Monday, 18 May 2015 17:50
Return to Hostile Street – Dave Waller, The Jam, and the Poetics of the New Wave Part Two of Two
“Tomorrow when we meet…..
jarring collisions on hostile street”
(Dave Waller, front endpaper, Notes From Hostile Street, 1979).
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Thursday, 30 April 2015 17:31
Return to Hostile Street – Dave Waller, The Jam, and the Poetics of the New Wave Part One of Two
© Words Peter Jachimiak
“Tomorrow when we meet…..
jarring collisions on hostile street”
(Dave Waller, front endpaper, Notes From Hostile Street, 1979).
The Birth of the Modern Word
In his last year at primary school, Paul Weller enjoyed reading Greek mythology. But then, at Woking’s Sheerwater Secondary Modern School (and despite his attempts across the first two years to, academically-speaking, knuckle-down), Weller developed a hatred of the teachers’ lack of professional compassion for the pupils, and had resigned himself to self-imposed academic failure. Deliberately detaching himself from schooling,
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Tales of Aggro
