Radio Spiral Scratch is back on the show-long feature trail! This time the episode balloons to over two hours, mostly by virtue of the fact that the final track is 42 minutes long... but time is no barrier where the Bevis Frond is concerned! Formed in 1985 by Nick Saloman, already a 15+-year veteran of playing music around the UK. To keep it brief, and the gushing to a minimum, I will say that I bought 'Bevis Through the Looking Glass' because it 'spoke to me' from a record bin in '88... and I never looked back. Even though I went thru a 20-year love affair with punk, Bevis was always with me... for the inestimable Mr Saloman's infinite variety could appeal to almost everyone - to the punk with the heavy guitar and penning some downright stomping tunes... to the songwriter, creating an almost limitless wellspring of earworm-worthy melodies... to the folkie who can find the quintessentially British bucolic acoustic tunes... to the 'stoner' who can float away on the expansive, guitar driven, trippy jams... to the guitar-hero-fetishist, for Nick's protean playing, from stentorian feedback roars and acid-inspired wailing, to concise, melodic playing 'for the song' ticks all the boxes. The world would be a better place if everyone had a little Bevis Frond in their lives.

Bevis Frond - 1986 - Miasma - She's In Love With Time