Skiff Skats The Buzz Club 15th March 1986 After the success of the Terry & Gerry gig, we kept the vibe of quiffs, stand up bass guitars and British hilly billy music, we booked Skiff Skats. Back at the West End Centre, we got a pretty good crowd in as I recall. Support came from […]
I’ve written about Dan Treacy lots in this blog. My band Go! Service toured with his band the T.V. Personalities around Europe when I was 18 and he released 12″s by my bands Go! Service and Bluetrain on his Dreamworld Records label. Dan is the main man in the T.V. Personalities, who we had supported […]
John Grant performing ‘He’s Got His Mother’s Hips’ Directed by Casey & Ewan Animated by: Angela Stempel, Anna Mantzaris, Benjamin Portas, Casey Raymond, Cheng-Hsu Chung, Cossa, Ewan Jones-Morris, Gabriel Mangold, Gyuri Cloe Lee, Jimmy Screamerclauz, Kokofreakbean, Linyou Xie & Thu Tran ‘Always a delight to work with John. For this disco-tinged track we decided to […]
Ryan Hemsworth is Canadian producer, raised in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Joji is a Japanese-Australian producer who was also known as George Miller when he does he own surreal stuff on YouTube. Ryan’s third album ‘Elsewhere’ is due out on Friday, September 21st. This is a sweet, gentle piece of music. Just right to lull us […]
There was a healthy rockabilly / psychobilly scene around us in Surrey. Lots of colourful quiffs, bleached jeans and sleeveless tee shirts. Bands like The Meteors and King Kurt were very popular. Not really our thing, there was however also a more indie side, that produced bands like Terry and Gerry. Their album, ‘From Lubbock To […]
Here’s a tripped out way to start your Saturday! From Melbourne based band, Midlife, this is ‘Phase ll’ released yesterday on Research Records. The song was inspired by the album track ‘Phase’ from their eponymous debut record that was released in the Spring of 2018. Artist, Dan Wild, explains the excellent video that illustrates the new song: […]
Buzz Club regular, Philip ‘Hutch’ Hutchinson recently got back in touch with me. He told me he had several Buzz Club gigs recorded plus photos from a few more. It would take him a while to locate everything, but he would start his search at his parents’ house when next there. No joy. So to […]
