The stage here is very high indeed - anyone planning a fan invasion will need rope and crampons. It sits imperiously above the stalls like an Aztec temple. Appropriately enough, as three and a half thousand Scots scream their approbation, ready to sacrifice themselves to the metal gods.…

The last Saturday of April 1972. I’m upstairs in my bedroom with a portable black and white TV, ready for England versus West Germany, live on BBC 1. Mum and Dad are downstairs, watching…

It’s a pilgrimage. A congregation of eight-hundred, mostly male devotees, packed like pilchards in this clammy West Street basement, are here to see our guitar hero Bill Nelson, Baron Be-Bop Deluxe, Mr. Red Noise.…

Sheena is not a punk-rocker. Sheena Gates is many things: unspoiled white rose of Yorkshire, straight A’s student, Dire Straits fan, proud wearer of the Purdey Bob, and my on / off girlfriend for much…

One year and one month to the day since our first encounter [https://www.mylifeinthemoshofghosts.com/2014/08/20/be-bop-deluxe-sheffield-city-hall-13th-february-1978/] , my teenage music hero Bill Nelson returns to Sheffield City Hall with a new band,…

Tickets bought 7th January. BBC ‘Sight & Sound In Concert’ watched on telly and taped off the radio 4th February. New album – ‘Drastic Plastic’ – bought 11th February. I’m ready for this. Be Bop Deluxe…