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The Wedding Present – back at the Boileroom, Guildford
‘It was the best of times, it was the worst of times …’ Three Wedding Present shows in less than three years in my hometown after 30-plus years without a single visit, and again all unfolding at the Boileroom, Stoke … Continue reading
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Tagged Boileroom, Brassneck, Charlie Layton, Danielle Wadey, David Gedge, Everyone Thinks He Looks Daft, Festive Fifty, George Best, guildford, Köln, Kennedy, Magazine, Melanie Howard, My Favourite Dress, Something Left Behind, The Wedding Present
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The Selecter – Guildford G Live
As regular readers of this website know, Guildford and I go way back, and it was as a 13-year-old that I saw my first band at the Civic Hall, catching The Undertones on the Positive Touch tour, a mile and … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur ‘Gaps’ Hendrickson, Boileroom, Boys Dreaming Soul, Coventry, Emily Capell, G Live, guildford, Guildford Civic Hall, paul weller, Pauline Black, Ranking Roger, Rhoda Dakar, ska, The Beat, The Bodysnatchers, The Selecter, The Specials, Too Much Pressure, Winston Marche
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Live and Direct in Guildford – back in my hometown revisiting The Star, the Boileroom and the Holroyd
It’s been a long month, and with Spring arriving deceptively early in late February (if only on a fact-finding mission), that last day of January when The Stranglers turned up at one of my old haunts seems an age ago. … Continue reading
The Wedding Present / Andy Ruddy – Guildford, Boileroom
Many of the bands I love have graced my hometown in the past, yet for some reason it never quite happened with The Wedding Present. First time I went to see them was down the A246 in Fetcham in 1986, … Continue reading
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Tagged Always the Sun, Andy Ruddy, Bizarro, Boileroom, Bradford, Charlie Layton, Danielle Wadey, David Gedge, George Best, Going Going, guildford, Hebden Bridge Trades Club, Marcus Kain, Philip Larkin, Seamonsters, The Jean-Paul Sartre Experience, The Wedding Present
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