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senior showtime

Paul Hamilton: SENIOR SHOWTIME High Wycombe is a satellite town of London and it was there, at Bucks New University’s Students Union building on Thursday 8th March 2012, Producers played the last of their nationwide sprint of college gigs. The … Continue reading

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the bark and the sound bite: back to marciano

by Paul Hamilton ( see full links at bottom): SENIOR SHOWTIME High Wycombe is a satellite town of London and it was there, at Bucks New University’s Students Union building on Thursday 8th March 2012, Producers played the last of … Continue reading

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“all one needs is to be able to see”

It does appear to be beyond nominal doubt that the team of Craig Braun and Tom Wilkes pilfered to a large degree the work of Lol Creme and Kevin Godley for the Alice Cooper album School’s Out. The former’s Hotlegs … Continue reading

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don’t let the sun go down on them

Do only the good die young? Should we trust anyone over thirty? There was always Rimbaud, the brilliant prodigy, the romantic who was simply pining to be able to fall on his sword. And Keats and Byron who could not … Continue reading

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semina culture

by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) teri and toni were two of the biggest most popular go-go dancers in the cool los angeles scene of the mid-sixties. i think they introduced the fringe miniskirt to go-go dancing. toni was part of … Continue reading

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get by with a little help from their friends

What would you do if we sang out of tune?  … the press release for Whole World Band. Its a new idea that may solidify into mayonnaise yet. We shall see. It remains whetehr the creative genius of founder Kevin … Continue reading

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11th commandment

Excerpt from interview in the Idler, from Paul Hamilton: Kevin Godley: You know, the key to the writing process is finding your way in, bringing the stuff that’s in peripheral hearing into focus. You’re always aiming to get inside the … Continue reading

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2.5cc… 5cc… going going…gone

And old interview dug up on Godley and Creme. The issues they raised thirty-plus years ago are more relevant than ever. They may not be “right” but their views represented here are honest to themselves. It does reflect on the … Continue reading

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5th and and half amendment

Success Hasn’t Changed Me At All by Kevin Godley. From ‘The Fun Starts Here’.People, the music, and the business of rock and roll. And most of it figures outside the shadow of a doubt.   The illustrations below are from that … Continue reading

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old wild men: sandwiches of them

See it as a matrix of sensations.Mutable. Unfixed.Unhinged. Something of the child rubbing against the unknown world of the adult. Sometimes we have to go back to reach beyond the future, to be as children, and approach the objects of … Continue reading

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