Scott.

The entire album is very good. I had a copy on vinyl many years ago which was lent out and inevitably lost. A few years back I was trying to get hold of the CD and found an internet link to a company selling it. Much to my surprise I found myself talking to Mike Harding.

The song ‘Bomber’s Moon’ is a good one, but for me it is far from the highlight of a superb collection of songs. For sheer poignancy listen to the full seven minute version of ‘Accrington Pals’ or ‘The Band played Waltzing Matilda.’ There are other songs which hold a special and personal poignancy for me, ‘These Poor Hands’ and ‘A Small High Window’ are two which make me think deeply about my own ancestry. But it’s not all gloom and doom. ‘God Help The Poor’ and ‘Thirty Nights’ are really uplifting.

Harding’s personal views about Harris, Bomber Command and the bomber offensive are somewhat at odds with mine and, I suspect, many of the readership here. But then again, how many of us lost our Fathers without ever having the opportunity to know them in the darkened skies of Europe?

Regards,

kev35