Bandicoot Promotions Presents
Date: Mon 27th Sept 2010
Venue: Crane Lane Theatre, Cork city, Ireland
Headline act: WILKO JOHNSON & BAND (featuring members of The Blockheads)
Ticket: 15 euro (subject to booking fee)
Advance tickets available from Plugd Records@the substation, Caroline St, Cork. Ph 021 4276300
Doors: 8.30pm
Ph 021 4278487
Over 18's
Wilko Johnson (born John Wilkinson, 12 July, 1947), Canvey Island, Essex. Johnson played in several local groups before moving to Newcastle to study. After graduating, he travelled across to India, before returning to Essex to play with the Pigboy Charlie Band, which evolved into Dr. Feelgood – a mainstay of the 1970s pub rock movement. Johnson developed his own unique style, coupling a choppy guitar style with a novel dress sense (he favoured a black suit, a pudding bowl haircut and jerky movements).
Johnson's unique, highly percussive guitar style, is because he does not use a pick in his right hand, something that enables him to play rhythm guitar and riffs or solos at the same time. Another reason for his unique style is that he is naturally left-handed, but plays guitar right-handed. His style - which allowed him to move around abruptly on stage with the jerky movements of an automaton without the fear of losing his pick - evolved from a failed attempt to copy Mick Green of Johnny Kidd and the Pirates, a guitarist he admired. He maintained this style even after leaving Dr. Feelgood.
His style formed the essential force behind Dr. Feelgood during their initial years, including the band's first four albums all released between 1975 and 1977. Johnson had a cult following amongst fans of the four-piece band, helped by some electrifying stage performance during their extensive UK and north European touring of that period. He left the band in April 1977, following disagreements.
In 1977, he was a founding member of the Solid Senders. A couple of years later Wilko joined Ian Dury's band, The Blockheads. He then formed the Wilko Johnson Band, joined by Blockhead bassist Norman Watt-Roy and drummer Salvatore Ramundo. Ramundo was later replaced by Steve Monti (former Curve and Jesus and Mary Chain drummer). Recently Dylan Howe from the Blockheads now mans the drums.
Johnson is one of the main artists appearing in the film "Oil City Confidential", released in 2009, where he relates his memories of Canvey Island and Dr.Feelgood. A film made by Julien Temple (The Great Rock N Roll Swindle/The Filth & The Fury/Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_n_Ss9BWztY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yimn3Y19R-A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPRP0gdS95A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rViBFgjChH0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_LP1aTANDQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=invISy0YYZI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CZMLs8Ke40
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h6d6mkMxt0
Date: Mon 27th Sept 2010
Venue: Crane Lane Theatre, Cork city, Ireland
Headline act: WILKO JOHNSON & BAND (featuring members of The Blockheads)
Ticket: 15 euro (subject to booking fee)
Advance tickets available from Plugd Records@the substation, Caroline St, Cork. Ph 021 4276300
Doors: 8.30pm
Ph 021 4278487
Over 18's
Wilko Johnson (born John Wilkinson, 12 July, 1947), Canvey Island, Essex. Johnson played in several local groups before moving to Newcastle to study. After graduating, he travelled across to India, before returning to Essex to play with the Pigboy Charlie Band, which evolved into Dr. Feelgood – a mainstay of the 1970s pub rock movement. Johnson developed his own unique style, coupling a choppy guitar style with a novel dress sense (he favoured a black suit, a pudding bowl haircut and jerky movements).
Johnson's unique, highly percussive guitar style, is because he does not use a pick in his right hand, something that enables him to play rhythm guitar and riffs or solos at the same time. Another reason for his unique style is that he is naturally left-handed, but plays guitar right-handed. His style - which allowed him to move around abruptly on stage with the jerky movements of an automaton without the fear of losing his pick - evolved from a failed attempt to copy Mick Green of Johnny Kidd and the Pirates, a guitarist he admired. He maintained this style even after leaving Dr. Feelgood.
His style formed the essential force behind Dr. Feelgood during their initial years, including the band's first four albums all released between 1975 and 1977. Johnson had a cult following amongst fans of the four-piece band, helped by some electrifying stage performance during their extensive UK and north European touring of that period. He left the band in April 1977, following disagreements.
In 1977, he was a founding member of the Solid Senders. A couple of years later Wilko joined Ian Dury's band, The Blockheads. He then formed the Wilko Johnson Band, joined by Blockhead bassist Norman Watt-Roy and drummer Salvatore Ramundo. Ramundo was later replaced by Steve Monti (former Curve and Jesus and Mary Chain drummer). Recently Dylan Howe from the Blockheads now mans the drums.
Johnson is one of the main artists appearing in the film "Oil City Confidential", released in 2009, where he relates his memories of Canvey Island and Dr.Feelgood. A film made by Julien Temple (The Great Rock N Roll Swindle/The Filth & The Fury/Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_n_Ss9BWztY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yimn3Y19R-A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPRP0gdS95A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rViBFgjChH0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_LP1aTANDQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=invISy0YYZI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CZMLs8Ke40
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h6d6mkMxt0
