Bernie Wilcox

“I was living in LA in 1980 and Peter Noone (Herman) had formed a punk band called The Tremblers. He was being interviewed on LA's best radio show, Rodney on the ROQ.

The DJ, Rodney Bingenheimer asked Peter if there used to be another British band called The Tremblers and Peter replied, "No, they were The Tremelows. A trembler is what happens to your knees in car parks."

If any of the younger readers don't know what a knee trembler is, ask your dad.”

“Superb, Martin”

“Did anyone get back to you on this Steve? If not I’ll put you in touch with John Sturrock the photographer.”

“Obvs Mick was a big Velvets fan! I got it from Boff Whaley's autobiography which is a great read in itself. www.pomonauk.com/books/boffwhalley/in...”

“As Mick Hucknall said to Chumba’s Boff Whalley outside the Manchester Musician’s Collective at NW Arts, “Sister Ray! That’s sacrilege that!””

“I went to this gig. I loved Gallagher and Lyle from the time they played with Ronnie Lane's Slim Chance and thought they'd got a raw deal from the music press regarding their Breakaway album because it was just full of lovely songs.

They were absolutely brilliant multi instrumentalists and it was a simply superb gig.

Checkout Fifteen Summers. Beautiful.”

“Great artefact Jackie. Where did you get hold of him? As he went in?”

“Great post Bob. Never seen this before. Interesting spelling of Rod's name!”

“Great pix Curbsfan.

The RAR team on the pic were L-R
Militant Frank Manley
Chris Griffin (Manchester Mekon)
Anita Waters
Tony Jawando
Stony”

“Hahaha. Great find Rod.

I love that "steadily developing" bit about Vini Reilly. Makes him sound like someone who's just picked up a guitar instead of the genius he was.

Also, wasn't it amazing that New Order we're playing at the Squat after releasing two albums as JD?”