Reviews for The Chronicles of Modern Life (CD/Download)

BBC Radio 2

"It really is a fabulous album...gorgeous" Janice Long, BBC Radio 2, 10-10-09 “...It's just great, it's real...got great songs on it - JohnnieWalker, BBC Radio 2, 18-09-09. “It’s absolutely brilliant.....he’s found his voice!” Bob Harris, BBC Radio 2 30-12-09 “Don’t...

Maverick

“.... he is a fine songwriter with an acerbic wit when it comes to his take on relationships, work, life and how some of us are getting slightly older but not quite ready for it yet....this all adds up to make “Chronicles....” a very good album indeed. What helps make...

R2

“Henry Priestman’s songwriting skills have been honed through work with cult acts and chart-toppers, and his wry observations have been finely tuned into the kind of songs it’s near impossible not to like." ****

Folk North West

“Outstanding from start to finish, it provides a vibrant vehicle for Priestman’s distinctive voice underpinned by great songs, great musicians, and great arrangements. Highly recommended.”

4 days ago

Henry Priestman
This, just been posted on Twitter...from 1979.Yes, I remember Squeeze (I ended up using Jools' Polymoog keyboard for the gig), but no recollection of Simple Minds being on same bill. ... See MoreSee Less
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4 days ago

Henry Priestman
My fellow regular co-writers John Beck and Adam Dennis FINALLY got me to agree to travel south of the M25 (ohhh, the stress) to work with SUCH a lovely bloke. ... See MoreSee Less
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2 weeks ago

Henry Priestman
On a recent FB thread, a conversation started between me, Paul Simpson and Les Glover about my school band Desmond's Leg.The band was named after an "instrument" (The Leg) which was basically an early form of rudimentary synth, built by an electronics-whizz school mate.A long pole had metal conductive rods up each side, and if you applied enough graphite (from a pencil) all the way up the pole, and then ran your fingers up and down (making the connection), you could get it to make a sort of theremin/police siren sound, ideal for doing The Sweet's "Blockbuster" song.Amazingly, when Les and I were emptying my loft the other year when we sold our house, there it was! I'd forgotten all about it.Pics of this fabulous instrument below, plus Desmond's Leg in action 1972, me giving it some hair action on guitar, on the left.Desmond's Leg "meat and potato" repertoire consisted of things like Virginia Plain, Alright Now, Brown Sugar, My Generation, Get Down Get With It, She's a Woman, Paper Plane etc and the aforemention Blockbuster sequeing cleverly into Bowie's Jean Jeanie.Happy days. ... See MoreSee Less
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