Mar 5, 2021
In this edition of Live in Music,
I'm talking with Loz Kingsley and Vo
Fletcher, Mandolin and Guitar players of great skill and
experience. I met this pair, I think, back in 1974, when they were
doing a session at the old BRMB Radio. They were no slouches then,
and they've only got better since. Vo plays with a...
Feb 25, 2021
Richard March has been in a huge array of bands and projects in his 30 years or so as a working muso. We first met when he was in the much loved Rhino and The Ranters; he started with Pop Will Eat Itself and Bentley Rhythm Ace. Now, he's with Swampmeat Family Band, with other projects bubbling away. Some of those...
Mar 27, 2020
Simon Duggal, with his brother
Diamond Duggal, is a hugely influential producer, promoter and now
record label manager.
They may not be that well known to you, but they work worldwide across as many genres as they can handle.
Like Ruby Turner, Steel Pulse and Apache Indian, they started out in Handsworth, Birmingham....
Mar 20, 2020
In this edition I'm talking with an
extraordinary, super-capable, veteran music pro from
the Black Country of the UK, who has,
quietly, had a massive influence on music making in this neck of
the woods and far, far beyond. Roy was one of the team that
launched the legendary JBs in Dudley, where
anybody who was anybody...
Mar 13, 2020
Dave Pegg has
played Bass with one group for half a century: the excellent
Fairport Convention. Fairport have one of the most
tumultuous histories in British Folk-Rock. But, like many groups
that survive that long, they have a spectacularly loyal following,
and that now means that they are on a more stable footing
than...