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The People Assembly's first album International Post Space Centre is as dystopian and apocalyptic as a Margaret Atwood novel and is a sound of our times. Formed in 2017 in Leicester, they’ve been described as a Post-space collective, and I can see why. The band’s psych rock sound certainly fits that bill and that’s what makes them stand out from the crowd. In a sea of modern homogenized music, The People Assembly appear fresh and relevant. These childhood congenial friends are made up of Joel Page (the exuberant blonde, singer), Jake Skemp (affable and gregarious, guitarist)  and Kai Roberts (the...

In our latest episode of ‘Vinyl for the Apocalypse’ we talk to Melton Mowbray  based record auctioneer and vinyl expert, John Manship. John is first and foremost a lover of black music in particular the 4 big collectibles Soul, Blues, Jazz and Doo wop but is best known as a world renowned Soul specializing record dealer and auctioneer.  With more than 50 years under his belt buying and selling and an ownership of more than 4 million records housed under lock and key at several locations across the UK, what this guy doesnt know about records, ain’t really worth knowing....

by Marvin Phythian. Hey there musos, audiophiles and melomaniacs, here at RSR we’ve decided to give Desert island discs a 21st century reality check with our own version - Vinyl for the Apocalypse!  In our first and possibly last episode of this nature we spoke to Gavin Searle from the Kings of Frog Island… As the Zoom kicks in I see a silhouette with a background of space-age purple neon led lights before the focus adjusts to reveal Gavin Searle, lead singer and studio producer for the best Leicester band you may never have heard of. The Kings of Frog Island,...

by Mike Garnett. At around lunchtime on 5th January 1998 a slightly nerdy, skinny, and very cliched nineteen year old rocker walked into a small independent record shop in the centre of Birmingham. Like many students of his kind before and since, he had recently discovered the joys of vinyl and was keen to spend more of his newly-received student loan on expanding his fledgling collection. After all, who cares about bills and food and boring things like that, right?  That day, the shop was having a New Year half-price sale on most of their stock. And there was A LOT...