Reviews: Plainsong: Plainsong get intimate with harmonic gems

From: Evening News - Scotland | Date: April 14, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Plainsong, Queen's Hall ****

IN the "rockumentary" This is Spinal Tap, a camera crew follows the hapless protagonists as a tour of the United States descends into an melee of petty squabbles, druid props and combustible drummers.

Fortunately, for Plainsong, they are far too sensible to indulge in any flashy pyrotechnics - their brand of honest to goodness, harmony laden, folk-rock doesn't exactly lend itself to any superfluous visual stimuli anyway.

But after more than 30 years in the industry, former Fairport Convention member, Ian Matthews, and his bandmates could be forgiven for being ...

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