At Preston Polytechnic in 1987, me and Benedict lived on Eldon Street, just off the main artery into town Plungington Road (not too far away from where Bubbley Kaur lived).
We used to start the night off with a few tins of larger, and then walk a little down Plungington Road to a pub called The General Havelock. In there we chose a few tunes on their dukebox, of which Stepphenwolf’s ‘Born To Be Wild’ or ‘The Pusher’ were the most requested, before we rolled on to Preston town centre.
So Rock, in particular dirty rock, and back home Black Country Rock were always on our radar and ‘No Rock: Save In Roll’ goes in that direction, even mentioning England’s Midlands, where the Black Country is stationed.
Listen and see the video as a first taste to the new album, ‘No Rock: Save In Roll’, that is to say that there is not one without the other, that rock, for all its focus on death is the saviour of life.
The anvil here is music itself, and a celebration of The Black Country, which gave birth to Heavy Metal that has gone on to influence the world to dirty rock. Whether the streets are lined with pylons or palm trees, the Black Country has allowed us to see things differently.
The sound here is Heavy Metal from the back of a stage, as we all ride on and await the female backing vocals of our song to come in.
For the sake of clarification we must stress that Bubbley Kaur did not ever join us into town.
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