Giovanni Dadomo
Giovanni Dadomo was a music journalist who wrote for publications such as ZigZag, Sounds, The Face and New Music News. In 1977 he formed the Snivelling Shits and recorded the novelty punk record 'Terminal Stupid'/'I Can't Come', the latter described as "an iconoclastic mantra of amphetamine-induced sexual dysfunction". On the record he was backed by guitarist and fellow journalist Dave Fudger and various musicians including members of Eddie & the Hot Rods, and engineered by Steve Lillywhite, who also played bass guitar for the band. Giovanni died in 1997.
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Arthur Lee, Love: Love: Signed Arthur Lee
Interview by Giovanni Dadomo, ZigZag, July 1974
ARTHUR'S NOTHING like you'd expect him to be. No trace of the leather jacketed refugee from Blackboard Jungle high school punkery who lurks under that peculiar edifice ...
Minnie Riperton, Stevie Wonder: Minnie Riperton: From a whisper to a scream
Profile by Giovanni Dadomo, Record Mirror, 26 October 1974
WHEN A RECORD company brings the release date of an album forward by almost three months it's a sure sign that the artist involved is ...
The Three Degrees: Higher and higher with the rising Degrees
Interview by Giovanni Dadomo, Record Mirror, 9 November 1974
HAVING EXPERIENCED the full force of thelr dynamic and sensual stage act only a few days before, I half expected to find the Three Degrees ...
Jesse Winchester: Approximately 286 Reasons Why You Should Listen To Jesse Winchester
Overview by Giovanni Dadomo, ZigZag, December 1974
IF YOU'VE BEEN a reader of Zigzag for as long as I have, i.e., since very early on, you'll recall how at the start there ...
Toots & The Maytals: Fundamental reggae... that's Toots and the Maytals
Interview by Giovanni Dadomo, Record Mirror, 14 December 1974
"THE REAL meaning of reggae is that the roots come from the heart — if you don't have love you can't play reggae." Thus spake ...
Rufus: Going below the belt with Rufus
Profile and Interview by Giovanni Dadomo, Record Mirror, 14 December 1974
YOU KNOW the feeling — worn out by too much funk, and street soul don't make it for you anymore. Well don't despair, Krudde music ...
Graham Central Station: "By Graham Central station I got up and got funky"
Interview by Giovanni Dadomo, Record Mirror, 25 January 1975
YOU HAVE to admit it, Graham Central Station are just about the meanest, toughest, tightest funk outfit in the whole wide world. ...
Kool and the Gang: Kool & the Gang: Rainbow Theatre, London
Live Review by Giovanni Dadomo, Record Mirror, 8 February 1975
HAVING BEEN informed in advance that the concert was being recorded for a forthcoming live album, coupled with the fact that it was their first ...
Tower of Power: Confessions of an East Bay greaser
Interview by Giovanni Dadomo, Record Mirror, 15 February 1975
Tower of Power vocalist spills the beans on those big bad boys from Oakland. ...
Labelle: Nightbirds (Epic 80566)
Review by Giovanni Dadomo, Record Mirror, 8 March 1975
RELEASED TO coincide with their English tour, this is the album that should establish Labelle as the world's leading female vocal group. ...
The Fatback Band — Bringing Home The Bacon
Profile by Giovanni Dadomo, Record Mirror, 12 April 1975
BEANS AND fatback... It's as American as Kentucky chicken. And fatback, in case you didn't know, is the rich, thick bacon that comes, as the ...
Mud, Suzi Quatro, Sweet: Nicky Chinn: From Riches to Riches
Interview by Giovanni Dadomo, Let It Rock, June 1975
LiR EXCLUSIVE: Journey to the centre of pop. Nicky Chinn interviewed ...
Interview by Giovanni Dadomo, Record Mirror, 12 July 1975
A DRUM beat knock on the door rings out. ...
Betty Davis: Betty and the Boops
Interview by Giovanni Dadomo, Record Mirror, 25 July 1975
"I'M SCHIZOPHRENIC!" says the voice on the end of the transatlantic cable. ...
