Thursday 25th August: Morden Tower
Tickets: HERE
NOTE: Newcastle: Roy will be joined by Ronald Wilkinson for an audience Q&A session. Ronald is father of both Roy and BSP men Yan and Hamilton and is perhaps the real fulcrum of Do It For Your Mum. This 87-year-old former World War Two anti-aircraft is sure to provide many unclassified insights into the life and times of BSP.
review: “With ‘Do It For Your Mum’, music journo turned BSP manager Roy Wilkinson exposes the peculiar forces at work behind this most unusual family affair. Chief player in this story is not singer Yan, nor bass player Neil (his charismatic kid brothers). It’s their dad, Ron: an 87-year-old World War Two veteran and ‘self-instructed expert on alternative rock from The Smiths to the Butthole Surfers’.
This amiable octogenarian became so energised by his kids’ musical leanings that he dedicated his most recent years to learning all he could about the alternative music industry and the players within it. While boning up on band biographies, he would write letters to the likes of U2 suggesting British Sea Power could liven up their shows no end. And he would badger elder sibling Roy to steer the band towards the toppermost of the poppermost.
This Roy did – with admirable aplomb. While the band were busy sellotaping magic mushrooms to their heads, he slipped effortlessly into his role of ‘The Secretary’ – BSP chief ideas man and propagandist. Moderate commercial and chart success ensued: massive artistic progress was made.”
Taken from review by Andy Barding at Louder Than War
NOTE: This event will also feature music from the fabulous local singer/guitarist The Horse Loom
Video of The Horse Loom