Crosstown Lightnin’ played their first gig in a while, the first of many more the way things are looking. Charles Shaar Murray, Buffalo Bll Smith, Marc Jefferies and Pete Miles were tight as a gnat’s bum and rocked the swanky new W14 venue, Black Velvet, with their punky blues. Bex Marshall headlined with her 4-piece […]
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Love this piece about the punk movement in China. I think I was the first home-grown Chinese punk in Britain, hanging out at Vivienne Westwood’s shop Sex as a kiddie where she made me my first catsuit (pix above and below). It was my armour, a shiny carapace that expressed my champion alienation as a
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Anna Chen – Saturday, 23 March 2013 The vast lobby of the Victoria and Albert Museum had been turned into the sort of joint where beautiful young men and women press cocktails and bubbly onto you as soon as you walk in. Mini canapés appeared transported on futuristic illuminated platters like something out of the
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Spent an enjoyable Sunday with my mate Deborah Evans-Stickland — she of the Flying Lizards and the definitive version of “Money” (1979, written by Berry Gordy in the 1960s) that you hear played every time there’s an item on … er … money. Given that we’re in the pits of a recession that’s fast turning
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I was, am and will continue to be thrilled by this encouragement from meister songwriter Wilko Johnson for my poetry. Here he is saying nice things about Reaching for my Gnu at his house last week. So looking forward to his gigs in March — a farewell tour to beat all farewell tours. Bless you,
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Spent Tuesday afternoon with one of the two most beautiful men in rock ‘n’ roll, the other one being David Bowie. Three if you include the lovely Charles Shaar Murray who I drove through the snow to Wilko Johnson’s house in Southend. We found him in awesome mood for a man who’s just announced he
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