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Tag Archives: Frankie Goes To Hollywood
Gig review: REWIND FESTIVAL – Scone Palace, Perth, 22 July 2017
Although I am a rock fan through and through I have always had a sneaking love of all things 80’s. Being a teenager during the decade meant that although I was mastering in Iron Maiden and Saxon at the time … Continue reading
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Tagged 10CC, 22nd July 2017, 80s, Carol Decker, Chesney Hawkes, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Go West, Heather Small, Human League, Level 42, Lol Creme, M People, Mark King, Musical Youth, Nik Kershaw, Perth, pop, Relax, Rewind festival, rock, Rusty Egan, Scone Palace, Scotland, T'Pau, The Real Thing, The Undertones, Tom Robinson, Trevor Horn, Yes
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Album review: NASHER – 432-1 Open The Vein
Babylon Pink [Release date 23.06.17] Whatever happened to Frankie Goes To Hollywood guitarist Brian ‘Nasher’ Nash? The opener – ‘Salt In Her Veins’ – sounds like you’ve put the radio on FM by mistake and it’s drifted ‘off station’. But … Continue reading
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Tagged 432-1 Open The Vein, album, Brian Nash, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Nasher, pop, review, rock, singer, songwriter
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Interview with bass icon NORMAN WATT-ROY (June 2013)
After a 46 year career that has made him a bass icon, Norman Watt-Roy finally has finally recorded his first ever solo album ‘Faith & Grace’ – cockney rhyming slang for bass. With a career that started with playing American … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Ayler, bass, Cadiz, Charlie Charles Micky Gallagher, Chaz Jankel, Davey Payne, Derek Hussey, Don Cherry, Eric Dolphy, Faith & Grace, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, funk, fusion, Gilad Atzmon, Glencoe, Ian Dury, interview, Jaco Patorius, jazz, Johnny Turnbull, Keith Allen, Loving Awareness, Madness, Mark Lamarr, Mick Jones, Nick Cave, Norman Watt-Roy, Phil Jupitus, Philip Bagnall, Robert Wyatt, Sarah Gillespie, Steely Dan, The Blockheads, The Clash, The Greatest Show On Earth, Tower of Power, Wilko Johnson
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Album review: NORMAN WATT-ROY – Faith & Grace
Cadiz [Release date 17.06.13] The mission statement for this album comes in the middle of the autobiographical ‘Me My Bass And I’: ‘When I heard Jaco (Pastorius) and Weather Report that was basically it. I realised where I came from, … Continue reading
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Tagged album review, bass, Billy Eckstine, dance, Faith & Grace, Frank Zappa, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, funk, fusion, Ian Dury, Jaco Patorius, jazz, Latino, Norman Watt-Roy, rock, Sarah Gillespie, The Blackheads, The Clash, Weather Report, Wilko Johnson
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