Stuart Adamson, 10 Years Gone, Crossing Three Decades

Big Country - 'The Crossing' Cover1983 was a year of immense personal change within my so far, brief lifetime. Being a mid teen, my body excelled in throwing mood-swings, courtesy of the hormones that efficiently executed their role of upsetting the DNA apple-cart. The year hadn’t started well either; schoolboy ‘musical differences’ within my band threatening to trash 1982’s progress, plus the departure of my favourite drummer Continue reading “Stuart Adamson, 10 Years Gone, Crossing Three Decades”

Threshold Beyond!

After the impromptu band reunion described in an earlier post, plans were made to get something together a bit more organised where I could actually play a drum kit. Whether or not these plans would ever materialise was a big ‘if’, but maybe the stars aligned in favour of fate as we managed to once again, break 30 years of inactivity and play music together again.

Hauling my Roland electronic kit up three flights of stairs to the attic studio of our host, Gary Smith, I wondered how we would fare under the scrutiny of a recorded jam, our first together as proper adults Continue reading “Threshold Beyond!”

Interview With Jamie Little

The following interview took place during 2010 when Jamie Little was touring the UK with Texas Blues artist, Hamilton Loomis. It first appeared in digital format on the ADC Drums website.

Picture of UK drummer, Jamie LittleMention Birmingham or the Midlands of England, and most people visualise an industrial landscape, dominated by concrete, motorways, pollution and silent factories that were once the lifeblood of the British car industry. Behind this somewhat blinkered façade, it is easy to forget that the area spawned a music scene Continue reading “Interview With Jamie Little”

Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, Eric’s, 23/09/11

New Orleans Comes To Liverpool

Trombone Shorty @ Eric's Club, Liverpool, 2011Let there be no illusion, my relationship with the active Liverpool music scene is one borne from its lack of ability to offer anything other than the same reconstituted, jingle-jangle-three-chord pop ditties that were its stock-in-trade of 40 years ago. There was a brief period in the late 1970’s when it embraced the new and almost buried the old. Continue reading “Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, Eric’s, 23/09/11”