Every week Geoff has fantastic guests live on the telephone into the studio or sometimes even sitting in the studio with him. We edit out the interviews from the live show and upload them here to the website within a week-or-so in order that you can listen back to your favourites or discover new interviews you may have missed.
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This week on Express FM, Geoff spoke to Tommy James of Tommy James and the Shondells...
Tommy James is an American pop-rock musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer, best known as leader of the 1960s rock band Tommy James and the Shondells. They are an American rock and roll group whose period of greatest success came in the late 1960s. They had two No. 1 singles in the U.S. — "Hanky Panky" (1966) and "Crimson and Clover" (1969) — and also charted 12 other Top 40 hits, including five in the top ten: "Crystal Blue Persuasion", "Mony Mony", "I Think We're Alone Now", "Sweet Cherry Wine", and "Mirage".
Tommy James of Tommy James and the Shondells
This week, Geoff interviews George Hill of Beta Rays and Mike Wilshaw of The Four Pennies...
Time Out said of Beta Rays recently that they are "...setting London's Indie scene on fire with a new pop rock sound that is fresh and exciting! The songs teem with angular and emotive rock n’ roll moves and are literally seething with inventive, edgy sonic pop music. Plainly the sound of a band who know they’ve nailed it.”.
The Four Pennies were an English, 1960s pop group, most notable for their 1964 UK chart topping song, "Juliet". The group's name came after a meeting above the Blackburn music shop owned by Mary Reidy, the shop being situated on 'Penny Street' where it is still located today as "Reidy's Home of Music". The name was chosen as a more commercial alternative to 'The Lionel Morton Four'. The shop is still owned by the Reidy family.
George Hill of Beta Rays
Mike Wilshaw of The Four Pennies
The first interviews of 2012 and we have three great guests!
Chip Hawkes started his professional music career in 1962 with “The Horizons”. Chip joined “Brian Poole & The Tremeloes” in late 1965 and this format went on for about a year. Brian embarked on a solo career which eventually led to them splitting. Chip & Alan Blakely found the song “Here Comes My Baby” written by Cat Stevens which proved to be their first global hit and first US success. Over the next 6 to 7 years, “The Tremeloes” produced worldwide hits such as “Silence Is Golden”. Many of the hits were penned by Chip. Recently, the demand for him as a solo artist has been huge in Europe as well as the US. He has toured with Gerry Marsden stateside & in the UK, with Brian Poole in the UK & with Dominic Kirwan in the UK and is planning to return to the States to tour as well.
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