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Mickeyboro

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  1. Graham Parker and the Rumour, Nick Lowe and Jona Lewie in tribute show for Bob Andrews. Putney Half Moon. Haven’t seen Parker in 45 years. Now the Rumour were a band...
  2. Pretty sure its killed the thread too! 😂 Maybe we all fear being described thus…
  3. New and long awaited book on the legendary singer songwriter. RRP £19. New, unread copy £15, posted UK.
  4. I think in non-club/pub venues people like to show appreciation and identify with the band. Important if you have a lineup like ours thats ever changing.
  5. Cadenza - The Complete Recordings' features all three albums recorded by Wolf, along with all of their singles, newly remastered from the original Deram master tapes. The set also includes a previously unreleased performance for BBC Radio's In Concert series recorded in June 1973 and includes an illustrated booklet with essay. Sealed, unplayed - and could be yours for £18 posted UK (RRP £30). None more prog! NOW £16
  6. A deluxe, limited edition 3-disc CD/blu-ray set of the superb new album from John Lees' Barclay James Harvest. Quite the return to form after nine years. Includes a blu-ray disc with the 5.1 surround sound mix of the album by Stephen W. Tayler. Also includes a bonus CD of a previously unreleased concert recorded in the USA in 2009, featuring the late Wooly Wolstenholme. Amazon price £27.69, this new sealed three disc set can be yours for £19 posted UK. NOW £17
  7. If your guitars are as old as that joke, I’m quids in! 🎸
  8. And your address is?😉
  9. If a little limiting…
  10. I have been advised not to discuss the guitarist’s extensive collection for fear of burglary😮
  11. 2CD box still sealed. £12 posted UK. *Now £8* 40 track digipack featuring all of Punk legends The Vibrators’ releases between 1976 and 1978. Features the single version of ‘Baby, Baby’ on CD for the first time and now comes with the bonus of their singles for RAK Records ‘We Vibrate’ and ‘Pogo Dancing’ on which they backed Chris Spedding. Arguably the essential Vibrators period! 40 tracks of prime punk…
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  12. The review says it all: comprehensive, US published and hard to find. Price is UK posted, unread condition. Now £16. Times And Seasons - The Rise and Fall and Rise of the Zombies Robin Platts HoZac Books, $31.99 356 pages Classic British pop, expertly chronicled Few books on the Zombies exist, but theirs is a story worth telling. And it's predictable that, given their Stateside star status, this quintessentially English quintet of She's Not There and Tell He No fame should be chronicled on an American imprint. The band only hung up its touring shoes last year after leader/keyboardist Rod Argent's stroke, but the work he and singer Colin Blunstone created after their reunion in 2001 - the years since 1968 being silent, in a Zombies sense - are also covered in detail by author Platts. The band always had a youthful camaraderie, having come together at high school, and that comes over faithfully in this account of their heyday - plus a long tail that details their subsequent musical careers. While Blunstone went solo and Argent created an eponymous prog band (of God Gave Rock And Roll To You fame), guitarist Paul Atkinson went behind the scenes and signed Abba to CBS - a feather in anyone's cap. Detail is forensic without being stifling. If the layout is a trifle fanzine-y, the integration of illustrative material like press cuttings and photos with the text helps make this an easy read. And the urge to play the music, always the sign of a good book, is irresistible.
  13. New and unplayed, Ruf Records latest prodigy’s new release. Features Kingfish Ingham and Shemekia Copeland. Powerful stuff from someone who’s touring here in the autumn and should not be missed. £20 from Amazon, £10 posted UK here. NOW £8
  14. Don’t forget (John) Burke Shelley!
  15. Mine is Mick St Michael, a pseudonym I invented in 1984 when editing a short lived music paper, Soundcheck. It inflated the number of writers under my control! Alvin Stardust once bought me a coffee. Amazingly, that was what appeared on his Mastercard rather than Bernard Jewry…
  16. You mean you’re not really Dan Dare? 🚀😮
  17. Have you ever been in a band with someone so publicity-shy they don’t even want to be introduced to the audience? Asking for an anonymous friend…😁
  18. Cracking bass, cracking price. Won’t be here long!
  19. Very well put together US-published book of in-depth interviews with guitarists based on a TV documentary. Refreshingly, not all are the usual suspects. Rarely seen here. 300 pages, very good condition. £13 posted UK. Now just £10
  20. The man bought a CD from me despite my ineptitude in giving him the wrong PayPal address. Efficient and courteous, recommended!
  21. My feelings, Ted. 👍
  22. Suffice to say, my friend, that I inherited the ‘spokesman’ mantle from a frontman, now departed the band, who was hopeless at communicating. Awkward silences between numbers don’t do anything for me, so I blundered in. I have now been informed by one band member that I should let the music do the talking, and that ‘bigging up’ band members is ‘cringy’. My immediate reaction is to ask the others with mics to take a share of creating the stage act. I am what I am, but if you get a third of me rather than the full Monty then maybe it will be more acceptable.
  23. Another first rate transaction with a first rate Basschatter! 🙏
  24. How important/divisive/controversial is stage patter to your band? Do those without microphones comment on those with? Do you share the duties or is it solely the frontperson? Have any disputes resulted from comments made? Were/how were they resolved? I seem to have inherited the between-song duties for my band, but I suspect trouble is brewing…. 😈 Need perspective. Thanks
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