My chat with the keyboardist from alternative Rock Band…THE OTHERS

Do listen to my hour long chat with Steph AKA, “ALEX TOWER” from the OTHERS. I met this radical articulate musician and artist (whose mum ran the UK BEATLES fan club!) for a long chat in Brighton at Small Pond Studios on Philosophy, Culture and Art, all in connection with Music.as well as the music industry itself over a fascinating hour…

Thats all FOLKs…but what if it never existed?

Folk is a genre i have respect for rather than being a direct fan. I grew up with BOB DYLAN and JOAN BAEZ songs and BILLY BRAGG adding an electric twist to a folk tradition. In my thesis for political pop music I included a chapter on CECIL SHARP and his collecting of classic folk tunes to preserve from houses such as mine in Somerset so I have included a little clip of some facts on my tiny part of Somerset, but in line with my first exposure to folk though comedy I have to include via ROUND THE HORNE a classic RAMBLING SYD RUMPO classic which still brings tears of laughter to my eyes in these sanitized days…Of course had folk not happened any more than blues (which I guess is the same thing in a sense), then we would not have had in blues case Jazz (possibly) nor Rock or other seemingly Folk connected genres. It gets complicated looking at musical alternative realities!