TheBuddhafilm had lovingly recreated early Seventies Bromley for Bowie. For his new songs, he said that he drew from what he called a “personal memory stock” ranging from his teenage years through the late Seventies in Berlin. HisBuddhawould be impressionist autobiography. As he wrote in his...
The knife used had been bought by Vicious on 42nd Street and was identical to a “007” flip-knife given to punk rock vocalist Stiv Bators of the Dead Boys by Dee Dee Ramone. According to Dee Dee’s wife at the time, Vera King Ramone, Vicious had bought the knife after seeing Stiv...
FULL REVIEW 80 Total Film Jul 9, 2013 The armageddon-through-beer-goggles approach brings the chuckles, but The World’s End stands up as a great example of the genre it ribs. Nostalgic, bittersweet and very, very funny. By Matt Maytum ...
Dear jet boys/jet girls, From Italy to Great Britain, fashion weeks to exhibitions (with a few healthy dollops of holiday downtime), it was an eventful year of European travel. In February, I was invited by the Italian Trade Commission to Milan to cover the MICAM shoe fair for A Shaded...
Bruce McNicol plays piano as well as accordion & shares the singing with Craig Learmont who doubles guitar and drums, Mark Bromley is on double bass & guitar and Pietro Fine tops it off on clarinet, sax & piano. We also work with the fantastic vocalist Leora Claff and with several ...
Nicholas Headon, who was known as Topper because of his resemblance to the cartoon character Mickey Monkey from Topper, was born in Bromley, Kent, on 30 May 1955. He made his name as the drummer of the punk rock band The Clash, joining them in 1977 and staying for five years, until ...
ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM– “Perhaps there was more of a sexually straight element in the club… there were some gorgeous boys around, but this film is fundamentally George’s story. If anything, the real Blitz was more asexual, because dressing took up most of our time and speed or blues we...
That PA system was built by Mike Turner, of Turner Electronic Industries, a relatively small outfit when they first approached Bowie, the initial demonstration taking place at Beckenham Rugby Club, South-East London, not far from where the Brixton-born, Bromley-raised icon had a flat. There’...
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