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Showing posts with label Wilko Johnson. Show all posts
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Friday, January 18, 2013

Wilko Johnson announces farewell UK concerts

ABS AGENCY & www.thegigcartel.com presents
WILKO JOHNSON
+ Special Guests
24 HOUR BOX OFFICE: 0844 478 0898
BOOK ONLINE: www.thegigcartel.com
TICKETS ON SALE MONDAY 21st JANUARY
Wilko Johnson, guitarist and founding member of Dr. Feelgood, will perform four farewell concerts in the UK during March 2013.
The news follows last week’s official statement on Wilko’s Facebook page that he has been diagnosed with terminal cancer of the pancreas and has chosen not to undergo chemotherapy.
Says Wilko’s manager, Robert Hoy, “The four UK dates represent an opportunity for Wilko to express his sincere thanks to his fans for all the support he has had over his long career.”
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The tour starts Wednesday March 6 at London Koko, followed by Bilston Robin 2 (March 7), Holmfirth Picturedrome (March 8) and Glasgow o2 ABC (March 9). Tickets go on sale Monday January 21Box Office - 0844 478 0898, www.thegigcartel.com
click for hi resThe four UK dates represent a series of farewell concerts for Wilko.
After returning from a tour of Japan, Wilko plans to record a new studio album, and will also release a live DVD from 2012’s UK tour.
He is also planning a short tour of France.
In addition to pioneering Dr. Feelgood’s iconic mid-seventies, pre-punk British R&B sound, by 1980 Johnson moved on as the guitarist for Ian Dury and the Blockheads. 
Today, Johnson’s own band includes Blockheads members - Norman Watt-Roy (bass guitar) and Dylan Howe (drums).
In 2009 Johnson featured in Julien Temple’s Oil City Confidential; a fascinating full-length feature film documentary about Dr. Feelgood. The film received many accolades including the MOJO Vision Award at the MOJO Honours List 2010.
Dr. Feelgood originally formed in 1971 as a British pub rock band from Canvey Island, Essex. Their name derived from a slang term for heroin or for a doctor who was willing to overprescribe drugs. It is also a reference to a 1962 record “Dr. Feel-Good” by the American blues pianist/singer Willie Perryman (nicknamed "Piano Red"), which Perryman originally recorded under the name of Dr. Feelgood & The Interns.

Dr. Feelgood’s distinctive British R&B sound was centered on Wilko Johnson’s choppy guitar style.  The original band line-up also included singer Lee Brilleaux, and the rhythm section of John B. Sparks (aka "Sparko") on bass guitar and John Martin (aka "The Big Figure") on drums.
Dr. Feelgood is best known for their high energy live performances. Their studio albums Down by the Jetty (1974) and Malpractice (1975) proved incredibly popular. In 1976, their live album, Stupidity reached No.1 in the Official UK Album Chart. When the band released their fourth album, Sneakin’ Suspicion (1977), Johnson quit the band to pursue a solo career.
ABS AGENCY & www.thegigcartel.com presents
WILKO JOHNSON
+ Special Guests
24 HOUR BOX OFFICE: 0844 478 0898
BOOK ONLINE: www.thegigcartel.com
London, Koko
Wednesday 6th March

Tickets: £20.00, Doors: 6:30pm
Box Office: 0870 432 5527
Book Online: www.ticketweb.co.uk
1A Camden High Street
London, NW1 7JE
www.koko.uk.com
Bilston, The Robin 2
Thursday 7th March

Tickets: £17.50, Doors: 7:30pm
Box Office: 01902 401211
www.therobin.co.uk
20-28 Mount Pleasant, Bilston,
Wolverhampton, WV14 7LJ
Holmfirth, Picturedrome
Friday 8th March

Tickets: £17.50, Doors: 7:30pm
Box Office: 0844 478 8098
www.picturedrome.net
Market Walk, Holmfirth, HD9 7DA
Glasgow, o2 ABC
Saturday 9th March

