The News Review:
- Jennings is boxing clever
- Secret life of pop music
- Is punk dead? Not if Hilera can help it
Jennings is boxing clever
Lancashire Evening Post – Nov 18, 2006
“If I’m fighting close enough to home I’ll go down and visit Ray’s grave in the cemetery on the day of my fight. ” When I ask Jennings what gives him the most satisfaction in life away from the cut and thrust of the ring and his family it is clear that music provides the release valve. Jennings plays drums in a punk band called The Shoks. “The band is such fantastic fun and I love the raw edge of punk music. “ur Raymond was probably the only mod in Chorley with a Parka and all that and later he got me into the Sex Pistols the Clash The Damned and Stiff Little Fingers. “I love the Dead Kennedys UK Subs and The Shoks are supporting the Cockney Rejects next month which will be great. “The Sex Pistols are my favourites though.
Secret life of pop music
Times nline – Nov 18, 2006
Used on article pages to rotate the images of a story. Nor do defenders of punk hip-hop or rap for that matter. When I meet him at his studio in a Chelsea mansion block his neatly trimmed curls are complemented by a crisply ironed shirt. Words such as “clean-cut” come to mind — not Spinal Tap. Goodall 48 grew up in xfordshire where his father was a headmaster and his teenage aspirations revolved around playing the church organ. Yet Goodall has become an advocate for popular music in all its forms preaching its wonders to the classical world in particular… Words such as “clean-cut” come to mind — not Spinal Tap. Goodall 48 grew up in xfordshire where his father was a headmaster and his teenage aspirations revolved around playing the church organ. Yet Goodall has become an advocate for popular music in all its forms preaching its wonders to the classical world in particular. If he has a mission in life now it is to build bridges between musical cultures. His new four-part television series How Music Works is a heroic attempt to explain the basic principles of music to the uneducated viewer beginning with melody and progressing through rhythm and harmony to bass. Like the best popular science presenters Goodall tackles complex material in a lucid way. He pulls his examples from everywhere.
Is punk dead? Not if Hilera can help it
Manila Standard Today – Nov 18, 2006
He said it pays to know where that sound originally came from and introduced me to the likes of The Clash. It came out in our music eventually” Chris explains. Thank the rock ’n’ roll gods Kuya wasn’t fond of ABBA. But why do the boys insist they’re not punk? “We just don’t want to be pigeonholed. We’re a young band and we want to grow as musicians. I admit punk is a big part of where we are coming from musically but we also listen to the likes of Sepultura and Slayer.