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Category Archives: Music
Calling Captain Summertime – the Nick Heyward interview
While Woodland Echoes is Nick Heyward’s seventh solo album, it’s his 10th in total, going right back to 1981’s Haircut 100 debut Pelican West. And this highly personable Beckenham-born singer/songwriter, guitarist and pianist is rightly proud of his latest offering, telling us, … Continue reading
Posted in Books Films, TV & Radio, Music
Tagged Alan McGee, Alan Tarney, Blair Cunningham, Cotton Clouds, Creation, Florida, Geoff Emerick, Graham Jones, Haircut 100, Henley-on-Thames, Herschell Holder, Ian Shaw, Key West, Les Nemes, Let's Rock, Marc Fox, Nick Heyward, North of a Miracle, Pelican West, Rewind, The Jam, Woodland Echoes, XTC, Zak Starkey
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Never Gonna Say Goodbye – the Pete Waterman interview
Perhaps you know him best these days for the countless TV appearances as presenter, judge or pundit, from his shows on regional radio in the Midlands, or – going back a bit further – as a club DJ. Alternatively, you … Continue reading
Posted in Books Films, TV & Radio, Music, Railways
Tagged 911, Bananarama, Coventry, Jason Orange, Jerry Dammers, Jonas Blue, Kylie Minogue, Matt Aitken, Mike Stock, Neville Staple, Pete Waterman, Railways, Rick Astley, Stock Aitken Waterman, The Hit Man and Her, The Specials, Warrington, wolverhampton
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Remembering Rick and Status Quo – the John Coghlan interview
In the BBC documentary Hello Quo, there’s revealing footage of a jam session at Shepperton Studios featuring the original members of Status Quo, for the first time since drummer John Coghlan left 31 years earlier. That 2012 meeting led to … Continue reading
Posted in Books Films, TV & Radio, Music
Tagged Alan G. Parker, Alan Lancaster, Andy Bown, Bob Young, Diesel, Dulwich, Eric Clapton, Francis Rossi, Half Moon Putney, Hello Quo, Jackie Lynton, JCQ, John Coghlan, Oxfordshire, Pictures of Matchstick Men, Preston, Rick Parfitt, Shepperton Studios, Status Quo, The Rockers, the Spectres, Woking
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The enduring appeal of Sparks – in conversation with Ron Mael
Many of us of a certain age will recall the first time we heard American art-pop-rockers Sparks, a band that properly appeared on the UK chart radar around the time of the glam movement, sitting pretty comfortably amid an … Continue reading
Posted in Books Films, TV & Radio, Music
Tagged amateur Hour, Chuck D, Franz Ferdinand, Gilmore Girls, Halfnelson, Hippopotamus, Lil Beethoven, Los Angeles, Morrissey, Pet Shop Boys, Public Enemy, Queen, Ron Mael, Roxy Music, Russell Mael, Sparks, The Marquee, They Might Be Giants, This Town Ain't Big Enough For The Both of us, Todd Rundgren
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Championing a little respect, to the sky and back – the Vince Clarke interview
When World Be Gone, the 17th studio album from Erasure, crashed into the UK album chart at No. 6 this month, it proved to be this established synth-pop duo’s highest new entry since 1994’s I Say I Say I Say, which … Continue reading
Posted in Books Films, TV & Radio, Music
Tagged Alison Moyet, Andy Bell, Basildon, Brooklyn, Depeche Mode, Erasure, Eric Radcliffe, Feargal Sharkey, Maine, Martin Gore, Martyn Ware, New York, The Assembly, Vince Clarke, Yazoo
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To the power of 3WW – back in touch with Alt-J’s Gus Unger-Hamilton
This week saw the release of the brand new Alt-J LP, Relaxer, coming on the tail of this inventive trio’s Mercury Prize and Ivor Novello Award-winning 2012 debut An Awesome Wave and 2014’s No.1, Grammy and Brit Award-nominated This Is … Continue reading
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Tagged 3WW, alt-J, An Awesome Wave, Blackpool Empress Ballroom, Blue Dot, Boardmasters, Bournemouth Academy, Brighton Centre, Casper Balslev, Charlie Andrew, Coen Brothers, Ellie Rowsell, Fitzpleasure, Glastonbury, Gus Unger-Hamilton, Gwil Sainsbury, Hackney, Hull, Hunger of the Pines, Iggy pop, In Cold Blood, Joe Newman, Leeds, Margate Dreamland, Mercury Prize, Miley Cyrus, Relaxer, Steve Bell, This Is All Yours, Thom Green, University Challenge, Weston-Super-Mare Grand Pier, Wolf Alice, Young Replicant
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Still acting nonchalant with The Searchers – the John McNally interview
John McNally was back home in Crosby when I called this week, barely five miles from his Kirkdale roots. It seems like he’s rarely there though, thanks to a punishing tour schedule for his band, The Searchers, one of the leading … Continue reading
Posted in Books Films, TV & Radio, Music
Tagged Everly Brothers, Fats Domino, Frank Allen, Hamburg, Jackie DeShannon, Jerry Lee Lewis, John McNally, Liverpool, Mike Pender, Needles and Pins, Paul Du Noyer, Scott Allaway, Spencer James, Star-Club, The Beatles, The Cavern Club, The Iron Door, Tony West, When You Walk In the Room
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Ron Sexsmith / Lori Cullen – Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester
Six nights after a horrified world faced the aftermath of the Manchester Arena bombing, there was proof of live music’s healing power when Ron Sexsmith and Lori Cullen visited nearby Oxford Road. Barely a mile and a half from the … Continue reading
From The Jam – The Cavern Club Live Lounge, Liverpool
The hottest night of the year so far, and I was Going Underground. Not as a safe haven from the Sounds From the Street, but to hunker down and resolutely celebrate cultural values increasingly under attack. This was the first … Continue reading
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