Pub Rock
Brinsley Schwarz: Silver Pistol
Review by Bud Scoppa, Rolling Stone, May 1972
SHADES OF Highway 61 Revisited, Sweetheart of the Rodeo, The Band, The Gilded Palace of Sin, Workingman's Dead were so integral a part of Brinsley ...
Brinsley Schwarz: Nervous On The Road
Review by Dave Marsh, Creem, December 1972
NERVOUS ON THE Road continues in typical Brinsley fashion. It's full of jumping good time rock songs, a little rockabilly, a shade of the Band ...
Brinsley Schwarz: Beware of the Rock Machine: Brinsley Schwarz
Interview by Barbara Charone, NME, July 1973
BRINSLEY SCHWARZ are playing nice clean rock 'n' roll these days – but they're wary of getting caught up in that rock 'n' roll machine. ...
Sutherland Brothers and Quiver: Sutherland Bros & Quiver: They're Not An American Band
Interview by Alan Betrock, Phonograph Record, November 1973
THERE ARE numerous British groups who admire US units like the Byrds and the Band, but few, if any, have risen above the level of ...
Chilli Willi & The Red Hot Peppers: Marquee Club, London
Live Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, March 1974
CHILLI WILLI and the Red Hot Peppers are gonna save your soul. They're the only band in the country specialising in funky country, an area ...
Review by Gary Sperrazza!, Shakin' Street Gazette, June 1974
FROM THE PUBS of England and Wales they come, weaned on the music of early rock 'n' roll, playing for pittance and sweat. till all ...
Dr. Feelgood: Doctor Feelgood: Dingwalls, London
Live Review by Mick Farren, NME, June 1974
IT'S NOT often that the jaded, booze-soaked crowd that throng Dingwalls dancehall bring an almost unknown band back for three encores. ...
Review by Greg Shaw, Rolling Stone, July 1974
A FEW YEARS AGO, some English pubs began presenting live bands as a free service to their patrons. Since there have never been enough outlets ...
Chilli Willi & The Red Hot Peppers: The Ballad Of Chilli Willi And The Red Hot Peppers
Interview by Andy Childs, ZigZag, October 1974
Saturday, 8th June 1974: NOT EXACTLY the best gig I've seen the Willis play, but one that sticks out in my memory as being one ...
Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, December 1974
Tex Comer (bass guitar), Fran Byrne (drums). Bam King (rhythm guitar), Phil Harris (lead guitar), Paul Carrack (organ, piano). Producer John Anthony. ...
Report and Interview by Nick Kent, NME, January 1975
Which is a slick way of saying The Package Tour She Lives She Breathes She Is Reborn. You remember the Package Tour, eh kids? It ...
Dr. Feelgood: Down By The Jetty (United Artists)
Review by Nick Kent, NME, January 1975
BOYS, BOYS now what did I tell you about being "too ethnic"? ...
Kursaal Flyers, The: The Kursaal Flyers: Today Central Poly – Tomorrow The World?
Report by Max Bell, NME, February 1975
"I'VE ONLY GOT the five shirts, so I just take 'em off and leave them to dry. It's no good washing them too much, they ...
Interview by Mick Gold, Rock's Backpages Audio, February 1975
The men from Canvey Island talk about how they got together, getting into the London pub-rock scene, their aggressive performances and recording Down by the Jetty.
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Review by Bud Scoppa, Phonograph Record, April 1975
WHILE IT'S TEMPTING at first listening to lump Ace's first album with the Average White Band's AWB and then to make broad statements about the ...
Winkies, The: Winkies - Winkies
Review by Chris Salewicz, NME, April 1975
AND SO, AS if to pinpoint that they'd stuck a ring through the collective nose of every other pub rocker when it came to osmosing ...
Review by Wayne Robins, Rolling Stone, May 1975
FROM THE LOOK of its album cover, Ace is a band of five frustrated English football players who, like Rod Stewart, turned to music to ...
Report and Interview by Barbara Charone, Rolling Stone, June 1975
THOUGH IT SOUNDS like a song about a stale love affair, ‘How Long’ is the story of an English band struggling to stay together. ...
101'ers, The: The 101'ers: Hope & Anchor, London
Live Review by Chas de Whalley, NME, August 1975
THE CELLAR OF Islington's Hope and Anchor is hardly the place to keep cool, calm and collected on one of the hottest nights of the ...
Max Merritt And The Meteors: White Hart, Willesden
Live Review by Chas de Whalley, NME, September 1975
A FEW YEARS ago, when I was employed in a South London certain department store, I worked with a couple of globetrotting New Zealanders who ...
