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Post by stu77 on Aug 11, 2023 23:50:10 GMT
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Post by stu77 on Feb 9, 2024 23:48:44 GMT
Updated version of his autobiography out next month.  |
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Feb 10, 2024 12:01:57 GMT
Looking forward to that one
Luckily Rogue isn't around now to bang on about it
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Feb 21, 2024 13:56:47 GMT
Excellent interview with JW……. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/word-in-your-ear/id1567029088?i=1000646049974Jah Wobble - aka John Wardle - wrote ‘Dark Luminosity: Memoirs of a Geezer’ in 2009. It’s just been reworked, expanded and republished and it’s well worth reading, full of detail about growing up in the East End, unexploded bombs, pickling factories, grim schooldays, record shops and clubs, the bands he saw and his arrival at Kingsway College where he met John Lydon and Sid Vicious and became a cornerstone of the punk rock inner circle. And then two challenging years as the bassist of Public Image Ltd, the time he worked as a train driver and ticket collector for London Transport, a series of collaborations – Brian Eno, Baaba Maal, Holger Czukay, Sinead O’Connor, Chaka Demus – and some bold and original solo albums (you’ll enjoy Island Records' reaction when he pitches an album based on the poems of William Blake). Among this podcast's highlights … … the Kafkaesque world of working for the London Underground in the days when you could “punch an area manager and not get sacked”. … why great rhythm sections are like great football players. … his dad, an El-Alamein survivor, on seeing Mick Jagger on Top of the Pops: “the Rolling Stones should be used for mine clearance.” … Public Image Ltd – “three of the weirdest people you could ever meet”, the band that kept their cash in a shoebox. … “you can’t go through life as a tourist”. … the secret of the perfect bass sound. … watching the first Sex Pistols’ rehearsal. … seeing Bob Marley & the Wailers at the Lyceum. … the record that reversed his dislike of the Beatles. … why working with Pharoah Sanders was the highlight of his musical life. … his 2023 album, ‘The Bus Routes of South London’. … Jim Reeves, Burl Ives and further sounds of the family homestead. ... and a powerful aversion to hippies. Order John’s memoir here … www.amazon.co.uk/Dark-Luminosity-Memoirs-Geezer-expanded/dp/0571375359\ |
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Post by andyloneshark on May 17, 2024 8:27:08 GMT
JAH WOBBLE - METAL BOX REBUILT IN DUB @ THE EXCHANGE, BRISTOL For some bonkers reason, i have never seen Wobble live, despite liking some of his music, so this gig was a must as Metal Box is such an amazing piece of work.
No support band, Just Wobble with current line up of the Invaders Of The Heart, which includes local boy Jon Klein on guitar, who was very inventive with the sounds he was getting from his axe.
The set was very improvised and spontaneous with Wobble giving us his caustic wit and humour in between songs - set included: Albatross, Death Disco, Careering, Poptones, No Birds, The Suit, Public Image... and a killer version of Fodderstompf. I liked it that the songs bore very little resemblance to the original recordings... they would segway into all kinds of things e.g. Midnight Cowboy, Holidays In The Sun. Wobble doesn't really having a 'singing' voice and tending to recite the lyrics, which worked well sometimes, other times not so much. Halfway through the set, Wobbles bass was turned up to rib cage rattling volume... i could feel my internal organs wobbling along to the rhythms.  |
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Post by Lord Emsworth on May 17, 2024 8:32:40 GMT
Thanks Andy. That was great. I’ve seen him loads and he always delivers in my opinion. I know what you mean about the rib cage rattling volume on occasion. He’s also quite entertaining between songs and usually gets a few laughs.
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Post by andyloneshark on Jul 8, 2024 14:33:45 GMT
JAH WOBBLE - METAL BOX - REBUILT IN DUB. This was released back in the autumn of 2021 on the US label Cleopatra, but i only got round to buying it about a month ago. Jah Wobble has taken 8 songs from Metal Box and 2 from First Edition and radically reimagined them... and clearly alot of thought has gone into the arrangements and production... not something chucked out on the cheap to make a fast buck. Seeing him play these songs live last month prompted me to buy the CD. Does it improve on the original album? No... and i doubt Wobble thinks it does either. But i think it does stand up on it's own as a collection of alternatives to the masterpiece from 1979.  |
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Jul 8, 2024 15:25:15 GMT
I agree Andy
I bought this when it came out
I've also seen him play it live too
As you say, it's its own thing
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Post by stu77 on Jul 8, 2024 19:57:34 GMT
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Post by stu77 on Aug 18, 2024 22:41:10 GMT
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Post by stu77 on Nov 17, 2024 22:35:28 GMT
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