Rockpile

The Rockpile Tapes

Report and Interview by Nick Kent, NME, July 1977

DAVE EDMUNDS HAS had his definitive quote on Nick Lowe's talents down pat for a long while now. "There are loads of guys around in ...

Pub Rock

Overview by Paul Yamada, Terminal Zone, 1978

TO THOSE OF US here in the states, the period of so called 'Pub Rock' in the UK, which lasted at least 6 years, and ...

Nick Lowe's Rockpile, Willie Alexander: The Bottom Line, New York NY

Live Review by Ira Robbins, NME, June 1978

THE HEAVY rain outside did little to dampen the enthusiasm of the audience inside. With a majority of those in attendance being press and record ...

Rockpile: Rock Around With Philip Marlowe

Interview by Mark Williams, Melody Maker, December 1978

THE TROPICANA MOTEL sits disconsolately on Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood, an area that looks uncomfortable sandwiched in between the clinical sky-scrapers of Century ...

The Damned, Rockpile, Ducks Deluxe: Venue, London

Live Review by Ian Birch, Melody Maker, January 1979

DESPITE THE eleventh hour location change, the Venue was packed. ...

Nick Lowe: Whatever Gets You Through The Daze

Report and Interview by Paul Morley, NME, June 1979

I'VE LOST track of time, but Lew Lewis and Reformer are on stage at Hemel Hempstead Pavilion blowing base boogie that the Hemel Hempstead audience ...

Seconds Of Pleasure, Years Of Drinking: Rockpile Wakes Up Early

Interview by Dave DiMartino, Creem, February 1981

LONDON – Having never been in London before, I suppose I should feel some shame at spending my first night in a comfortably Americanish club ...

Dave Edmunds: New Wave, 1955

Profile and Interview by Dave Schulps, Musician, July 1981

"MUSICALLY, WE didn't find a niche for ourselves. It amounted to a couple of songs from a Nick Lowe album, a couple of songs from ...

Rockpile: Rock Steady

Retrospective and Interview by Fred Mills, Harp, July 2004

THEY CALLED it rock, and boy, did Britain’s Rockpile rock-brashly, boozily, and in one regard, too, belatedly. ...