Brinsley Schwarz
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Letter from Britain: New Bands Hit The Pubs (And The Charts)
Report by Jonh Ingham, Creem, May 1975
"IT'S 1975, OKAY, and all across London town, hey hey," or something like that. It's not so much a case of no fun as a ...
Report by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 13 May 1972
Maybe if you're young enough, from a dreary home environment with nothing but a soul destroying future, then maybe you could enjoy a festival like ...
Brinsley Schwarz: A Legend Before Their Own Time
Profile and Interview by Andrew Bailey, Rolling Stone, 7 January 1971
LONDON — Eyes moist with tears of humility but with handshakes firm and sincere the publicist and the lawyer and the agent and their coiffured ...
Retrospective and Interview by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, August 2007
With a long-overdue album in the shops, Nick Lowe explains his lengthy absence, touches on late fatherhood, bigs up his new songs, and attempts to ...
Finally... The World Is Ready For Mick Brown's History Of Hype
Report by Mick Brown, Sounds, 6 March 1976
IF YOU'RE looking for a definition, forget it. The word is an abbreviation of 'hyperbole', which the dictionary defines as 'rhetorical exaggeration', but in the ...
Andrew Lauder: Paradise Recalled
Retrospective and Interview by Max Bell, The Independent, 19 September 2004
Once, rock inhabited Eden. Man, Can and Beefheart were its fruit. Then the snakes in suits took over and music biz creatives like Andrew Lauder ...
Quicksilver, Van Morrison, Brinsley Schwarz: Fillmore East, New York NY
Live Review by Ian Dove, Billboard, 18 April 1970
BRINSLEY SCHWARZ is an unknown British group that aroused interest because over 100 U.K. journalists braved a 12-hour trouble beset trip from London to spend ...
Brinsley Schwarz: Silver Pistol (United Artists)
Review by James Johnson, New Musical Express, 1 April 1972
THIS CAPTURES much of the easy-going feel that makes this band such an entertaining outfit on stage. Recorded at their home in Northwood, London, the ...
Brinsley Schwarz: From Kippington Lodge to the Empire State
Interview by Royston Eldridge, Melody Maker, 18 April 1970
BRINSLEY SCHWARZ, the band born out of the small time frustrations of Kippington Lodge, are the outfit the whole of the rock media were taken ...
The J. Geils Band, Brinsley Schwarz, Brewer's Droop: Lyceum, London
Live Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 8 July 1972
WHEN THE J. Geils Band team up with Brinsley Schwarz and Brewer's Droop for a night's rockanroll, you can be sure that you're going to ...
Brinsley Schwarz: Happy Doing What We're Doing
Profile and Interview by Phil Hardy, Let It Rock, November 1972
IT ALL STARTED in Woodbridge, Suffolk, in 1963-4 when Brinsley and Nick Lowe started a school group. Sounds 4 plus 1, playing rather suprisingly for ...
Van Morrison, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Brinsley Schwartz: Fillmore East, New York NY
Live Review by Geoffrey Cannon, The Guardian, 10 April 1970
I WAS ON that New York trip last weekend, too. My brief was to listen to the music. I have to report that as soon ...
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 ...
Brinsley Schwarz, Stackridge, the Flamin' Groovies: The Roundhouse, London
Live Review by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 30 September 1972
FIRST THE facts: Greasy Truckers are basically two people who wish to be known as Melvin and Fanny Hotrock (We all have our problems, I ...
Lou Reed, Brinsley Schwartz, Gnidrolog: King's Cross Cinema, London
Live Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 22 July 1972
THIS WAS one of the few gigs I can remember where all the acts deserved a full-length review to themselves. The teaming of Reed, Gnidrolog ...
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: Despite It All
Review by John Morthland, Creem, October 1971
THE TITLE apparently refers to the incredible hype this group received when they first played Fillmore East and their management blew $120,000 to fly over ...
Retrospective by Chas de Whalley, Sounds, 26 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 ...
God Save The Grateful Dead, Or Someone Like Them
Report by Jonh Ingham, Creem, June 1975
Happy doing what we're doing,Happy that we're doing it right.Happy doing what we're doing,Happy that the feeling is right. ...
Brinsley Schwarz' Amazing Twelve Inches
Profile and Interview by Metal Mike Saunders, Phonograph Record, November 1972
THE REAL ISSUE HERE is originality. How much does it matter? There are a lot of theories about the true nature of rock and roll, ...
Beware of the Rock Machine: Brinsley Schwarz
Interview by Barbara Charone, New Musical Express, 14 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. ...
Brinsley Schwarz: Silver Pistol
Review by Bud Scoppa, Rolling Stone, 11 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 ...
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 ...
Brinsley Schwarz: The Lost Weekend
Report by Charlie Gillett, Record Mirror, 18 April 1970
Charlie Gillett's impressions of Brinsley Schwarz, the Fillmore East, and night life in New York ...
see also Ian Gomm
see also Nick Lowe
see also Graham Parker
see also Rumour, The
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