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Five Things I Saw & Heard This Week: Wednesday 18th July
Woodrow Wilson “Woody” Guthrie, born 14th July, 1912 My favourite photograph of a musician is this, a picture of Woody Guthrie, kindly given to me by the peerless Bob Gumpert. It’s my favourite because...
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Five Things: Wednesday 17th July
Oh, Yeezus… You know when pop stars used to re-record their latest hits in the language of another market – say, Germany or France – before the world was totally consumed by the language of...
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Five Things, Wednesday 15th October
Who’s in charge? From Roy Keane’s slightly mad new autobiography, The Second Half: “It might seem strange but you find out about characters when you look to see who’s in charge of the music. A young...
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Five Things Extra, Monday 6th July: Attack Of The 50 Foot Jazzman!
As we went walking that ribbon of highway that links Covent Garden to Soho, en route to see Amy at the Curzon, most of Great Newport Street was covered in scaffolding. Not such a rare sight in the...
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Extra: An Update on “The Colyer”
In July last year I wrote: “As we went walking that ribbon of highway that links Covent Garden to Soho, en route to see Amy at the Curzon, most of Great Newport Street was covered in scaffolding. Not...
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Wednesday, December 14th
ONE JAZZIE B: FROM DOLE TO SOUL, BBC 4 This documentary started lazily, but gradually sharpened up to be a fascinating portrait of black experience in 80s London. “The media painted us all with the...
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Thursday, March 15
ONE OUT COME THE FREAKS Dan Franklin at Jonathan Cape kindly sent me a copy of A Hero for High Times, Ian Marchant’s new book. Its subtitle describes it pretty succinctly: A Young Reader’s Guide to the...
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