Eddie & The Hot Rods

Eddie And The Hot Rods: Woolwich Polytechnic, London

Live Review by Chas de Whalley, Sounds, November 1976

EDDIE and the Hot Rods are turning into Heroes under our very eyes. ...

Eddie And The Hot Rods: Imperial College, London

Live Review by Chas de Whalley, NME, March 1976

FIRST DUKE DUKE and the Dukes, now Eddie and the Hot Rods – Kursaal Flyers' manager Paul Conroy knows how to pick support bands. ...

Eddie & The Hot Rods: Tasty, Urban Tension Classics…

Interview by Max Bell, NME, April 1976

MAX BELL says, "Kids, you gonna drive me to drinkin'. If you can't get next to HOT ROD thinkin'" ...

Eddie & The Hot Rods: Pier Pavilion, Hastings

Live Review by Caroline Coon, Melody Maker, July 1976

BARRY MASTERS, Eddie And The Hot Rods' front man, drove his band down to Hastings from London himself – a sweaty, draining, three hour bang. ...

Eddie and the Hot Rods: "Punk? — We Just Do It"

Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, September 1976

ENERGY, LIFE, YOUTH, ROCK 'N' ROLL! What are these strange ingredients that have suddenly injected themselves into the creaking old rock scene? "We're just DOIN' ...

Eddie and the Hot Rods

Profile by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, October 1976

THE STORY of the Hot Rods is one to warm the hearts of those who still believe in the essential simplicity and drive of rock ...

Eddie And The Hot Rods: Rainbow Theatre, London

Live Review by Chas de Whalley, Sounds, February 1977

ALMOST a Black Sabbath job, this one. You know, up goes the safety curtain, there's the band already head first and accelerating into 'Get Across ...

Eddie and the Hot Rods: The Rods Are Awright

Interview by Pete Makowski, Sounds, August 1977

"All my friends at school grew up and settled down. Then they mortgaged up their lives. When things get set too much but I think ...

Bowie and Bolan Get It On

Report by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, September 1977

"OH THAT'S REALLY Polaroid! You've gotta keep the ending!" David Bowie rocked with laughter and Marc Bolan wiped away the tears that had threatened to ...

Cruising with Eddie & the Hot Rods

Report by Jim Green, Trouser Press, January 1978

THE NEW Eddie and the Hot Rods album cover is black and white. It's got this geezer, lead singer Barrie Masters if you must know, ...

Eddie and the Hot Rods, The Only Ones, The Stukas: The Roundhouse, London

Live Review by Chas de Whalley, Sounds, January 1978

I WOULD have expected Christmas Eye with the Rods at the Roundhouse to turn into something of a real party, wouldn't you? Well, strangely enough, ...

Eddie & The Hot Rods: Life On The Line (Island)

Review by Robot A. Hull, Creem, February 1978

When you're a Jet, you're a Jet all the way, from your first cigarette... ...

Eddie & The Hot Rods

Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, February 1978

What do all these bands have in common? ANSWER: They're all EDDIE AND THE HOTRODS, slidin' on the moment and trying not to fall off. ...

On The Road With Hot Rods And Radio Stars

Report and Interview by Peter Silverton, Sounds, February 1978

THE LAST, incongruous Beatles' track spirals its way to the end of its grooves. The house lights dip way, way down, instilling in you that ...