Andy Cairns from Therapy? is a lovely bloke. His wife, Kris used to work with me at Virgin in London. He even took his life into his hands and played a T-Rex song with the Glittering Moes (an annual Glam show we’d play in London every Xmas). To be honest I’m sure I was at this...

  Ben Folds played a rooftop show at the Renaissance Hotel in Hollywood. I think Ben “Ear ear” Kweller opened. It was sponsored by the amazing and now defunct 103.1, stories of which elsewhere on the...

  A fab tour. I hired a coach and organized “Davy’s Magic Bus” taking our crew from Sebastopol CA to Oakland via Lagunitas and Pyramid breweries. A brilliant day! The pass wasn’t actually mine. It was a gift from mega Who fan (over 200 Who shows versus my pitiful 55)...

  One of my most memorable shows – more for the post-concert agony than anything else. Polygram took a bus load of journalists, radio pluggers and retailers to Milton Keynes to see Metallica. When we got there, they offered me two tickets for the “snake pit”, basically a...

Fabulous evening out with the Virgin crew seeing the lovely Sharleen Spiteri and her lads. A talented act that the US never really embraced. I used to love going to showcases and record launches at Ronnie Scott’s jazz club in Soho. The venue added a sense of quality equal to the...

An amazing show at the stadium to which the banquet egg sandwiches did not match.I remember bumping into an old friend on the way. His girlfriend was lovely girl, a little short in height, so she was dragging a big bundle of tied-together newspapers to stand on at the show. We all took turns...