Tag: Extravaganza
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Episode 7 : Some Chicken: Jess Chicken hears a lost tape of Nottingham’s first punk group
It’s 1977 and punk is making its mark. The Sex Pistols were prominent, especially after their headline-grabbing f-word TV interview with Bill Grundy that previous December. It was a wonderful […]
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Episode 6: Paul K Joyce. How Bob the Builder erected a 2021 bridge to the prog-rock band YES
Paul updates us on a long awaited album from Yes and how he was honoured to arrange and record the orchestral arrangements. John produces Paul’s music session and interview which […]
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Episode 4 Rick Wakeman and The Strawbs at Nottingham Boat Club 1971
There was quite a buzz Trentside in Nottingham, when on 4th October 1971 The Strawbs were due to appear at the Boat Club. The country’s most flamboyant and successful rock keyboards […]
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‘Extravaganza’ will be celebrating its Golden Anniversary. But how should Ashley and John mark it?
On Saturday morning, 2nd October 1971 schoolboy, Ashley Franklin and BBC tea boy, John Holmes walked into BBC Radio Nottingham’s Studio 1 and launched what was to become the legendary weekly […]
Interview with Chaz and Dave 1982 – Fragments of Rock
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