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In my ignorance, the last time I blogged about the Flower-Corsano Duo, I wrote some stuff about Mick Flower’s instrument, the shahi baaja, and described it, as per the press-release, as a "Japanese electric dulcimer/autoharp".

…or, if you will, a Chaucerian rock opera

Some very satisfying words in album titles this week, if you’ll forgive the fairly tangential way of starting a blog: “Veckatimest”, “Bitte Orca”, and today, “Balf”. “Balf Quarry” is the new album from the Magik Markers – according to the sleevenotes, “A stone quarry in Hartford, CT which has mined traprock since the earliest days of the city.”

First off, an important plug for Allan's blog, where he's posted a preview of the new Bob Dylan album, "Together Through Life". No copy in the Uncut office as yet, but I'll try and write something myself when it turns up.

Read the FULL interview from Uncut's Neil Archive's Cover Story here exclusively

'English Originals' set to take place in Birmingham

Six from a thrillers master

See the band play tonight (March 16)

A wonderfully odd minor masterpiece

Inspired covers. An all-star cast. Result? A career-best set