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Burning Bright Tonight

“A dear old friend and fellow musician of 38 years, not to mention 18 years with Mostly Autumn, once expressed to me his love for the idea of a Viking funeral: ‘You know, when they fire the flaming arrow and it ignites the boat.’”

Thus reads an inscription inside the booklet accompanying the new Mostly Autumn release, White Rainbow, the band’s 13th studio album since their inception back in the mid-90s. The friend Mostly Autumn vocalist and guitarist Bryan Josh writes about is his band’s former guitarist Liam Davison.

“I remember thinking, ‘I’m not pulling any punches with this, it’s going to be close to the bone and I’m going to say it as it is.’”

Josh first met Davison aged 12, when the pair were at school. “We’d been hanging around ever since,” he says warmly. “Almost every day really. Camping and climbing

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