Rock's Back Pages: "Episode 156 : Richard Boon on Buzzcocks + Manchester + Morrissey audio" (July 17, 2023)

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Episode 156 : Richard Boon on Buzzcocks + Manchester + Morrissey audio
July 17, 2023.


In this episode, Richard Boon joins us to talk about his life in music, taking in the birth of Buzzcocks, the Smiths on Rough Trade and his time as "the world's coolest librarian" in Stoke Newington.

The punk instigator takes us back to 1976, when he went to see the Sex Pistols live in High Wycombe together with a certain Howard Trafford and Peter McNeish. This shock to the system led to Richard inviting them to play his art studio in Reading, plus the near-mythological Lesser Free Trade Hall show that everyone in Manchester later claimed to have been at. Once Howard and Pete re-christened themselves Devoto and Shelley and formed Buzzcocks, Richard fell into managing the group and put out their seminal Spiral Scratch EP on his New Hormones label.

We then ask Richard about his move to Rough Trade around the same time as he brought them the Smiths. Clips from Martin Aston's 1986 audio interview with Morrissey form the backdrop for a discussion of why the band were special, their reluctance to film music videos and their relationship with their fans.

Following discussion of featured writer Cath Carroll, whose early interview with Morrissey and Marr plus pieces on Linder and New Order round out the Manchester theme, Mark and Jasper finish up on library highlights including Sandy Bull, Yazz, the Spice Girls, and Lewis Capaldi.

Many thanks to special guest Richard Boon.





Really interesting new interview with Richard Boon. Should be on the front page, FWD 🙏
A lot of Smiths/Moz mentions and Moz audio.
The Rocks back Pages podcast. Just released.
 
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Episode 156 : Richard Boon on Buzzcocks + Manchester + Morrissey audio
July 17, 2023.


In this episode, Richard Boon joins us to talk about his life in music, taking in the birth of Buzzcocks, the Smiths on Rough Trade and his time as "the world's coolest librarian" in Stoke Newington.

The punk instigator takes us back to 1976, when he went to see the Sex Pistols live in High Wycombe together with a certain Howard Trafford and Peter McNeish. This shock to the system led to Richard inviting them to play his art studio in Reading, plus the near-mythological Lesser Free Trade Hall show that everyone in Manchester later claimed to have been at. Once Howard and Pete re-christened themselves Devoto and Shelley and formed Buzzcocks, Richard fell into managing the group and put out their seminal Spiral Scratch EP on his New Hormones label.

We then ask Richard about his move to Rough Trade around the same time as he brought them the Smiths. Clips from Martin Aston's 1986 audio interview with Morrissey form the backdrop for a discussion of why the band were special, their reluctance to film music videos and their relationship with their fans.

Following discussion of featured writer Cath Carroll, whose early interview with Morrissey and Marr plus pieces on Linder and New Order round out the Manchester theme, Mark and Jasper finish up on library highlights including Sandy Bull, Yazz, the Spice Girls, and Lewis Capaldi.

Many thanks to special guest Richard Boon.





Really interesting new interview with Richard Boon. Should be on the front page, FWD 🙏
A lot of Smiths/Moz mentions and Moz audio.
The Rocks back Pages podcast. Just released.

Richard Boon seems very evasive about Morrissey, trying to be neutral saying they had a good working relationship. I always thought they were friends, but he does state "We were not mates". He calls him "Steven Nomates".
 
was a good listen,always descends into this horrible cantankerous man,next.
 

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