My Life With Rock N' Roll People
Funny what happens when you decide to do a tidy-up. That large box I kept tripping over was supposed to be full of 90s compilations, mostly repeating each other’s tracks, a hangover from the days when record companies were making their next round of easy money with greatest hits CDs of one sort or another. Then shone a veritable diamond in…
You may remember Beatle John Lennon’s wry but seething definition of life. That “it’s what happens to us while we are making other plans”. Well since the late ‘80s Del Amitri have become a very popular band although most music fans will mainly be familiar with hits like 'Nothing Ever Happens' and 'Kiss This Thing Goodbye' and, at a stretch, their…
So here we are, a quarter of the way through the current century and even though music and the way it’s delivered has changed and keeps changing, one thing remains the same: a charismatic front man or woman at the centre of the machine. In my last book, My Life with Rock N' Roll People, published by Ghostwriter Books, I…
A fine review from the King of Indie…
