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From SpaceRock Reviews July 2009..."This four-track EP hopefully sets the current well on the road to a full LP, with further tracks already recorded Gregg tells me. Judging from the contents of Nothing For Tomorrow it’ll be well-worth waiting for because what they’ve got here is an excellent starting-point in the quest to bring their feisty punk-space rock to a wider audience. There’s bags of righteous attitude going on in the title track, a cracking diatribe about modern greed which sharply sets up this excellent taster of what the band are all about. They move the pace right down from the spiky opener to the lazily rolling ‘Crystalized Moments’, a gorgeously realised trance and drifting romantic soundtrack still delivered with a vocal edge and some lovely guitar. ‘Broken Promises’ is something of a ‘what if’ scenario... what if the Levellers played spacerock? (The band themselves make a comparison to New Model Army for this one so I’m hearing it in a similar way I think!). Again though, it’s smart and acute stuff with a good line in melody that’s a key element of the Paradise 9 sound – it’s always engaging and just highly listenable. They play out the EP with the eleven-minute ‘Points of View’, another terrific psychedelic-punk collision that has something of the extended Hawkwind improvisation about it, driven on by some really focused yet swinging drumming. They’ll have this CD available from MyChoonz and CDBaby as well as iTunes and Amazon downloads....." "Nothing For Tomorrow" EP review by Ian Abrahams.

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From Aural Innovations January 2009 update: "Paradise 9 is a UK based psychedelic rock band. This is a self produced and released CD. It begins with a long acoustic, melodic love song. The band is lead by Gregg McKella, who does the lead vocals, guitar, effects, clarinet, and keyboards. He is backed up by Andy McDonald on bass and Wayne Collyer on bass. They also have a number of guests. The next track, Into the Ethers is where the CD really takes off though. A long spacey delay guitar intro and a nice bass line lead us off into the Ether, a basically instrumental track. All Said and Done is another cool song with mostly acoustic guitar and some fiddle and backing female vocal tracks like the first track. The title track, Showtime has really excellent lyrics and a fun acoustic driven track. Glow is a slow melodic melancholy track but gets nice and spacey at the end and I like the way it progresses. Great track. 700 Feet is a dark track but has a great mood and feel. These Days brings the real psychedelic rock back to the record with some cool guitar and vocals as well and a great bass line that just carries you along. Theme is another really nice spacey instrumental with some really flying spacey guitar. The CD ends with A reprise of These days. A pretty cool and impressive release. I can’t wait to hear more by this band and the new heavier psychedelic stuff." "Showtime" reviewed by Scott Heller (Aural Innovations)