The Pink Fairies

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The Pink Fairies Motorcycle Club And All Star Rock And Roll Big Band: A Fairy-tale
Report and Interview by Mick Farren, International Times, 9 May 1969
A NUMBER of musicians from various well known bands in London have, it was revealed to IT in an exclusive interview this week, formed an ...
The Isle of Wight Festival: 5 Days of Peace, Music and Love
Report by Mick Farren, uncredited writer, International Times, 10 September 1970
2011 note: this report on the 1970 IoW festival is led off by Mick Farren but includes contributions by other, unnamed IT writers. The title ...
Hawkwind, Pink Fairies, The Pretty Things: Windsor Free Festival, Berkshire
Live Review by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 30 September 1972
THE SIGNS were there once again at what was in effect just another one-day festival that a bummer was to be had by one and ...
Profile by Chris Rowley, International Times, 2 December 1972
Chris Rowley has been probing the life and times of the Pink Fairies: the women, the liquor, the hot hot music, the grim realities behind ...
Profile by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 16 December 1972
NICK KENT charts the rise and astonishing survival of the Pink Fairies. ...
The Pink Fairies: Kings of Oblivion (Polydor)
Review by Dan Nooger, The Village Voice, 13 December 1973
JUST RELEASED: The Pink Fairies' third album (first in America) Kings of Oblivion (Polydor). The Pink Fairies are the successors to the Deviants, a politico-raunch ...
The Pink Fairies: Looking Back
Retrospective by Mick Farren, New Musical Express, 26 April 1975
A thrilling tale of Ladbroke Grove, loose aggregations, hanging out, and falling about recounted in loving detail by an actual participant in those glorious ...
Report by Caroline Coon, Melody Maker, 4 September 1976
Special report from the first European Punk Rock Festival in the South of France by CAROLINE COON ...
Pink Fairies, Motorhead, Strife: Roundhouse, London
Live Review by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 13 November 1976
Oh, wart a night ...
Pink Fairies: Kings Of Oblivion (Polydor)
Review by Ira Robbins, Trouser Press, January 1980
It must have taken a lot of guts to name a band "Pink Fairies". But considering the amount of mind alteration practised by its British ...
Hawkwind, Gaye Bikers on Acid et al: Acid Daze, Finsbury Park
Live Review by Barbara Ellen, David Quantick, New Musical Express, 5 September 1987
SPORTS DAY IN HELL ...
The Pink Fairies: Kill ’Em And Eat ’Em
Review by Penny Reel, Sounds, 21 November 1987
A FURTHER DOSE of flash trash from the Pink Fairies, who plough a relentless psychedelic grunge underpinned by the double drum onslaught of Russell Hunter ...
Retrospective by Tom Hibbert, MOJO, May 1994
Born too late for The Beatles, too early for punk. 1969 was not a good year to be starry-eyed and 17. So tell us, Tom ...
Larry Wallis: I Thought You Were Dead
Profile and Interview by Rob Hughes, Uncut, June 2002
ONCE LABELLED "Hank Marvin on acid", Wallis was vocalist/guitarist in seminal UK space-rockers the Pink Fairies, penning 1973's classic Kings Of Oblivion. ...
Larry Wallis: The Importance Of Being Stiff
Retrospective and Interview by Dave Thompson, Goldmine, July 2002
IF YOU KNOW anything about Stiff Records, the first great maverick Indy label of the punk-era British 1970s, you’ll know Larry Wallis. Author of one ...
The Pink Fairies: Neverneverland;What A Bunch Of Sweeties; Kings Of Oblivion
Review by Carol Clerk, Uncut, August 2002
First three albums by heroes of early '70s UK underground. ...
see also Deviants, The
see also Larry Wallis
see also Shagrat
see also Twink
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