Henry Priestman / Les Glover - Six Of One & Half A Dozen Of The Other

After several years of collaboration on stage and on their mutual albums, Henry Priestman & Les Glover finally release a joint record, featuring 12 original songs, six Priestman penned & half a dozen by Glover. Henry Priestman (10 years on from leaving The Christians and embarking on a solo career, 41 years on from his first band Yachts) has recorded a brand new album, a duo album with his guitarist Les Glover, set for full release on June 22nd. The pair, having worked together live for the last 5 years promoting their respective solo albums, have now taken the next logical step and recorded a joint album together entitled "Six of One and Half a Dozen of the Other". An eclectic mix, with six new songs from Les (including the poignant "Tony" and the uplifting country-tinged "Gamble With Love"), and four new songs from Hull-born Henry (including "The Ghosts of a Thousand Fishermen", inspired by Brian W Lavery's book "The Headscarf Revolutionaries", about the death of Hull's fishing trade, co-written by Mark Herman, with whom Henry wrote The Christians' hit "Ideal World" 31 years ago). Also on the album is a re-lyriced version of Henry's 1987 hit for The Christians, "Forgotten Town" (commissioned for Hull City of Culture 2017) now re-titled "A Place They Called 'Forgotten Town'", and a new take on "Love You Love You" by his late 70's Liverpool band Yachts, featuring die-hard Yachts fan Mark Kermode (Observer Film critic/BBC5 Live radio presenter) on double bass.