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Slady – Vinyl Tap, Preston
Can it really be a staggering 44 years this weekend since Slade’s Reading Festival rebirth? Apparently so, the Black Country’s finest spectacularly seeing off the critics in what proved to be the inspiration for an 11th-hour career resurrection, acceptance from … Continue reading
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Tagged Cum on Feel the Noize, Dave Hill, Don Powell, Jim lea, Noddy Holder, Preston, Reading Festival, Slade, slady, Vinyl Tap
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From Stanhope Place to Richfield Avenue: Ambrose Slade: Beginnings and Slade: Alive! At Reading – the WriteWyattUK review
It’s odd to think there were merely 11 and a quarter years between the release of Beginnings, the debut LP from the classic fourpiece that became Slade, and the band’s show-stealing 1980 Reading Festival performance, credited with relaunching their career … Continue reading
The call of home is loud… still as loud – a 77th birthday salute to Slade legend Don Powell
If you follow my social media, you’ll know I’ve become a little distracted across 2023, not least through completing Wild! Wild! Wild! A People’s History of Slade (available direct from the publisher via this link). And while this may sound … Continue reading
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Tagged 'N Betweens, A People's History of Slade, Andy Scott, Bilston, Bob Young, Clem Cattini, Dave Hill, Dave Kemp, Denmark, Don Powell, Gered Mankowitz, Graham Swinnerton, Jim lea, John Coghlan, Johnny Howells, Lindisfarne, Margate, Mick Marson, Noddy Holder, Ozzy Osbourne, Ray Laidlaw, Reading Festival, Silkeborg, Slade, Spenwood books, Status Quo, Suzi Quatro, Sweet, Wild! Wild! Wild!, wolverhampton
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Jim Bob’s wake-up call, 2021 style – back in touch with the self-styled Poundland Bono
In 2019’s Jim Bob from Carter – In the Shadow of my Former Self, Jim Bob Morrison wrote, ‘I still haven’t written a new song since 2013. But now that I’ve nearly finished writing this, perhaps the songs will come … Continue reading
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Tagged 101 Damnations, 1992: The Love Album, 30 Something, Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine, Cherry Red, Chris T-T, David Icke, Glastonbury, Goodnight Jim Bob, JB Morrison, Jen Macro, Jim Bob, Kilburn National, Les Carter, Lyceum, Mark Reynolds, Mick Jones, Philip Schofield, Pop Up, Ray Davies, Reading Festival, Seasons in the Sun, Song for the Unsung, Steve Lamacq, The Go-Betweens, The Kinks, The Summer of No Touching, Who Do We Hate Today, Wire
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