With a fully restored version of A Hard Day's Night about to hit my local cinema and teenagers walking around in Beatles T-shirts, it's plain that global retromania for mop-top inspired pop is still big business.
This is good news for The Galileo 7 whose Medway beats are a affectionate homages to the psych-fuelled swing of the sixties.
This particular fab-four are led by Allan Crockford, one time bassist with The Prisoners. The Solarfires and James Taylor Quartet, bands whose cult status rarely translated into record sales.
The Galileo 7 take their name from a Star Trek episode from 1967 in which the Enterprise crash lands on a hostile planet. This sci-fi reference extends to the cover artwork depicting a spaceman hovering awkwardly over some un-hostile farmland.
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This is the band's third album and contains eleven catchy, upbeat tunes which Crockford says are mostly wry reflections on "existential middle-aged angst, life, the universe and nothingness" (you get three extra tracks if you buy the vinyl version).
"I enjoy my paranoia" he sings on Nobody Told You and with other warm-hearted songs like Fools and the title track, you are invited to embrace life's worries while taking a heady nostalgia trip.
The Galileo 7's website
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