Pigeon

2CD 48-track set rounding up all of the releases on Decca Records by Lieutenant Pigeon. Featuring, for the first time on CD, the three studio albums they released which are now expensive 70’s collectors items. Includes the multi-million selling 1972 smash hit single ‘Mouldy Old Dough’: It reached No.1 in the UK , Ireland and New Zealand as well as the Top 10 in Canada and Australia and across most of mainland Europe. The Top 20 follow up ‘Desperate Dan’ is also featured as are singles like ‘I’ll Take You Home Again Kathleen’ (No.3 in Australia), ‘And The Fun Goes On’, ‘Oxford Bags’ and ‘You Are My Heart’s Delight’. Mouldy Old Dough’ has since been adopted as the unofficial anthem of banger racing, played at raceway meetings across the country at the start of the races. It has also been used in New Zealand to promote the National Lottery!

The Pigeon Detectives are a five piece indie rock band from Rothwell, Leeds with influences such as The Beatles, The Kinks and The Velvet Underground.

Tricentennial 2076 is the 1976 album by Lithuanian artist Vyto Beleska, who shortened his name to Vyto B for this release. As for this release, this came out on Clay Pigeon and is a vinyl rip.

Simplicity and intrigue appear to surround the unusually named Pigeon Toe, if their track titles are anything to go by. “The Man with the Cat” is not a regular track name but it’s clear that this isn’t a regular band. Conducive to finger snapping from the off, this groove-laden and multi-layered melodic ambience is a very accessible work. Here we have a Prog band from Germany playing a range of funky rhythms, creating something edgy, dynamic and exciting and supporting the claim that their music is based on contrast and virtuosity.