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Brinsley Schwarz: The Lost Weekend

Report by Charlie Gillett, Record Mirror, 18 April 1970

Charlie Gillett's impressions of Brinsley Schwarz, the Fillmore East, and night life in New York ...

Brinsley Schwarz: A Legend Before Their Own Time

Profile and Interview by Andrew Bailey, Rolling Stone, 7 January 1971

LONDON — Eyes moist with tears of humility but with handshakes firm and sincere the publicist and the lawyer and the agent and their coiffured ...

Eggs Over Easy: Meet the Band: Eggs Over Easy

Profile and Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 10 April 1971

WHEN AN invitation to a cultural evening at the American Embassy dropped on my desk my first thought was that someone was playing a merry ...

Brinsley Schwarz: Silver Pistol (United Artists)

Review by James Johnson, New Musical Express, 1 April 1972

THIS CAPTURES much of the easy-going feel that makes this band such an entertaining outfit on stage. Recorded at their home in Northwood, London, the ...

Brinsley Schwarz: Silver Pistol

Review by Bud Scoppa, Rolling Stone, 11 May 1972

SHADES OF Highway 61 Revisited, Sweetheart of the Rodeo, The Band, The Gilded Palace of Sin, Workingman's Dead were so integral a part of Brinsley ...

Brinsley Schwarz: Happy Doing What We're Doing

Profile and Interview by Phil Hardy, Let It Rock, November 1972

IT ALL STARTED in Woodbridge, Suffolk, in 1963-4 when Brinsley and Nick Lowe started a school group. Sounds 4 plus 1, playing rather suprisingly for ...

Brinsley Schwarz: Nervous On The Road

Review by Dave Marsh, Creem, December 1972

NERVOUS ON THE Road continues in typical Brinsley fashion. It's full of jumping good time rock songs, a little rockabilly, a shade of the Band ...

Brinsley Schwarz: Beware of the Rock Machine: Brinsley Schwarz

Interview by Barbara Charone, New Musical Express, 14 July 1973

BRINSLEY SCHWARZ are playing nice clean rock 'n' roll these days – but they're wary of getting caught up in that rock 'n' roll machine. ...

Sutherland Brothers and Quiver: Sutherland Bros & Quiver: They're Not An American Band

Interview by Alan Betrock, Phonograph Record, November 1973

THERE ARE numerous British groups who admire US units like the Byrds and the Band, but few, if any, have risen above the level of ...

Ace in the Hole

Report and Interview by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 10 November 1973

ROY CARR in Wandsworth with another of those up'n coming pub bands. ...

Ace: Hornsey College of Art, London

Live Review by Pete Makowski, Sounds, 19 January 1974

ACE PERFORMED a nifty little set at the Hornsey College of Art last Thursday. I do not have much information about this band except their ...

Chilli Willi & the Red Hot Peppers: Marquee, London

Live Review by Jerry Gilbert, Sounds, 19 January 1974

CHILLI WILLI are quite possibly the band that I spent most of 1973 searching in vain for. They have been together just a year and ...

Chilli Willi & The Red Hot Peppers: Marquee Club, London

Live Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 9 March 1974

CHILLI WILLI and the Red Hot Peppers are gonna save your soul. They're the only band in the country specialising in funky country, an area ...

Ducks Deluxe: Ducks Deluxe (RCA)

Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 9 March 1974

AT LAST the pub rock bands are getting onto record, after months of being scrutinised by A&R men, publicists and journalists. Was it all worth ...

Chilli Willi & The Red Hot Peppers: Red Hot

Profile and Interview by Phil Hardy, Let It Rock, June 1974

A month or two ago, a jovial group of rock critics in search of a drink and some music stumbled across Chilli Willi and the ...

Ducks Deluxe: Ducks Deluxe

Review by Gary Sperrazza!, Shakin' Street Gazette, June 1974

FROM THE PUBS of England and Wales they come, weaned on the music of early rock 'n' roll, playing for pittance and sweat. till all ...

