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Song Noir book launch, Sunset Blvd

September 11, 2022

In front of a packed audience at Mr Musichead Gallery on Sunset and accompanied by Tree Adams on guitar, who assembled a superb band especially for the night to help capture the essence of Tom Waits’ iconic early songs. Other featured performers included Joy Gregory (in her Rickie Lee Jones red dress) as a most wonderful narrator on ‘Christmas Card from a Hooker’.

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In books, news Tags Alex Harvey, Tom Waits, Los Angeles

Out There #5

September 20, 2017

Wim Wenders pictures the Kinks — Ray Davies on hipsters, Pete Townshend and why he fled Tony Blair’s Britain — Exile in Los Angeles — Nik Cohn: ‘I was right: the Stones, after the age of 30, didn’t create anything good’

Wim Wenders’ Summer in the City

In Out There Tags Wim Wenders, The Kinks, Ray Davies, Los Angeles, Rolling Stones

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"Quixotic ... [and] excellent ... Doyle's book is a welcome piece of historically informed criticism that situates the Kinks in their proper milieu - postwar, working-class North London - and their cultural moment: the British music explosion of the 1960s ... For a book that doesn't once mention Brexit, The Kinks: Songs of the Semi-Detached demonstrates precisely how Britain arrived at the referendum of June 2016." Wesley Stace, Wall Street Journal.More Info and Reviews at:  Reaktion (UK), 2020 University of Chicago Press (US), 2015

"Quixotic ... [and] excellent ... Doyle's book is a welcome piece of historically informed criticism that situates the Kinks in their proper milieu - postwar, working-class North London - and their cultural moment: the British music explosion of the 1960s ... For a book that doesn't once mention Brexit, The Kinks: Songs of the Semi-Detached demonstrates precisely how Britain arrived at the referendum of June 2016." Wesley Stace, Wall Street Journal.

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‘As yet there has not appeared a specific volume on the subject quite as impressive as this . . . In six chapters, Bovey chronologically charts the trajectory of the DIY phenomenon, beginning with early ’60s originators such as The Wailers, Trashmen…

‘As yet there has not appeared a specific volume on the subject quite as impressive as this . . . In six chapters, Bovey chronologically charts the trajectory of the DIY phenomenon, beginning with early ’60s originators such as The Wailers, Trashmen and Kingsmen who took their inspiration from the thrilling guitar distortions of Link Wray and Bo Diddley, through to 21st century pretenders such as The Gories, Sloths and Jackets . . . the first truly comprehensive study of the genre . . . It is a concise, passionately-written and well-researched account . . . it should have you dusting down armfuls of those old nuggets before you’ve even reached Chapter Two.’ — Shindig! magazine

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University of Chicago Press (US), 2019


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