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The Word Podcast live on August 19th

July 6, 2014 David Hepworth 0

In response to public demand we’re putting on a recording of the Word Podcast live on August 19th. It’ll be at the Islington. Mark Ellen, […]

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Our first Manchester Word In Your Ear – with Stuart Maconie and Mark Ellen

May 9, 2014 David Hepworth 0

There’s nothing like speech. It’s amazing how many subjects you can touch on, buttons you can press, situations you can recall and pictures you can […]

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Keep May 19th free and stay tuned for a details of a second Mark Ellen show

March 6, 2014 David Hepworth 1

The show with Mark Ellen at the Slaughtered Lamb on May 12th has sold out but we’ll be announcing another one to take place a […]

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Revision notes for Sunday’s WIYE at the Lexington

November 27, 2013 David Hepworth 0

Here’s Rhodri Marsden’s piercing analysis of the umbilical connection between the words “waiting” and “aniticipating” This is “Build A House Of Love”, an Andy Gregory-arranged […]

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Did anyone take any decent pictures of last night’s show?

October 10, 2013 David Hepworth 0

I was somewhat preoccupied so I didn’t. Which is a shame because it seemed to go very well. Can’t tell you how much simpler it […]

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I’m 540 pages into Mark Lewisohn’s book…

September 24, 2013 David Hepworth 0

…so I’ve written about it here.

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A night playing records and talking with Richard Williams and Kate Mossman

September 17, 2013 David Hepworth 0

Last night Richard Williams and Kate Mossman were  guinea pigs for our experimental evening in the small upstairs room to the Betsey Trotwood. In my […]

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We’re back from our holidays

August 22, 2013 David Hepworth 0

News about two exciting shows in September and October coming soon. Keep the 16th of the former and the 15th of the latter free. More […]

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We few, we happy few, will be talking about those Duckworth Lewis shows for weeks

July 10, 2013 David Hepworth 0

Alex and I have just got back from Nottingham, having seen the Duckworth Lewis Method royally entertain the Playhouse Theatre with a slightly longer set […]

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Handful of new tickets for Duckworth Lewis at Lord’s on Monday!

July 5, 2013 David Hepworth 0

Because of public demand and media interest, Duckworth Lewis will now be playing two shows at Lord’s on Monday night and therefore we have issued […]

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Peter Hammill on Bowie, other superfans & 47 albums of ‘self-sabotage and chaos’.
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Peter Hammill, adored by Bowie, Mark E Smith and many others, co-founded Van Der Graaf Generator when he was 19. And he’s made 47 albums since, powered by “hubris, enthusiasm and sheer bloody-mindness” and celebrated in a new 18-CD box set. He talks to us here from Somerset about …

 

… supporting Hendrix at the Albert Hall and being ‘the Shirley Bassey of the Underground’

 

… meeting David Bowie – who asked for Hammill’s new music to be sent to him all his life

 

… Van Der Graaf Generator being bottled off by medical students in the days when you rang from a phone-box to see what gigs you were playing

 

… the Bee Gees, Eric Clapton, Champion Jack Dupree and Jimmy James & the Vagabonds at the Locarno in Derby

 

… Tony Stratton-Smith and the Six Bob Tour – 30p! – with Lindisfarne and Genesis

 

… Nut Rocker, Theme Of Exodus and other teenage keyboard staples

 

 … the value of “Boswellian superfans” who know more about you than you do

 

… breaking the £100 barrier for a live performance

 

… writing blues songs, aged 16, with “a gnat’s experience of life”

 

… the unsettling lyric to Rodgers & Hammerstein’s ‘You’ve Got to Be Carefully Taught’

 

… and his new young audience via the internet and “that right of passage, your parents’ records”

 

Order The Charisma & Virgin Recordings 1971 – 1986’ here: https://peterhammill.lnk.to/CVRecordingsPR

And Peter’s memoir ‘Kingmaker’ is published in November. Pre-order here: https://burningshed.com/store/kingmaker

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