8 January 2025 | News
I attended Manchester University in 1967, and I was in the Drama Department. I was keen on Theatre but by then I was becoming even more entranced by rock’n’roll. The Student Union hosted regular gigs, and booked acts a long time in advance. This meant that we were able to see some fabulous bands, up-close […]
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25 December 2024 | News
James Brown, ‘Soul Brother No 1’ and ‘The Hardest Working Man In Show Business’, is coming to the end of his four-hour concert. Behind him are ‘The Famous Flames’, a band so drilled and precise as to make the Band of the Coldstream Guards seem sloppy and under-rehearsed. Immaculate in their tuxedos, they punch out […]
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27 November 2024 | News
It may come as something of a surprise that, about half a century ago, your friendly local song-writer was once a member of the sinister ‘mindbending’ cult of Scientology. I have ‘fessed up to this in various interviews, but I thought I would write something about the movement as seen from a slightly different viewpoint, […]
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19 March 2020 | Blog
24 Feb.2020
Well that’s pushing it a bit, but I did come across the Elfin One on three occasions. On the first of these, the original ‘Van der Graaf Generator’, consisting of Peter Hammill and myself, supported the original ‘Tyrannosaurus Rex’, consisting of Marc Bolan and Steve Peregrin Took, at The Magic Village club […]
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19 March 2020 | Blog
11 February 2020
THE FREE ART RESEARCH TRIO – PART 1
I want to tell you about a strange corner of my musical life that is not represented to any great extent on this website, and not at all in any recorded musical form. This story is half way between a musical essay […]
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