Welcome to another edition of Mostly Summer Starting this hour with a few from the year 1984, a varied selection of new ones, and some from album’s released earlier this year that you and I may have missed, plus the odd gig guide
 Hour 1
 Sparkle in the Rain is the sixth studio album by Scottish rock band Simple Minds, released in February 1984
Track: Book of Brilliant Things
 Ammonia Avenue is the seventh studio album by the British progressive rock band The Alan Parsons Project, released on 7 February 1984
Track: Prime Time
 Barclay James Harvest and their 13th album A Victim of Circumstance released in 1984
Track: Watching You
 Stationary Traveller is the tenth studio album by English progressive rock band Camel. Like much of Camel’s output, it is a concept album, in this case centering on the trials of East German refugees attempting to cross the Berlin Wall from East Berlin into West Berlin
Track: Fingertips
 Gig Guide
This info is giving you advanced notice of up and coming events, so you can get tickets.
 Seth Lakeman – “Divided We Will Fall” from album The Well Worn Path
The British folk singer- songwriter-multi-instrumentalist will release his eighth solo album on 26th October.
Seth Lakeman is an English folk singer,songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He is appearing at Gloucester Guildhall on 14th November
  Tobias Ben Jacob and Lucas Drinkwater from their EP The Burning Low, they will be appearing at The Bristol Folk House on 9th Sept and The Prince Albert, Stroud on the 19th September
Track:Â A Polyphonic Life
 Lindisfarne are an English folk rock band from Newcastle upon Tyne established in 1968 with their Fog on the Tyne song, .Prominade is a 2002 album. They are appearing at The Roses Theatre in Tewkesbury on 23rdSeptember
Track:Â Remember Tomorrow
The Fairport Convention will be at The Bacon Theatre, Cheltenham on 12th October, their album 50:50 @ 50
Track: Eleanor’s Dream
 New Music
 Neil Finn and his son Liam have recorded their first album together, Lightkeeper.
Track: We Know What It Takes
 After a break of six years The Songs Of Other England is the second album by Artmagic, a collaboration between guitarist Richard Oakes (Suede) and producer / singer Sean McGhee (Alison Moyet, Kate Havnevik, Robyn)
Track: Into The Light
 Swallowed By the New is an album re-released by Glen Phillips., an American songwriter, lyricist, singer and guitarist. He is best known as the singer and songwriter of thealternative rock group Toad the Wet Sprocket.
Track: Baptistina
 Since forming in 2003 and over the course of five albums, Tunng are a group that have explored the boundaries between acoustic and electronic music, becoming synonymous with the folktronica genre their new album Songs You Made At Night
Track: sleepwalking
 MTR
 Connor Youngblood , multi-instrumentalist, and his new album, Cheyanne. Born in Dallas and currently living in Nashville.
Track: Los Angeles
 Hour 2
 More from 1984
 John David Souther is an American singer and songwriter. He has written and co-written songs recorded by Linda Ronstadt and the Eagles. Home by Dawn is the fourth album by the American singer-songwriter , released in 1984Â
Track: Bad News travels fast
Playin’ It Cool is the debut studio solo album by Timothy B. Schmit, the bass guitarist and co-lead vocalist for the Eagles. The album was released in 1984Â
Track: Playin’ It Cool
 Big Bam Boom is the twelfth studio album by Daryl Hall & John Oates, released by RCA Records on October 12, 1984
Track: Possession Obsession
 Gig Info
This info is giving you advanced notice of up and coming events, so you can get tickets.
 Steeleye Span are coming to Stroud Subscription Rooms on the 2nd October, and the Swan Theatre Worcester on the 4th October
From their album Spanning the years
Track: Hard Times of Old England
 Port Isacc’s Fishermans friends are returning to The Town Hall, Cheltenham, on 1st November
Track: Cousin Jack
 The Danmed are coming to Cheltenham on 22nd November, they have just released a new album Evil Spirits.
Track: Look Left
 Emily Barker is finishing her European/Uk tour on the 3rd November in Stroud, her UK base, at the Old Good Shed, a track from Sweet Kind of Blue
Track: Sweet Kind of Blue
 New Music
 The Artisanals – “Angel 42” from from album The Artisanals
An American band with a country-rock sound straight out of the 70s – which isn’t a bad thing. Debut album out on 21st September.
James Bradley – “Since You’re Not Around” from album Bright Lghts on Broadway
A singer-songwriter from Northern Ireland whose hero is James Taylor, and it shows! He wrote this song for his brother who committed suicide in 2005. Debut album due 14th September.
Suede – “Life Is Golden” from album The Blue Hour
 It’s their eighth studio album, and will be released on 21st September.Â
The Black Lillies – “Ten Years” from album Stranger to MeÂ
More country-rock (!) – this time from an Americana band from Knoxville, Tennessee their fourth is on the way for release on 28th September.Â
 MTR
Ian McNabb is an English singer-songwriter and musician. Previously the frontman of The Icicle Works, McNabb has since embarked on a solo career and performed with Ringo Starr, Neil Young/Crazy Horse, Mike Scott (of The Waterboys), and Danny Thompson of folk band Pentangle. Our future in Space is his 12th album
Track: My Accuser.
