Actually, now I come to think of it, there's a Charlie connection: Charlie had a hand in launching Elvis C's career, and it was praise from Elvis C (and Nick Lowe, among others) that gave Ron's career a massive boost.
I didn't know there were any venues in Bromley, let alone obscure ones. Chris: "Secret heart, what are you made of, What are you so afraid of?" C'mon - all together now. It's a great pub song, especially after Rod Stewart's version. But probably only in one obscure pub in Bromley.
Wasn't a pub. It was some sort of leisure centre or something just off the High St, with temporary seating. I used to live in Bromley many moons ago, and I never knew the building existed, which is why I said obscure.
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Bromley's musical links are indeed wide Bowie Siouxsie Sioux Billy Jenkins Billy Idol now I hear of Simon Hopper there're many many others for sure, including several more well known ones
also a Morris side, an A Crowley connection, a Monty Python connection, a Frankie Boyle connection, and someone called Pixie Lott, whose music is probably fairly unremarkable
OK Chris. All of the following singer/songwriters have broken through in the past 20 years:
Sean Lennon Adam Cohen Nick Harper Harper Simon Jakob Dylan (pre 94 with the Wallflowers, but solo since) Teddy Thompson Kami Thompson Martha Wainwright Rufus Wainwright Jeff Buckley (Grace was released in '94) Chris Stills Justin Townes Earle Inara George
(There's probably more...)
Do they have a place in the pantheon or are they guilty by association?
thanks Rob, there are some faves in there maybe, for some of us. How could we have not thought of or mentioned some of them so far? The only ones from that list that I'd personally add are The Rails (James Walbourne & Kami Thompson), though I haven't got their album - in fact the live recordings eg youtube etc sound better to me.
also Nancy Kerr and Emily Portman should be mentioned and Satomi Matsuzaki
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Back to interesting young(ish) songwriters. I like Carrie Rodriguez. She first fetched up on the Anglesey shores with Chip Taylor, and has been back about 5 times.
Chip Taylor's done a few videos of this song, all as good as each other. He's also done "Fuck All The Perfect People (Part 2)" - another great song and vid. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xK5YHU2-jY