"According to The Nolans - I gobbed on them. But I can’t recall that. It's hardly government changing politics is it? Gobbing on a Nolan. But they say I did it. It’s in their book, but I have no recollection of doing such a terrible thing," Skids frontman Richard Jobson on the band's appearance on Top if the Pops
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Few could claim to have lived a life less ordinary than the MC5’s Wayne Kramer. Rock star, social activist, addict, burglar, drug dealer, jailbird – he’s done it all and, just about, lived to tell the tale. A leading light of the late ‘60s counter-culture, Kramer’s band were targeted by FBI counter-intelligence and their inflammatory gigs were a regular […]
Anniversary tours are always tricky, especially for a band with the cachet of the MC5. Reputations can be destroyed, legacies tarnished and there’s always the risk of being accused of “selling out”. Wayne Kramer has faced such a backlash before having previously reformed the band for a one-off show in 2003 with two surviving members as part of a […]
MC5 guitarist Wayne Kramer is heading to the UK in November on the latest leg of his Kick Out The Jams 50th Anniversary Tour. The MC50 tour features a host of top musicians, including Soundgarden axeman Kim Thayil, drummers Brendan Canty (Fugazi) and Matt Cameron (Pearl Jam), with bass from Faith No More‘s Billy Gould. Vocals will be supplied by Marcus Durant of Blues rockers Zen Guerrilla. Guest appearances are also expected from Afghan Whigs‘ Greg […]
*In no particular order some of my favourite music moments. No41 Sell Me A Lemon by Ming City Rockers. Bang up to date with this one – at least by my standards. I was turned on to Ming City Rockers by none other than Walter Lure – last man standing of New York’s Heartbreakers. Walter said he’d never heard such […]
"We had no idea of the reaction of the British public. For weeks they had these front pages of ‘Filthy Scum’ and ‘Rotten People’ and stuff like that. People were throwing their TVs out of windows! It was sheer madness!" Last surviving Heartbreaker #WalterLure on the Anarchy Tour #TheSexPistols and his first new album in 24 years,
More than 40 years after The Damned lit the blue touch paper for the punk rock revolution, original drummer Rat Scabies is busier than ever. Since quitting his old band amid some rancour in the late ’90s, he’s played in numerous outfits and developed interesting sidelines in cigar box guitar-making and the little matter of hunting for the holy […]