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Jock Scot obituary

Edit The Guardian 25 Apr 2016
But it was as a live performer that Jock best expressed himself, often opening events for music acts including Ian Dury, Joe Strummer or the Libertines; a daring master of the pause, he could silence rowdy audiences with his words ... Son of Dot and Jock, he was born John Leslie in Leith, and might well have remained north of the border had he not made his way backstage after a 1978 Dury gig in Edinburgh....

Obituary: Jock Scot, punk poet

Edit Scotsman 22 Apr 2016
Jock Scot, punk poet. Born. Leith 21 September 1952 in Edinburgh. Died. 13 April 2016 in London, aged 63 ... Attending an Ian Dury and the Blockheads gig in Edinburgh at the tail end of the 1970s, he made his way into the dressing room and hit it off with Dury, accompanying the group to London and eventually talking his way into a job at the famed Stiff Records label. It was “the grooviest job going,” he told the Idler many years later ... ....

Jock Scot + Garth Sager of The Pop Group

Edit Skiddle 14 Apr 2016
Bethnal Green Working Men's Club in London ... Minimum Age ... A Musselburgh superstar” - Irvine Welsh 'The only man who can save both the written word and the Anglo-Scottish union' - John Cooper Clarke Having worked with the likes of Ian Dury and The Clash, Jock Scot cemented his status as a cult legend in the 1990s with the release of his album My Personal Culloden (Heavenly Records), recorded with Fire Engines and Nectarine No....

Jazz Legend Ornette Coleman R.I.P.

Edit B&S; Online 11 Apr 2016
“Thank you to everyone for the outpouring of love. There will never be another Ornette Coleman.” ... He took the art form a good few steps further from where the be-bop merchants, such as Charlie Parker, left off ... Ian Dury heard the bass solo on the Ornette Coleman track, “Ramblin’” played by Charlie Haden and that was the basis for the main riff in The Blockhead’s famed track “Sex, Drugs & Rock and Roll.”....

How we made The Tube

Edit The Guardian 15 Mar 2016
Jools Holland. ‘When Rik Mayall vomited into a camera, one man in Northampton was so appalled he called the police.’. Jools Holland, presenter. Tyne Tees Television were looking for presenters for this new pop show. I did my audition with Paula Yates and it was chaotic ... We’d all stay in the same hotel and it was full-on, with stars like Ian Dury and Chaka Khan. We’d take them to Rose & Crown up the road ... Facebook ... Ian Dury, Chaka Khan......

Under The Bridge, music programme May / June / July 2016.

Edit The Jazz Mann 14 Mar 2016
Formed in 1977 as Ian Dury’s back up band and quickly becoming staples of his live performances and eventually being his band until his untimely passing in 2000 ... In 1996 Ian Dury was diagnosed with cancer. The last recording by Ian Dury & the Blockheads was “Mr ... The last performance by Ian Dury & the Blockheads was in 2000 at the London Palladium....

Mike Cattermole: Rough justice

Edit Sporting Life 10 Mar 2016
NEW FUNDING SYSTEM. It must have been high-fives all round at BHA Towers last week when the government announced that racing is going to get its fair share of on-line betting turnover, after all ... With full respect to the late Ian Dury, if the old levy was part one, the Authorized Betting Partner initiative part two, then we genuinely have reasons to be cheerful about part three ... And therein lies the crux ... LUKE MORRIS ... THE GRAND NATIONAL ... ....

The Blockheads

Edit Skiddle 02 Mar 2016
7.30pm ... Venue ... Ian Dury's punk pub-rock backing band performs the bands hits, featuring original members Chas Jankel, Norman Watt-Roy and Johnny Turnbull ... ....

Thatcher Stole My Trousers by Alexei Sayle review – communist bingo at the Comedy Store

Edit The Guardian 02 Mar 2016
The second instalment of Sayle’s impressive memoirs takes him from art school to the miners’ strike ... Standup comedy can offer some of the most thrilling live theatre of our age ... His Cockney mod-poet character, dressed in a too-tight suit and pork-pie hat and conceived as a mashup of Ian Dury and the drinkers in the Fulham pub he frequented, often resorted simply to shouting obscenities from the stage ... Twitter ... ....

Botticelli goes pop and Yoko tells the time – the week in art

Edit The Guardian 26 Feb 2016
The V&A’s Botticelli Reimagined show opens alongside his drawings over at the Courtauld, while Oxford hosts a starry group show with Douglas Gordon and Elizabeth Price – all in your weekly art dispatch ... Ian Dury poses outside Bela Lugosi’s former home ... Then we decided to get out before it was too late and [Ian] suddenly lurched toward me like Dr Frankenstein’s Igor, which suited him right down to the ground.” What we learned ... ....

LIJF: Andy Sheppard's Hotel Bristol

Edit Skiddle 26 Feb 2016
The Capstone Theatre in Liverpool. Sunday 28th February 2016. 7.30pm til 4.00am. No age restrictions ... Best known for leading his quintet and other jazz groups and his tenures with Ian Dury and the Blockheads (1997-2010), Steve Howe and Wilko Johnson (2010-2013), coupled with extensive session work, playing with Nick Cave, Damon Albarn, Ray Davies, Paul McCartney, David Gilmour, Beth Gibbons, Gabrielle and Hugh Cornwell among many others....

Gas masks, guns and Misfits: the punk photography of David Arnoff

Edit The Guardian 25 Feb 2016
... Patti Smith to Ian Dury and Nick Cave....

Vi Subversa: Inspirational elder stateswoman of punk who co-founded Poison Girls, denizens of its anarchist fringe

Edit The Independent 22 Feb 2016
Despite its focus on “the kids”, punk rock permitted the artistic emergence of a number of elder statespeople. in 1977 Ian Dury and Debbie Harry were both 35, while the Stranglers' drummer Jet Black was almost 40 ... Their 1979 12-inch EP Hex ploughed similar borderless terrain to Public Image Ltd ... Hex sets off with the charged – and deeply ironic – opening salvo ... Profoundly so ... Vi Subversa Penny Rimbaud Frances Sokolov John Peel Ian Dury ....
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