Hugh Nolan
Hugh Nolan was born in Australia in 1944 and came to the UK when he was nine. He studied at King's College, Wimbledon, but in true rock'n'roll style was expelled for smoking in the toilets. On finishing his education, he was a junior journalist in local newspapers. He then became the editor of the "Scene" page of the pop music paper Disc. In 1969, he worked for a time with the music management and promotion company Blackhill Enterprises. He was a record album reviewer with International Times (IT) and maintained close connections with the Friends underground newspaper, which had been formed by former staff members after Rolling Stone magazine closed its UK edition.
Hugh became involved in radio in 1969 through Bill Hayes of Opus newsletter. In early August 1969, Bill Hayes produced the first (and never broadcast) Radio Andorra tape in his front room in Muswell Hill in London. Jumbo Blimp Works was formed in October 1969 by Hugh, Geoffrey Bass and Terry Yason with financial backing from Tony Secunda and Jimmy Miller of Ringmaker Music, with the aim of producing alternative radio programmes and to charter air-time on Radio Andorra. Hugh died in Australia on 3 November 2009 after a long illness at the age of 65.
27 articles
List of articles in the library
David Ackles: Meet David Ackles, The Man Who Wrote Jools' Next Hit
Interview by Hugh Nolan, Disc and Music Echo, 5 October 1968
WHEN THE man came to see David Ackles with a view towards making him lots of money and propelling him into a world of beautiful ...
Profile and Interview by Hugh Nolan, Disc and Music Echo, 2 November 1968
WAY BACK in 1960 Pete Brown gave everything up to try to make a living writing poetry. Not surprisingly, it wasn't too easy — five ...
Live Review by Hugh Nolan, Disc and Music Echo, 25 March 1967
Stax sensation ...
Live Review by Hugh Nolan, Disc and Music Echo, 19 November 1966
CAN YOU TELL CREAM FROM BUTTERFIELD? ...
Live Review by Hugh Nolan, Disc and Music Echo, 25 March 1967
THE BYRDS are an exciting, progressive group whose records get better and better and, on the strength of their new album Younger Than Yesterday can ...
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band: Middle Earth, London
Live Review by Hugh Nolan, Disc and Music Echo, 27 January 1968
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART BLOWS WILD! ...
Report by Hugh Nolan, Disc and Music Echo, 6 January 1968
CAUTION: ELECTRICITY can be hazardous to health — but Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band are as Safe As Milk. And London is due for ...
The Deviants: Revolution — With Guitars, Not Bullets
Interview by Hugh Nolan, Disc and Music Echo, 2 November 1968
FOR MICK FARREN, magnificently hairy leader of the (formerly Social) Deviants, the underground is a very definite force against the establishment, blind authority and the ...
The Deviants, Pink Floyd, Soft Machine: U.F.O. — in front of what's happening!
Report by Hugh Nolan, Disc and Music Echo, 24 June 1967
AS FAR as London is concerned, the hippies' paradise known as U.F.O. — stands for unidentified flying object, the non-own-up official term for flying saucers ...
The Doors: L.A. Woman (Elektra)
Review by Hugh Nolan, International Times, 26 August 1971
TITLE TRACK sounds like a typical Ballard fantasy — 'Woman viewed as linear plan of the City' or something — a beautifully imperceptible change from ...
Frank Zappa, The Mothers Of Invention: Zappa, Vegetables And Uncle Meat...
Report and Interview by Hugh Nolan, Disc and Music Echo, 5 October 1968
THE FOLLOWING scene is not recommended for the squeamish, children below the age of three months, soldiers, policemen, politicians or vegetable-lovers (but may be seen ...
Review by Hugh Nolan, International Times, 25 February 1971
THESE TWO albums have more in common than being on the same label (and it's no detriment to either that it should be the label ...
Jimi Hendrix: For Jimi Hendrix, colour means his shade of music...
Interview by Hugh Nolan, Disc and Music Echo, 22 April 1967
SCOPE — a series in which stars discuss their pet subjects ...
Jimi Hendrix: "Nice To Win — But We've Not Begun!"
Interview by Hugh Nolan, Disc and Music Echo, 17 February 1968
FOR A GUY to whom his music is more important than anything, you'd think being voted the World's Top Musician by Disc readers would make ...
Live Review by Hugh Nolan, Disc and Music Echo, 30 June 1967
HENDRIX: impact of a 50-megaton H-BOMB! ...
The Herd: Hey, have YOU heard the HERD? The Herd: Brough Assembly Hall, Aylesbury
Live Review by Hugh Nolan, Disc and Music Echo, 1 June 1968
What progress is being made by the group voted Brightest Hope of '68 in Disc's Poll? Hugh Nolan reports ...
Review by Hugh Nolan, International Times, 11 March 1971
A FITTING epitaph for the maverick First Lady of Rock. ...
Live Review by Hugh Nolan, Disc and Music Echo, 3 August 1968
Such a NICE day in the park ...
The Mothers of Invention: Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Hugh Nolan, Disc and Music Echo, 30 September 1967
MOTHERS of INVENTION: best rock sound since Beatles! ...
The Mothers of Invention: Royal Festival Hall, London
Live Review by Hugh Nolan, Disc and Music Echo, 2 November 1968
Mothers Superior ...
The Move: Move (Regal Zonophone)
Review by Hugh Nolan, Disc and Music Echo, 16 March 1968
Out now — their first fantastic album! ...
Simon & Garfunkel: Simon and Garfunkel: Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Hugh Nolan, Disc and Music Echo, 25 March 1967
AFTER WATCHING Paul Simon, Art Garfunkel and one guitar hold a packed London Albert Hall audience — probably six to seven thousand people — in ...
Tomorrow, Keith West: Tomorrow: the pop revolution
Interview by Hugh Nolan, Disc and Music Echo, 9 September 1967
"FIRST it was Tomorrow, then it was Tomorrow with Keith West, then it was Keith West and Tomorrow, then Keith West and now it's just ...
Velvet Underground: The Velvet Underground: Loaded (Cotillion import)
Review by Hugh Nolan, International Times, 11 March 1971
HAVING BEEN overtaken back in the early days by the Airplane, the Dead et al as the Most Identifiable sound of the underground, the Velvets ...
The Who: Cattiest Group In The Business...
Interview by Hugh Nolan, Disc and Music Echo, 30 November 1968
IN A LARGE, mellowed house just a few yards from the River Thames in Twickenham, a rather staid suburb of London, Pete Townshend, noted composer ...
List of genre pieces
Hair: Shaftesbury Theatre, London
Live Review by Hugh Nolan, Disc and Music Echo, 2 November 1968
The Lesson of Hair ...
Underground: Not So Much Pop Music More A Way Of Life
Overview by Hugh Nolan, Disc and Music Echo, 2 November 1968
Let's kill all barriers in music... ...
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