The News Review:
- Rock around the shop
- When Harry met Stein
- From Head Butt to Hit
- The Tavern experience
- EVENTS CUNTRYWIDE.
Rock around the shop
Times nline – Jul 15, 2006
The minute they entered John Stephens’s legendary boutique on Carnaby Street and came out in Union Jack jackets they were huge. Glam was clearly a clothes-led craze with David Bowie as much a couture mannequin as a rock star and Roxy Music the first band to credit both their clothes designer (Anthony Price) and hairdresser (Keith at Smile) on their album sleeves as its spearheads. My first foray into the interwoven worlds of music and fashion came with punk now seen as some kind of righteously pure form of rock rebellion compared to today’s manufactured and styled stars. f course the exact opposite is true. Punk was primarily a trouser revolution with the Sex Pistols coming not out of the gutter but out of one of London’s most exclusive and expensive boutiques. As their name implies they were a marketing tool for Sex Malcolm Mclaren and Vivienne Westwood’s Chelsea emporium. As a 17-year-old strolling awkwardly along the Kings Road with his legs tied together I was only too aware that it was hoards of spikey-haired fashion students and hairdressers who really shaped punk back in 1976.
When Harry met Stein
guardian.co.uk – Jul 15, 2006
Such remarks – delivered via the bluff Lancastrian vowels of narrator familiaris Mark Radcliffe – would dent the chassis of lesser music documentaries their clanging gracelessness heralding the sort of affair in which over-buffed biographical chestnuts jostle with the pre-scripted inanities of honking celebrity zeroes. Yet here plonked at the front end of Blondie: ne Way r Another (Fri 10. 35pm BBC1) a film suffused with uncommon degrees of both insight and tragedy they begin to seem less like easy cliches and more like pronounced understatements. Formed in 1974 Blondie provided the soundtrack to the courtship between former Playboy bunny Debbie Harry and flouncing proto-punk scenester Chris Stein. Yet both documentary and band play host to a wider love story – that of the band’s infatuation with the mythology of rock’n'roll… Yet here plonked at the front end of Blondie: ne Way r Another (Fri 10. 35pm BBC1) a film suffused with uncommon degrees of both insight and tragedy they begin to seem less like easy cliches and more like pronounced understatements. Formed in 1974 Blondie provided the soundtrack to the courtship between former Playboy bunny Debbie Harry and flouncing proto-punk scenester Chris Stein. Yet both documentary and band play host to a wider love story – that of the band’s infatuation with the mythology of rock’n'roll. “I just thought [New York's party scene] was so much fun” says Harry today from inside a large anorak. Later as their fame bloomed and inspiration began to wilt Harry and Stein – both already well into their 30s – embraced heroin because says Stein today from inside an even larger anorak “we all wanted to be like William Burroughs and Lou Reed”. Blondie would not be the first or last band to lose their hearts or their logic to rock’s misbegotten dark side.
From Head Butt to Hit
New York Times – Jul 15, 2006
Sebastien said “Yes it could become lucrative but if we can make everybody dance to it this summer it will give us a good laugh. ” LAWRENCE VAN GELDERThe Who Go Mobile It’s back on the bus for the Who. The band will begin the North American leg of its new world tour on Sept. 12 in Philadelphia coming the next night to Nikon at Jones Beach Theater on Long Island; other local dates include Madison Square Garden on Sept. 18 and PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel N.
The Tavern experience
Manila Standard Today – Jul 15, 2006
In him they saw the spark of a new generation of entertainment aficionados needed to give the young cool flavor to talent discovery in this decade. “So what’s he doing in Baguio? Ask him to come down from there. ” The music enthusiast was running his own bar near Nevada Square. In a year of existence the Clockwork Lounge attracted its share of unsigned bands that played there for free even as it used computer-generated sounds. The drum set came courtesy of the house while the bands brought in other instruments. It was Mic’s place. It played his kind of music… So what does he listen to? “I like PU3ska” he says “because they play real ska the roots of reggae. It’s distinct and has attitude. I also like Hard Boiled Eggs which plays punk and rock. I hate fabricated art. ” He’s on bass guitar for the Beat Junkies a band that also plays punk aside from anarchist songs. This Human Resource Management graduate of De La Salle University aspires to have his own label have impact and educate people.
EVENTS CUNTRYWIDE.
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