Tickets: £17.50, Doors: 6:30pm
Box Office: 0844 477 2000
300 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JA
www.o2abcglasgow.co.uk
        WILKO JOHNSON - BIOGRAPHY click for hi resWhen rock'n'roll was shaken from its pre-punk complacency by the emergence of Dr. Feelgood, it was their guitarist Wilko Johnson who excited most attention – not only for the startling violence of his stage performance (which was to inspire countless imitators and become one of the classic images of rock'n'roll) but also for his guitar style which combined the roles of lead and rhythm guitar in driving riffs and a stuttering machine gun frenzy which altered conceptions of 'guitar heroics'.
As a songwriter, from early Feelgood favourites like 'Back in the Night' to the power and poetry of 'Dr. Dupree' and 'Sneaking Suspicion' he has proved himself one of the best and most original exponents of R&B styles this side of the Atlantic.
The list of '70s New Wave bands who acknowledge the influence of Wilko and the Feelgoods is extensive and includes The Clash, The Sex Pistols, The Jam, The Boomtown Rats, and across the Atlantic The Ramones and Blondie (who spent a whole night at a New York party wearing out their specially imported copy of the Feelgood's first album, 'Down by the Jetty').
After his departure from Dr. Feelgood in 1977 Wilko formed his own band, and over the next few years worked with several personnel of varying degrees of musical accomplishment and mixed moral character. In 1980, while continuing to work with his own 3-piece, Wilko entered the ranks of Ian Dury's brilliant Blockheads, co-writing writing several songs with Ian and featuring on the 'Laughter' album. In 1985 the Blockhead's sensational and much loved bassist Norman Watt-Roy joined Wilko, and for the last 25 years they’ve entertained audiences from Helsinki to Madrid, Aberdeen to Istanbul, and Toulouse to Tokyo.
Now with the revered drummer Dylan Howe (another former Blockhead) the band has reached an even greater level of musical mastery and manic brilliance (recognised as Wilko's best band of all time). In 2008 the highly acclaimed film director Julien Temple set out to make a documentary film about the birth and all too brief phenomenon of Dr. Feelgood. 'Oil City Confidential' was premièred in October 2009 to very great critical acclaim and a series of awards. As the eccentric and enigmatic star of the film Wilko has attracted attention in some unexpected places. For the past two years, Wilko has starred as the Royal Executioner “Ser Illyn Payne” in HBO's fantasy series Game of Thrones, shown on Sky Atlantic.

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Monday, June 11, 2012

Wilko Johnson announces Autumn 2012 UK Tour

Following the release of Wilko Johnson’s autobiography, Looking Back At Me, the legendary former guitarist of Dr Feelgood, who’s influenced everyone from Joe Strummer and Mick Jones to Steve Albini, is pleased to announce an Autumn 2012 UK Tour with special guest Virgil and the Accelerators.

Tickets are on sale from the 24 hour box office: 0844 478 0898 and www.eventim.co.uk. The tour gets underway at the Bath Komedia on October 11th.

Described by Wilko as a “fractured autobiography,” Looking Back At Me, co-written with Zoe Howe, is published this month by Cadiz Music. Click HERE for more info about the book.

After pioneering the Feelgood’s distinctive mid 70s, pre-punk British R&B sound (which had a significant impact on the British punk rock music), Wilko went on to play guitar for Ian Dury and the Blockheads. His current touring band features current Blockhead members Norman Watt-Roy (bass guitar), and Dylan Howe (drums). Click HERE for further info about the upcoming UK tour.

