Pete Paphides“My head was sticking out into the tiny room.We had some people turn up who claimed to be a TV news crew.” David Gilmour points at the section of river Thames into which divers…6d ago26d ago2
Pete Paphides“You’re still listening to the future.I don’t know all that much about music. But the reason I know more than some people is because of actual physical records and the names you…Aug 16Aug 16
Pete PaphidesOn The Chills: “Not for the last time, they seemed to have the only song that could scratch the…I first became aware of Martin Phillipps and The Chills one Thursday evening in 1986. Andy Kershaw played the New Zealand group’s single…Jul 283Jul 283
Pete Paphides“If all my friends had been musicians, I would have never written a song in my fucking life!”At a width of about nine feet, there’s no avoiding trouble on Barcelona’s narrow El Gotico thoroughfare. So when a tipsy, pink-faced…Jul 24Jul 24
Pete Paphides“George Michael comes in and says, ‘Did you ask me to turn my music down?’“Two hours?!” gasps Chris Lowe. The idea that the next two hours of his life might be spent talking about his past and present life as a…Jul 24Jul 24
Pete Paphides“I didn’t know whether to do the fuck you speech or the thank you speech” Jon Bon Jovi (2024)Jon Bon Jovi gazes down at the red trim of his designer boots as though it’s the first time he’s set eyes on them. “You like them?” he…Jul 242Jul 242
Pete Paphides“A tormented beat-boom Eeyore.” Lunch with Ray Davies (2012)A biblical downpour is making its way through Highgate Village, but Ray Davies’s beetroot barnet is safe beneath the awning of his local…Jun 212Jun 212
Pete Paphides“I can’t imagine anything in this moment that would cause us to use the name R.E.M.Outside the swish Connaught Hotel, London is bathed in sunshine, but very little of it finds its way into the conference room where Michael…Jun 163Jun 163
Pete Paphides“Everybody would be killed.It has to be said that, as self-styled “Viking Welcomes” go, the one put together by the combined Scandinavian delegations is pretty tame…May 11May 11
Pete Paphides“A place where floating fragments of memory can be fast-fossilised into music.”Rack up a few turntable miles with the new album by Michael Head and The Red Elastic Band and it’s tempting to suppose that you’re privy to…Apr 28Apr 28