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He's the legendary chap who turned down Jimmy Page's offer to sing for The New Yardbirds but suggested a bloke he knew called Robert Plant instead. Aretha Franklin, when asked what was worth hearing in England in 1968, cited The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and Terry Reid. He's still a fine singer.
The Half Moon is one of the oldest small venues in the London Area, with plenty of good history and a nice vibe.
My ticket is already purchased. If you fancy going I'll see you there.

Here's a very Afterword friendly evening out.

Paul Du Noyer is a former Mojo Editor, Q and NME scribe and of course no stranger to readers of The Word and listeners to the Word Podcast. He's also penned three splendid rock books, “Liverpool: Wondrous Place”, “In The City: A Celebration of London Music” and “John Lennon: We All Shine On”.

Paul will be at fab new Record Shop/Cafe Beatnik in Altrincham, Greater Manchester to give a talk and a Q&A session. This will be chaired by our good friend Paddy Hoey, (who's to be occasionally found posting around these parts and entertaining the North West Word Massive from time to time).

The talk starts at 6.30, and it's free to get in but places are limited so please contact the shop first or call in person to reserve your place (contact details in the links below)

Even details
https://www.facebook.com/events/369857743122563/

and the details of Beatink here:
https://www.facebook.com/beatnikshop

Forgoing the taste of India, the next Thames Valley Massive mingle will take place at the Three Frogs pub on the outskirts of Wokingham - avoiding the hellish one way system in town.

http://gkpubs.co.uk/pubs-in-wokingham/three-frogs-pub/

Suggested time of arrival is 8pm. if you could let me know if you're attending then I can reserve us a table as its bound to be busy on a Friday night

Newbies or oldies, all welcome. We don't bother with CDs n swaps so just bring your wallet and your useless jibber-jabber. Any bootleg requests welcome however.

Hope to see you there!

Hello All

Apologies for promo (hence why this in on this bit rather than main blog) but my name's Juliet Harris and I present a show on internet radio. As some of the Massive are already aware (and hugely supportive, a thousand thank yous to you all) my show is called Indie Wonderland and is on Thursdays at 7-9pm at www.arfm.co.uk

Old shows are also available as a "listen again" type thing at www.mixcloud.com/arfm

Good tunes and cheery chat is by and large the order of the day. I'm currently doing my "A-Z of Indie, Alt Rock and Miscellaneous" project. This involves an hour of bands beginning with a letter, then the next week the same letter but with listener suggestions The most recent show featured my go at G, right here http://i.mixcloud.com/CCVYc0

So. Here's the thing. If you like this, I'd be ENORMOUSLY grateful if you would go to www.sonygoldenheadphones.com and vote for me as your favourite presenter (simply select vote now and type my name into the box). Obviously only do this if you like the show, despite my rather undignified appeal here!

Somebody like Danny Baker or Lauren Laverne will rightly win, but to get anywhere near the shortlist would be a pretty incredible thing.

Thank you for reading this!

Another visit to the Corn Exchange for Beau Jangles - Hertfordshire based roots 'n' roll due playing originals and the odd cover with one mic a la bluegrass stylee at the fab Corn Exchange. For those who don't know the venue it is a fab room with proper PA, terrific sound, great lights, tables, chairs, tea lights, real ale bar, bar snacks involving roast potatoes, little cubes of cheese, nibbles....family friendly, and 4 great acts all for zero pence. What more could you ask? Music starts at 2.45. I think we're on first. It would be lovely to see a few of you.

Beatnik will be opening in Altrincham, Cheshire on 20 April 2013 (appropriately enough Record Store Day). Behind the counter most days will be the lovely Grant who some of you will know as the convener of the North West Word Massive mingles.

The shop will be selling good quality second hand Vinyl and CDs across a broad range of genres, with a 'carefully curated' selection of new stuff, as well as books, Art, merch and of course Coffee, cake and other eatables.
Performing a live acoustic set on Record Store Day will be MJ Hibbert. MJ and his band The Validators have recorded sessions for Radio 1, were awarded 'Record of the Year' by Rolling Stone magazine, been championed by BBC 6 Music's Steve Lamacq and according to The Word magazine MJ “...should be a national institution”.

Lots of events and happenings are planned including a talk by former Word/NME/Mojo scribe Paul Du Noyer on Friday 3 May.
To find out more follow us on Facebook http://facebook.com/beatnikshop or Twitter http://twitter.com/beatnik_shop

As some of you know, I play guitar in The Primevals - it's a hometown gig!

Support from several of our friends - Los Tentakills, The Creeping Ivies and The Brutes.

Change of Venue - now at 13th Note Cafe, King St, Glasgow

Tickets are still £6

Here is In A Violent Way, from our recent LP Heavy War :

Hi - as a sideline to my Retro Man Blog I also do a little Podcast called Retrosonic that might be of interest to (hopefully some) Afterworders. It's obviously inspired by the Word Podcast, in that me and two pals sit around drinking and talking bollocks about music. Joining me are Adam from New Wave Power Pop trio The Jetsonics and the Rock Photographer Paul Slattery who has, over the years, worked with Dr. Feelgood, The Smiths, The Clash, Motorhead, Oasis, Stone Roses, The Fall and many more.

We play and chat about a wide range of "alternative" music - Punk, New Wave, Mod, Soul, Psychedelia and Garage Rock stuff. Expect to hear a diverse mix such as Etta James, The Fall, The Ruts, Felt, Marsha Hunt, Dr. Feelgood, Pere Ubu, The Len Price 3, Betty Wright, Link Wray, Giuda, XTC, Sparks, Vic Godard, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Go-Kart Mozart, The Chambers Brothers, The Rezillos and much more...

We have also branched out into special dedicated Episodes, for example, interviews with TV Smith of The Adverts (with exclusive acoustic session), Ian Person and Mattias Barjed from The Soundtrack of Our Lives, JC Carroll from The Members, Swedish singer-songwriter Mattias Hellberg. There are Episodes looking at the International Mod and Power Pop scenes and a special on Swedish music along with an interview with ex IFK, Liverpool and Fiorentina footballer Glenn Hysen and the Directors of the superb IFK Gothenburg footie documentary "Football's Last Proletarians".

Here's the link to all the Episodes
http://soundcloud.com/retrosonic-podcast
they are all free to download to listen to at your leisure, I hope you enjoy them and I'd really appreciate any comments, feedback, suggestions, what-have-you. Cheers! Steve

My vintage Soundcraft & Yamaha PA system will be amplifying Straw Bear this Saturday at The Sun Inn, Waterbeach near Cambridge.
The gig is the launch of the Straw Bear album 'Black Bank' (which comes highly recommended).
Band website at http://www.strawbear.com/welcome-to-straw-bear-music.htm
Venue details at http://www.beachsessions.co.uk/
It's a large function room in a pub so refreshments available. Entry is free with the hat passed round to cover the band's expenses.