Overview by Bud Scoppa, Crawdaddy!, October 1975
IN BRITAIN DURING the late '60s and early '70s, while rock 'n roll was being transformed into Big Business, a network of bands sprang up ...
Profile and Interview by Barbara Charone, Crawdaddy!, October 1975
LONDON – "Where did they come from?" demanded a rock 'n roll lifer, pointing towards Dr. Feelgood who were entertaining at a star-studded and overstuffed ...
Dr. Feelgood: Dr Feelgood: Malpractice (United Artists) (36.08)
Review by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, October 1975
FROM THE speed-crazed paranoid stares on the cover to the buzz-bomb guitar attacks inside, one question demands to be answered: would you let your parents ...
Dr. Feelgood: The /almost collected thoughts of Dr. Feelgood
Interview by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, October 1975
DR FEELGOOD: Wilko Johnson – guitar; Lee Brilleaux – vocals; John B Sparks – bass; The Figure – drums. They grew up on Canvey Island in ...
Report by Chas de Whalley, NME, November 1975
IT'S SATURDAY night, a good ten minutes after closing time. Down at the Hope and Anchor in Islington landlord Fred Granger is going quietly berserk, ...
Kursaal Flyers, The: The Kursaal Flyers: Chocs Away
Review by Andy Childs, ZigZag, December 1975
IT ALWAYS happens that whenever the loose ensemble of people who contribute to ZigZag, and their friends, associates, chauffeurs and bodyguards get together for one ...
Back Street Crawler: New Victoria, London
Live Review by Chas de Whalley, NME, December 1975
SOME UGLY MOMENTS here. ...
Interview by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, December 1975
PHIL HARRIS, OF Ace, suddenly perked to attention on the edge of his chair and made a compassionate plea. "We love Britain, 'onest," he craved. ...
Kursaal Flyers, The: The Kursaal Flyers: Brunel University, London
Live Review by John Tobler, NME, January 1976
THE ONLY REASON I KNOW for the Kursaal Flyers not to be as popular as sliced bread is that their first album was so badly ...
Kursaal Flyers, The: Kursaal Flyers: Surely This Band Is Too Young To Die?
Profile and Interview by Chas de Whalley, NME, February 1976
PAUL SHUTTLEWORTH'S Secret Ambition is to become a member of Equity, the Actors' Union. "Trouble is though," he told me, "You can't just pay your ...
Clancy: Kingston Polytechnic, London
Live Review by John Tobler, NME, February 1976
FOR A BAND which has been going for something like two-and-a-half years, which has survived the pub circuit and come out the other side, and ...
Kursaal Flyers, The: The Kursaal Flyers: The Great Artiste (UK) ****
Review by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, February 1976
THE KURSAALS have always had a way with visuals and image – Paul Shuttleworth's background in commercial art no doubt. Just check the ad for ...
Kursaal Flyers, The: Kursaal Flyers: Coming In On A Wing And A Prayer
Report and Interview by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, March 1976
IT'S AMAZING the difference a moustache makes. ...
Dr. Feelgood: Hope & Anchor, London
Live Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, September 1976
REAL CASE of dejaja vuvu it was, the night the Feelgoods played the Hope. To readers outside London the Hope and Anchor may just be ...
George Hatcher Band, The, Dr. Feelgood: Dr Feelgood: City Hall, Sheffield
Live Review by Andy Gill, NME, September 1976
HERE IN Sheffield there's a local aphorism along the lines of "Tha' works 'ard, so bloody well play hard". It fits. Most of the concerts ...
Eddie & The Hot Rods: 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 ...
Kursaal Flyers, The: The Kursaal Flyers: Sarfend, Sarfend, It's A Hell Of A Town…
Report and Interview by Chris Salewicz, NME, December 1976
The smell of coins and oil and penny arcades; of fish 'n' chips; of salt and wave against pebble and promenade; of wide boys and ...
Ace: It's An Ace Life In The Low-Key Whacky World Of Los Angeles
Report and Interview by Chris Salewicz, NME, January 1977
SEVEN OF US leave the Ace ranch in Hidden Valley and go late night cruisin' in drummer Fran Byrne's '69 Pontiac. Fran heads for ex-Chilli ...
Dr. Feelgood: Dr Feelgood: The Truth Behind The Break-up…
Report by Mick Farren, NME, April 1977
AS REPORTED in the news pages Dr. Feelgood have come apart at the seams, with Wilko Johnson going one way and the rest of the ...
