When Aggy and I got to the show, we weren’t allowed in and our legit tickets were taken away from us. My displeasure showed, and then great apologies ensued when the ticket person came back with 2 front row tickets. Aggy had his cool LA hip hop gear on and I was wearing a nice paisley...

This is the hardest working British band of the last decade. They’ve toured the US relentlessly on a shoe string for the last couple of years and deserve to be huge. I had the fortune to open for them with Patchwork Orange while I was presenting at KRSH. We got on well and I invited...

My friend Duncan’s Dad knew Harold Pendleton who ran the festival as well as the Marquee Club. He fitted us up with passes and I hovered around the trailers to talk to artists and get some autographs. I met two Squires in 10 minutes – Billy Squier and Chris Squire (who was just...

  I love going through my music weeklies and seeing ads for classic albums like this. At one time the weeklies – NME, Sounds, Melody Maker were literally the most important thing in my life – especially Sounds….more thoughts in a future...

I went to this while I was at college in Sheffield. It was a million miles away from the music I liked at the time, but I was a drummer and they had Billy Cobham on the tubs. He was amazing, as was the bass player, Alphonso Johnson. Unfortunately the vocals were awful – Bob Weir of the...