From Nowhere is Alistair Griffin’s third album with an interesting little twist. Announced by Griffin as the sporting anthems compilation, it’s an album’s worth of songs he’s written or pitched for sport soundtracks, and they’re not even all on it!
With tongue super-glued in cheek, I suggested in my review of his previous album that sports-mad Griffin should put all his sporting-montage songs on an EP and call it Maniacal Montage Mayhem, never thinking that he’d Continue reading
A gig first for me, I turned up with tins that weren’t beer.
Exactly like a Chiswickian Diagon Alley, the venue was cunningly hidden out the back of the George IV pub, disguised as a Tesco Express complete with supermarket trolley. I hope Alistair got his pound back OK. Continue reading
Today sees the release of Always No. 1, the third single from Alistair Griffin’s Albion Sky album. But don’t doze off album owners because it’s a new mix of the song you’ll want to hear. Continue reading
Scrap your DeLoreans, the new Alistair Griffin album Albion Sky has been released in our lifetime* on Dramatico Entertainment!
This is a monumental occurrence which would only be surpassed if Roseberry Topping were to suddenly sprout a Vesuvius-like lava flow, as it’s Continue reading
Wednesday night found me at the O2 Academy 2 in Islington to see Alistair Griffin play with his band. He sang a bit too. There hadn’t been a band gig in London for two and a half years, so anticipation was running highish. What would his new band sound like? Would it be like the album? Would he play anything even a little bit new? Since trekking here last with a van full of amps and stuff, he’s announced a new album, hung about in a few studios, had a little tune played on the BBC, and done a few re-mixes of re-mixed mixes of already mixed songs. Continue reading
I heard a ghost 