
Oh, junk! I've finally been awarded the opportunity to grip some serious Friends grooves. Friends was the project of Peter Howell and John Ferdinando. Both dapper gentlemen were involved in headtrip psych groups Ithaca and Agincourt - two bands that, unfortunately, never widely released any of their music. The best of the crop, though, was their baroque-esque, harmonic psychedelic pop collaboration on the rare gem Fragile , released in 1972. Howell and Ferdinando, between cutting rollicking folk records, were both members of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop . [...]