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Bloke bringing world’s biggest 45s to next WIYE

September 30, 2013 Alex Gold 0

In addition to the chap hop stylings of Mr B the Gentleman Rhymer, as well as world Beatles authority Mark Lewisohn, further to DJ, author […]

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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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Things I found out while having a quiet word with Daniel Tashian and Dylan Jones last night

July 3, 2013 David Hepworth 0

The key moment in Daniel’s career came when he discovered the major seventh chord. If you launch into a Louvin Brothers song at a Word […]

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Dress code at Lord’s

July 3, 2013 David Hepworth 0

People have been asking whether there’s any dress code for Duckworth Lewis at Lord’s. It goes without saying that we would welcome anyone who makes […]

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Darling BOY added to our Lord’s bill

June 30, 2013 Alex Gold 0

Those of you who attended our Divine Comedy show when The Word Magazine was alive may remember a group called The Wutars. Considerably younger than […]

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Daniel Tashian of the Silver Seas makes a video at the mall

June 27, 2013 David Hepworth 0

I can’t decide whether this has been expensively art-directed to look like a slice of American apple pie or whether Daniel just popped down the […]

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

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Dennis McNally saw the Summer Of Love in London, New York and California
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Dennis McNally was the Grateful Dead’s publicist in the mid-‘80s, one of many reasons why he’s supremely qualified to write his new book about the birth of the counterculture in America’s West and East Coast and Britain. ‘The Last Great Dream: How Bohemians Became Hippies And Created the Sixties’, a celebration of music, beat poetry, radical thinking, free speech and artistic liberty, seems even more precious now in the light of recent events. All sorts are discussed here, these being some of the highlights … 

 

… how the Summer of Love of ‘67 actually happened in the Fall of ‘66 in Haight-Ashbury.

 

… “rigid, stagnant, terrifying”: early ‘60s America before the revolution.

 

 … the three key cities that “experimented with freedom”.

 

… how San Francisco “cherished strangeness” and had a self-proclaimed ruler, Emperor Norton, who created his own currency.

 

… how the Grateful Dead – “the ultimate example of the bohemian pulse writ large in music” – spent $1m building a sound system when they were earning $125 a week.

 

… the influence of Private Eye, Beyond The Fringe and That Was The Week That Was on British culture. And of Lenny Bruce, the Hungry I club, Bill Cosby, Woody Allen and Mort Sahl in America.

 

… how Rebel Without A Cause and the Wild One helped establish the West Coast as rebellious.

 

… “there are two flags of freedom – one to make as much money as possible, the other to be as open-minded and thoughtful about everything”.

 

… Eisenhower said “in God we trust!” But which God?

 

… the entire security for the 25,000 crowd at the Human Be-In in Golden Gate Park was two mounted policemen.

 

… “nothing is more fun than researching”.

 

… how the counter-culture was created with very little money or technology.

 

Order the Last Great Dream here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Last-Great-Dream-Bohemians-Hippies/dp/0306835665

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