Wilko Johnson Autumn UK Tour

Bath Komedia (Oct 11) Holmfirth Picturedrome (Oct 27)
Exeter Phoenix (Oct 12) Scunthorpe Plowright Theatre (Oct 28)
Gloucester Guildhall (Oct 13) Bedford Corn Exchange (Nov 1)
Brighton Komedia (Oct 14) St Helen’s Citadel (Nov 2)
Stratford Cox’s Yard (Oct 17) Glasgow O2 ABC (Nov 3)
York Fibbers (Oct 18) Stamford Corn Exchange (Nov 4)
Gateshead Sage (Oct 19) Bury The Met (Nov 22)
Poole Mr Kyps (Oct 24) Morecambe Platform (Nov 23)
London Islington O2 Academy (Oct 25) Carlisle The Brickyard (Nov 24)
Hertford Corn Exchange (Oct 26)
Bilston Robin (Nov 25)

Thursday, May 24, 2012

Wilko Johnson - book signing at 'Rough Trade East' (May 30)

Due for release on Wednesday 30th May 2012 - Looking Back At Me is the unique, vibrant and hotly anticipated autobiography of former Dr Feelgood guitarist, British R&B legend and proto-punk pioneer Wilko Johnson, written and collated with acclaimed music writer Zoë Howe.

Fascinating, funny, deeply personal and visually compelling, Looking Back At Me is a fascinating rock 'n' roll scrapbook and oral history, and genuine treasure trove, marking the first time Wilko has told his story, no holds barred.

Within these colourful pages, the Canvey Island raised guitarist shares his recollections on everything from his Essex childhood and his Indian odyssey as a hippy, to the wild, turbulent days of Dr Feelgood and Ian Dury and The Blockheads, to his current band featuring Norman Watt-Roy (bass) and Dylan Howe (drums).

Wilko also expands on his love for astronomy, art, literature, clouds, poetry, sci-fi, and Shakespeare; making him the ultimate Renaissance man of rock.

Wilko Johnson & Zoë Howe Exclusive Book Signing
at Rough Trade East on Wednesdy 30th May 2012

Wilko & Zoë will sign copies of Wilko's new autobiography "Looking Back at Me" at Rough Trade East at 6pm on
Wednesday 30th May 2012.

The signing will be followed by a Q&A and a half hour set with Wilko's band featuring Norman Watt-Roy (bass)
& Dylan Howe (drums).

Rough Trade East, Dray Walk, Old Truman Brewery,
91 Brick Lane, London E1 6QL.
Tel: 020 7392 7790.

www.roughtrade.com

Amid the twists, turns and tangents, Looking Back At Me features many previously unseen images of Wilko from throughout his life, as well as an array of Wilko ephemera and anecdotes from notable Wilko fans including Robert Plant, Alison Moyet, JJ Burnel, Keith Levene, Gavin Martin and Whispering Bob Harris. The book also features a foreword by Mick Farren.

Zoë Howe is a music writer whose books include the acclaimed biography 'Typical Girls? The Story of The Slits' and 'How's Your Dad? Living In The Shadow of a Rock Star Parent', both published by Omnibus Press, and her writing has appeared in The Quietus, NME, BBC Music, Channel 4 Music, Contemporary Magazine, Company and others. In addition to writing she has made music radio series for Resonance FM and RTI, and has appeared as a talking head on Absolute Radio, BBC 6 Music, E4 and Planet Rock. Zoë is also a drummer and has worked with Viv Albertine (The Slits), Anne Pigalle, Mick Jones, and Steve Beresford.

Book Publisher:
Number of Pages:
Number of Photos:
Publication Date:
Retail Selling Price:
Cadiz Music Ltd
256
280
Wednesday 30th May 2012
£25.00

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Wilko Johnson to release autobiography "Looking Back At Me"

Due for release on Wednesday 30th May 2012 - Looking Back At Me is the unique, vibrant and hotly anticipated autobiography of former Dr Feelgood guitarist, British R&B legend and proto-punk pioneer Wilko Johnson, written and collated with acclaimed music writer Zoë Howe.

Fascinating, funny, deeply personal and visually compelling, Looking Back At Me is a fascinating rock 'n' roll scrapbook and oral history, and genuine treasure trove, marking the first time Wilko has told his story, no holds barred.

