{"id":2838,"date":"2018-12-15T05:00:19","date_gmt":"2018-12-15T05:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=2838"},"modified":"2018-12-14T18:17:28","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T18:17:28","slug":"twelve-days-of-christmas-a-look-back-at-2018-with-rpm-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=2838","title":{"rendered":"Twelve days of Christmas – A look back at 2018 with RPM – April"},"content":{"rendered":"

Plenty of Easter eggs for RPM<\/em><\/p>\n

It seemed normal service had resumed and the UK was no longer under thread or code red because of the weather and the armed forces were asked to stand down from the impending doom that was heading our way if the week-long snow caused the country to slide into the Atlantic. April would see the customary\u00a0Record Store Day madness that had clogged up pressing plants and caused delays right across the board as the majors jumped the queue with their plethora of reissues and one direction picture discs ready for the record buying\u00a0public readily camping out on high streets across America and the UK hoping to get their hand on the Bowie seven inch that would\u00a0only set them back \u00a320 but hey if we didn’t buy into this it wouldn’t happen.\u00a0\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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I digress. April was to be the month The Damned would finally get around to unleashing their new long player on the public after something like a decade since their last long player but this time they’ve gone all out to impress with Tony Visconti taking care of the production and in my humble opinion making it more about him and his knob twiddling duties than The Damned and as a result, an album that promised so much, in reality, delivered so little and won’t feature as\u00a0anyone’s\u00a0album of the year even though its not without merit\u00a0as there are good songs on board but where is Paul Grays signature sound thumping its way through the songs? Did I not mention Gray was back in the fold? Oh sorry, how rude of me.\u00a0 yup Paul Gray was back in the fold and ‘Evil Spirits’<\/a> expectations hit the roof. It is certainly one of those albums you so desperately\u00a0wanted to love but couldn’t quite convince yourself it was up there with some of their back catalogue but hey ho onwards and upwards and any Damned record however bad is still better than most other bands good albums. Fact. And the live dates were as expected – superb.<\/p>\n

As far as other records to come out in April well, there’s\u00a0always the ever-reliable Wonk Unit<\/a> and this time out they’re unleashing ‘Terror’<\/a> upon us all. Once again it was recorded at the Brook and producer Andy Brook brought the best out of Alex and all who sail or should that be ride\u00a0on the back of this thoroughbred\u00a0stallion. it featured some classic Wonk none more so than this festive banger ‘Christmas\u00a0In A Crackhouse’ but remember this is April.\u00a0 Nice one Alex.<\/p>\n