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Category Archives: Books Films, TV & Radio
Love is here today – celebrating Brian Wilson, Sly Stone and the power of music’s family affairs
‘You’ve got to keep in mind love is here… today And it’s gone… tomorrow, it’s here and gone so fast’ The night I heard about Brian Wilson’s exit, I felt a compulsion to head to my back room for a … Continue reading
From The Jam / Stanley Road All Stars / Stax Pistols / Samuel Rogers – Here Comes the Weekend, Woking FC
Well, that was a blast, eh? Didn’t we have a nice time. As Otis Redding put it at Monterey in June 1967, ‘This is the love crowd, right?’ And there was plenty of evidence of that at the Home of … Continue reading
Heavenly t-shirts won’t ever let you down – celebrating Brian Bilston, the Catenary Wires, and Sounds Made by Humans
Once upon a time in an era seemingly rife with bands splitting ‘due to musical differences’, my own band started a rumour, then denied it, that we’d split up due to ‘t-shirt differences’. That was in the late ’80s, the … Continue reading
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Tagged Amelia Fletcher, Birmingham, Blue Aeroplanes, Brian Bilston, Buzzcocks, Catenary Wires, Heavenly, Henry Normal, Hue williams, Ian Button, John Betjeman, John Cooper Clarke, Oxford, Philip Larkin, poetry, Rob Pursey, Sounds Made by Humans, Spike Milligan, Swansea Sound, The Smiths, The Wedding Present
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Bringing Flame bak ‘OME – the latest rock ‘n’ roll antics of Slade’s Noddy Holder and Don Powell, from Manchester and Silkeborg
A sell-out audience enjoyed a special screening of remastered cult classic Slade in Flame in Manchester at the weekend, diehard fans of the Black Country’s Finest getting to rub shoulders and trade tales and memories with Slade legend Noddy Holder, … Continue reading
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Tagged Australia, British Film Institute, Cornwall, Dave Hill, Denmark, Don Powell, Jim lea, Manchester, Mark Kermode, Mark Radcliffe, Noddy Holder, Paul Cookson, pERTH, Silkeborg, Slade, Slade in Flame, Solid Bond in Your Heart, Wild! Wild! Wild! A People’s History of Slade
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Still feeling the Noize – Chris Selby and Ian Edmundson talking Slade in Flame at 50
According to Chris Selby’s impressive Slade Live! online listings (linked here), 50 years ago yesterday, Noddy Holder, Jim Lea, Dave Hill and Don Powell were on the Continent, recording for Belgian TV show Chansons a la Carte. Four days later, … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Lake, Black Country, Brian Epstein, British Film Institute, Chas Chandler, Chris Selby, Daryl Easlea, Dave Hill, Don Powell, Far Far Away, Gered Mankowitz, How Does It Feel, Ian Edmundson, Jim lea, Led Zeppelin, Never Too Young To Rock, Noddy Holder, Slade, Slade in Flame, Steve Megson, The Beatles, The Wombles, Tom Conti
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The Undertones – Exeter Phoenix
I’ve said it before, but any day of the week’s When Saturday Comes if you’re catching The Undertones live. And these days it’s far more likely to be the case anyway, most of their live outings involving weekend jaunts up … Continue reading
Wham! Bam! Thank You, Slade!
Fifty years ago this week, Slade were deep into their ‘Thanks for the Memory’ tour, on the back of the release of Slade in Flame, the cult movie about to get the remaster treatment five decades later, back on the … Continue reading
Shouting to the top and from the roof – remembering Rick Buckler, while celebrating The Jam’s legacy
I wanted to shout to the top and from the rooftops about all this last week… but then came Tuesday’s devastating breaking news about Rick Buckler, and everything (quite rightly) went on hold. That all remains very much on my … Continue reading
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Tagged Bruce Foxton, From The Jam, jam, Music, paul weller, Rick Buckler, Solid Bond in Your Heart, Spenwood books, The Jam
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