Spinners of Yarns

Iain has just had his first book published entitled 'The Boy With The Thorn In His Side.' The book mirrors the chat with this episode on growing up in Lanarkshire with music, fashion, drugs, alcohol and his survival. The book is a great read and well worthy of support.

Barry Mooncult is best known for his time with Flowered Up. Barry chats about his time with the band, acid house, Chelsea FC, Adult Magazines, Prison and Thailand.

Garry was the forefront of music journalism at the end of the 70s and early 80s whilst covering a wide variety of musical genres such as punk, ska, mod, heavy metal, rock, oi! and many more. We chatted to Garry about his time working for Sounds.

Ernesto was born in Chile with two politicised parents. His family escaped the Pinochet regime to Argentina before they eventually ended up in Cowdenbeath in Scotland in the mid 70s. Ernesto was the eldest child with 2 sisters and 1 brother. As a family then ended up moving to Edinburgh, where the doors opened up for Ernesto, He along with his brother Juan ran a club night called El Cambalache in the mid 80s before he relocated to London in 1988. Ernesto then became involved in many raves and club nights before establishing a record label called Arthrob with funding through Warner Brothers. In recent times, Ernesto and his brother Juan ran the successful arts space the Red Gallery in Shoreditch,

Neil Newton played lead guitar with punk legends the Angelic Upstarts between 2006 and their last show in memory of sadly departed singer Mensi at this years Rebellion Festival. Neil talks about how he first got into punk, his time on the terraces, learning to play the guitar, his time with the Upstarts, Hi-Fi Spitfires, The Sunflowers and others. We both did this as a show of respect and love for the input of Mensi on our lives. RIP Thomas Mensforth.

Gary Lammin is a musician and actor that's currently playing with his band Bermondsey Joyriders. He is a founding member of Cock Sparrer and the Little Roosters. During the interview we talking about East London, Millwall FC, Janus, Cock Sparrer, the Little Roosters and his time as an actor. I've worked with Gary over the years on various projects and he's a talented person indeed.

Johna Johnson has written two books on the early years of following Adam & the Ants with 'Blood Sweat, Leather & Tears,' which is published by Old Dog Books. We spoke about the early days of punk, Bradford, the Ants and what happened after Adam went pop.

You can purchase the books via https://www.olddogbooks.net/

Tony Fletcher journey to a career as a writer started in his bedroom with the schoolboy production of a fanzine entitled Jamming! alongside friends. The fanzine went on to become one of the longest running fanzines of the punk generation which ran from 1978 until 1986. During this time Tony also formed a band called Apocalypse and ran a label with Paul Weller entitled Jamming! In recent times Tony has gone on to write numerous biographies within the world of music.

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