Ellis County Living From November 2013

Filmed live from her home with her family amidst a mixture of loveable fun and chaos, they were a means of virtual escapism for many and became weekly moments of united sequinned catharsis for the hundreds of thousands tuning in. This is a collection of the songs that sound-tracked her lockdown kitchen disco. The album features all of Sophie's biggest and best-known disco hits in one place for the first time ever! It include 6 Top 10 hits, Murder On The Dancefloor and Take Me Home, plus the brand new lead single Crying at the Discotheque.

In April 2013, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds were booked to play the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, and with the same lineup of acts appearing two consecutive weekends, Cave and his bandmates had a few days to kill in California. During their downtime in the Golden State, Cave and the Bad Seeds cut a live-in-the-studio session for Santa Monica's public radio station KCRW-FM, and the recordings have been released under the straightforward (if less than imaginative) title Live from KCRW. Given that Cave's Push the Sky Away had been released just two months earlier, it should come as no surprise that the KCRW set followed the soulful but understated tone of that album, and the two releases share four songs, but in many respects, this is a richer and more emotionally engaging experience, and nearly as precise…

Edison's Children is a side project by Pete Trewavas of Marillion fame and Eric Blackwood. Edison’s Children was formed back in 2006 during a Marillion tour when, in the lead up to a sound check, problems led to Eric Blackwood (musician, photographer, author and special FX props technician) being asked to play Steve Rothery’s guitar while the problem was looked into. Pete Trewavas, Marillion bassist, appeared and joined Eric on keyboards (Pete being an excellent guitarist and keyboards player) and thus the foundation for Edison’s Children was formed. Working together as Edison’s Children was not the easiest, as Pete was also a member of Transatlantic, but ultimately, the debut album did see the light of day…