Last Days Of The Old World - Steve Cradock Single Review

Steve Cradock
Steve Cradock

Single Review

Working as Paul Weller's supporting guitarist is obviously going to have an effect on you, especially if you've also been in a chart-hugging Brit-rock band like Ocean Colour Scene and sparred with Liam Gallagher (for a tribute album), Paul McCartney (another tribute track) and PP Arnold. Steve Cradock is nothing if not busy - a highly-competent guitarist who has been there and done it in spades, you could say.

He formed his own record-label with his wife Sally a couple of years back and released his debut solo-album, "The Kundalini Target", to reasonable acclaim - he almost cracked the Top 100 Album Chart, not an easy task when facing a storm of X-Factor participants. His second album is due for release this year and "Last Days Of The Old World" is the first fruits to be proffered from it.

Basically, the bouncy song in question sounds like everyone he has ever worked with (maybe not PP Arnold though) and is a perfectly acceptable nod towards the heady days of mop-tops, cravats and purple hearts swallowed on the school-bus. It's The Kinks, The Byrds and The Zombies rolled into a perfectly palatable 'reminiscy-package', as The Day Today might well have announced (ask your dad) and I'd be more than happy to hear this trilling out of a radio-speaker, instead of some backside-wiggling diva raking on about 'gettin' money, gettin' laid'. Rather good and well worth three minutes of your time.

Paul Pledger

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