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There are aleast 2 artists with this name: 1/ Always was the first alias of Kevin Wright who has subsequently recorded under the name Mr Wright. The album Thames Valley Leather Club was released on the 80s cult label èl Records. It is a typical product of the label - authorly and faintly twee, but also with a humorous and sexual undercurrent. 2/ Always is Alex Vivian one Australian guy with a sampler and a delay pedal. (?). He creates intricate, often improvised, layered voice compositions. That touch on topics such as Homosexuality, Twinks, Death & Acid, ecstacy & decay....

Trails and Ways is a band from Oakland, CA, with a sound incorporating bossa nova, indie rock, disco and radio pop influences. The four bandmates, (Hannah and Keith on guitar, Ian on drums, and Emma on bass) cast off from the co-op houses at UC Berkeley in the depths of the great recession. They headed to live as far afield as Ceará in Brazil and Galicia in Spain before reuniting in Oakland to start the DIY bedroom recording project that became Trails and Ways. .

The Buff Medways formed around 2000 after the demise of Thee Headcoats and are Billy Childish (vocals, guitar), along with ex- Prisioner Graham Day (bass, vocals) (Replacing Johnny Barker who left on 21st October 2003) and Wolf Howard (drums). Wolf, who was in also in the original line-up of The James Taylor Quartet, managed a month of gigs while nursing a broken arm but it didn't stopped him bashing the shit out of his drum kit like Keith Moon. The Buff Medways cut a dash with their Victorian army uniforms and their vintage Vox amps. The gear may be old...