Listen To The Banned

16Feb17

The British Broadcasting Corporation has banned a lot of songs over the years. I played some of them on the air on BBC Radio Merseyside recently in a feature called, “Listen To The Banned”. When I delved into it, I was surprised by what was forbidden, the reasons why and the songs they didn’t ban […]

Filed under: 1960s, 1970s, AFTRS, BBC, BBC Radio Merseyside, blog, Broadcasting, Comedy, Commercial Radio, Commercial Television, Google, podcast, Radio, true story, Uncategorized, Youtube   |  Closed
Tags: Banned songs, BBC, BBC Radio Merseyside, Blondie, Chuck Berry, Cutting Crew, Diana Ross, Dire Straits, John Lennon, Lola, Lou Reed, Mott The Hoople, Paul Simon, Squeeze, The Beatles, The Kinks, The Shangri-Las, The Stranglers

Land of The Long Night Loud!

04Aug15

New Zealand is a unique place and there’s something special about the country pubs there. In the 80s, The Misfits were a pub rock band in New Zealand. I joined them as lead singer in 1988. We played rock ‘n roll, three and four nights a week, in all sorts of venues and at all […]

Filed under: AFTRS, Broadcasting, Live, Music, Rock, Travel   |  Closed
Tags: Bream Bay, Live, Misfits, New Zealand, Northland, Pub Rock, Rock 'n' Roll, The Kinks, Travel, Waipu, Waipu Hotel, Whangarei