Acousticity On Tour - Albion Band (The)

Advantages: Superb music by the first great female.rock.band to go mainstream.
Disadvantages: No lyrics. Band members don't get a penny from this anthology.

...'s secretary who alerted her boss to the girls' potential after hearing them at a 'Hoot Night' show. The band (formerly known as The Svelts, now called Wild Honey) had signed up for this show hoping that something would finally come out of their endless years of playing in clubs and such up and down the West Coast. If nothing came of it then, they'd all just 'go back to school,' as Alice put it. Well, the rest is history ('herstory'?). Yes, it's a tale of success, but also of exploitation born of naïveté, and bad management. In the end the women of Fanny would get screwed over by their managers and the record company, all while the band members worked for four straight years, songwriting, singing, playing, practising, recording and touring (across the US and in the UK, the latter where they received a warmer welcome than on their home turf), all... Read review

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Advantages: Amazing lyrics, You get to hear Kate Moss sing! and Pete Doherty if you like him!
Disadvantages: Pete Doherty if you hate him!

...Now we have all heard of Pete Doherty's famous antics with drugs, the police, prison, and Supermodel - Kate Moss, but what of his band; Babyshambles? ------------------How Babyshambles were Formed------------------ Pete Doherty (Babyshambles frontman) was originally a co-frontman in the band "The Libertines" with frontman Carl Barat. However, The Libertines decided to break up, for many reasons, which included Pete Doherty getting the axe in June 2004 due to his drug dependency, and they played their last show in Paris, France in December 2004. Carl Barat has gone on to form his new band; "Dirty Pretty Things", while Pete Doherty went on to form his band; "Babyshambles" Babyshambles first single, appropriately named, Baby Shambles, was released in April 2004, before The Libertines split, on High Society Records. So Pete did... Read review

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Advantages: encouraging continuation of a diverse form of indie/alternative
Disadvantages: tough cookie to crack

...This album is quite simply an ironic insight into what people sound like when they are writing and performing music simply for the personal satisfaction, and for the satisfaction of the many adoring fans who wish to thrust themselves 'pon Pete Doherty and his band of merry men: "Down In Albion" uses an intelegant mix of quiet and subtle songs such as "merry go round" and "loyalty song", along with stark and harsh tones that really put some punch into the CD, almost to a predicatble levle, in order to create some auidiable aesthetics, from this principle, there are 2 elements of this album that really make it stand out: 1) the lyrial content. Those who were fans of The Libertines will know Pete Doherty is a man who posesses a way with words, and this is demonstrated, with no exception, in "Down In Albion". This is obviously only... Read review

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