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Ginger Says – Life’s a funny thing, and the punch line usually comes when you’re thinking it’s anything but funny

Monday, December 9th, 2002

Hi there, So here’s the new site. Like it? I ain’t seen it yet, but I hear that these new guns are well capable of dealing with the standard left by Mr. Stockford. Er, I actually heard that from Mr. Stockford. I digress. And I’m sure it won’t be the last we hear of Darren, […]

Ginger Says – Moving on is hard to do

Sunday, October 27th, 2002

Since starting this site with Darren Stockford, a lot of things have happened: sell out shows with SG5, successful (and not so successful) reformations with The Wildhearts, Singles Club fiascos (sorry ’bout that one but it’s miles out of my hands – I just cannot for the life of me foresee getting a spare month […]

Ginger Says – Sometimes, principles are all you have

Thursday, July 18th, 2002

Seems a long time since the last of these intro things reached the eager eyes of the strange breed of folk that frequently inhabit this place. I’m currently in the tiniest hotel room in Nottingham, waiting to leave to soundcheck for tonight’s gig at Rock City. It was supposed to have been a secret gig, […]

Ginger Says – We’ve never had such a good view. Front row seats for the game of the century!

Friday, May 17th, 2002

The tour, the record… the whole damn thing. Dread. That was what I felt the day before we played our first show of the tour. With The Wildhearts, anything is possible (as you’ve probably figured out by now, unless you’ve recently joined us… in which case, please read on). And if things are gonna go […]

Ginger Says – There has never been such a passion and determination to make this stuff the best that we have ever recorded

Thursday, April 4th, 2002

So The Wildhearts descended upon the dark rock ‘n’ roll recess known as Skegness (actually a bright, sunny, friendly place, but for the sake of atmosphere please bear with me), ending up at a place called Chappel Studios (owned by the highly genial host Andy Dransfield, with fantastic eats provided by the luscious Kelly, owner […]

Ginger Says – It’s impossible to predict how things are going to go with The Wildhearts, but this time we mean it

Friday, March 8th, 2002

Seems like an awful long time since the last time I wrote one of these. Man, so much has happened that it’s difficult to start at the beginning. So I won’t. The following events come to you in glorious random-vision. Speaking of Random, he’s undergone some major surgery and is still recuperating. Wish him all […]

Ginger Says – Rock ‘n’ Roll, kids – remember the name. And don’t forget where you heard it first

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2002

“It’s not whether you get knocked down, but whether you get up” – Vince Lombardi Happy new year – the year that will see ‘rock ‘n’ roll’ become a hip term to use amongst the young movers and shakers of the media and entertainment business. The old guard are out and the new blood are […]

Ginger Says – Happy new year!

Monday, December 24th, 2001

What a year. A few things to remember, at worst; at best, some valuable lessons learned about re-visiting old haunts and the art of moving on. Some things worked and some didn’t, but all were attempted. The Wildhearts: The biggest mistake of the year was to re-form The Wildhearts’ original line-up and think it would […]

Ginger Says – Choices

Monday, November 19th, 2001

What a fucking tour! It came and it went and, boy, did it go! Highlights? * Setting fire to Nottingham Rock City was pretty ROCK, not to mention very ROLL. * Random Jon Poole reinventing himself as a cross between Keith Flint from the Prodigy and the bloke that your parents told you would pay […]

Ginger Says – The Wildhearts was fun to do when I was younger and a lot more selfish, but I don’t want to be seen as a road accident any more

Sunday, October 28th, 2001

Is anyone looking forward to this tour as much as I am? Answer? No, not even close! The response to tickets has been relatively good, apart from in Ireland. No one wants to admit to being responsible for those tickets being as easy to get hold of as Osama bin fucking Laden, but the truth […]

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