Just returned from an idyllic long weekend in Scarborough to see the Blast Furnace and the Heatwaves reunion gig, their first for 32 years. Or, as they call it, their ‘reignition’ gig It was a magical few days. The lads had been scattered across the globe as far away as Sydney, Australia, but they gathered […]
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Here you are, dear reader: Wilko Johnson’s band play ‘Going Back Home’ with Charles Shaar Murray guesting on harmonica. Norman Watt-Roy on bass and Dylan Howe on drums. Videoed at the premiere of Julien Temple’s Oil City Confidential documentary film about the early days of Dr Feelgood and their roots in Canvey Island, Essex. Movie
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It’s been unbelievably sunny and warm down here in Kernow for the St Ives Arts Festival while London shakes itself out like a drowned rat aprés le deluge. Here are a couple of videos from the lunchtime sessions in Norway Square. I’m trying out Yellowface, one of the raps from Anna May Wong Must Die!,
A couple of weeks after the event but I like this photo. Half of Crosstown Lightnin’ (Charles Shaar Murray and Max ‘Dee’ Doray) and friends in The Grey Horse smoking room waiting to go on for the second half. Taken 11th August 2009, Kingston, South London. Video of the night’s encore with guests John Sinclair
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The Cowboy, the Punk and the Queens of Funk For all you NME babies and blues fans out there, Charles Shaar Murray’s new band, Crosstown Lightnin’, features the Cowboy, the Punk and the Queens of Funk: CSM on guitar and vocals, Buffalo Bill Smith on harmonica, the sublime Max Doray on bass and JoJo Ruocco
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What happens when a white man sings the blues? Here’s the first of my videos of the St Ives Literary Festival that ends tonight (Saturday). Rod Bullimore performs How To Write A Blues Song, accompanied by Charles Shaar Murray and Buffalo Bill Smith at the St Ives Arts Club on Thursday. More about the St
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