Eddie & The Hot Rods
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Eddie And The Hot Rods: Woolwich Polytechnic, London
Live Review by Chas de Whalley, Sounds, 20 November 1976
EDDIE and the Hot Rods are turning into Heroes under our very eyes. ...
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Eddie And The Hot Rods: Imperial College, London
Live Review by Chas de Whalley, New Musical Express, 6 March 1976
FIRST DUKE DUKE and the Dukes, now Eddie and the Hot Rods – Kursaal Flyers' manager Paul Conroy knows how to pick support bands. ...
Eddie & The Hot Rods: Tasty, Urban Tension Classics…
Interview by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 3 April 1976
MAX BELL says, "Kids, you gonna drive me to drinkin'. If you can't get next to HOT ROD thinkin'" ...
Eddie & The Hot Rods: Pier Pavilion, Hastings
Live Review by Caroline Coon, Melody Maker, 31 July 1976
BARRY MASTERS, Eddie And The Hot Rods' front man, drove his band down to Hastings from London himself – a sweaty, draining, three hour bang. ...
Eddie and the Hot Rods: "Punk? — We Just Do It"
Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 25 September 1976
ENERGY, LIFE, YOUTH, ROCK 'N' ROLL! What are these strange ingredients that have suddenly injected themselves into the creaking old rock scene? "We're just DOIN' ...
Profile by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 9 October 1976
THE STORY of the Hot Rods is one to warm the hearts of those who still believe in the essential simplicity and drive of rock ...
The (?) Rock Special (#5): Other Bands
Profile by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 9 October 1976
"I don't understand why people think it's so difficult to learn to play the guitar. I found it incredibly easy. You just pick a chord ...
Eddie and the Hot Rods/The Pirates: Roundhouse, London
Live Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 11 December 1976
THE HOT RODS are careering through 'Get Out Of Denver' at a speed so close to the velocity of sound itself that the song seems ...
Eddie & the Hot Rods: Rainbow Theatre, London
Live Review by Barry Cain, Record Mirror, 26 February 1977
HOT — IT WAS SHEER HELL (in the nicest way) ...
Eddie And The Hot Rods: Rainbow Theatre, London
Live Review by Chas de Whalley, Sounds, 26 February 1977
ALMOST a Black Sabbath job, this one. You know, up goes the safety curtain, there's the band already head first and accelerating into 'Get Across ...
Eddie and the Hot Rods: Teenage Depression (Island ILPS 9457)
Review by Simon Frith, Rolling Stone, 5 May 1977
THE REASON HISTORY can't repeat itself is because we know too much, and the reason that most of the punk bands currently plaguing Britain aren't ...
New Releases: The Kids Err Alright
Review by Howard Wuelfing, Unicorn Times, July 1977
REMEMBER "PUNK ROCK?" For a while there it was the supreme hip misconception — a much abused catch-all referring in general to any sort of ...
Eddie and the Hot Rods: The Rods Are Awright
Interview by Pete Makowski, Sounds, 6 August 1977
"All my friends at school grew up and settled down. Then they mortgaged up their lives. When things get set too much but I think ...
Report by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, September 1977
"OH THAT'S REALLY Polaroid! You've gotta keep the ending!" David Bowie rocked with laughter and Marc Bolan wiped away the tears that had threatened to ...
Live Review by Tim Lott, Record Mirror, 24 September 1977
And we don't careThe message: punk's now a business ...
The Thin White Duke Has Gone. Here's The New David Bowie
Report and Interview by Tim Lott, Record Mirror, 24 September 1977
THE TONE is final. This negative is as impenetrable as it is predictable. "No." ...
The Return of the MC5's Rob Tyner
Report and Interview by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 1 October 1977
'Vocalist with legendary Detroit rock band seeks gig with hot British combo. Has own harp...' ...
Cruising with Eddie & the Hot Rods
Report by Jim Green, Trouser Press, January 1978
THE NEW Eddie and the Hot Rods album cover is black and white. It's got this geezer, lead singer Barrie Masters if you must know, ...
Eddie and the Hot Rods, The Only Ones, The Stukas: The Roundhouse, London
Live Review by Chas de Whalley, Sounds, 7 January 1978
I WOULD have expected Christmas Eye with the Rods at the Roundhouse to turn into something of a real party, wouldn't you? Well, strangely enough, ...
Eddie & The Hot Rods: Life On The Line (Island)
Review by Robot A. Hull, Creem, February 1978
When you're a Jet, you're a Jet all the way, from your first cigarette... ...
Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 11 February 1978
What do all these bands have in common? ANSWER: They're all EDDIE AND THE HOTRODS, slidin' on the moment and trying not to fall off. ...
On The Road With Hot Rods And Radio Stars
Report and Interview by Peter Silverton, Sounds, 25 February 1978
THE LAST, incongruous Beatles' track spirals its way to the end of its grooves. The house lights dip way, way down, instilling in you that ...
Eddie and the Hot Rods: Do Anything You Wanna Do – The Best Of
Sleeve notes by Daryl Easlea, Spectrum Records, Fall 2012
A personal recollection by Barrie Masters of Rochford, England, talking on 10th September, 2012,to Daryl Easlea… also of Rochford, England. ...
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