Making History Signal/ Noise****

Finally, the link between Northampton, Nashville and New York City has been established. Some years back, UK singer and songwriter Liam Dullaghan decided to sell his guitars in Northampton and return from roaming to live in his parents’ garage and fix radios.

A chance encounter with a record producer made Dullaghan examine his career options, and before you could sing a Big Star tune he was working on Making History. Northampton’s loss is our gain, for this is a record that swells with pride. Lyrically, it’s quite downbeat, but in every other way it’s an amalgam of the joys of The Replacements, Teenage Fanclub, Pernice Brothers and Big Star. Think sweet Americana fused with power pop and you’re halfway there.

Think one of the best records of its type to pass this way in an age.

See myspace.com/liamdullaghan

Download tracks: Radio Verona, Rotten Apples