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 Schwarz's ...

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 (less ...

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. And ...

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 imitation. ...

Ducks Deluxe: Ducks Deluxe
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 hours ...

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 ...

Ducks Deluxe: Ducks Deluxe
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 for ...

Ace: Five Aside (Anchor)
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. ...

The Kursaal Flyers: Chocs Away
Review by Andy Childs, ZigZag, January 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 of ...

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 fall ...

Ace: Five-A-Side
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 advent ...

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 panache, ...

Ace: Five-a-Side
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 compensate ...

An Ace Album
Review by Gene Sculatti, Creem, June 1975
Ace: Five-A-Side ...

Ace Strong on ‘How Long’
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. ...

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 year, ...

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 never ...

Pub Rock: Grass Roots On the Other Side of the Fence
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 that ...

Dr. Feelgood Is On The Case
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 end-of-tour ...

Pub Rock Proms: For Those Who Like Their Rock Hot And Sweaty…
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, flashing ...

Back Street Crawler: New Victoria, London
Live Review by Chas de Whalley, NME, December 1975
SOME UGLY MOMENTS ...

Ace
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. "It ...

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 produced ...

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 has ...

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 this ...

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 here ...

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 music. ...

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 petty ...

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 Willi ...

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 band ...

Meal Ticket: Meal's On Wheels
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 Ticket ...

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 I ...

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 across ...

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. ...

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, tugging ...

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 (If ...

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 and ...

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 that ...

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 their ...

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 number ...

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 available ...

Footnote Archives: Roogalator
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, is ...