Bob Marley & the Wailers, Third World: Lyceum, London
Live Review by Giovanni Dadomo, Record Mirror, 26 July 1975
Trenchtown Experience ...
The Stooges: Iggy And The Stooges: Metallic K.O. (Skydog) ****
Review by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 18 September 1975
Crass, conceited, vulgar and unpleasant. Also quite unique. ...
Black Sabbath: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 1 November 1975
WITH THE exception of their 'Paranoid' single, I've always been quite happy to think of Black Sabbath as the biggest hunch of musical crud on ...
David Ruffin: Riding rough with Ruffin
Interview by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 7 February 1976
"I KNEW IT was a hit record from the time I walked from the microphone up into the control room." David Ruffin on 'Walk Away ...
Tina Charles: Tina And A Tale Of A Toothbrush!
Interview by Giovanni Dadomo, Black Echoes, 28 February 1976
IT BEGAN, as these things very often do, with a toothbrush. A brief pause before we continue, lest the unqualified mention of the hygienic appliance ...
Jesse Winchester: Learn To Love It (Bearsville K55506) 30 min *****
Review by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 13 March 1976
The holy rock 'n' roller ...
David Cassidy is a really nice Pop Star, Teen Idol, Guy, Bloke, Sex Object, Person
Interview by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 3 April 1976
By our Wop on the spot, Giovanni Dadomo ...
Profile and Interview by Giovanni Dadomo, Street Life, 3 April 1976
EVERYTHING you ever heard about Minnie Riperton is true about Flora Purim. Truer, in fact, for not only does the 34 year-old Brazilian singer have ...
Kevin Coyne: New London Theatre, London
Live Review by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 17 April 1976
KC's Sunshine band ...
Patti Smith Group: The Roundhouse, London
Live Review by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 22 May 1976
Energy is back in fashion ...
Jesse Winchester: Exile on Main Street
Profile and Interview by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 5 June 1976
Giovanni Dadomo releases his frustrations to tell you all about Jesse Winchester ...
Live Review by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 26 June 1976
The roar of a BMW ...
Jonathan Richman and The Modern Lovers: The Modern Lovers
Review by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 3 July 1976
I'D LIKE, if I might, to commence this review by borrowing an expression from Andy Childs, he of 'Zig Zag' and 'Fat Angel' fame. Okay ...
Live Review by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 10 July 1976
Whadya want, good diction or good music? Giovanni Dadomo sees da Ramones an' da Groovies an' gets some good an' some bad a' both. ...
Overview by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 17 July 1976
THE ORIGINAL idea behind this A-Z was to try and provide a guide to 'punk' as it's now generally understood, i.e. as much a question ...
The Clash: Rehearsal Rehearsals, Chalk Farm, London
Live Review by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 21 August 1976
The first band to come along who'll really frighten the Sex Pistols ...
Orleans: Waking And Dreaming (Asylum K53044) ****
Review by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 28 August 1976
"Dadomo Raves About Non-Punk Band" sensation ...
Live Review by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 11 September 1976
A STRANGE affair, this. And then some. ...
The Runaways: Girls! Girls! Girls!
Report and Interview by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 2 October 1976
As The Runaways scoot their everlovin' way through Britain and Europe, GIOVANNI DADOMO tries to get his lemon squeezed... Now gasp on... ...
Live Review by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 2 October 1976
High dummy count flunks punks ...
Profile by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 30 October 1976
Whatever, Giovanni Dadomo should know. He's been keeping "tabs" on these "psychedelic" Stranglers and he's hip to their "trip" ...
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. ...
Motörhead, The Pink Fairies, Strife (UK): Pink Fairies, Motorhead, Strife: Roundhouse, London
Live Review by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 13 November 1976
Oh, wart a night ...
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 Damned: In The Pub Across The Road With The Damned
Interview by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 27 November 1976
1. Point Of Information This isn't, as one might have been lead to expect from the blurb in last week's paper, an 'In The Road' ...
Sex Pistols: The Sex Pistols: Great Moments In Rock Part 4336 — It's Those F***ing Punks Again!
