Miscellaneous - March 2013

  by Admin

published: 23 / 2 / 2013

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Hello and welcome to the March edition of the Pennyblackmusic Magazine.For nearly ten years now we have been putting on Bands’ Nights, usually two times a year in London, and more

Hello and welcome to the March edition of the Pennyblackmusic Magazine. For nearly ten years now we have been putting on Bands’ Nights, usually two times a year in London, and more occasionally we have gone to other cities as well, such as Manchester in 2011 and also to Glasgow last year. We are returning to London for our next gig which will be taking place on Saturday 16th March, but this gig finds us moving away from our venue of the last three years, the Half Moon in Herne Hill - It has been getting its roof repaired – and to the Brixton JAMM, which can be found at 261 Brixton Road, London, SW9.6LH. We have what we feel is another great line-up. Our headline act is psychedelic/Mod outfit the Galileo 7, the current group of Allan Crockford, who was the bassist in the seminal Medway-based bands, the Prisoners and the Solarflares. The Galileo 7 is the first of Allan’s many bands that he has both fronted and also been the main songwriter with. They will be playing tracks from their much acclaimed second album, ‘Staring at the Sound’, which came out at the end of last year. The main support comes from Dave Harding, the bassist with Richmond Fontaine bassist, who be playing the final night of his first solo tour of Britain at the JAMM, and songs from his album, ‘You Came Through’. Also on the bill are London/Leeds indie pop/electronic trio T.OY.S. and TEN, the haunting instrumental project of multi-instrumentalist Dominic Deane. Our DJ for the night will be Mike Stone from the Television Personalities and Rotifer, who will be playing tracks from his extensive vinyl collection. Tickets can be bought for £5 in advance from http://www.wegottickets.com/event/209692 and £6 on the door. Our headline interview this month is with Skunk Anansie, whose singer Skin talks about her band’s reformation of a few years ago, and their second comeback album, ‘Black Traffic’. Our other main interviews this month are with Mark Arm, the vocalist with seminal grunge band Mudhoney, about his band’s forthcoming new album, ‘Vanishing Point'; Deborah Bonham, about her musical long career and relationship with her late brother, Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham; New York experimental musician Michael Gira on taking his abrasive band Swans back on the road, and critically acclaimed singer-songwriter David Ford about his fourth solo album, ‘Charge’. With a gig coming up at the Jazz Cafe in London to commemorate the tenth anniversary of his death, we also speak to long-term member Angelo Starr about his decision to take over as front man from his late brother in the seminal soul outfit, the Edwin Starr Band. Some of our other interviews include top drummer Richard Newman (Steve Marriott, Rory Gallagher and Alvin Lee); Simon Rivers from underrated London indie rockers the Bitter Springs about his group's new double CD and first album in ten years, ‘Everyone’s Cup of Tea’, and the first part of a two part interview with 80’s experimental/psychedelic act, Yeah Yeah Noh, who have just reformed after an absence of 25 years. Other highlights include an extensive article on Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend’s charity Teen Cancer America which has just opened its first centres in the USA; a tribute to the Troggs’ Reg Presley who died in February. In our regular columns, Jeff Thiessen reflects in ‘This Metal Sky’ on why pretentiousness is a good thing in music, while Andy Cassidy writes in ‘AC’s A-Z of Music’ about breaking up with his first serious girlfriend while listening to John Lennon’s ‘Imagine’ album. There is also a hilarious poem in ‘Evidently Spencertown’ from our resident poet Spencer Robertshaw about his home town of Leeds, while Ben Howarth in ‘Condemned to Rock ‘n’ Roll’ contemplates the latest BRIT Awards. Thank you to Carl Bookstein, Malcolm Carter, Andrew Carver, Andy Cassidy, Nick Dent-Robinson, Dixie Ernill, Gillian Fish, Tom Fogarty, Dave Goodwin, , Adrian Huggins, Fiona Hutchings, Spencer Robertshaw, Harry Sherriff, Dominic B. Simpson, Helen Tipping, Lisa Torem, Paul Waller and Cila Warncke, all of whom contributed articles to this edition or the mid-month update. Thank you also to Marie Hazelwood for the live photographs of Richard Hawley, NME Awards Tour, Jake Bugg and Catfish and the Bottlemen; Neil Bauiley for those of the History of Apple Pie photographs and Matt Williams for the ones of Esben and the Witch. Special thanks to our webmaster Richard Banks for all his hard work behind the scenes, and Ben Howarth who runs our Facebook page and Sarah Johnson who has taken over our Twitter page from Jamie Rowland. We will be doing an album and singles reviews only update in late March and then will be doing our next big monthly up-date with interviews, features, live reviews and more album and single reviews in early April. We hope to run interviews then with the Stranglers, the Boomtown Rats, Paul Rutherford from Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Huey Morgan from the Fun Lovin' Criminals, Lisa Germano, the Meat Puppets, Black, Frontier Ruckus, Stephen Wade, Rose’s Pawn Shop and Deltasound. There will also be the second part of the Yeah Yeah Noh interview and an interview with Jude Cook from Flamingoes about his first book, ‘Byron Easy’ Thank you as always for reading Pennyblackmusic, John Clarkson, Magazine Editor www.pennyblackmusic.co.uk