It'll corral my 50 years of music journalism and authoring books in one spot, often in original uncut form, with pics and memorabilia, plus current activities with Nina Walsh in the Cosmic Hutch.
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RAMONES! Hoppin’ With Da Bruddas
With my memoir at slashing stage, lots has to be left out. Here’s a fuller account of life in the trenches during the band’s first UK invasions from Shindig! in 2010. Soon I’ll be on here a lot more!
Friars Aylesbury 1978. Pic: Geoff Tyrel...
Released today! Country ‘n’ West Ten by The Dirty Strangers
Going wild with the country while growing old disgracefully, the Dirty Strangers’ eighth album is something of a milestone for the UK’s longest running uncut rock ‘n’ roll band next to the Rolling Stones. 48 years since singer-guitarist-lea...
PUBLIC IMAGE LTD.: THE METAL BOX
Just finishing the memoir after weeks of dogged slog; my exclusive preview of PiL’s second album round John’s house 47 years ago is a personal highlight but here’s the full story from Zigzag, Dec ‘79.
Friday evening in Chelsea and I’m look...
KATE BUSH: Interview 2;The Dreaming
Celebrating 20 years writing for Record Collector and today’s Kate Bush cover piece with the second marathon interview I did with this remarkable lady (from Zigzag 1982).
Wake up! Is everybody in? The Dreaming is about to begin...
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART BONUS
Curiously, my most liked and restacked post has been a Beefheart piece I wrote for Record Collector in 2016. So here’s a more personalised angle from my 2019 mini-biog Just A Shot Away; 1969 Revisited
My first time: Royal Albert Hall, 1972
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