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Tandy, were the vehicle of songwriter and frontman Mike Ferrio. The band went through a number of changing line-ups until eventually being disbanded after the death of multi-instrumentalist Drew Glackin in January 2008. Despite being feted by the music media and building up a small core of devotees, Tandy never made the breakthrough to bigger things. How they went under the radar for so long is something of a mystery. In reviewing their fourth album 'Wide Open Spaces' in 2001 No Depression wrote For five years Tandy has been crafting some of the finest music you've probably never heard.

Tandy's self-titled debut album was released in 1997 on Tomato Records, the label set up by Townes Van Zandt's manager Kevin Eggers. It disappeared without trace, but is an excellent debut and well worth seeking out. The follow-up in 1998 'Some Summers Day' refined and improved the band's roots-rock sound. However, it was with their 1999 release 'Lichtenstein's Oriole' that Tandy reached their peak. The album is their masterpiece and to this day remains one of my favourite albums. If you are not familiar with it, I highly recommend that you check it out.

Deeply affected by Drew Glackin's death, Ferrio disbanded Tandy in 2008. By then through line-up changes and more erratic output, Tandy had run its course. Mike Ferrio went on to form Good Luck Mountain, which gave him a new lease of life and a return to form. It's an unfortunate fact of life that people don't always get what they deserve. For me Mike Ferrio is a major talent.

JONATHAN SPOTTISWOODE

Jonathan Spottiswoode is a New York based musician, writer, and filmmaker. The son of an American singer and English clergyman, he was raised in London. His short film "The Gentleman" has been shown at a number of film festivals and in regular rotation on the Independent Film Channel, but he is best known as the front man of the band Spottiswoode & His Enemies. LOST IN THE CITY is our most ambitious song cycle to date. An emotional sucker punch. Tales of love and death in the Big Apple. Celebrating two decades together as a band, the music reflects the raw energy and sophistication of the city we've called home; a giddy brew of balladry, jazz, rock, blues, minimalism, you name it.

www.cosmicamerican.com

https://www.facebook.com/events/petes-candy-store-williamsburg-brooklyn-ny/mike-ferrio/1643456955960836/

www.spottiswoode.bandcamp.com

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The Flying Circus is Newark's exciting pub serving the very finest world craft beers and real ales.

Reopened in its present incarnation in 2014 the pub walls are decorated with Monty Python quotes and brewery logos and old aircraft are suspended from the ceiling. A wide range of keg, bottled and canned craft beers, real cider and perries are available complementing the four ever changing cask ales

53 Castle Gate,

Newark upon Trent,

Nottinghamshire,

England,

NG24 1BE.

01636 302444