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 | Feb 7, 2018 | Nick Lowe
ONE'S TOO MANY SINGS NICK LOWE Now that ‘dry January’ is over and some of us are getting stuck into a beverage, it may be time to reflect on ‘One’s Too Many (And A Hundred Ain’t Enough)’, a song written by Nick Lowe and Kim Wilson (of the Fabulous Thunderbirds)...
by Will Birch | Oct 19, 2017 | Nick Lowe, Popular Music, Uncategorised
40 YEARS AGO: STIFF TOUR 'HITS' MANCHESTER October 1977 and my own group, the Kursaal Flyers, are midway through a UK tour with loveable punk rockers The Cortinas in support. It is a turbulent period – ‘Punk Rock’, as in ‘God Save The Queen’, has invaded the TV...
by Will Birch | Dec 21, 2016 | Nick Lowe
'I WAS BORN IN BETHLEHEM' CLAIMS JESUS OF COOL ‘I was born in Bethlehem’ claims Jesus of CoolOnce seen, particularly in America, as the feather-ruffling arch cove of New Wave; king of the uber clever song lyric; the fastest-livin’, hardest-drinkin’...
by Will Birch | May 22, 2015 | Nick Lowe
A FAREWELL TO ROBERT TREHERN (BOBBY IRWIN) I953-2015 A farewell to Robert Trehern (Bobby Irwin) 1953-2015 As friends and associates will know, drummer and all-round good chap Bobby Irwin sadly died from cancer on 8 May.At Bobby’s funeral at St Stephen’s Church,...
by Will Birch | May 30, 2014 | Nick Lowe
40 YEARS OF PEACE, LOVE, AND UNDERSTANDING 40 years of Peace, Love, and UnderstandingAs this majestic song enters its fifth decade, some of us will recall those barroom comedians who couldn’t resist uttering ‘Yeah, peace and love, man’, as one of...