Report by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 11 December 1976
Thousands outraged by four-letter words ...
Review by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 1 January 1977
I LIKE THIS RECORD so much that I'd hate for a single person out there to miss out on it because of my failure to ...
Profile and Interview by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 15 January 1977
Mr & Mrs Dadomo of North London present the moving tale of Ryland P Cooder, guitar hero to the rock-gentry and one of Giovanni's personal ...
Blondie: Blondie (Private Stock PS2023, Import)**
Review by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 22 January 1977
This gentleman doesn't prefer Blondie ...
Kevin Coyne: In Living Black And White (Virgin) *****
Review by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 22 January 1977
TELLING THE world about Kevin Coyne is a bit like smashing your head against a brick wall at times. ...
Generation X: The Band of the Book
Profile and Interview by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 29 January 1977
IT BEGAN with a street whisper. ...
The Damned: Damned, Damned, Damned (Stiff Seez 1)*****
Review by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 19 February 1977
Fast, crazy, dangerous and Damned ...
Johnny Thunders & the Heartbreakers: Italians Define Rock 'N' Roll
Report and Interview by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 5 March 1977
"YOU ITALIAN? You look Italian," says Johnny Thunders when we're introduced. ...
Live Review by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 12 March 1977
Run with the pack as ace reporter Joe Varnish checks out Iggy Pop, The Heartbreakers, Cherry Vanilla, Wayne County and one or two local boys ...
The Damned, T. Rex: T. Rex and The Damned: The Beautiful and The Damned
Report by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 19 March 1977
T Rex and The Damned on tour together... will the boppers say nix to the new wave? Will Bolan get blown off the stage? Captain ...
Richard Hell: The Jaws of Hell
Report and Interview by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 23 April 1977
"RICHARD HELL is always a little bit WORSE than everybody else." ...
Buzzcocks, The Clash, The Slits, The Subway Sect: The Front Line: On The Road With The Clash
Report by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 14 May 1977
JOE STRUMMER says he'll smash my face in if I so much as print a syllable of what's said in the dressing room of the ...
Talking Heads: "We're Not Punks!" "We're Not Punks!" "We're Not Punks!" "We're Not Punks!"
Profile and Interview by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 21 May 1977
Not just another Noo Wave Band From Noo Yawk, says GIOVANNI DADOMO ...
The Ramones: The Incredible Four-Headed Transplant
Interview by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 28 May 1977
A chat with those Very Special People from NYC, The Ramones, conducted by the shabbily nondescript Giovanni Dadomo of King's Cross. ...
Can: Saw Delight (Virgin V2079) **
Review by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 4 June 1977
SOMETIMES it's nice to get phone-calls, sometimes it isn't. Know what I mean? ...
Review by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 25 June 1977
A sense of wonder ...
Review by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 25 June 1977
REVIEWED BY PAUL SIMENON (BASS) AND RODENT (ROADIE) OF THE CLASH. TRANSCRIPTIONS: GIOVANNI DADOMO (AMATEUR) ...
The Doors, MC5, The Ramones, Jonathan Richman, The Stooges: Danny Fields: The Fields Connection
Interview by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 9 July 1977
The Doors, MC5, Iggy & The Stooges, John Cale, Lou Reed, Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers and The Ramones — without them the last ten years of ...
The Sex Pistols on Top of the Pops (BBC1)
Film/DVD/TV Review by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 23 July 1977
Out to Lunch ...
The Sex Pistols: Sex Pistols: 'Jooh-Nee! Jooh-Nee! Jooh-Nee!'
Report by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 13 August 1977
Swedes plead, Pistols perform, and Dadomo, the lone wop, reports on the second leg of their Scandinavian tour ...
The Sex Pistols: On The Road With The Pistols Part 101: Inside Rotten's Wardrobe
Report by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 20 August 1977
And other Swedish delights. By GIOVANNI DADOMO ...
The Sex Pistols: Sex Pistols: The Rotten Interview
Interview by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 27 August 1977
In Sweden With The Pistols Part 194 ...
