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Here of their own free will – talking to Graham Firth about The True Deceivers
I feel I need a disclaimer when writing about a few bands I love, not least when I’ve known them so long. And in the case of two members of folk roots stalwarts The True Deceivers, I even had a … Continue reading
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Tagged Allan Broad, Americana, Blazing Homesteads, Dee Coley, Dumpy's Rusty Nuts, Eat the Sofa, Fairport Convention, folk, Graham Firth, guildford, Hell or High Water, His Wooden Fish, Jamie Legg, Lies We Have Told, Lindisfarne, Long Ryders, Mark Mitchell, Mel Tillis, My Own Heighway, Nick Bliss, Plenty, Rupert Lewis, Steve Earle, The Star, The Waterboys, Tom Petty, True Deceivers, Woodworm Studios
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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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Three decades beyond 10 – having words with Hugh Cornwell
Almost 30 years after leaving The Stranglers, the legendary punk band with whom he made his name and managed more than 20 UK Top-40 singles and 14 Top-20 LPs over barely a dozen years, Hugh Cornwell remains a force to … Continue reading
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Tagged A Multitude of Sins, Alan Winstanley, Alexandra Palace, Beyond Elysian Fields, Clitheroe, Golden Brown, guildford, Hugh Cornwell, Jet Black, Lou Reed, Meninblack, Monster, Pat Hughes, Robert Williams, The Raven, The Star, The Stranglers, Totem and Taboo, Windsor McGilvray
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Still on The Vapors’ trail – back in touch with Dave Fenton
This time 40 years ago, The Vapors were about to set out on tour with The Jam on their biggest adventure to date, invited along for the ride on the latter’s Setting Sons tour by their co-managers, Jam bass player … Continue reading
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Tagged Brighton, Bruce Foxton, Ed Bazalgette, From The Jam, guildford, Howard Smith, John Weller, Lost 80s, Magnets, Michael Bowes, Mike Hedges, Mike Jordan, New Clear Days, Portmeirion, Rob Kemp, Setting Sons, Shalford, Steve Smith, Surrey, The Jam, The Prisoner, The Stranglers, The Vapors, Turning Japanese
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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
Open return to Guildford – Hugh Cornwell, back on the line
With a new LP out and an accompanying tour next month, Hugh Cornwell is commuting between his Somerset home and a few old Surrey haunts at present, getting his band truly match-fit. And it turns out that the former Stranglers … Continue reading
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Tagged Academy of Contemporary Music, Caroline Campbell, Chris Bell, Clitheroe, Dave Greenfield, guildford, Hugh Cornwell, Jet Black, JJ Burnel, John Cooper Clarke, Johnny Soxx, Monster, Pat Hughes, Ray Harryhausen, Restoration, Surrey, The Stranglers, Wilko Johnson, Windsor McGilvray
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Going North, South, East and West with The Members – in conversation with JC Carroll
You could say Jean-Marie Carroll’s musical education started in November 1970, when he caught T. Rex live at Guildford Civic Hall. Within a week, Marc Bolan and Mickey Finn had their first top-10 hit with ‘Ride a White Swan’, and the … Continue reading
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Tagged At the Chelsea Nightclub, Blackpool Rebellion, Bruce Springsteen, Camberley, Chris Payne, David Bowie, Going West, Graham Parker, guildford, JC Carroll, Nicky Tesco, Offshore Banking Business, Solitary Confinement, T.Rex, The Clash, The Dispensary, The Members, The Sound of the Suburbs
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Where we go from here: Talking The Vapors with Steve Smith
Steve Smith lives near Brighton these days, having left his Surrey hometown in the mid-1980s, initially heading to London. He returns regularly to Guildford to pop in on his Mum though, and plays locally with new wave/punk covers band The … 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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