The show is repeated on Wednesdays at 22:00, Fridays at 20:00). UK Blues Broadcaster of the Year (20 Finalist) Pete Feenstra presents his weekly Rock & Blues Show on Tuesday at 19:00 GMT as part of a five hour blues rock marathon “Tuesday is Bluesday at GRTR!”. This show was first broadcast on 25 September 2022. Josh Taerk’s latest Sunday Session was streamed on Sunday 16 October.Ĭheck out this session, and previous videos, here: ĭavid Randall presents a weekly show on Get Ready to ROCK! Radio, Sundays at 22:00 GMT, repeated on Mondays and Fridays), when he invites listeners to ‘Assume The Position’. This is a fittingly offbeat testimony to a unique individual. Most poignant though, is the moment Wilko picks up his guitar during the recuperation and, stood in the Canvey Island shingle, strums out his first notes in months. The pic is laced with some decent clips of live action too: the emotional gigs in Japan shortly after the original diagnosis the charged farewell tour in 2013, including some staggering performances at Koko that I was lucky enough to see and a couple of glorious moments from the Feelgood’s heyday. I’ve had a splendid life and to demand more just seems greedy”, there is no doubting his sincerity. When he says “One of the things that has made this tolerable, if you like, is that I’ve just been so lucky. The camera pans round to reveal is Wilko, in alter-ego form, shrouded in the Grim Reaper’s attire. “If it’s gonna kill me, I don’t want it to bore me!” he says to the big fella in the hooded cloak, over a chess move. Shining through is our hero’s beguiling frankness and copper-bottomed frankness. What this film achieves is an enhanced understanding of his experience, against Temple’s entertaining, wry cinematic landscape. Wilko’s story of dignified acceptance of the disease and then unexpected restoration to health was played out in real time during that 18 month period. But this is a very different film indeed. I loved Temple’s sidelong look at Dr Feelgood in “Oil City Confidential” a few years ago. Other times it is with baffling surreality: clips of jumping frogs, gilded roses or geometric patterns that are beyond my very literal interpretations. Sometimes this is achieved with ruthless simplicity, such as the huge, sun-glittered scythe in the first few moments, or the flashing blades and puncturing needles that illuminate the descriptions of the nine-hour operation. The appearance of the Death on the Thames estuary is just one example of the irony, gallows humour and pathos that powers the film.Įvery few moments, there is a cut to archive material that emphasises the narrative. His treatment of the subject eschews any trace of cheap sentiment. The depiction hinges on the moment when Charlie Chan – photographer, fan and cancer doctor saw Wilko at a gig looking too well and concludes that “This can’t be what they say it is.” The second half of the film examines the life-saving operation and the aftermath. He discusses his life, passions, motivations and reflections over an extended game of chess with the Grim Reaper. Sat on the sea wall on Canvey Island he chats frankly about the 3kg tumour he is lugging about in his abdomen. Johnson was diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer early in 2013. The film focuses on what was expected to be the final year in the life of guitar legend Wilko Johnson. What was presumably conceived by film and music director Julien Temple as an epitaph for Wilko Johnson has turned out to be an uplifting story of life-affirmation. Share the post "DVD review: THE ECSTASY OF WILKO JOHNSON"
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