Within these colourful pages, the Canvey Island raised guitarist shares his recollections on everything from his Essex childhood and his Indian odyssey as a hippy, to the wild, turbulent days of Dr Feelgood and Ian Dury and The Blockheads, to his current band featuring Norman Watt-Roy (bass) and Dylan Howe (drums).

Wilko also expands on his love for astronomy, art, literature, clouds, poetry, sci-fi, and Shakespeare; making him the ultimate Renaissance man of rock.

WILKO JOHNSON - EXCLUSIVE BOOK SIGNING at
Rough Trade East on Wednesdy 30th May 2012

Wilko will sign copies of his new autobiography "Looking Back at Me" at Rough Trade East at 6pm on Wednesday 30th May.

The signing will be followed by a Q&A and a half hour set with his band featuring Norman Watt-Roy (bass) & Dylan Howe (drums).

Rough Trade East, Dray Walk, Old Truman Brewery,
91 Brick Lane, London E1 6QL.
Tel: 020 7392 7790.

www.roughtrade.com

Amid the twists, turns and tangents, Looking Back At Me features many previously unseen images of Wilko from throughout his life, as well as an array of Wilko ephemera and anecdotes from notable Wilko fans including Robert Plant, Alison Moyet, JJ Burnel, Keith Levene, Gavin Martin and Whispering Bob Harris. The book also features a foreword by Mick Farren.

Zoë Howe is a music writer whose books include the acclaimed biography 'Typical Girls? The Story of The Slits' and 'How's Your Dad? Living In The Shadow of a Rock Star Parent', both published by Omnibus Press, and her writing has appeared in The Quietus, NME, BBC Music, Channel 4 Music, Contemporary Magazine, Company and others. In addition to writing she has made music radio series for Resonance FM and RTI, and has appeared as a talking head on Absolute Radio, BBC 6 Music, E4 and Planet Rock. Zoë is also a drummer and has worked with Viv Albertine (The Slits), Anne Pigalle, Mick Jones, and Steve Beresford.

Book Publisher:
Number of Pages:
Number of Photos:
Publication Date:
Retail Selling Price:
Cadiz Music Ltd
256
280
Wednesday 30th May 2012
£25.00

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Wilko Johnson announces April 2012 UK tour


ABS AGENCY & www.thegigcartel.com presents
WILKO JOHNSON
APRIL 2012 UK TOUR
With very special guests 'Virgil and the Accelerators'

24 HOUR BOX OFFICE: 0844 478 0898
BOOK ONLINE: www.thegigcartel.com

TICKETS ON SALE FROM FRIDAY 28th OCTOBER

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Following his recent TV appearance on BBC 2 Television's Later With Jools Holland, "Wilko Johnson", the legendary former guitarist of Dr. Feelgood, who has influenced everyone from Joe Strummer, Mick Jones to Steve Albini, is pleased to announce and extensive April 2012 15-date UK tour with very special guests Virgil and the Accelerators.

Tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday October 28th at 10am via the 24 hour box office: 0844 478 0898 or can be booked online: www.thegigcartel.com.

Fans that can't wait until Friday can take advantage of a special 48 Hour Pre-sale on Wednesday October 26th from 10am via www.eventim.co.uk and www.ents24.com.

The tour gets underway at the Buxton Pavilion Theatre on Thursday April 5th 2012.

click for hi resDescribed by Wilko as a "fractured autobiography", Looking Back At Me, written in association with Zoe Howe, will be published to coincide with his April 2012 UK tour.

Fender will issue a Wilko Johnson signature Fender Telecaster based on his customised 1962 model.

Next year, Wilko will reprise his role as The Executioner in the second series of HBO's Game of Thrones, broadcast on Sky Atlantic.

In April 2012, EMI will release a boxed set of three CDs and DVD. The CDs will include a mix of the first four Dr. Feelgood albums, and previously unreleased material.

There's even talk of a new Wilko Johnson studio album in the pipeline.

