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’.

Out There #5

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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

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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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