Dr. Feelgood: Doctor Feelgood: Dingwalls, London

Live Review by Mick Farren, New Musical Express, 29 June 1974

IT'S NOT often that the jaded, booze-soaked crowd that throng Dingwalls dancehall bring an almost unknown band back for three encores. ...

Ducks Deluxe: Ducks Deluxe

Review by Greg Shaw, Rolling Stone, 18 July 1974

A FEW YEARS AGO, some English pubs began presenting live bands as a free service to their patrons. Since there have never been enough outlets ...

Dr. Feelgood: Doctor Feelgood: Rocking at the Canvey Island Oil Refinery Claimants Union Ball

Interview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 31 August 1974

NICK KENT probes the aesthetics of DOCTOR FEELGOOD's chisel-toe chic. ...

Chilli Willi & The Red Hot Peppers: The Ballad Of Chilli Willi And The Red Hot Peppers

Interview by Andy Childs, ZigZag, October 1974

SATURDAY, 8th June 1974: NOT EXACTLY the best gig I've seen the Willis play, but one that sticks out in my memory as being one ...

Ace: Five Aside (Anchor)

Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 7 December 1974

Tex Comer (bass guitar), Fran Byrne (drums). Bam King (rhythm guitar), Phil Harris (lead guitar), Paul Carrack (organ, piano). Producer John Anthony. ...

Ace gotta play their cards right

Interview by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 11 January 1975

When you've spent your life on the breadline, one hit single doesn't mean a financial freakout. Our economics correspondent ROY CARR reports. ...

Chilli Willi & The Red Hot Peppers, Dr. Feelgood, Kokomo: Dr. Feelgood, Kokomo, Chilli Willi: Eat Your Heart Out, Arthur Howes

Report and Interview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 18 January 1975

Which is a slick way of saying The Package Tour She Lives She Breathes She Is Reborn. You remember the Package Tour, eh kids? It ...

Dr. Feelgood: Down By The Jetty (United Artists)

Review by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 25 January 1975

BOYS, BOYS now what did I tell you about being "too 
ethnic"? ...

The Kursaal Flyers: Today Central Poly – Tomorrow The World?

Report by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 22 February 1975

"I'VE ONLY GOT the five shirts, so I just take 'em off and leave them to dry. It's no good washing them too much, they ...

Dr. Feelgood (1975)

Interview by Mick Gold, Rock's Backpages audio, 26 February 1975

The men from Canvey Island talk about how they got together, getting into the London pub-rock scene, their aggressive performances and recording Down by the Jetty.

File format: mp3; file size: 71.8mb, interview length: 1h 18' 25" sound quality: ***

Chilli Willi & The Red Hot Peppers, Dr. Feelgood, Kokomo: Money Doesn't Talk — it Mutters out of the Side of its Mouth

Report by Mick Farren, New Musical Express, 1 March 1975

THE NAUGHTIES OF THOSE NAUGHTY RHYTHMS ...

Ace: Five-A-Side

Review by Bud Scoppa, Phonograph Record, April 1975

WHILE IT'S TEMPTING at first listening to lump Ace's first album with the Average White Band's AWB and then to make broad statements about the ...

Chilli Willi & The Red Hot Peppers, Dr. Feelgood, Kokomo: Chilli Willi and the Red Hot Peppers, Dr. Feelgood, Kokomo: Rainbow Theatre, London

Live Review by Jonh Ingham, Phonograph Record, April 1975

THE SECOND wave of '70s bands to emerge from England is an entirely opposite affair from the glitter/glam of the Mark I model. It's centred ...

The Winkies: Winkies - Winkies

Review by Chris Salewicz, New Musical Express, 12 April 1975

AND SO, AS if to pinpoint that they'd stuck a ring through the collective nose of every other pub rocker when it came to osmosing ...

Ace: Five-a-Side

Review by Wayne Robins, Rolling Stone, 8 May 1975

FROM THE LOOK of its album cover, Ace is a band of five frustrated English football players who, like Rod Stewart, turned to music to ...