The Sex Pistols: Not So Rotten After All
Profile and Interview by Giovanni Dadomo, Trouser Press, October 1977
RIGHT NOW in London, late August 1977, there's not a single sliver of doubt about it: this is the year of ...the Sex Pistols. They ...
Eddie & The Hot Rods, MC5: 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...' ...
Richard Hell & The Voidoids: Blank Generation (Sire, Import)*****
Review by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 8 October 1977
IT'S THE voice you hear first and foremost here. ...
Interview by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 15 October 1977
WHEN IS A Heartbreaker not a Heartbreaker? It may sound like the first half of a funny story but the sad truth is it's no ...
The Clash: Clash in the City of the Dead
Report and Interview by Caroline Coon, Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 29 October 1977
NO FUN IN BELFAST AND LONDONby GIOVANNI DADOMO & CAROLINE COON ...
Interview by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 29 April 1978
THE INTERVIEW took place in a neat flat high on Hampstead Hill. Nico looked much as she always has, dressed in short crushed velvet jacket ...
The Only Ones: The Only Ones (CBS 82830)*****
Review by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 13 May 1978
All for Ones and Ones for all ...
Suicide: The Third International Science Fiction Festival, Metz, France
Live Review by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 17 June 1978
METZ: SOURCES inform it to be located some 20 miles east of Paris, France. Or two hours of sky from Luton, England, as it proved ...
Interview by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 24 June 1978
NEW YORK/NEW WAVE NO INTRODUCTION ('COS OUR AUTHOR DIDN'T WRITE ONE) ...
Pere Ubu: Dub Housing (Chrysalis CHR 1207)*****
Review by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 11 November 1978
HIT ME with a snorkel and call me Cousteau but this is what the man who delivered my Dub Housing said; MAN: "You for the pair o' U-boats, ...
Live Review by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 25 November 1978
I LIKE Wire a lot and sometimes I dislike them. ...
XTC: Electric Ballroom, London
Live Review by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 25 November 1978
HAVING BEEN, so to speak, mis-directed in a choronological sense leads to a somewhat briefer exposure to XTC radiation than intended — meaning exposure to ...
Pere Ubu: Invasion Of The Warm, Friendly Bodysnatchers
Interview by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 2 December 1978
SEE THE ALIENS. See the room. See the aliens in the room. The aliens call themselves Pere Ubu. See Pere Ubu. See the big alien ...
The Only Ones: Another Year Another Planet
Report and Interview by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 30 December 1978
1979 is the year of the Only Ones sez GIOVANNI DADOMO ...
Richard Hell: The Return Of The Bug-Eyed Monster
Interview by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 13 January 1979
RICHARD HELL AND GIOVANNI DADOMO VISIT THE BOAT SHOW ...
Albert Collins: Dingwalls, London
Live Review by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 20 January 1979
CONFESSION: WHEN it comes to blues I don't know shit from sugar. But I know what I like. Albert Collins hails from Texas, cut his ...
Interview by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 3 March 1979
THE MOTÖRHEAD GUIDE TO YOUTH AND FITNESS. BY GIOVANNI DADOMO (92 IN THE BODY OF A 103 YEAR OLD) ...
Lowell George: Thanks I'll Eat It Here (Warner Bros. K56487)***
Review by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 7 April 1979
WITH HIS powerfully sentient vocals, frequently marrow-moving guitar-work and considerable song-writing capacity, it wouldn't be doing his fellow musicians too much of an injustice to ...
Kevin Coyne, Dagmar Krause: Kevin Coyne: Trans-Derby Express
Interview by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 14 April 1979
Being An Inter-City Heart-To-Heart featuring KEVIN COYNE. Engaged Comment: Giovanni Dadomo, Slightly Surreal Robot Reporter. PS: The food was lousy! ...
Interview by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 14 April 1979
★ America's answer to Lena Zavaroni! ★ The Seventies' Brenda Lee! ★ Stiff's 'alternative' to Little Jimmy Osmond! ★ A brat ★ Five foot nothing ...
The Pop Group: Y (Radar RAD 20)***½
Review by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 14 April 1979
This is the (Penguin classic) modern world ...
