This beat out Bob Dylan and put it only one place behind McCartney’s Yesterday. We learn that in response to a BBC poll to mark the millennium and to find the greatest song lyrics in 2000 years, the very large, dedicated, enduring fanbase contrived to bring Beware Of the Flowers in at number seven.
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He plays the B side to Really Free, Beware Of The Flowers – or, to give it the full title: Beware Of The Flowers (‘Cos I’m Sure They’re Going To Get You Yeah). This act has netted him a very large, and very dedicated, enduring fanbase. Every song is really an excuse for a comedic routine and I’ve no complaints there because John Otway really is a genuinely funny, entertaining man. In fact, the performance is as much stand up as it is pure music. It seems appropriate then that he opens the show tonight with that hit single – Otway’s self-deprecating humour to the fore. A succession of flops in fact, a complete failure to impress upon the charts that lasted for decades – hence Otway’s ‘greatest failure’ tagline, which has formed the basis of his shows ever since. Otway’s childhood dreams of pop superstardom looked to be on the cards.
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Otway writhed, tumbled and inadvertently trod on Wild Willy Barrett’s fuzzbox before sealing the deal with a failed jump onto the guitarist’s amp, effectively writing off the equipment, the performance, and Otway’s plumbs in the process.Ī hit single, Really Free followed. Whilst technically the support, if you’re planning on attending this tour, get there early since Otway is brilliant and in truth this show is as close to being a double A side as you can get without it actually being billed as a joint headliner.įor anyone unfamiliar with the work of John Otway, a promising rock/folk/punk career was launched off the back of a classic appearance on the BBC’s Old Grey Whistle Test in 1977. For this spring tour, he is joined by self-styled ‘Rock & Roll’s Greatest Failure’, John Otway. So, roll forward a decade, and Wilko is still out delighting audiences with his Thames Delta R&B. For me, it’s meant that the one person I thought I’d never get on the end of my lens has ended up gracing it more than anyone else – and I couldn’t be happier about it. It’s an amazing tale, one told through the lens of Julien Temple in his life-affirming and deeply moving film, The Ecstasy Of Wilko Johnson. Wilko emerged, free of his pancreas, spleen and a few hundred yards of intestine but more importantly, free of his cancer. In fact, he defied medical expectations playing and recording through the whole of 2013, and in the summer of 2014, he underwent pioneering surgery at Addenbrookes in Cambridge. Well, that was the thinking, but Wilko had other ideas. Not knowing whether I’d be any good at it wasn’t a reason not to give it a try, and whilst obviously, I sadly figured I’d never attain photos of Wilko, I sure as hell was going to try and snap anything else that moved.
It gave me a calling to have a go at documenting live music. The dawn of realisation struck that I didn’t have any permanent record of the many Wilko shows I’d enjoyed over the years and that perhaps I ought not to be taking this stuff for granted. Canvey Island’s finest export announced in early 2013 that he was dying of pancreatic cancer, and only had ten months to live. Listen to the Noise11 Music News channel now at iHeartRadioįollow Noise11.If it weren’t for Wilko Johnson, I wouldn’t be photographing gigs. Subscribe to the Noise11 Music Newsletter here Never miss a story! Get your free daily music news email alert. In-demand blues artist Joanne Shaw Taylor, who joins Wilko as special guest on the tour, has played dozens of shows in her own right this year showcasing tracks from her critically acclaimed fourth album, 2014’s The Dirty Truth, as well as songs from her previous releases White Sugar and Almost Always Never. But a reassessment by medics led to major pioneering surgery which left him cancer-free and with a new zest for life. He was diagnosed in 2012 and given just months to live, heading out on a farewell tour after opting not to undergo chemotherapy. Wilko recorded the last album at a time when he was expecting to die from cancer. Tickets go on general sale at 9am on Wednesday 16 December and are available at 14 April Glasgow O2 ABC
R&B legend Wilko Johnson has announced his first UK headline shows since his sensational appearance with Roger Daltrey at Shepherds Bush Empire last year.īlues singer-songwriter & guitarist Joanne Shaw Taylor joins him as special guest on these six unique shows, taking place throughout April 2016.
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