September 2014

One small step for Word In Your Ear, one giant stride for Monday nights in the pub

September 23, 2014 David Hepworth 0

Last night’s show was our best yet. Thanks to the people at the Islington we managed to get the visuals working and so we we could put on […]

Stevie Nicks biographer Zoe Howe added to our Ben Watt live podcast recording

September 13, 2014 David Hepworth 0

We’re delighted to say that Zoe Howe‘s joining us at our next Word In Your Ear Podcast recording at the Islington on September 22nd. She’ll be […]

A Quiet Word with Ben Watt at the Islington

September 8, 2014 David Hepworth 0

Ben Watt’s worn a variety of hats in the last thirty years: half of Everything But The Girl, solo artist, deejay, producer, club owner and […]

Word In Your Ear

David Hepworth, Mark Ellen and chums cast an occasionally jaundiced eye over the goings-on in the worlds of music and entertainment.

We first saw Kevin in ‘77 wearing jodhpurs onstage with his art-punk band the Killjoys! He’s formed a new version of Dexys, made an album, starts a tour in October, and looks back here at central moments in his life, some recent ones so huge and affecting “that I put them to music” and they’ll be performed as a drama in the first half of these upcoming theatre shows. This touches – in vivid detail – on bands that inspired him, repaired relationships, a health crisis, what it took to be a singer in the first place and what’s requires now to put the show back on the road, along with …

… memories of music before the Beatles

… playing Jim Reeves and Ricky Nelson in a social club band in 1975 “after the bingo”

… the touching shift of power in his relationship with his 102 year-old father: “he was like a child again, he needed me”

… Roxy Music on Top Of The Pops, “I couldn’t believe you could be avant garde AND commercial”

… life on the Top Rank circuit supporting the Specials: “you learnt not to play at an audience but play for them”

… making Searching For The Young Soul Rebels in ten days with producer Pete Wingfield dancing in the studio

… “Come On Eileen doesn’t belong to me anymore”

… the alarming spectacle of an ‘80s Hear & Now package tour and what it taught him

.. the song he wrote for his grandchildren (one of whom is 31)

… a possibly terminal diagnosis in 2024 and “like Wilko Johnson, the relief I felt”

… and the Tim Buckley song he just recorded without knowing who wrote it!

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