany Rush	Strange Universe	Strange Universe	20th Century Records
Steve Maxwell Von Braund	Shadowfax	Monster Planet	Dual Planet

Artist	Song	Release	Label
Moondog	Theme	Moondog	Columbia Masterworks
The Moody Blues	The Actor	In Search Of The Lost Chord	Friday Music
Nektar	Questions And Answers	Remember The Future	Passport Records
Nektar	Tomorrow Never Comes	Remember The Future	Passport Records
Neu!	Dänzing	Neu! ’86	Grönland Records
Brian Auger’s Oblivion Express	Fill Your Head With Laughter	Complete Oblivion	Soul Bank Music
Ozric Tentacles	Tidal Convergence	Erpland	Kscope
Jimmy Page	The Chase	Death Wish II (The Original Soundtrack)	Swan Song
The Alan Parsons Project	The Voice	I Robot	Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab
Popera Cosmic	La Chanson Du Lièvre De Mars	Les Esclaves	Finders Keepers Records
Ram	The Mother’s Day Song	Where? (In Conclusion)	Polydor
Raw Material	Ice Queen	Time Is…	Ethelion

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April 29, 2025

The first of the three week ‘proggy rock’ series on Gulls Window Circus, where we hear (mostly) 70s rock bands exercising their right to go prog on certain tracks. The Netherlands bring George Baker Selection and Focus, Australia brings Cybotron, Belfast brings Fruupp, Lisbon brings Gala Drop, Paris brings Gong, Germany brings Faust, Cardiff brings Budgie, plus we have lots of English and US bands as well.

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Artist	Song	Release	Label
David Axelrod	The Warnings (Instrumental) Part I	Earth Rot	Now-Again Records
Arcadium	I’m On My Way	Breathe Awhile	Sunbeam Records
George Baker Selection	Pancake 6	Little Green Bag	Music On Vinyl
Be-Bop Deluxe	Superenigmatix (Lethal Appliances For The Home With Everything)	Drastic Plastic	Harvest
Blue Öyster Cult	This Dude Is F****d	Bad Channels – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack	Full Moon Records
Tommy Bolin	Naked Edge	Energy	Friday Music
Budgie	If I Were Brittania I’d Waive The Rules	If I Were Brittania I’d Waive The Rules	A&M Records
Camel	Nimrodel / The Procession / The White Rider	Mirage	Decca
Cybotron	Mumbo Jumbo	Cybotron	Dual Planet

Artist	Song	Release	Label
Czar	Tread Softly On My Dreams	Czar	Sunbeam Records
Deep Purple	The Mule	Fireball	Harvest
Faust	Jennifer	Faust IV	Virgin
Fifty Foot Hose	If Not This Time	Cauldron	Aguirre Records
Focus	Focus II	Singles, Deep Cuts & BBC Live	Music On Vinyl
Fruupp	Seaward Sunset	The Prince Of Heaven’s Eyes	Music On Vinyl
Peter Gabriel	We Do What We’re Told (Milgram’s 37)	So	Geffen Records
Gala Drop	Dub Da Meia Noite	Amizade	GDRecords
Genesis	The Return Of The Giant Hogweed	Nursery Cryme	Analogue Productions
Gong	Oily Way (Home Rehearsal)	Gong In The 70’s	Culture Factory
HP Lovecraft	At The Mountains Of Madness	Live May 11, 1968	Sundazed Music