In addition to pioneering Dr. Feelgood's distinctive mid-seventies, pre-punk British R&B sound, in 1980 Wilko played guitar for Ian Dury and the Blockheads. Wilko's current live band features Blockheads' Norman Watt-Roy (bass guitar), and Dylan Howe (drums).

In 2009 Johnson featured in Julien Temple's Oil City Confidential; a fascinating full-length feature film documentary about Dr. Feelgood. The film received many accolades including the MOJO Vision Award at the MOJO Honours List 2010.

Dr. Feelgood originally formed in 1971 as a British pub rock band who hailed from Canvey Island, Essex. Their name derived from a slang term for heroin or for a doctor who was willing to overprescribe drugs. It is also a reference to a 1962 record by the American blues pianist and singer Willie Perryman (also known as "Piano Red") called "Dr Feel-Good", which Perryman originally recorded under the name of Dr Feelgood & The Interns.
Dr. Feelgood's distinctive British R&B sound was centered on Wilko Johnson's choppy guitar style. The original band line-up also included singer Lee Brilleaux, and the rhythm section of John B. Sparks (aka "Sparko") on bass guitar and John Martin (aka "The Big Figure") on drums.

Dr. Feelgood was known primarily for their high energy live performances, although studio albums like Down by the Jetty (1974) and Malpractice (1975) were also incredibly popular. Their 1976 breakthrough live album, Stupidity reached No.1 in the Official UK Album Chart. When the band released their fourth album, Sneakin' Suspicion (1977), Johnson departed to pursue a solo career.

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ABS AGENCY & www.thegigcartel.com presents
WILKO JOHNSON
APRIL 2012 UK TOUR
With very special guests 'Virgil and the Accelerators'

24 HOUR BOX OFFICE: 0844 478 0898
BOOK ONLINE: www.thegigcartel.com

Buxton Pavilion Arts Centre
Thursday 5th April

Doors 7pm / Tickets £16.00 & £18.00
Box Office: 0845 127 2190
www.buxtonoperahouse.org.uk
St John's Road, Buxton, Derbyshire, SK17 6BE

Sale Waterside Arts Centre
Friday 6th April

Doors 7.30pm / Tickets £17.50
Box Office: 0161 912 5616
www.watersideartscentre.co.uk
Waterside Plaza, Sale, Manchester, M33 7ZF

Clitheroe Grand
Saturday 7th April

Doors 7pm / Tickets £17.50
Box Office: 01200 421 599
www.thegrandvenue.co.uk
18 York Street, Clitheroe, Lancashire, BB7 2DL

Newbury Arlington Arts Centre
Thursday 12th April

Doors: 7.45pm / Tickets: £17.50
Box Office: 01635 244 246
www.arlingtonarts.co.uk
Mary Hare, Newbury, Berkshire, RG14 3BQ

Tavistock Wharf
Friday 13th April

Doors 8pm / Tickets £17.50
Box Office: 01822 611 166
www.tavistockwharf.com
Canal Road, Tavistock, Devon, PL19 8AT


Penzance Acorn Arts Centre
Saturday 14th April

Doors 8pm / Tickets £17.50

Box Office: 0871 230 1101, 0845 094 0428
www.seetickets.com
Parade Street, Penzance, West Cornwall, TR18 4BU

Bristol Tunnels
Sunday 15th April

Doors 7pm / Tickets £17.50
Box Office: 0845 605 0255
www.thetunnelsbristol.co.uk
32 Bristol and Exeter Mews, Lower Approach Road,

Temple Meads, Bristol, BS1 6QS

Huddersfield Lawrence Batley Theatre
Thursday 19th April

Doors: 7.30pm / Tickets: £17.50
Box Office: 01484 430 528
www.thelbt.org
Queen's Square, Queen Street, Huddersfield,
West Yorkshire, HD1 2SP

Stockton ARC
Friday 20th April

Doors: 7.30pm / Tickets: £17.50
Box Office: 01642 525 199
www.arconline.co.uk
Dovecot Street, Stockton on Tees, Cleveland, TS18 1LL