Ace: An Ace Album

Review by Gene Sculatti, Creem, June 1975

Ace: Five-A-Side (Anchor) ...

Ace Strong on ‘How Long’

Report and Interview by Barbara Charone, Rolling Stone, 5 June 1975

THOUGH IT SOUNDS like a song about a stale love affair, ‘How Long’ is the story of an English band struggling to stay together. ...

Kilburn & The High Roads: The Kilburns' Freak Show

Interview by David Hancock, Record Mirror, 5 July 1975

They are not exactly... handsome. ...

The 101'ers: Hope & Anchor, London

Live Review by Chas de Whalley, New Musical Express, 16 August 1975

THE CELLAR OF Islington's Hope and Anchor is hardly the place to keep cool, calm and collected on one of the hottest nights of the ...

Dr. Feelgood: 1975 Orange Festival, France

Live Review by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 23 August 1975

ON PAPER, Saturday evening looked to be the least attractive evening of the festival but it was, in fact, a triumph for Dr Feelgood, who ...

Max Merritt And The Meteors: White Hart, Willesden

Live Review by Chas de Whalley, New Musical Express, 20 September 1975

A FEW YEARS ago, when I was employed in a South London certain department store, I worked with a couple of globetrotting New Zealanders who ...

Dr. Feelgood Is On The Case

Profile and Interview by Barbara Charone, Crawdaddy!, October 1975

LONDON – "Where did they come from?" demanded a rock 'n roll lifer, pointing towards Dr. Feelgood who were entertaining at a star-studded and overstuffed ...

Ace, Brinsley Schwarz, Dr. Feelgood, Ducks Deluxe: Pub Rock: Grass Roots On the Other Side of the Fence

Overview by Bud Scoppa, Crawdaddy!, October 1975

IN BRITAIN during the late '60s and early '70s, while rock 'n roll was being transformed into Big Business, a network of bands sprang up ...

Dr. Feelgood: Dr Feelgood: Malpractice (United Artists) (36.08)

Review by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 4 October 1975

FROM THE speed-crazed paranoid stares on the cover to the buzz-bomb guitar attacks inside, one question demands to be answered: would you let your parents ...

Dr. Feelgood: The /almost collected thoughts of Dr. Feelgood

Interview by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 18 October 1975

DR FEELGOOD: Wilko Johnson – guitar; Lee Brilleaux – vocals; John B Sparks – bass; The Figure – drums. They grew up on Canvey Island in ...

The Hope & Anchor

Report and Interview by Chas de Whalley, New Musical Express, 25 October 1975

During this week and next week London's Second Pub-Rock Festival is being held at the Hope And Anchor, Upper Street, N.1. CHAS DE WHALLEY examines ...

The 101'ers, Kilburn & The High Roads, Mickey Jupp: Pub Rock Proms: For Those Who Like Their Rock Hot And Sweaty…

Report by Chas de Whalley, New Musical Express, 15 November 1975

IT'S SATURDAY night, a good ten minutes after closing time. Down at the Hope and Anchor in Islington landlord Fred Granger is going quietly berserk, ...

Ace: Time For Another (Anchor) 40 mins****

Review by Barbara Charone, Sounds, 29 November 1975

FOLLOWING THEIR debut vinyl effort Five A Side and the immense success of 'How Long', both here and in America, it certainly is "Time For Another". Yet ...

The Kursaal Flyers: Chocs Away

Review by Andy Childs, ZigZag, December 1975

IT ALWAYS happens that whenever the loose ensemble of people who contribute to ZigZag, and their friends, associates, chauffeurs and bodyguards get together for one ...

Back Street Crawler: New Victoria, London

Live Review by Chas de Whalley, New Musical Express, 6 December 1975

SOME UGLY MOMENTS here. ...

Ace

Interview by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, 13 December 1975

PHIL HARRIS, OF Ace, suddenly perked to attention on the edge of his chair and made a compassionate plea. "We love Britain, 'onest," he craved. ...

