Chuffed to see my Gonzo piece on Liam Gallagher published in Hotpress. Check it out on the link below, it was a wild endeavor… https://www.hotpress.com/music/liam-gallagher-dream-22797881
Howlin’ Wolf
“This Is Where The Soul Of Man Never Dies” Sam Phillips Howlin’ Wolf, now there’s a handle you are always going to check out. Before I knew of the blues, I knew of Howlin’ Wolf. In the back seat, the car smelling of smoke and strong whiskey, over The Scalp, sounds of a pirate ship Continue Reading
Rocket 88 – Jackie Brenston & The Delta Cats
Is this what the Birth of Rock & Roll looked like? The best damn jump combo in Mississippi, The Kings of Rhythm had sent the fine folks of Greenville, Mississippi home sweating and early too. The owner of the small downtown club had dilly dallied on booking the group, swaying between the fear of their Continue Reading
Walking The Floor Over You – Ernest Tubb
Wolfman Ernie’s Break Through Single “I want my music to be simple enough, so that the boy on the farm out there can learn it and practice it and try to play it, ” Ernest Tubb in conversation with Peter Guralick, Lost Highways “You gotta change your name son, how about Texas Crisp?” That’s the Continue Reading
Start Your Day Like Marcus Aurelius
And avoid these 3 awful things I was having sleepless nights, when the jackals circled me, tore and ripped at me through the long, dark hours. When dawn came, I pulled the blankets over my head and lay petrified beneath them. I went on like that for months. Among other things, Marcus Aurelius helped me. Continue Reading
Dar Es Salaam Calling
Jay Mitta’s Tatizo Peza To me, punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying ‘This is who I am’ — Joey Ramone My first ever gig was Stiff Little Fingers at the SFX in Dublin, I think the year was 1990, if it was, I was thirteen. Continue Reading
Dispatches From The Electronic African Revolution — Part 2
Otim Alpha & Leo Palayeng’s Gulu City Anthems Electro acholi is a modern reinterpretation of traditional acholi music from the Luo region of Northern Uganda. Unlike most music styles, electro acholi did not evolve slowly, rather as a matter of circumstance, it arrived swiftly. As war raged in the region, traditional Larakaraka wedding bands who Continue Reading
Dispatches from the Electronic African Revolution
Two Damn Hot EP’s From Nihiloxcia Each time I play stuff from Ugandan sensation, Nihiloxcia, I dig them more and more. I’ve seen the future of independent record labels and it is Nyege Nyege Tapes and the much desired album debut from Nihiloxcia may prove to be the label’s Exit Planet Dust, the one that unleashes the storm of Continue Reading
This One Trick, Tricks Death
I learnt it in my job as a personal historian who has conducted hundreds of interviews with people over 80 I was looking for a woman who lived a few miles from a tiny village in the west of Ireland, who was a hundred years of age. It was midday. The small public house at Continue Reading
Loneliness Is Killing Us
Lethal as smoking a pack a day Yikes. Nicholas Kristof, writing in the New York Times kicks the guts with some staggering stats. 1 in 5 adults are lonely 1 in 2 are unmarried 1 in 3 marriages are strained 1 in 4 live alone Dr. Vivek Muthy, US Surgeon General under Obama, tells Nicholas that he, Continue Reading