![]() success recently after teaming up with Roger Daltrey on 2014s Going Back Home. For more information, or to reserve a table, please email or call the Ticket Desk on 0844 7701 797. Buy Wilko Johnson Tickets, Wilko Johnson tour details Ticketline. G Live's Café-Bar will be open two hours before this performance for light bites and refreshments. Wilko Johnson: guitar Roger Daltrey: vocals Norman Watt-Roy: bass guitar Dylan Howe: drums, percussion Mick Talbot: piano, Hammond organ Steve Weston. Find thousands jazz reviews at All About Jazz. Fee-free booking for Friends of G Live Groups of 8+ please call 0844 7701 797 to buy fee-free. Wilko Johnson / Roger Daltry: Wilko Johnson / Roger Daltrey: Going Back Home album review by Sammy Stein, published on April 20, 2014. Subject to change)Ī £2.00 per ticket booking fee applies, capped at six per order. In true style, Wilko is still rocking and, as well as undertaking to play shows for as long as he is able, Johnson is also recording a new album with Roger Daltrey, due for release early in 2014.ĭon’t miss your chance to hear one of England's rock legends, for what could be the last time. He discussed his terminal cancer, and said that doctors have told him he has nine or ten months to live. Wilko Johnson is set to perform his first UK headline gigs since appearing with Roger Daltrey at O2 Shepherds Bush Empire in 2014, and since receiving. Johnson stated in early 2013 that he had terminal cancer, and aptly announced he was going on a farewell tour. Feelgood in 1977, Wilko formed his own band before joining Ian Dury’s Blockheads to co-write several songs on the Laughter album, and then reforming the Wilko Johnson Band. 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, The Ramones & Blondie. Feelgood, it was their guitarist Wilko Johnson who excited the most attention, not only for the startling violence of his stage performance, but also for his guitar style. ![]() Unauthorized replication or use is strictly prohibited.When rock ‘n’ roll was shaken from its pre-punk complacency by the emergence of Dr. All copyrights are by the author and Vintage Guitar magazine. This article originally appeared in VG ‘s June ’14 issue. Going Back Home is both a serviceable Wilko Johnson primer and a must-have for longtime fans. Wilko’s distinctive duck walk, thousand-yard stare, and pudding-basin haircut all succumbed to middle age, but his chops have lost none of the freneticism that helped make him a missing link between ’60s British R&B and ’70s punk. Hardcore Wilko fans will appreciate the first proper release of the ballad “Turned 21.” The only oddity is also the album’s lone non-Wilko track, a take on the 1965 Dylan single “Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window.” Then again, perhaps the line “How can you say he will haunt you” is intended to convey Johnson’s gallows humor. For his part, Daltrey turns in a stellar performance, often times seeming to channel late Feelgoods front man Lee Brilleaux, especially on that band’s chestnut, “All Through The City.” ![]() The album features Johnson’s touring band Blockhead bassist Norman Watt-Roy and drummer Dylan Howe, with keys by Mick Talbot (exStyle Council and Dexy’s Midnight Runners). We watched his TV and we drank a little gin”). Nowhere on the album does the Green lineage and Johnson’s trademark “red-guard” Tele get more out front than on the workout of the ’80s-era Wilko solo track “Ice On The Motorway,” with its riff quoting the Pirates’ signature song, “Shakin’ All Over.” There’s also the title track (perhaps the album’s standout), a chugging Feelgoods rave-up from ’75 co-written with Green (i.e., “Old Johnny Green, he asked me in. Johnson has explained in the past that his singular technique was the result of a failed attempt to emulate the Pirates’ Mick Green. Going Back Home had its genesis at a 2010 awards show, where Johnson and Daltrey bonded over their mutual admiration of Johnny Kidd and the Pirates. Given 10 months to live, Johnson refused treatment, telling BBC Radio 4 that the circumstances actually made him feel “vividly alive.” Wilko fans should be grateful for the inexactitude of the medical profession: Not only is Johnson still of this realm (as of this writing), but he’s also teamed with Roger Daltrey for this new release mostly comprising fresh takes on tracks from throughout Wilko’s canon. ![]() Then in January 2013 came the diagnosis of pancreatic cancer. In 2011 he began appearing as a mute executioner in the cable series “Game of Thrones.” In 2012, he released his autobiography Looking Back at Me, followed by Fender’s launch of a Europe-exclusive Wilko Johnson Signature Telecaster. In 2009 he stole the show in Oil City Confidential, Julien Temple’s acclaimed rock doc about Johnson’s old band, Dr. ![]()
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