The 101'ers, The Clash, Sex Pistols: The 101'ers — 1976

Special Feature by Ira Robbins, Peter Silverton, unpublished, 1976

September 21, 2021 introduction by Ira Robbins  (www.trouserpress.com) ...

Boombaya, Jive Bombers, Roogalator: Boombaya, Roogalator, Jive Bombers: 100 Club, London

Live Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 24 January 1976

Join the working band's club ...

The Kursaal Flyers: Brunel University, London

Live Review by John Tobler, New Musical Express, 24 January 1976

THE ONLY REASON I KNOW for the Kursaal Flyers not to be as popular as sliced bread is that their first album was so badly ...

The Kursaal Flyers: Kursaal Flyers: Surely This Band Is Too Young To Die?

Profile and Interview by Chas de Whalley, New Musical Express, 7 February 1976

PAUL SHUTTLEWORTH'S Secret Ambition is to become a member of Equity, the Actors' Union. "Trouble is though," he told me, "You can't just pay your ...

Clancy: Kingston Polytechnic, London

Live Review by John Tobler, New Musical Express, 21 February 1976

FOR A BAND which has been going for something like two-and-a-half years, which has survived the pub circuit and come out the other side, and ...

The Kursaal Flyers: The Great Artiste (UK) ****

Review by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 28 February 1976

THE KURSAALS have always had a way with visuals and image – Paul Shuttleworth's background in commercial art no doubt. Just check the ad for ...

The Kursaal Flyers: Kursaal Flyers: Coming In On A Wing And A Prayer

Report and Interview by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 6 March 1976

IT'S AMAZING the difference a moustache makes. ...

Ace, Dr. Feelgood: Ace: Time For Another (Anchor ANCL-2013); Dr. Feelgood: Malpractice (Columbia PC 34098)

Review by John Swenson, Crawdaddy!, May 1976

PUB ROCK BREAKDOWN ...

Graham Parker, The Rumour: Graham Parker & The Rumour: Dingwalls, London

Live Review by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, 1 May 1976

WITH SOME justification, Graham Parker is being touted as a major new British talent. But, though I witnessed Parker and his fine band, the Rumour, ...

Dr. Feelgood: It's Only Rock 'n' Roll... But it's Crowded

Report by Mick Farren, New Musical Express, 26 June 1976

MICK FARREN bares armpits and gets sweaty (and drunk) with DR. FEELGOOD ...

Dr. Feelgood: Hope & Anchor, London

Live Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 11 September 1976

REAL CASE of dejaja vuvu it was, the night the Feelgoods played the Hope. To readers outside London the Hope and Anchor may just be ...

Dr. Feelgood, The George Hatcher Band: Dr Feelgood: City Hall, Sheffield

Live Review by Andy Gill, New Musical Express, 25 September 1976

HERE IN Sheffield there's a local aphorism along the lines of "Tha' works 'ard, so bloody well play hard". It fits. Most of the concerts ...

Dr. Feelgood: Dr Feelgood: 'Ere, who you screwing, John?

Report and Interview by Brian Case, New Musical Express, 2 October 1976

Once again our halls of entertainment echo to the banshee wail of urban youth. Here BRIAN CASE, always the man to spot the first robin ...

Eddie & The Hot Rods: Eddie and the Hot Rods

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 Clash, Roogalator, The Vibrators: Roogalator/The Clash: Fulham Town Hall, London; The Vibrators: Nashville, London

Live Review by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 6 November 1976

THIS ONE takes place in Fulham Town Hall and a glance tells you whoever designed this place had his sights firmly set on Cummerbund City. ...

Roogalator: Tired? Listless? Depressed? Old? Roogalator — the Rejuvenator

Profile and Interview by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 13 November 1976

"It's true" says reader Giovanni Dadomo of Kings Cross, "I was an old fart until I discovered Roogalator. "Now I'm a young fart!" ...

