The Visitors video for ‘Another Day’, made by Cauldron media and featured on the Sony Playstation portal. Mainly shot the day after a great mini-festival in the middle of nowhere; the night before it poured down!

Manchester has ‘Elbow’, Sheffield ‘Pulp’ and Southampton has its own band who’ve stuck at it for many years before getting a deal: ‘The Family’ (picture by Stephanie Ross)

Formed over ten years ago they’ve slowly morphed from a psychedelic band to, as guitarist Ash told me, “a blues band with pedal steel guitar as lead.”

It is the strength of friendship that keeps this band together and ‘The Family’ are back on the circuit following a six month enforced lay-off and looking for a deal.

Its not that they aren’t handy with all the marketing tools available in this ‘MySpace age’, they just: “Want a deal!” bass player Aiden told me, and his reason: “The people in the company know what they are doing.”

Sharing music and influences is what ‘The Family’ love best and they would rather spend their time making and performing their excellent music instead of dealing with the promoting and managing that band’s are expected to deal with these days.

However they have never been short of a good descriptive quote from a journalist and my favourite has to be: “swaggering, bourbon-drenched, cosmic country”

But someone will have to come up with a new tag line for ‘The Family’ as they are shifting their sound towards the British blues of the 60’s which the Stones and The Who are famous for.

Add a manager and the band could be quickly back to their habit of selling out The Joiners and Soul Cellar and filling 52 seat coaches to London.

Hear The Family here: www.myspace.com/thefamilyonline

Every Sunday evening at 18:00 (GMT) I host the Original Showcase on Original 106fm.

During the show we play the best music from our region of the UK – Hampshire, Dorset, Isle of Wight and West Sussex.

The rain was pouring down and we were receiving messages from people stuck in caravans, especially numbers 144 and 145 – for them the station made a grim day much better.

We also had a great response to the competition and congratulations go out to Jerry from Wimbourne who won away a copy of Storm Thorgerson’s excellent new illustrated book “Taken by Storm” (pictured above) – you can buy it from Amazon here…

Taken by Storm

If you want to find out more about Storm and the great album covers he has made visit this link: www.stormthorgerson.com

Here are the bands and features for the show on Sunday 27th May 2007…

FIRST HALF 18:00 to 20:00

In the show we also had an interview with Jackson Analogue moments after they came off stage from supporting The Who at the KC Stadium in Hull. Jackson Analogue are from the Isle of Wight and more can be found here: www.jacksonanalogue.com

ALSO WE HAD TRACKS FROM

ANDREW FOSTER
www.myspace.com/andrewfostermusic

MOONTOWN
www.myspace.com/moontownmusic

MOZYDARE
www.myspace.com/mozydare

SUBGIANT
www.subgiant.co.uk

TRUE SWAMP NEGLECT
www.myspace.com/trueswampneglect

IN FAN POWER – from 21:00
(as requested by fans and listeners)

THE STRANGE DEATH OF LIBERAL ENGLAND
www.tsdole.co.uk

WILFY WILLIAMS
www.myspace.com/wilfywilliams

STATE OF UNDRESS
www.stateofundress.com