by Will Birch | Jul 15, 2020 | Popular Music, The Records
It was 40 years ago today… so the kid comes in, about 10 years our junior, and he can harmonise like McCartney and twang like, well, any guitarist you care to mention, but he has one serious addiction – ‘Asteroids’ – the quarter-in-the-slot arcade game...
by Will Birch | Jul 2, 2020 | Popular Music
IN MEMORY OF SEAN TYLA 1946 - 2020 Sean Tyla fronts the Tyla Gang – photo by Keith Morris. In Memory of Sean Tyla 1946-2020 News has reached fans’ ears that musician Sean Tyla died on 17 May. As you may know, guitarist and singer Sean was the leader of pub rock...
by Will Birch | Apr 3, 2020 | Film and TV, Nick Lowe
50TH ANNIVERSARY: BRINSLEY SCHWARZ AND THE FILLMORE TRIP Main image L-R Billy – Bob – Brinsley – Nick (NYC 1970). The preposterous 1970 launch of the band Brinsley Schwarz – affectionately known to its participants as ‘The Hype’ – is the stuff...
by Will Birch | Mar 27, 2020 | Books, Ian Dury, Uncategorised
20 YEARS AGO TODAY - IAN DRURY WAVES GOODBYE Today 27 March 2020 marks the twentieth anniversary of the death of Ian Dury. Here is an extract from Ian Dury – The Definitive Biography that reports on Ian’s funeral on 5 April 2010. Outside of royalty it was...
by Will Birch | Mar 21, 2019 | Books, Popular Music
BORN WITHIN THE SOUND OF DOBELL'S* A new book, out this week – ‘A Fabulous Creation’ by David Hepworth (Bantam Press) – is subtitled ‘How LPs Saved Our Lives’. I’m about to dive in and I suspect it will sum up my major preoccupation during pop and rock’s golden...
