The Hollies in Oslo

A friend of ours recently brought The Hollies to Oslo - we're on the front row just below the monitors. Thanks to whoever filmed and posted this - a real treat, if like us you're a fan of this brilliant band.

Every Day (Orwellian dystopias and groovy dancing)

The song Every Day features on our Manchester Times album and is about coping with injury and its lost freedoms. The mash up invokes the slavery of Orwellian dystopias by referencing some great films including 1984, Equilibrium, The Forbin Project, Fahrenheit 451 and possibly the greatest film ever made Brazil. (btw if you’ve never seen the Forbin Project it’s on youtube and well worth watching). The televisions in the mash up offer a window onto a world where people don’t watch television :-)

Pilot's Magic is perfection - not least because of some amazing guitar

Why music was great in the sixties

I guess it’s all a matter of taste, but it seems as though the most daring, inventive and engaging music came from the sixties and amazingly that music was in the mainstream, topping charts and being heard by everyone.
Although we weren’t there, it seems as though in those days there was a lot of post war optimism and posterity, a lot of new things to discover and try out and a lot old attitudes to speak out against … like imperialism, segregation, class, etc.
As well as the great bands of the decade like the Beatles, Hollies, Stones, Small Faces, etc many of the best seventies bands like Yes, Floyd, Zeppelin and Rush had started making great music.

So here’s to the sixties…




Having said all that - don't know about the dancing :-)