Henry Priestman And Les Glover, The Brothers Steve and Berling Noise Laboratories - I Don't Hear A Single Audio Extravaganza Volume 100 Live Specials

I’m more on home territory for the first of tonight’s three sessions. Henry Priestman and Les Glover are a fantastic double act, great songs and a wonderful hilarious chemistry bond them. Les lives in the same village as me, although he lives at the posh end.

Henry is known to many from his time in Yachts, It’s Immaterial and The Christians as well as for his writing and production credits. Les has worked with Graham Gouldman, Ian McNabb and Nick Harper among others. He’s also responsible for one of the best solo records of recent years, Loved Up Les.

For the last six years, the pair have toured as a duo, delighting sold out audiences with their mix of splendid songs and laugh out loud interaction.  They play an Acoustic Session here featuring four songs from their acclaimed Six Of One Half A Dozen Of The Other album and a Yachts classic, Love You Love You.

As a special treat, the session closes with a wonderful cover of Yachts Suffice To Say from Henry, accompanied by five others, including Les, recorded on iphones. The video went up on Henry’s Facebook Page today, here you can hear the audio exclusive.

The Brothers Steve hail from Los Angeles and a reboot of a legendary band that prefigured the much-missed TSAR. Tsar’s debut album, in my opinion, the best ever Power Pop album. In exclusive news, the band have signed to the Big Stir Records label and will start with a single and the first ever digital release of their superb #1 album.

The band encompasses much of the celebrated Tsar's lineup (including Jeff Whalen, whose acclaimed 2018 release, 10 More Rock Super Hits, showed him still on top of his game and their album featured on many of last year’s Top 10 lists.

This five song acoustic session features Jeff Whalen, Os Tyler and Dylan Champion from the band playing three songs from their album and two wonderful surprises.

Nick Bertling is probably the finest artist that you’ve never heard of. Known extensively for his engineering and production work as well as his drumming, his own music under the name Bertling Noise Laboratories is simply stunning.

Multi styled, he offers up hard edged Pop Rock that compares with anyone around. As well as a fine back catalogue, he has a new album released on the 5th of June called Green Meadows Sketchbook. You can pre-order the album now following the link on the I Don’t Hear A Single site.

As an exclusive here, we add an exclusive listen to one of the songs from the new album, Bought And Sold.

Thanks as always to Jim Moody for his technical excellence. The details of our fourth special are below:

01 Henry Priestman And Les Glover Intro
02 Old Man Of The Sea
03 Not In My Name
04 Ghosts Of A Thousand Fishermen
05 Love You Love You
06 Suffice To Say (With Jo Bushell, Dr. Nick, Jimmy Rae and Sarah-Lou Fletcher)
07 The Brothers Steve Intro
08 She
09 Good Deal Of Love
10 C’mon Pappy
11 Love Of Kings
12 Mr. Blue
13 Bertling Noise Laboratories Intro
14 Miss Fortune
15 My Love
16 Bought And Sold

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You can still listen to Monday's Caper Clowns Session here.

You can still listen to Tuesday's Sessions by Spygenius and Chris Church here.

You can listen to Wednesday's Sessions by Nick Piunti, The Vapour Trails and Dolph Chaney here.

You can listen to Thursday's Sessions featuring Ex Norwegian and John Howard here.

You can listen to Friday's Sessions featuring Curvey of Custard Flux, Blaine Campbell and Blake Jones And The Trike Shop with exclusives from Nick Frater and Ulysses here.


You can buy Six Of One, Half A Dozen Of The Other and Henry's solo albums here. You can also buy it and Les's albums here .I will post the Big Stir link to purchase CD and download here when it is available.

You can buy The Brothers Steve album here.  You can buy Jeff Whalen merch here. You can listen and buy Luck Of Eden Hall albums here.

You can listen to, buy Bertling Noise Laboratories albums and pre-order Green Meadows Sketchbook here. You can discover more about them on the website here.



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I Don't Hear A Single Albums Of The Year 2019 : 81- 90

It's been difficult to get these choices down to 100. I'm also not a believer in saying one album is better than another. Most of the time you are comparing Apples To Oranges. I'm not a List person, I just think what's the point.

However, for the last couple of years I have compiled Best Of 2019, normally I just said what my favourite album of the year is. I've done it again, because these posts seem so popular and the aim of this Blog is to get exposure (and Sales) for the artists.

There is no meaning or judgement on an album that is Number 1, Number 100 or not on the list. Anything that I review on here, mention on Social Media or play on the Radio Show is as highly recommended.

I would also add that the Top 100 includes albums available as Download Only. To suggest that they are anything less than equal to a Physical release is patently nonsense and omits many wonderful albums.

I will compile a Top 20 of Reissues and Compilations combined after all this is complete. For each album, I've posted a song from it and a link to the review, where you can find further details on how to listen or buy the album.


No 81 Gretchen's Wheel - Moth To Lamplight : A Tribute To Nada Surf      Review









No 82 The Nines - Shipwrecked - Eggers Songbook Volume 1    Review








No 83 The Decibels - Scene, Not Herd      IDHAS Review









No 84 Pictures - Hysteria       IDHAS Review









No 85 Kimberley Rew and Lee Cave-Berry - Enjoy The Rest Of Your Day      IDHAS Review

No 86 Sofa City Sweetheart - Super(b) Exitos     Review









No 87 Nagillum - 52 Weeks      IDHAS Review









No 88 Slumberjet - World Of Sound     Review

No 89 Charlie Rebel - The People's Republic Of Earth      IDHAS Review









No 90 Bertling Noise Laboratories - The Frodis Tape     Review








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Bertling Noise Laboratories - A Little Touch of Bertling In The Night

Chicago's Nick Bertling was primarily known as a drummer until his solo career revealed what a multi instrumentalist he was. Previous releases have included The Flehman Response, Matilda And 12 Others and Installation Piece No 1. The latter two albums are available as Name Your Price on his Bandcamp site here.

Bertling's great pop voice translates itself to whatever direction he takes and across an album that can be melodic rock stompers, acoustic and into the left field. What's more it is available currently as a free download.





The Nilsson reference in the album's title gives away a lot of what the album is about. The album is a great set of covers, released by the wonderful Futureman Records. Like the A Little Touch Of Schmillson In The Night album, there are timeless songs, but there are also plenty of what we know only too well.

You've heard Todd Rundgren's Forget All About It, well there's also One More Day. Rundgren is the only writer who gets two songs, Big Star's Thirteen is present as is Elvis Costello's I Hope You're Happy Now. There's even a Nilsson song, the splendid 1941.





Standards include Words, Scarborough Fair and Black Is Black. Most intriguing of all though is a cover of my beloved The Move. Not too many would take on Cherry Blossom Clinic (Revisited) on, Nick Bertling does.

A great album to start the new year, covers lovingly crafted, a sort of instant record collection.




You can download the album for the bargain price of nothing at the Bertling Noise Laboratories Bandcamp site as linked above or from the Futureman Records site here. You can find out more about Nick and Bertling Noise Laboratories here.