John Hawkins – Page 2 – Old Musical Express

[Album] Ram (Walked right out of the machinery)

25th April 202025th April 2020Album

So as a Beatles fan, in 1970 I was fascinated to see what our Paul would do on his own. His first album, McCartney, was a very ramshackle construction made at home with a mixture

[Song] Orbital adventures

10th March 202021st June 2021Song

The first record I bought aged 8. Actually it wasn’t it was in fact Fireball XL5, the music from an execrably bad TV series for kids. (Yes it’s on Youtube). But I saw sense and

Lost in music

3rd March 20203rd March 2020General

The old cliche about rock stars being self destructive is kind of true. The problem is that we’ve moved out of the age of rock into the age of hiphop. The old stars are few

[Video] The familiar group of several young males have returned to the vicinity of neighbouring residential buildings

17th February 202017th February 2020Video

Heard this on the radio today and it still cuts through and sounds so fresh. The coolest bassman (and frontman) ever, Phil Lynott, the black Irish cowboy, a very unusual sight when they first emerged.

[Gig] The first gig

29th January 202029th January 2020Gig

Although I’d been a music fan and buying records since I was eight, I didn’t get around to the live experience until I was sixteen. As with my first album, my partner in crime was

[Video] Dan Hicks and his Hot Licks

25th January 202025th January 2020Video

This is out there. I hate country music (is that what it is? you decide), but I promise you these guys are awesome. And the ladies, something else. Your life will be enriched, or your

[Album] 24 Years of Hunger

22nd January 202016th May 2022Album

Eg and Alice. Who? Eg White (really!) is somebody whose work you will be familiar with in some form, promise. Alice Temple was a model and (I kid you not) a former BMX champion who

[Video] The Skids?

22nd January 202022nd January 2020Video

All time classic, no further comment necessary

[album] Blood Sweat and Tears

16th January 202021st January 2020Album

This was my first LP. As a fan of the Beatles I was very proficient at buying their singles for six shillings and threepence, but had not ventured an interest in the long player, until

So you want old?

14th January 202015th January 2020General

The OME started as a joke because at one time I used to read the only sane music weekly, the NME, which was a weekly obsession for all music fans in the 70s, having been