riffraff
Striker
I seem to be on rock music biog trip at the moment due to discovering that they’re not all in the music section of my local library but some are in the biography section. How they decide which goes where I’ve no idea.
Creation Stories by Alan McGhee. 7/10.
The loon behind Creation Records (oasis, jesus and mary chain, primal scream, ride, teenage fanclub, super furry animals, my bloody valentine etc etc) fesses up. The usual tales of rags to riches and excess from the world of popular music. Love owt like this me.
Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This by Dave Stewart. 5/10.
One of our own etc. Ettrick Grove, Flat by St Anthony’s, The Londonderry, Bede School, Seaburn Hall gigs, Monkwearmouth College.....
A roll call of the great and the good and the not so good and the not very good at all traipse through Stewart’s life. Everyone a great friend or a very good friend or merely a good friend or extremely talented or a magnificent musician or a true artist or legendary figure or.......I’m sure you get the picture.
Did you realise he’s nivver played on a bad record or produced one or wrote a bad song or filmed a bad documentary or directed a bad film? Quite what qualifies a musician to become a fillum director I don’t know then to complain about criticism when that fillum was absolute shit.....well.
Don’t get me wrong I quite like some of his stuff but a little critical awareness is surely in order here.
Slightly distasteful is that of the hundreds of wimmen he must’ve surely rattled the only one apart from his wives named is Stevie Nicks, he goes into detail about it yet never mentions any others. I don’t even fancy her either it just didn’t seem right to me.
Creation Stories by Alan McGhee. 7/10.
The loon behind Creation Records (oasis, jesus and mary chain, primal scream, ride, teenage fanclub, super furry animals, my bloody valentine etc etc) fesses up. The usual tales of rags to riches and excess from the world of popular music. Love owt like this me.
Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This by Dave Stewart. 5/10.
One of our own etc. Ettrick Grove, Flat by St Anthony’s, The Londonderry, Bede School, Seaburn Hall gigs, Monkwearmouth College.....
A roll call of the great and the good and the not so good and the not very good at all traipse through Stewart’s life. Everyone a great friend or a very good friend or merely a good friend or extremely talented or a magnificent musician or a true artist or legendary figure or.......I’m sure you get the picture.
Did you realise he’s nivver played on a bad record or produced one or wrote a bad song or filmed a bad documentary or directed a bad film? Quite what qualifies a musician to become a fillum director I don’t know then to complain about criticism when that fillum was absolute shit.....well.
Don’t get me wrong I quite like some of his stuff but a little critical awareness is surely in order here.
Slightly distasteful is that of the hundreds of wimmen he must’ve surely rattled the only one apart from his wives named is Stevie Nicks, he goes into detail about it yet never mentions any others. I don’t even fancy her either it just didn’t seem right to me.