Iggy Pop: I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night
Report and Interview by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 19 May 1979
IGGY POP'S FREUDIAN SLIPS IN THE NIGHT. COUCH AND NOTEPAD: GIOVANNI DADOMO ...
The Monochrome Set: Cheap Titillation And Anti-Pop
Interview by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 26 May 1979
THE MONOCHROME SET FIND HOW TO HAVE FUN IN AN AVANT-GARDE WORLD ...
Destroy All Monsters: Monster Mash
Profile and Interview by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 14 July 1979
Giovanni Dadomo talks to Destroy All Monsters. Sounds editor falls for Niagara (geddit) and says, "I think we have a Debbie Harry situation with regards ...
Madness, The Selecter, The Specials: The Specials, Madness, The Selecter: Electric Ballroom, London
Live Review by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 4 August 1979
In the heat of the night ...
The Slits: One Day, All Girls Will Be Made This Way: The Slits: Cut (Island) *****
Review by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 1 September 1979
SLACK JAW, warm hearts: Cuts is astoundingly good. ...
Root Boy Slim & The Sex Change Band: Boogie 'Til You Puke
Profile and Interview by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 8 September 1979
TENDER MOMENTS IN THE COMPANY OF ROOT BOY SLIM AND THE SEX CHANGE BAND. By GIOVANNI DADOMO (AGAIN) ...
Interview by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 20 October 1979
JIMMY PURSEY talks about sex, Mod, the Pope, Christmas, Scum and stuff like that... GIOVANNI DADOMO listens and listens and listens and ...
Interview by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 17 November 1979
CHEERFUL CHAP, TV Smith. Here we are convened together for the first time in a professional capacity, officially as some sort of obituarising process for ...
The Human League: Human League: The Humour League Have Not Broken Up
Interview by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 8 December 1979
Nor The Human League either. GIOVANNI DADOMO finds big laughs, upended bears and assorted cigars in Sheffield. ...
Holly & the Italians: Days of Future Pasta
Interview by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 5 January 1980
Mario: Look-a, Luigi, 'Da Sounds-a, 'e's a gotta recipe page-a! Luigi: Don't be a cretino. Mario. Thees is-a no recipe, is a Holly and ...
The Mo-dettes: Mo-Dettes: Les Bains-Douches, Paris
Live Review by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 5 January 1980
Fun with girls in showers ...
The Doctors of Madness, Richard Strange: Richard Strange: A Revox Doesn't Answer Back
Interview by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 2 February 1980
A Doctor Of Madness goes it alone. ...
The Psychedelic Furs: Psychedelic Furs: The Psychedelic Furs (CBS 84084)***¾
Review by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 1 March 1980
So fur so good ...
The Stranglers: Cocky Saint Jacques
Interview by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 5 April 1980
THE BEST-KNOWN bassist in Britain squats on a table in a part-converted warehouse not a beet's throw from London Bridge, unmistakably himself: the saggy black ...
Killing Joke: A Matter of Laughs and Death
Interview by Giovanni Dadomo, The Face, May 1981
FUNNY HYSTERICAL: making the journey from Kings Cross to Shepherd's Bush with an earful of Killing Joke. I've just changed fifty albums I didn't need ...
Echo & The Bunnymen: Heaven Up Here
Interview by Giovanni Dadomo, The Face, August 1981
IAN McCULLOCH LETS GIOVANNI DADOMO GET UNDER HIS HAIRCUT IN ECHOSOUND AND BUNNYVISION cert x ...
Aztec Camera: The Outsider Comes In
Interview by Giovanni Dadomo, The Face, December 1983
This has been the year of RODDY FRAME. The leader of Aztec Camera, his songs have delighted critics with their complex, resonant lyrics allied to ...
Interview by Giovanni Dadomo, The Face, April 1984
Ian Dury's verdict on the nation's art heritage ...
Interview by Giovanni Dadomo, The Face, September 1984
The almost accidental progress of a modern-day pop group. Lesson No. 1: never give up your day job until your goal is in sight. ...
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