The Only Ones
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The Only Ones: Even Serpents Shine (CBS)
Review by Ian Birch, Melody Maker, 1979
SINGLES can often be deceptive signposts for forthcoming albums. When ‘You've Got To Pay’ slipped out a few weeks back, it didn't augur well for ...
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The Only Ones: The Speakeasy, London
Live Review by Barry Cain, Record Mirror, 2 July 1977
(A SELF Indulgent 'I'm In Love' piece. Apologies) ...
The Only Ones: I Have Seen The Future Of…etc. pt 52
Profile and Interview by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 27 August 1977
"FLARED TROUSERS...FLARED TROUSERS...", the audience at the Marquee taunt brightly. On stage, the Only Ones are sticking together the kind of set that makes most ...
Interview by Ian Birch, Melody Maker, 3 September 1977
SOMETIMES you feel so...er, hypocritical. Let me explain. The project in hand was an interview with The Only Ones, who over the last couple of ...
The Only Ones: The Speakeasy, London
Live Review by Rosalind Russell, Record Mirror, 3 September 1977
IF THE graffiti in the ladles' toilet of the Speakeasy is anything to go by the Only Ones are already the subject of attention. But ...
Eddie and the Hot Rods, The Only Ones, The Stukas: The Roundhouse, London
Live Review by Chas de Whalley, Sounds, 7 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, ...
Profile by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 11 March 1978
IT WAS AN EVENT of no great consequence. In a swoop on EMI's press department back in spring 1974, intent only on plundering as much ...
Television, The Only Ones: City Hall, Newcastle
Live Review by Ian Birch, Melody Maker, 15 April 1978
Chilling Verlaine ...
The Only Ones: The One and Only
Profile and Interview by Pete Makowski, Sounds, 15 April 1978
PUNK. NEW Wave. I groan inwardly at all these new clichés that seem more painfully predominant as the years go by. It seems that most ...
Television, The Only Ones: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 22 April 1978
LAST YEAR, Television arrived in Britain under a shower of gilded prose and hyperbole claiming that they were the hottest thing since the invention of ...
The Only Ones: The Only Ones (CBS 82830)*****
Review by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 13 May 1978
All for Ones and Ones for all ...
The Only Ones: The Only Ones (CBS)
Review by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 13 May 1978
Not Only but... ...
The Only Ones: The Bristol Community Free Festival, Ashton Court, Bristol
Live Review by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 12 August 1978
ANOTHER BOY, ANOTHER BLOODY GUITAR HERO ...
The Only Ones: Peter Perrett Picked A Peck Of Pickled Peppers
Interview by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 19 August 1978
LAST MONTH, Peter Perrett won himself a Concorde ticket to Brazil. The loot for the trip came not from playing rhythm guitar but poker. ...
Don't Step On My Gray Canvas Shoes: New Albums from Talking Heads, Ramones, Devo et al
Review by Howard Wuelfing, Unicorn Times, November 1978
IN EXAMINING Talking Heads' latest release, More Songs About Buildings and Food (Sire, SRK 6058), we encounter a disturbing new twist upon several crucial new ...
The Only Ones: Another Year Another Planet
Report and Interview by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 30 December 1978
1979 is the year of the Only Ones sez GIOVANNI DADOMO ...
The Only Ones: Something Slithery This Way Comes
Report and Interview by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 17 March 1979
THE DRESSING room at Hurrah's is buzzing with electricity – reason being that inside this converted New York discotheque it's damn near as cold as ...
The Only Ones: Newcastle Polytechnic
Live Review by Ian Ravendale, Sounds, 7 April 1979
Of serpents and session men ...
The Only Ones: Only the Lonely
Profile and Interview by Jim Green, Trouser Press, May 1979
ONCE UPON a time, there were four individuals who felt out of synch with the Great Rock'n'Roll Circus. Amid varying degrees of alienation from it, ...
Joy Division, Pil et al: Futurama '79 Festival — Set The Controls For The Squalor Of Leeds
Live Review by Andy Gill, Ian Penman, New Musical Express, 15 September 1979
The World's First Science Fiction Music FestivalWords: Ian Penman and Andy Gill. Pix: Kevin Cummins ...
Live Review by Dave DiMartino, Creem, December 1979
DETROIT – The Only Ones lived up to their name during their recent Detroit debut at Bookie's Club 870, which was a shame: they were ...
The Only Ones: Old Waldorf, San Francisco CA
Live Review by Mark Cooper, Record Mirror, 2 August 1980
THE ONLY Ones are in grave danger of remaining a cult in England and obscure in America. This is their second appearance at the Waldorf ...
The Only Ones/Original Mirrors: Lyceum, London
Live Review by Barney Hoskyns, New Musical Express, Spring 1981
"YOU LITTLE London boys..." The last of this city’s great rock’n’roll junkies is parting company with his other ones. One can’t put your arms around ...
Retrospective and Interview by Martin Aston, OOR, Fall 1986
IT'S ALWAYS BEEN a good sign of an artist when he or she can interpret the present, and in doing so, predict the future. Equally ...
The One Featuring Peter Perrett: London, Camden Underworld
Live Review by Ian Fortnam, New Musical Express, May 1994
ELEGANTLY WASTED, stylishly dissipated.... it is far too easy to wrap the debilitating effects of heroin addiction in the prosaic flippancy of 1970s rock journalese. ...
Only Ones: The Peel Sessions Album
Review by Nina Antonia, MOJO, September 1994
IF THERE WAS ONLY ONE SONG IN THE universe and it was 'Another Girl, Another Planet', I would still have all I ever wanted. ...
The Only Ones: Another Boy, Another Planet
Retrospective and Interview by Nina Antonia, Uncut, October 2005
If you thought Pete Doherty and the Libertines were the ultimate in glorious, shambling rock 'n' roll then try THE ONLY ONES, the brilliant late-'70s ...
The Only Ones: Night Of The Living Dead
Report and Interview by David Sinclair, The Word, June 2007
COME TOGETHER: After 26 years apart, the Only Ones have climbed aboard the reunion bandwagon. They have more reasons than most, as they tell DAVID ...
The Only Ones: Academy 2, Sheffield
Live Review by Robert Sandall, The Sunday Times, 1 February 2009
IN THEIR ON AND (mainly) off 33-year existence, the Only Ones have never paid much heed to career management, and the Sheffield leg of their ...
The Only Ones: Academy 2, Sheffield
Live Review by Robert Sandall, The Sunday Times, 1 February 2009
IN THEIR on and (mainly) off 33-year existence, the Only Ones have never paid much heed to career management, and the Sheffield leg of their ...
see also Peter Perrett
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