Sitemap - 2024 - Tony Fletcher, Wordsmith

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It's Been a Year

A Warm, Fuzzy Feeling

The Art of Surprise

Present Perfect

Opening up the floodgates

Human Acts

Making Noise for the Ones You Love: Ratboys

A Band From Britain Called James

Beyond The Image

Tim Booth on The Smiths: "It was like coming to see a guru."

Tim Booth on Morrissey, Marr, The Smiths & James

Relaunching Your Fanzine

Moving On Up

The Boy About Town

Who Are You? (And how are you doing?)

Songs That Make Me Cry #1: "American Land"

Krossed Channels: The Incredible Story of Redd Kross

It's Not About Him, It's About Her.

Some Things for the Weekend

The Art of Noise

Adventures in Neumusik and Eurock

Generation Gap? What Generation Gap?

We’re not gonna take it... Or perhaps we will.

Farting Around is Good For You

Taiwanese psych-out

You don't have to read this.

Back In The USA: The MC5's Finest 28 Minutes?

My 7 Maddest Races

"The rock star we all of us wanted to be in our dreams."

"There were these two nuns and a goat..."

Sinéad's Talking Blues, Della's Talking Soul...

"The test of our progress"

The Flourishing World of Litzines

"Heroin comes along and offers you something you never ever thought you were looking for."

Quick Takes

"It was funny to have a record at No. 4 that was about wanking off."

Kate Bush: From Prog Nuns to Pop Stardom

What's The Story, Oasis? Maybe? Definitely!

(Baby) Don't Fear the Ultra

Emerging from the wreckage

My Top 5 Maddest Jamming! Interviews

"Why aren't you mine?" The Chills' Brave Words revisited

From Bill Berry to James Baldwin, via Bridlington and Memphis.

"I Don't Want to Take My Country Back..."

My Summer Reading List

From the Keith Moon archives: my Larry Hagman interview.

The Fanzine Podcast Ep. 28: Mick Mercer's Panache

My Happy Place

Death to Cynicism: Billy Bragg at the Bearsville Theater

(My) Good Old Desk

Love's Forgotten Classic: Is 'Four Sail' Better Than 'Forever Changes'?

I Can't Lose

Tell me what you want, what you really really want

How I find "new" music

What Joe and the Democrats can learn from Roy and Crystal Palace

Midweek Update 51: "The American In Me" podcast edition

Vinyl Discovery

Midweek Update #50: The Moving Edition

Why I left Spotify for Qobuz

The Clash's 'Sandinista!': Masterpiece or Mess?

Why I quit Spotify

This one goes out to the ones I love

(They Say) Don't Waste Your Vote

Midweek Update 47: the Culture Clutch edition

Damned Good Music

Madness for all ages

Zerox Machine: The Big Book of British Fanzines

(I'm Still a) Road Runner, honey...

(I'm A) Road Runner...

Midweek Update 45: Quick Takes

Pete Townshend: "I made rock 'n' roll do a little bit more."

Midweek Update 44: The Songwriting Edition

Pete Townshend: "I always wanted to be a journalist."

Blondie: America's Finest Pop Band?

Beyond The Bassline

MIDWEEK UPDATE 42: The Physical Edition

Thick as Thieves, Part 2

Thick As Thieves, Part 1

The Fanzine Podcast Ep. 25: 40 Years of Football Fanzines

Wordsmith Turns 40

Midweek Update #40: The Update Edition

On Resistance Street

Oasis: What's The Story?

John Entwistle: "I wasted my whole career on The Who. "

Midweek Update 38: Life's a F***ing Miracle

When Saturday Comes

Midweek Update 37: The Glass is Half Full edition

She is 90. I'm A Boy.

Midweek Update #36: From London with Love

"He blew up a little old lady in a lift..."

Midweek Update 35: Odds and Sods

"He was a poseur extraordinaire."

Spotlight on Otis Redding, now!

Smash The Mirror: A reappraisal of the movie "Tommy"

Midweek Update #33: Midnight Movers

Rethinking Rush: my Prog Rock renaissance

Hudson Palace do "Tattoo"

Sniffin' Glue & Other Rock 'n' Roll Habits

Henk Rogers vs. The World

Midweek Update #31: Short, succinct and... Sweet!

Bob Marley: Natural Mystic

MIDWEEK UPDATE #30: Never Mind the Theme, Here's the Content.

God Save the Sex Pistols

Jazz With a Beat

Midweek Update #29: Life is a Marathon (and we all get to finish)

(Yes) I was a Limelight DJ

Midweek Update #28: Perzines are Awesome

The Best Gig of the 21st Century

Midweek Update #27: From Morocco to Beantown.

From the Jamming! Archives: Bill Nelson, 1979

Midweek Update #26: The "Chill Out, It's January" edition

Tim: The Replacements Hit the Big Time

Living With Tinnitus

Midweek Update #25: The "From chaos comes creativity" edition.

Waking up to Tinnitus

Everyone Loves Elephants: So how do we save them?

Midweek Update #24: The first “Too much to fit in one e-mail” update of 2024.