HOBO - Coventry Music Magazine’s blog

WELCOME TO HOBO -COVENTRY'S MUSIC MAGAZINE ARCHIVES OF THE 1970'S AND BEYOND

2008-07-23T22:55:32Z

WELCOME THIS POST STAYS ON TOP LIKE A HOME PAGE - LAST UPDATED JULY 23rd 2008 A HISTORY OF THE COVENTRY MUSIC SCENE IN THE 1970'S BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY RESTRICTED TO THE 70'S. A RESOURCE FOR RESEARCHERS, FILM MAKERS, WRITERS AND MUSICIANS AS...

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Calling all the local heroes - Pete Chambers (Cov Music Exhibition post)

2008-07-23T12:29:05Z

Calling all the local heroes Jul 23 2008 By Pete Chambers TOWARDS the end of next year, the stunning new Herbert will play host to a music exhibition that goes all the way back to the birth of rock 'n' roll. Provisionally titled More Than Two T...

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Delia Derbyshire - Coventry Born Electronic Music Pioneer

2008-07-20T10:31:35Z

Delia Derbyshire famously arranged Ron Grainer's Dr Who theme electronically and produced the first form of modern dance music more than two decades before it became a popular cultural phenomenon. In Godiva Rocks, Coventry music journalist, P...

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Interview with Coventry Singer Songwriter - Kristy Gallacher

2008-07-04T17:56:57Z

Trev Teasdel's Interview with KRISTY GALLACHER - July 2008 Kristy, you seem to be highly regarded and popular on the Cov Scene but how did you get started - what inspired to give it a go? I just love playing and playing a few open mics at the...

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GILLY DARBEY - A Coventry Singer's International Success.

2008-07-02T13:55:26Z

I grew up over the road from Gilly Darbey, in Willenhall Wood, Coventry. I hardly knew her, she was more my younger sister's age. By the time Hobo was up and running in the early to mid 70's she was playing Coventry folk clubs. It was at the Cha...

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Coventry Music Exhibition - Minutes of June Meeting 2008

2008-07-02T10:27:03Z

Any thoughts or comments on the meeting welcome. Note of meeting re Coventry Music Exhibition, 5.3.2008 Present: Pete Chambers, Neol Davies, Dave Fisher, Peter Walters, John Dawkins, Huw Jones, Erin Hollis, Martin Roberts Apologies: Trevor ...

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BERT WEEDON IN COVENTRY

2008-06-22T20:59:36Z

Bert Weedon is one celebrity with a Coventry connection who seems to be little mentioned in Coventry related sites or books. I seem to recall my father, who was a Hoover Representative, telling us, in the mid sixites that he'd been to fix Bert ...

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Interview with Martin Bowes of Alternative Sounds & Attrition

2008-05-13T13:38:14Z

MARTIN BOWES, as many of you will know, ran the Coventry Alternative Sounds Fanzine in 1979 / 1980, an amazingly popular and documentary Coventry Music magazine during the Two Tone period in Coventry. The magazine wasn't just about Two Tone t...

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Folks Magazine 1978 / 1980 (Cov Folk Scene Mag)

2008-05-11T17:16:34Z

Coming to this post gradually (as I upload them) are the complete (or almost complete) collection of The Coventry Folk Magazine - Folks - created in August 1978 and run until Jan 1980 (to the best of my knowledge!).CLICK ON THE PICTURES TO ACCES...

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John Shanahan - Coventry Singer / Guitarist.

2008-05-09T15:43:16Z

NEW UPDATE ON JOHN SHANAHAN ADDED MAY 10th - at bottom of page. John Shanahan was an outstanding guitar player songwriter / stylist in the John Martyn style in the years while I was running Hobo Magazine in the early / mid 70's. I used to look f...

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