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Tag Archives: Roxy Music
The enduring appeal of Penetration and the Invisible Girls – the Pauline Murray interview
While Pauline Murray is now four decades down her chosen career path, it’s worth noting that the first incarnation of the band she co-founded as a teenager, County Durham’s pioneering punk outfit Penetration, was rather short-lived. It was certainly a happening … Continue reading
Posted in Books Films, TV & Radio, Music
Tagged Buzzcocks, Byker, Coming Up For Air, David Bowie, Don't Dictate, Electric Circus, Ferryhill, Gary Chapman, Gary Smallman, Generation X, Howard Devoto, Invisible Girls, John Maher, John Peel, Ken Goodinson, Moving Targets, Newcastle, Paul Harvey, Pauline Murray, Penetration, Pete Shelley, Polestar Studios, Preston, Resolution, Rob Blamire, Roxy Music, Steve Wallace, The Clash, The Continental, The Roxy, The Stranglers, Transfigure
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Continuing Songs of The South – in conversation with Gaz Birtles
When founder member Dave Hemingway and long-serving keyboard player Damon Butcher called time late last year on live involvement with The South – the band that rose from the ashes of The Beautiful South – discussions followed about what to … Continue reading
Posted in Books Films, TV & Radio, Music
Tagged Alison Wheeler, Andy Mackay, Crazyhead, Damon Butcher, Dave Hemingway, David Rotheray, Fun Boy Three, Gaz Birtles, Laurel Aitken, Leicester, Paul Heaton, Roxy Music, Su Robinson, The Beautiful South, The Housemartins, The South, The Specials, The Swinging Laurels
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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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Miles Kane / Telegram – Preston 53 Degrees (March 31, 2014)
My heart went out to Telegram on Monday, on the last night of their stint with Miles Kane yet still having to work their respective butts off to win over a partisan home crowd. This happening Anglo-Welsh outfit may already … Continue reading
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Tagged 53 Degrees, Alex Turner, Arctic Monkeys, Birkenhead, Meols, Miles Kane, paul weller, Preston, Roxy Music, Telegram
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