Power Supply - Budgie

Revived from their late seventies slump, Budgie evolved with the times and the Cardiff trio reinvented itself as a NWOBHM (New Wave of British Heavy Metal) band, partly thanks to the replacement of the increasingly moribund Tony Bourgewith a guitarist amusingly named John Thomas, whose own contributions would unfortunately go steadily downhill from this point onwards. 'Power Supply' really does scream 1980 from every socket, from the shiny album artwork to the music and subject matter that don't bother to hide their obvious influence in Judas Priest and others of the movement, though Priest is the most obvious source here. This is no real problem though, as ...  Read the complete review