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The tape is rolling
Another good interview in the can this time with Phill Brown who started as a Tape Op at Olympic Studios learning to record the extraordinary bands that passed through those fabled walls before moving, via Canada, to the new Island Records studio in Basing Street where he made his mark and then beyond to the world of…
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Jim Cregan gets that Rod the Mod fellow
A while ago now various of us spent an amusing afternoon cruising up and down the Thames river picking up and dropping off various reprobates at public houses and getting them to sit and swap stories about their life on the road with bands big and small and the extraordinary things that they did to amuse themselves.…
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Shirley Collins and the dangers in those 60s coffee bars
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Judy Dyble traces the route from Americana to British folk-rock royalty
Starting as a musician on part of the local scene and gradually the group got formed of amazingly good local musicians. Judy Dyble was their singer and she played the autoharp, they became known after the house they rehearsed in and they called themselves the Fairport Convention.
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the lovely but late Kevin Ayers talks about Jimi and more
We have had to re-edit the clip we did of the Kevin Ayers interview as we used some of the Peter Whitehead footage of Jimi Hendrix and somebody else now claims to own it. Peter’s story was wonderful, Chas Chandler said turn up at the Saville Theatre I have this great new guitarist and when…
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Chris Spedding plays us in on his career
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Mike Berry turned down John & Paul’s song writing offer
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Mel Gale touring with the Electric Light Orchestra
Mel signed on for one tour and found himself drafted into the band permanently
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the late ‘Big’ Jim Sullivan picked guitar on all those hits
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the late Neil Christian’s exceptional choice of Guitarists
