Episode 6: Taxman
Friday, December 22nd, 2006 Posted in Podcasts | 3 Comments »Johnny Marr and John Porter help Billy find a slicker style of production in the studio as he writes and records the material for Talking With The Taxman About Poetry. The peerless Kirsty MacColl, who had already scored a hit ...
12th December - Bristol
Thursday, December 21st, 2006 Posted in Road Blog | 6 Comments »Returning to Hackney Empire after a dozen or so years was a revelation. The theatre was built in 1901 and some of the great music hall acts played there, among them Charlie Chaplin and Marie Lloyd. By the time I ...
8th December - Scotland
Sunday, December 17th, 2006 Posted in Road Blog | 3 Comments »Stung into action by a comment left here, I realised that I’m almost a week behind with my tour blog. Apologies all round but I am a firm believer that this shouldn’t be like homework, rather something done in idle ...
5th December - Glasgow
Thursday, December 7th, 2006 Posted in Road Blog | 2 Comments »In among all the dashing about, there were one or two moments that do bear recounting. The Electric Proms gig at the Roundhouse in London on 26th October was memorable for the fact that, called upon to make a sudden ...
December already?
Saturday, December 2nd, 2006 Posted in Road Blog | 1 Comment »Avid readers of this blog may wonder where November went and frankly, I share your sense of bafflement. The six weeks which have passed since I last posted here have been a blur of activity which has left me scarce ...
