Nine hours on a bus from Berlin to Cologne/Bonn airport where Olivia’s Dad Gerd is picking us up. On the bus, a driver that told us we couldn’t eat and only use the loo in an emergency. “No crumbling food” he said in German, “kein krümeliges Essen”. So I provocatively pulled out my cadbury’s flake […]
The Clash released White Riot as the first single from their debut album in 1977. The song was a call to arms for the impoverished white population, suggesting that the black communities were more likely to riot against injustice than the white communities and that the white communities might be “Too chicken to even try […]
Today I left Poland. I took the plane from Chopin airport in Warsaw to Malpensa airport in Milan where I am playing at a festival with Anekdoten a few miles north in Veruno. What a beautiful country Poland is, wonderful cities, Krakow, Gdansk, Warsaw, whoever would think of going to Poland for a holiday but […]
Trans Europe Express was the first album by Kraftwerk that I knew well. It seems that in those days Europe was a rather glamorous place, still is as far as I’m concerned and despite those that wish to leave the European community selling the idea that Britain is better off on its own, for me […]
A tribute to another soul who has left us although he has had little attention in the media accept in the area of Wales where he was from. Gareth Mortimer or ‘Morty’ as he was known, was the singer in Welsh band Racing Cars. They had one hit, written by Morty, They Shoot Horses Don’t […]
Inspiration Information and Strawberry Letter 23 are Shuggie Otis’ best known songs, the latter a big hit for The Brothers Johnson from their album Right On Time (1977) produced under the guidance of Quincy Jones, the song reached No.5 on the US chart. It’s a song that you love if you know it or you’ve […]