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.

Clint Boon was at the heart of “the two biggest musical revolutions of my lifetime” – as a teenager for Joy Division and Buzzcocks, and later the Stone Roses, Happy Mondays and Hacienda and onstage with Inspiral Carpets, a world of characters as big as his own. His memoir ‘The Manchester Chronicles’ is about obsessions, schoolteachers, purple winklepickers, mobile discos, good luck, catastrophe and being in the right place at the right time for 30 years. Along with …

… why Manchester listens to music so intently: “we’re stuck inside while it rains”

… auditioning Noel Gallagher “as the Lockerbie plane flew directly overhead”

… the new economy: making a Number 2 album funded by t-shirt and cassette sales

… growing up on Tom Jones, Shirley Bassey, Little Richard and Gary Lewis & the Playboys

… Inspiral Carpets’ obsession with West Coast psychedelia

… when the band all got houses with their Mute advance “and I just bought some $800 sunglasses”

… great bowl-heads haircuts (Stones, Byrds, Jefferson Airplane) and why he got one too

… seeing the Pistols at the Electric Circus: “I left college the next morning”

… the sudden split: playing Glastonbury one minute, living on milk tokens and income support the next

… his 1975 disco playing Mud, the Rubettes and Showaddywaddy (“I was a 14 year-old Ted”)

… and how 24 Hour Party People captured “the spirit, chaos, colour and madness”.

Order copies of ‘The Manchester Chronicles: True Tales of Music, Madness and Mayhem 1976-2006’ here: https://geni.us/manchesterchronicles

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