The Kursaal Flyers: Sarfend, Sarfend, It's A Hell Of A Town…

Report and Interview by Chris Salewicz, New Musical Express, 4 December 1976

The smell of coins and oil and penny arcades; of fish 'n' chips; of salt and wave against pebble and promenade; of wide boys and ...

Eddie & The Hot Rods: 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 ...

Dr. Feelgood: Dr Feelgood: Hammersmith Palais, London

Live Review by Barry Cain, Record Mirror, 25 December 1976

THE FEELGOODS DO IT AGAIN ...

Ace: It's An Ace Life In The Low-Key Whacky World Of Los Angeles

Report and Interview by Chris Salewicz, New Musical Express, 15 January 1977

SEVEN OF US leave the Ace ranch in Hidden Valley and go late night cruisin' in drummer Fran Byrne's '69 Pontiac. Fran heads for ex-Chilli ...

Dr. Feelgood: Dr Feelgood: The Truth Behind The Break-up…

Report by Mick Farren, New Musical Express, 9 April 1977

AS REPORTED in the news pages Dr. Feelgood have come apart at the seams, with Wilko Johnson going one way and the rest of the ...

Elvis Costello, The Damned, Dave Edmunds, Nick Lowe, Graham Parker, The Rumour, Sean Tyla: Around the bend on Stiff Records

Interview by Wayne Robins, Newsday, 24 April 1977

WHAT KIND of record company would use as its motto the phrase "reversing into tomorrow"? Which record company would define its purpose, on its first ...

Dr. Feelgood: Dr Feelgood: Sneakin' Suspicion (United Artists)

Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 14 May 1977

Is there a doctor in the house? CHARLES SHAAR MURRAY thinks the FEELGOODS might just need one… ...

Dr. Feelgood: Sneakin' Suspicion (United Artists UAS 30075)

Review by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, 14 May 1977

Epitaph to Wilko ...

John Otway, The Kursaal Flyers: The Kursaal Flyers, John Otway And Wild Willy Barrett: The Marquee, London

Live Review by Chas de Whalley, Sounds, 21 May 1977

ONE THING about the Kursaal Flyers...they never do things by halves. ...

Dr. Feelgood: Doctor Feelgood: How's The New Boy Settling In, Chaps?

Report and Interview by Tim Lott, Sounds, 28 May 1977

Jolly well, it seems. It's smiles all round as DOCTOR FEELGOOD introduce new chap John Mayo to keen young cub reporter TIM LOTT (15). ...

Ducks Deluxe: Ducks Deluxe

Retrospective by Chas de Whalley, Sounds, 16 July 1977

In which SOUNDS people bring long-ignored or deleted albums to your attention ...

Meal Ticket: Meal's On Wheels

Profile and Interview by Chas de Whalley, Sounds, 10 September 1977

"WE'LL CHALENGE any band in the business to any bar sport they care to name. Darts, Pool, Crib, Table Football, Pinball. You name it. Meal ...

Roogalator, the Yachts: Nashville, London

Live Review by Tim Lott, Record Mirror, 10 September 1977

THIS LEAD singer, John Joe Janies Campbell, looks ridiculous. Not because he's got green pubes or anything, he just moves funny onstage and grins all ...

The Kursaal Flyers: Five Live Kursaals

Review by Chas de Whalley, Sounds, 24 September 1977

IT ALL boils down to what you think of the Kursaal Flyers really, doesn't it? Me, I fell in love with them the first time ...

Dr. Feelgood, Wilko Johnson: Wilko Johnson: Wilko Not Buried Yet

Interview by Mick Farren, New Musical Express, 8 October 1977

WITH DOCTOR Feelgood moving into the charts and just embarked on a headlining nationwide tour, one question still hangs around the street corner waiting to ...

Brinsley Schwarz, Ducks Deluxe, Eggs Over Easy: The Glory That Was Pub Rock

Retrospective by Chas de Whalley, Sounds, 26 November 1977

"Before pub rock people used to think the ideal gig was somewhere like Guildford Civic where you could sit cross-legged and watch King Crimson pan ...

