One of the sweetest, most unassuming rock ’n’ roll front men – at least he is these days – you’re likely to meet Tim Burgess, lead singer of The Charlatans, made his Bournemouth debut on 26 February 2013 with a free acoustic set at Café Boscanova in Boscombe ahead of a solo show at the Read More…
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Steve Cropper 2013
Ever been so into something you can’t quite remember what you’re doing and why? It’s like you’re concentrating so hard so that you don’t forget a single second that you actually lose all reason and sense of time and place. It happens to me when I really wish it wouldn’t – ten minutes into Read More…
David James 2012
He’s been called many things in his time, but ‘Bournemouth’s number one’ is possibly the most surprising of all. Tipped for greatness from the moment Graeme Souness shelled out £1.25 million to take him from Watford to Liverpool in 1992, James has been both lauded and lambasted in his time – none of us needs Read More…
Rhys Darby
He’s worked on screen with Jim Carrey (in Yes Man) and the likes of Rhys Ifans and Bill Nighy in The Boat That Rocked, as well as forging a reputation as a singularly talented stand up, but Rhys Darby is still best known as Murray Hewitt, the child-like genius manager of Flight of the Conchords, Read More…
Frank Turner
Frank Turner is something of the man of the moment. The former Million Dead singer’s fourth solo album, England Keep My Bones charted within spitting distance of the top ten – his highest placing yet – in June; last year’s (almost) hit I Still Believe has turned into a bit of a festival anthem and Read More…
Roger Daltrey
Roger Daltrey, owner of one of the greatest voices in rock history, played the O2 Academy Bournemouth on 19 March 2011 ahead of a triumphant re-imagining of The Who’s classic rock opera Tommy at the Royal Albert Hall five days later. He brought with him the band of crack American session musicians he toured the States with Read More…
Billy Bragg 2010
SATURDAY afternoon in November in a quaint Dorchester tearoom and Billy Bragg is as hungry as ever – for music, for politics, for love and justice… and cake. Between mouthfuls of a rich fruit number and sips of tea he’s looking to the future, making sense of the past and finding his way through the digital Read More…
Bruce Foxton 2010
Funny old game, life. One minute you’re up, the next you’re down. One minute you’re in, the next you’re out. The trick is not to worry about it too much – certainly not the things you can’t change anyway. That’s the gist of the half-hour chat I had with one of my boyhood idols – former Read More…
Ricky Gervais
Ricky Gervais revels in the anguish of the uncomfortable moment, he loves to make us squirm and understands the excruciating pain of embarrassment from the inside out. At once brilliant and confounding, he will put himself – and others (ask his mate Johnny Depp) – on the spot in a trice, shining a bright light Read More…
Paul Weller
He’s the changing man… Things come and go in our lives, others stick around, keeping us company on rocky roads and high trails. The fleeting charms of some new source of admiration may be sweet, but nothing rewards quite like the tale that unravels over time. And so it is with me and Paul Weller. Read More…