Lincoln Drill Hall
Saturday 21st April

Doors: 7.30pm / Tickets: £17.50
Box Office: 01522 873 894
www.lincolndrillhall.com
Freeschool, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN2 1EY

Bury St Edmunds Apex
Sunday 22nd April

Doors: 7.30pm / Tickets: £17.50
Box Office: 01284 758 000
www.theapex.co.uk
Charter Square, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP33 3FD

Leeds Wardrobe
Thursday 26th April

Doors: 7pm / Tickets: £17.50
Box Office: 0844 478 0898
www.thewardrobe.co.uk
6 St Peter's Square, Leeds, Yorkshire, LS9 8AH

Dunfermline Carnegie Theatre
Friday 27th April

Doors: 7pm / Ticket: £17.50
Box Office: 01383 602302
www.onfife.com
East Port, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, KY12 7JA

Stafford Gatehouse Theatre
Saturday 28th April

Doors 7.30pm / Tickets: £17.50
Box Office: 01785 254653
www.staffordgatehousetheatre.co.uk
Eastgate Street, Stafford, Staffordshire, ST16 2LT

Bridport Electric Palace
Sunday 29th April

Doors 7pm / Tickets £17.50
Box Office: 01308 426 336
www.electricpalace.org.uk
35 South Street, Bridport, Dorset, DT6 3NY

WILKO JOHNSON - BIOGRAPHY

click for hi resWhen rock'n'roll was shaken from its pre-punk complacency by the emergence of Dr. Feelgood, it was their guitarist Wilko Johnson who excited most attention – not only for the startling violence of his stage performance (which was to inspire countless imitators and become one of the classic images of rock'n'roll) but also for his guitar style which combined the roles of lead and rhythm guitar in driving riffs and a stuttering machine gun frenzy which altered conceptions of 'guitar heroics'.

As a songwriter, from early Feelgood favourites like 'Back in the Night' to the power and poetry of 'Dr. Dupree' and 'Sneaking Suspicion' he has proved himself one of the best and most original exponents of R&B styles this side of the Atlantic.

The list of '70s New Wave bands who acknowledge the influence of Wilko and the Feelgoods is extensive and includes The Clash, The Sex Pistols, The Jam, The Boomtown Rats, and across the Atlantic The Ramones and Blondie (who spent a whole night at a New York party wearing out their specially imported copy of the Feelgood's first album, 'Down by the Jetty').

After his departure from Dr. Feelgood in 1977 Wilko formed his own band, and over the next few years worked with several personnel of varying degrees of musical accomplishment and mixed moral character. In 1980, while continuing to work with his own 3-piece, Wilko entered the ranks of Ian Dury's brilliant Blockheads, co-writing writing several songs with Ian and featuring on the 'Laughter' album. Then in 1985 the Blockhead's sensational and much loved bassist Norman Watt-Roy joined Wilko and for the last twenty-five years they have startled and blasted audiences from Helsinki to Madrid, Aberdeen to Istanbul, Toulouse to Tokyo.

Now with the revered Dylan Howe (another former Blockhead) on drums the band has reached an even greater level of musical mastery and manic brilliance, generally recognised as Wilko's best band of all time. Rock'n'roll never got more savage than this! In 2008 the highly acclaimed film director Julien Temple set out to make a documentary film about the birth and all too brief phenomenon of Dr. Feelgood. 'Oil City Confidential' was premièred in October 2009 to very great critical acclaim and a series of awards. As the eccentric and enigmatic star of the film Wilko has attracted attention in some unexpected places; he has recently been filming alongside Sean Bean as Royal Executioner Ser Illyn Payne in HBO's fantasy series Game of Thrones, due for release in spring 2011.

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

She Does It Right - Wilko Johnson


Wilko Johnson (born John Wilkinson, 12 July 1947, Canvey Island, Essex) is an English guitarist and songwriter, particularly associated with the UK rhythm and blues band Dr. Feelgood in the 1970s.



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