by Paul Simmonds | May 27, 2024 | Paul Simmonds
The Ghosts of Cable Street, a song about the 1936 confrontation between the fascist blackshirts of the British Union Party and a coalition of the Jewish community, Trade Unionists, and decent, extraordinary people, was written in Hornsey Library, North London over...
by Paul Simmonds | May 16, 2024 | Paul Simmonds
The 90’s were not a good decade for me. I’d had a tremendous run through the late 70’s and 80’s; the great surge of youth, punk revolution, the furious euphoric creativity of life with TMTCH. It was like leaping from stone to stone and landing in perfect rhythm each...
by Paul Simmonds | May 9, 2024 | Paul Simmonds
1986 was a good year for TMTCH. Our first album had done well enough to get us signed to MCA Records with a fancy ceremony at their offices in Brewer Street, Soho. They put us down in Townhouse 3 studios in Battersea with producer Mick Glossop. Townhouse 3 had good...
by Paul Simmonds | May 2, 2024 | Paul Simmonds
Hammersmith and Shepherds Bush were our manors back in 1984. It was rare that we went further south than the Palais, further east than Ken Market, further west than the Ravenscourt Arms. Many weekends we would head up north to Camden of course, but mostly it was West...
