The Nite Songs Singles Bar - October 2020
Ahh welcome back to the Nite Songs Singles Bar dear reader. Take a chair, pull up a glass and let's see what we've got on the menu here for October... Well, it looks like the big hitters are out in force this month as The Damned of all people have a new EP out in the form of The Rockfield Files (🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑). Having been a bit disappointed by their Evil Spirits album a couple of years back, I was a little bit apprehensive going into this one but it's actually decent enough with opening track Keep 'Em Alive sounding like a punked up Pink Floyd of all things (or like an out-take from the excellent Strawberries album which was also recorded at the titular studio back in the early '80s). Manipulator meanwhile is a faster number with an agreeable woah-oh-oh hook line and some strong vocals from Dave Vanian while Spider & The Fly starts off with a sinister piano-led intro harking back to the band's mid-'80s goth phase before going into a driving g...