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Blue Orchids: Awefull, The Once and Future Thing/The Battle of Twisted Heel

Dave Thompson, Goldmine, 19 April 2016

RECALLING MARTIN Bramah from his time with the Fall, it would have been easily to assume that his next project would meander in similar directions. Encountering that project aboard Another Splash of Colour, the compilation of new psychedelia bands in the UK in 1980-1985, it swiftly becomes apparent how wrong you would be. We don't hear the Blue Orchids' name nearly enough any more, and Bramah's even less. But a sudden shock of new releases out to change that.

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