Updated August 31 2021. ‘Roads’ by The Bloody Nerve: Classic Rock magazine’s Track of the Week. It’s strange how some American artists make it big in Britain first. Jimi Hendrix, the Pretenders’ Chrissie Hynde, the Walker Brothers and the band America spring to mind. Let’s hope Nashville’s The Bloody Nerve follow suit. After fire destroyed…
UK’s music venues down on their knees Just as I finished Dave Haslem’s entertaining new book, Life After Dark, A History of British Nightclubs and Music Venues, I read that the UK music venue and nightclub industry is on its knees. Almost half have closed in the last ten years, say the newspapers. Some 3,144 venues offered late…
Jimmy Page with The Tower House, left. Next door is Robbie Williams’ Woodland House Sunday was gorgeous in London, hitting 27c, so we took a stroll to Holland Park, on the way passing Jimmy Page’s 1875 gothic mansion, on the park’s edge. Now, we all know Jimmy’s interest in witchcraft, black magic and Satanism, and his house certainly fits the…
Updated 26 May 2016 The first ever electric guitar hit record also happened to be blues: Floyd’s Guitar Blues. But before that, here’s Bennie Moten’s iconic band. Guitarist Eddie Durham is 2nd left, next to that great blues vocalist, Jimmy Rushing, left We’re talking 1939 here when the electric guitar was in its infancy. As it happens,…
Updated 26 May 2016 For want of nothing better to write about this week, I thought I’d share a little story which involves pathetic name-dropping and also show what a complete idiot I used to be. Let’s go back to 1972, to South Kensington, a swanky part of Swinging London where I used to share a one-bedroom apartment with…
