Accident & Emergency The fifth studio album takes a bit longer than its predecessors courtesy of a few small distractions crawling around under our feet. Fourteen songs about babies, breakups and being beaten up. It’s all in there capturing that time in our lives when the Tories finally left power and our cosy simple life […]
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Utter – New Beginnings After we called our third album Sheer, there was little doubt that our fourth would be landed with the title Utter. Whilst we all wait to find out whether the pattern continued with album five, why not read about Blue Powder’s set of songs charting our experience of life, love, work
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Sheer – The End of University Project We’ve split up and left uni. Or have we? Steve and Tush continue to meet for a clandestine jam and writing session in Orpington every Wednesday evening after work. And then we head back to the Uni for an ambitious weekend, in which Chris attempts to record an
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Revisiting The Long, the Short & The Tall of It Maybe you’ve always wondered what the actual lyrics were in “(I Need You Like a) Frontal Lobotomy – the whimsical number from Blue Powder’s live set back in the 80s. Well it’s track 6 on The Long, The Short & The Tall of It, Blue
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On the Nature of Loneliness The lastest Blue Powder album On the Nature of Loneliness is now releasing to all streaming platforms. A very different album to the last few with the tracks exploring different aspects of loneliness. A relatively stripped back arrangement, raw and personal.
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Discredited Sessions Picking up Momentum Steve and Tush have been having great fun sharing the material in a dozen or so elemental tracks that will ultimately come together in a future album Discredited. Drafts exist, and are being put up, torn down, and variously poked prodded and re-moulded. It’s been great bouncing creatively off each
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35 Years On From Plastic Surgery Back in June 1989 our first album, Plastic Surgery, made its way onto cassette tapes being sold from the Bath University Students Union Shop. To mark that milestone a remastered version was released on 28th June 2024. Coming from an analogue two track open-reel tape master there are many
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