Planet Rock - USA (2020-04)

PLANET ROCK 23

DARREN
REDICK
The best thing
I’ve heard recently: I
discovered the only band with
a worse name than mine,
called Moron Police! Proof
that a terrible name does not
mean they make terrible
music. In fact, I haven’t
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the song Captain Awkward!

The best thing I’ve seen
recently: I went out to the
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to a place called Trading
Boundaries to see Twats In
Hats, aka Jem Godfrey and John
Mitchell, play various tracks
from their various bands, like
Frost and Kino. The gig was
great, but the venue alone was
worth the trip. You can see a gig,
have a meal, gaze at/buy actual
Roger Dean prints and purchase
a bed, all in one place!

My favourite memory from 1980:^
Uh, puberty? I turned 12, so

Hear THUNDER frontman

DANNY BOWES on PLANET

ROCK every Sunday from 10am

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maybe not even that! I was

already listening to Rush, so

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been large. This also would

have been Dungeons &

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that’s probably literally all I

did. Listen to Rush and play

D&D. Standard.

WYATT

WENDELS

The best thing

I’ve heard

recently: Rival Sons’

Shooting Stars, from Feral

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just stunning, with great

lyrics and the

gospel choir in

there as well.

If only The

Rocks had a

Best

International

Single category!

The best thing

I’ve seen

recently: I’ve

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To Get Away With Murder

in less than a month. I’m

not making criminal plans

against Darren but I can

see why Viola Davis has

won all the awards!

My favourite memory

from 1980: I’d just

started school, so my

favourite memory was

the free milk you got

with a bottle and a

straw most days!

Iron Maiden never visited Ireland in

the ’80s – we always wondered

whether it was because Bruce

Dickinson was scared to inflame

tensions with his customary waving

of the Union Jack during The Trooper

while on-stage in Belfast or Dublin

• and so news of a first Maiden live
  album caused much excitement
  among the small knot of metalheads
  in my form in 1985. When my wage
  packet from Dunnes finally offered
  up sufficient funds, I headed to
  Makin’ Tracks in Belfast city centre to
  get my mitts on the
  double cassette.
  Once inserted into
  the family Amstrad
  stereo tape deck,
  Maiden’s
  masterpiece blew
  my 15-year-old
  mind. Pretty sure I
  can still recall
  Bruce’s song intros
  and the extended
  crowd-baiting
  during Running
  Free word-for-word.
  I’ve seen Maiden
  many times since,
  but those original
  “Scream for me
  Long Beach!” yells
  still raise
  goosebumps!

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Danny

Bowes

Presents

This month, PR listener

Cathal Curran on Iron

Maiden’s Live After Death.

HEAR THE GANG AND

A WHOLE LOT MORE:

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WHO: Kiss

WHERE: Tarrant

County Convention

Center, Fort

Worth, Texas

WHEN: August 11,

1976

My first gig was Kiss

with Bob Seger and

Artful Dodger. I was a

wee, small lad, about

a month shy of my

12th birthday. My dad

had never been to a

rock show, and he

bought a roll of

tickets for us: him,

me, my brothers, and

their friends.

Following Artful

Dodger and Bob

Seger it was, “You

wanted the best...”,

etc. And, of course,

what you think

happened next, did.

Party anthems set to

fire-breathing,

smoking guitars,

blood-spitting,

Destroyer-era

black-and-silver

costumes and

platforms, glitter,

make-up , Gene’s

tongue, Paul’s

self-absorption,

explosions, pyro.

It was the

greatest thing

I’d seen and

heard in my life.

My tastes have

changed, but it

was one helluva

PAWTY!

About six

weeks later, I

started middle

school. An older

kid was giving

me shit on the

school bus

• and another
  older guy said,
  “Hey! Leave him
  alone, man. He
  was at the Kiss
  concert.” “Oh,
  sorry, man.”
  Thanks Dad!
  John Battles,
  Chicago

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My First

gig

Sweet memory:

Paul Anthony’s

treasured Lizzy

pic; (right)

young Wyatt.