Back in 2001, Ian Prowse was seen as damaged goods, yesterday’s guitar strings…if you will. The music industry was youth obsessed so when a band led by a 30 something has-been arose from the ashes of Pele’s demise, equipped with a set of songs about Scargill and socialism, well…forget it! Nonetheless, the songs were brilliant, the band were ready and had a hunger in their belly (both real and imagined)…plus a little revolution called the Internet had just occurred. This last point was perhaps the most important. For the first time ever artists could cut out the middleman and, well, just get on with what really mattered: Recording and releasing their music, exactly how it was intended to sound! Attitunes is testament to this. Kicking off with the rallying cry of “incoming!” and a thunderous strike of a Telecaster shone through a turned-up Fender Twin, its an album that starts how it means to go on: Full of yearning, passion, lost love and most importantly some of the best songwriting to come out of Ian’s illustrious 32 year music career! It’s just a shame then that the original release date coincided with all the chaos and turmoil of the early 2000s Napster-era. The album never got it’s fair showing, having only been made available through the Amsterdam website at the time and not even getting a vinyl pressing! So with this re-release 20 years after initial inception, music fans across the globe can finally see why the Liverpool legend is so respected amongst his peers.