![]() Saturday sees Daniel Rachel discussing his best-selling Oasis book Eleanor McAvoy previewing her new film and playing live, Kevin Cummins discussing his Joy Division photography and Jordan talking about life as one of the original punks. The festival kicks off on Friday 12 November with a typically elastic, eclectic collection of events, from esteemed designer, Malcolm Garrett talking all things Buzzcocks through to a junglist panel and DJ set. However, alongside its new home at Innside Hotel, guests can also join the talks, panel discussions and performances online. The festival, now in its ninth year, is back in the city this year following an online move last year during the pandemic. Other names joining the festival’s weekend line-up include Echo and the Bunnymen’s Will Sergeant, Anthrax’s Frank Bello and musician and author, Chris Jagger, who is also the brother of Rolling Stones’ Mick. He’ll be talking about developing the Dire Straits’ sound, with classic tracks such as ‘Money for Nothing’ and ‘Sultans of Swing’ as well as giving an insight into life on the road, playing Live Aid and his friendship with Knopfler. Illsley was a founding member of the rock band, along with his close friend and lead singer, Mark Knopfler remaining in the line up from 1977 until 1995 when they decided to call it a day after phenomenal global success that saw them sell more than 120 million albums. I’ ve been through a lot of great things in my life, so, yeah, I’m pretty pleased with myself.Dire Straits’ bassist, John Illsley is among the speakers at this year’s Louder than Words festival. I’m just trying to kind of wrap my life up, and I’ve had a good time. There’s no point in speculating about the future, because the future’s not there - blimey, I’m getting philosophical! But I don’t have any desperate, unfulfilled ambitions or that kind of thing. It’s kind of a different way of living you really do have to dig the moment you’re in and enjoy the present because that’s all there is. “Obviously you go up and down sometimes it’s a lovely day and it’s such a buzz to be alive, and then of course you find yourself at 3 o’clock in the morning sometimes going, ‘Oh, help me!’ Your moods change. “I can’t arrange things too far in the future ’cause I don’t know whether that future will exist, so we have to do things kind of step by step,” Johnson notes. Meanwhile he’s continuing to lead his own band through as many shows as his health will allow, including a recent run opening for Status Quo. 26 at the Shepherd’s Bush Empire, and Johnson says they’re talking about trying to do more. Johnson and Daltrey - who’s donating his proceeds from “Going Back Home” to the British Teenage Cancer Trust he co-founded - played one show together on Feb. “Then last year, when Roger heard that I’ve got cancer, he came bouncing back and said, ‘We’ll do that album!’ I said, ‘Well, we better do it quick!’ And we did do it quick it took us about eight days.” And the two rock veterans decided to focus on hard-hitting versions of Johnson songs that reflected their shared passion for Johnny Kidd & the Pirates - including “Going Back Home’s” title track, which Johnson wrote in 1975 with Pirates’ guitarist Mick Green. “Roger suddenly said, ‘Y’know what? We should make an album together, and we did make some attempts to get it together, but it just never happened,” Johnson recalls. Johnson says he considered recording some of the originals with Daltrey, who he befriended at a British awards show about three years ago. But it’s nothing too sophisticated, I promise.” I started writing things before I got this cancer diagnosis, and after that I started realizing quite a lot of these songs were moaning on about time passing and doom - but don’t worry, they’re very simple, nothing philosophical! But I didn’t notice I was tending to think about clocks ticking and stuff like that. “They’re all typical of what I do,” Johnson says. Morris Day & The Time to Receive Legend Award At 2022 Soul Train Awards ![]()
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