My piece on Humphrey Bogart is in today’s Irish Times here. Also on this site here.
Archive for December, 2007
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Dec
As it gets nearer the end of the year, there’s a natural tendency to review what you’ve done over the last twelve months, and take pleasure or recoil in horror from what’s gone on. I’ve been proud to achieve some things this year that I had always wanted to: such as get articles published in newspapers and things like that. I’ve been able to write about things that interest me, and pursue peculiar and brilliant individuals to interview: a memorable non-interview was that of Lemonheads lead singer Evan Dando, who hung up his phone on me during an interview. I thought: must have been some Brian Wilson-ish bad vibes coming down the phone to his end. But no, a few days later he went on and played a very good set in Dublin, and seemed pretty together. I’ve been able to return to comedy and history in a couple of Irishman’s Diaries.
But, what’s been unpublished (up until now) has been my interview with legendary rock writer Nick Kent, an interview that I was very excited about, and which I reprint on my site here.
On his confrontational interview with rock and roll wildman Jerry Lee Lewis, Kent had this to say to me:
Sometimes you have to go into a situation where you are in potential physical danger in order to get the story that matters. Jerry Lee Lewis had a reputation to keep up, but so had I.
More here