Dr. Feelgood: Dr Feelgood: Be Seeing You

Review by Ira Robbins, Trouser Press, December 1977

FINALLY THE DEBUT of a Wilkoless Feelgoods is upon us. Even more than that, it's the Nick Lowe-produced debut of a Wilkoless Feelgoods. ...

Brinsley Schwarz, Ducks Deluxe, Man, Rockpile: Pub Rock

Overview by Paul Yamada, Terminal Zone, 1978

TO THOSE OF US here in the states, the period of so called 'Pub Rock' in the UK, which lasted at least 6 years, and ...

Eddie & The Hot Rods: 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, ...

Roogalator: Play It By Ear (Do It)

Review by Ian Birch, Melody Maker, 25 February 1978

A JINX HAS to hang over Roogalator, despite their having one of the great names. ...

Ian Dury & the Blockheads: Dingwalls, London

Live Review by Tony Stewart, New Musical Express, 4 March 1978

Mighty Dury, due to be mightier ...

Graham Parker: The On-Going Story Of Little Men In Glasses

Interview by Tony Stewart, New Musical Express, 22 April 1978

Graham Parker, in this instance — who reflects on the vagaries of the rock power struggle while socking it to 'em in Ireland. When you're ...

Dr. Feelgood: Dr Feelgood: Private Practice

Review by Peter Silverton, Sounds, 16 September 1978

The Worthington White Shield of Rock ...

Chas And Dave: What We Want Is Rockney

Profile and Interview by Cliff White, New Musical Express, 23 September 1978

...an ethnic feature which eschews 'plastic fantastic kharzis', refers frequently to 'geezers', and acknowledges virtue by repeated use of the colloquialism 'bleedin' great'. Subject: CHAS ...

Mickey Jupp: Micky Jupp: Juppanese

Review by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 7 October 1978

MICKEY JUPP has always been nearly famous, and even then it's been by default. ...

Kilburn & The High Roads: Wotabunch!

Review by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 11 November 1978

'ORRIBLE SLEEVE! Revolting stuffed animals and tacky cardboard cut-out Kilburos abound. I fear Stiff are disassociating themselves from Wotabunch!, which is understandable when you consider ...

Chas and Dave: Don't Give A Monkey's (Rockney EMC 3303) ***½

Review by Garry Bushell, Sounds, 18 August 1979

CHAS AND Dave are a public bar on Saturday night chock-full of pissed punters blowing their greengages on rivers of alkyhol while some half-cut old ...

Dr. Feelgood: Dr Feelgood: A Case Of The Shakes

Review by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 27 September 1980

YOU HAVE to admit that Dr Feelgood know their own measure – no kowtowing to trend from this lot. Would you believe this record was ...

Dr. Feelgood: Dr Feelgood: Whisky a Go Go, Los Angeles

Live Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 30 December 1980

New Feelgoods know the ropes ...

Dr. Feelgood's Lee Brilleaux (1981)

Interview by Ian Ravendale, Rock's Backpages audio, 8 February 1981

The Feelgoods' frontman on how the band has developed in the studio, choosing producers, and the respective virtues of Mike Vernon and Richard Gottehrer.

File format: mp3; file size: 8.7mb, interview length: 09' 31" sound quality: ****

Ace, Paul Carrack, Nick Lowe, Squeeze: Paul Carrack: "Singin' Like A Boid"

Interview by Fred Schruers, Musician, October 1982

Keyboard specialist for Ace, Roxy and Squeeze, Carrack has brought his muscular, gritty voice and soulful hit tunes out of the shadows and up to ...

Dr. Feelgood: Dr Feelgood: Pure Essex Voodoo

Retrospective and Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, Q, August 1987

ONE OF THE few remaining saving graces of rock'n'roll is that its most compelling legends do not always belong to those who achieve the greatest ...

Dr. Feelgood: Lee Brilleaux: What the Doctor lauded

Obituary by Max Bell, The Evening Standard, 14 April 1994

Lee Brilleaux, frontman of the legendary Dr Feelgood, died last week. MAX BELL remembers the pub rocker's pub rocker. ...

