Cousins Sanders

Originally planned as two separate DVDs. Live In Tokyo '75 and Grave New World - the movie these were issued as a single DVD, with additional bonus tracks.
Live in Tokyo '75: In 1975, Strawbs played a televised gig in Tokyo which was the first show ever to be beamed out simultaneously across all of Japan's islands. The classic Hero And Heroine/Ghosts line-up with Cousins and Lambert plus Hawken, Cronk and Coombes really rocks on this show, and provide an opportunity for many who never saw that line-up perfom live to relive those halcyon days.

On August 29, 1998, the Strawbs gave an unusual concert at Chiswick House in West London that featured several different lineups of the band, though Dave Cousins was the constant on-stage presence as the principal singer. Much of the show was issued on CD in 2000 under the title The Complete Strawbs, 2000 (Chiswick '98 Live). This 90-minute DVD includes performance footage of all 14 of those tracks, as well as a couple of songs ("Stormy Down" and "Blue Angel") that didn't make it onto that disc. Considering that the video was assembled from footage from a couple of cameramen with mini DV camcorders augmented with some additional home video footage, the audiovisual quality is very good, though the camera angles are basic.

Als Nachfolger zu "It's Saturday Night" (FVTD145) erscheint nun "Teenage Blues", eine Sammlung von Rockabilly und Hillbilly Bop Songs der Startday Custom Serie. Rock'n'Roll Fachmann Dave Penny hat 101 der besten und rarsten Singles aus den Jahren 1953-1970 vom texanischen Starday Label ausgesucht. Stardays Konzept der Custom Serie bestand darin, dass Künstler ohne Plattenvertrag gegen Vorkasse limitierte Singles über Starday pressen konnten, um ihre Konzerte bei lokalen Radiostationen zu promoten und kleine Mengen an Fans direkt abzusetzen.