Dr. Feelgood: Dr Feelgood: Sneakin' Suspicion (United Artists)
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, May 1977
Is there a doctor in the house? CHARLES SHAAR MURRAY thinks the FEELGOODS might just need one… ...
Live Review by Chas de Whalley, Sounds, May 1977
ONE THING about the Kursaal Flyers...they never do things by halves. ...
Retrospective by Chas de Whalley, Sounds, July 1977
In which SOUNDS people bring long-ignored or deleted albums to your attention ...
Profile and Interview by Chas de Whalley, Sounds, September 1977
"WE'LL CHALENGE any band in the business to any bar sport they care to name. Darts, Pool, Crib, Table Football, Pinball. You name it. Meal ...
Kursaal Flyers, The: The Kursaal Flyers: Five Live Kursaals
Review by Chas de Whalley, Sounds, September 1977
IT ALL boils down to what you think of the Kursaal Flyers really, doesn't it? Me, I fell in love with them the first time ...
Wilko Johnson: Wilko Not Buried Yet
Interview by Mick Farren, NME, October 1977
WITH DOCTOR Feelgood moving into the charts and just embarked on a headlining nationwide tour, one question still hangs around the street corner waiting to ...
Brinsley Schwarz, Eggs Over Easy, Ducks Deluxe: The Glory That Was Pub Rock
Retrospective by Chas de Whalley, Sounds, November 1977
"Before pub rock people used to think the ideal gig was somewhere like Guildford Civic where you could sit cross-legged and watch King Crimson pan ...
Dr. Feelgood: Dr Feelgood: Be Seeing You
Review by Ira Robbins, Trouser Press, December 1977
FINALLY THE DEBUT of a Wilkoless Feelgoods is upon us. Even more than that, it's the Nick Lowe-produced debut of a Wilkoless Feelgoods. ...
Man, Rockpile, Ducks Deluxe, Brinsley Schwarz: 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 ...
Eddie & The Hot Rods: 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, ...
Graham Parker: The On-Going Story Of Little Men In Glasses
Interview by Tony Stewart, NME, April 1978
Graham Parker, in this instance — who reflects on the vagaries of the rock power struggle while socking it to 'em in Ireland. When you're ...
Dr. Feelgood: Dr Feelgood: Private Practice
Review by Peter Silverton, Sounds, September 1978
MY, THESE boys really have moved up in the world. Once upon a time, it was the local quack and 'You Shouldn't Call The Doctor ...
Dr. Feelgood: Dr Feelgood: Private Practice
Review by Peter Silverton, Sounds, September 1978
The Worthington White Shield of Rock ...
Chas and Dave: Chas And Dave: What We Want Is Rockney
Profile and Interview by Cliff White, NME, September 1978
...an ethnic feature which eschews 'plastic fantastic kharzis', refers frequently to 'geezers', and acknowledges virtue by repeated use of the colloquialism 'bleedin' great'. Subject: CHAS ...
Mickey Jupp: Micky Jupp: Juppanese
Review by Max Bell, NME, October 1978
MICKEY JUPP has always been nearly famous, and even then it's been by default. ...
Kilburn & The High Roads: Wotabunch!
Review by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, November 1978
'ORRIBLE SLEEVE! Revolting stuffed animals and tacky cardboard cut-out Kilburos abound. I fear Stiff are disassociating themselves from Wotabunch!, which is understandable when you consider ...
Graham Parker: Squeezing Out Sparks
Review by Tony Stewart, NME, March 1979
WHEN YOU play this album for perhaps the tenth time, when you return to 'You Can't Be Too Strong' and listen to that one song ...
Dr. Feelgood: Dr Feelgood: A Case Of The Shakes
Review by Max Bell, NME, September 1980
YOU HAVE to admit that Dr Feelgood know their own measure – no kowtowing to trend from this lot. Would you believe this record was ...
Dr. Feelgood: Dr Feelgood: Pure Essex Voodoo
Retrospective and Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, Q, August 1987
ONE OF THE few remaining saving graces of rock'n'roll is that its most compelling legends do not always belong to those who achieve the greatest ...
Ian Dury, Kilburn & The High Roads: Ian Dury’s High Road
Book Excerpt by Richard Balls, Omnibus Press, 2000
An extract from Sex & Drugs & Rock’n’Roll: The Life of Ian Dury, by Richard Balls, first published by Omnibus Press in 2000. (300pp, currently ...
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Retrospective by Dave Thompson, Goldmine, September 2006
IT'S EARLY morning on regional breakfast television, and the morning's entertainment includes a local performer who, with close to 40 years of experience behind him, ...
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