Ian Dury, Kilburn & The High Roads: Ian Dury’s High Road

Book Excerpt by Richard Balls, Omnibus Press, 2000

An extract from Sex & Drugs & Rock’n’Roll: The Life of Ian Dury, by Richard Balls, first published by Omnibus Press in 2000. (300pp, currently ...

Dave Edmunds

Book Excerpt by Phil Hardy, Dave Laing, 'Faber Companion to 20th Century Popular Music', 2001

b. 15 April 1944, Cardiff, Wales ...

The 101'ers, The Clash, Joe Strummer: Joe Strummer: The Man Who Would Be King

Retrospective and Interview by Kieron Tyler, MOJO, 2005

The 101'ers were about to hit the big time. But then Joe Strummer found punk.  ...

The 101'ers: The 101ers: The Key to Joe's Art

Retrospective and Interview by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, June 2005

Punk pioneers the 101ers gave us Joe Strummer's earliest recordings. The band's drummer Richard Dudanski reminisces with Terry Staunton. ...

Graham Parker & The Rumour: "It's R&B from the future – you just haven't caught up with me yet"

Retrospective and Interview by Hugh Fielder, Record Collector, August 2005

AS GRAHAM PARKER & the Rumour trooped off stage after what turned out to be their last show together at the German Rock TV show ...

Roogalator: Footnote Archives: Roogalator

Retrospective by Dave Thompson, Goldmine, September 2006

IT'S EARLY morning on regional breakfast television, and the morning's entertainment includes a local performer who, with close to 40 years of experience behind him, ...

Elvis Costello: True Stories

Retrospective and Interview by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, September 2007

Thirty years after the release of My Aim Is True, Elvis Costello is set to revisit his classic debut. Terry Staunton looks back at the ...

Chilli Willi & The Red Hot Peppers, Dr. Feelgood, Kokomo: Pub Rock: We'll Drink To That!

Retrospective and Interview by Chas de Whalley, Record Collector, 19 October 2007

"Watch Out! First Time Ever! Non-Stop Real Music Coming Your Way At 1000 Smiles An Hour!" ...

Jane Aire & The Belvederes, Elvis Costello, The Damned, Nick Lowe, Rachel Sweet, The Yachts: Various Artists: The Big Stiff Box Set

Review by Stuart Maconie, The Word, December 2007

THE '70S BEGAN and ended in turmoil, with strikes, crises, terrorism, class war and new political orthodoxies on the march. ...

Dr. Feelgood: The Dr. Feelgood factor

Interview by Nick Hasted, The Independent, 13 February 2009

They paved the way for punk, but have been forgotten by history. A new film revisits the strange world from which Dr. Feelgood came, writes ...

Dr. Feelgood: Dr Feelgood: Oil City Rockers

Retrospective and Interview by Nick Hasted, Uncut, October 2009

A fierce, gritty riposte to early-'7Os excess, Dr Feelgood weren't just trailblazers for punk but, fleetingly, the biggest band in England. With a new Julien ...

Dr. Feelgood: Dr Feelgood: Oil Youyouyouou Be Seeing

Film/DVD/TV Review by Daryl Easlea, Record Collector, 10 January 2010

A New Film, Oil City Confidential, Tells The Dr Feelgood Story. Daryl Easlea Relives His Youth ...

Eddie & The Hot Rods: 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.   ...

The Strypes: The Big Beat Reborn!

Interview by Lois Wilson, MOJO, February 2013

You CAN judge a band by looking at their covers! Lois Wilson speaks to The Strypes, Paul Weller and Jeff Beck's favourite new band... ...

George Gershwin, Wilko Johnson, Lee Konitz, Gregory Porter, Martha Reeves & The Vandellas: Cheltenham Jazz Festival, review

Live Review by Nick Hasted, The Independent, 6 May 2015

Even in jazz, sometimes the simplest pleasures are best ...

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