Nights Out at Home

Say what you will, but few things are as romantic as dinner dates at home with home-cooked meals. The planning is easy, all you have to do is ask them over for dinner, and they’ll say yes. The issues start with the actual cooking bit. What are you supposed to make? Are they expecting a three-course meal, or can you make boxed macaroni and cheese? …

Three CDs. Four-hour anthology of recordings that anticipated the late 70s Power Pop movement. Featuring Badfinger, Slade, The Move, Stealers Wheel, Pilot, Dave Edmunds, Brinsley Schwarz, Honeybus, The Kinks, The Who, etc. While the early 70s musical landscape in Britain was largely dominated by introspective singer/songwriters, Bubblegum Pop and underground Rock bands, a handful of acts bravely continued to pursue the classic mid-60s group sound. With the aid of increasingly sophisticated recording studios, they majored in crisp, muscular, hook-laden three-minute pop songs, bursting with chiming Rickenbacker guitars, irresistible choruses and Beatles/Beach Boys-inspired close harmonies. A few (Slade, Pilot, the ill-starred Badfinger) found commercial success, but the likes of Starry Eyed And Laughing, Shape Of The Rain and Octopus proved to be the right bands at the wrong time - too late for the British Invasion that had swept America in the mid-60s, too early to hitch a ride on the late 70s Power Pop bandwagon.

In March 2018, The Gloaming will play seven sold-out shows at Dublin's National Concert Hall. To mark this occasion, they will release Live at the NCH, a live album recorded at the venue which has become their home from home.