Some things don't change.

I continue to add to the back catalogue of my favourite bands, though I say some things don't change I have noticed the price of CD's has gone up alittle. Personally I'm quite happy buying the nearly new CD's, I've not had a duff one yet. 

So the gems I have recently picked up are Saxon's  'The Inner Sanctum,' a fine album from 2007. It's always interesting to hear how a band  progress's and changes over time. This album was produced by Charlie Bauerfeind  a German sound engineer known for his work with Heavy Metal bands. It's a cracking album and sounds not dissimilar to the Saxon of today as it goes.

The second addition is Magnum's 'Wings of Heaven,' from 1988. This is a brilliant album, it opens with the excellent track 'Days of No Trust' which has a great singalong chorus and the rest of the album, only 8 tracks so on the low side for Magnum, does not disappoint. 

Nightwish have been a growing fave of mine. I do like not only a female vocal but the pseudo operatics of this band ( and others, Epica springs to mind), this band is touring later on in the year though I think it's hardly worth even looking at dates,but more of that later, but whether it goes ahead of course is a matter no one currently knows.Their album is another good one. Very listenable.

The fourth latest acquisition is an album by The Waterboys. We saw them at Cropredy and again supporting Elvis Costello and what a great band they are. I bought their 1985 album 'This is the Sea' chiefly because it contains probably their major hit of 'The whole of the Moon.'  It's funny how you can be sitting there enjoying a band for what they are  then all of a sudden a song starts that you know but never knew who had sung it, so it was with The Waterboys.  The album is reasonably good, alot of the tracks sound similar but then again I like The Quo.

Back to band tours, on top of all the gigs we've had postponed inevitably the New Forest Folk Festival has now put off the festival until the August Bank Holiday depending on how things are then of course. We can't make that date though they have given the option of rolling tickets over to 2021 or even 2022 if you want.

This news, though not at all unexpected did make me feel alittle sad. I've been upbeat the whole way through this madness but just for a very short while I felt a sadness that something else arranged was not going to take place when it should and we wouldn't see our friends there.So it bloody goes.