
BOBBY BOXING AS CLEVER AS EVER
No one ever wrote songs or sung them like Bob Dylan. The currently concluding, Covid delayed, tour is unprecedented in the annals of...


NINA COMES OUT FROM UNDER THE BED TO GO ON THE AIR
I stood looking in disbelief at the cassette tape labelled Nina Simone when I cleared out under the bed of my London home 6 years ago....


TMR ON RADIOGJ SHOW 1
Well that seemed to go well. Nice reactions, not overwhelmed by teething troubles, tunes good enough to make your ears bleed with...

TALKING MUSICAL REVELATIONS COMES TO RADIOGJ.COM
At last a public forum for Talking Musical Revolutions! Every Sunday night at 8pm on RADIOGJ.COM I shall be hosting and presenting an...

HOLLY : NOT JUST FOR CHRISTMAS, A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS
What’s the best way to listen to Buddy Holly? A protean rock n roll figure but - in our non rock n roll age - Bud is all but denied a...


THE WATERBOYS: STILL QUENCHING THE ENDLESS THIRST
Bexhill De La Warr Thursday October 14th 2021 It starts out with Mike Scott at the upright piano, stage right, his cowboy hatted...


PHILLY AT FIFTY
With three of the eight discs featured on The Sound Of Philadelphia; Get On Board The Soul Train Home Volume 1, hometown town hero Billy...


ABSOLUTELY MADNESS THEN...and THERE, HERE and NOW
I am catapulted back here on a kind of promise (to PR Pete) and a gift (from photographer Peter) DESPITE my now being retired. So just...


Return of The Mac (with Ms Morrow)
Doctor John was the first interviewee whoever fell asleep on me. And until, years later, I waited for Mick Head from Shack to turn up,...


DECKSIDE DEMON, DEMISED. THE ACID HOUSE ARCHDUKE'S ARRIVEDERCI
Never met Mr W, this interview was a short phonecall for copy to be included in the programme I edited and wrote for Madness's first ever...