Blockheads keyboardist Mi" Gallagher - who has played with e Clash and is also in e Animals - said: "ey look absolutely brilliant.
The
Blockheads play Eric's on December 13, tickets PS20 adv.
Move forward to today and The
Blockheads are in Cardiff.
Then, in The Old Man and the C Student, son Bart shows he's a chip off the old
blockhead by also landing himself in bother - in his case, with the law.
The great Dr Johnson ruled that "No man but a
blockhead ever wrote, except for money.
Wilko's on his own now and tours constantly in the company of Norman Watt-Roy, former bass player with Ian Dury and The
Blockheads, and drummer Moni, another
Blockhead whose previous gigs include Curve and Jesus and The Mary Chain.
He wrote: "A clue in the cryptic crossword on 10 December reads 'Coach
blockhead with you and I'.
Pianist Jools Holland said: "I was made an honorary
Blockhead which is one of the proudest accolades of my career.
Andy "Gollum" Serkis is a chip off the old
Blockhead and spookily looks and sounds like the polio-stricken Dury.
Mickey (Gallagher, organ) was the first
Blockhead to hear the news, having received a call from (Ian's wife) Sophie.
Much of the
Blockhead backing was added separately and the bustling immediacy of his vintage recordings is sometimes missed.
ONE of the advantages of having a
blockhead for a missus is that you can insult her without her realising it.
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Dury's casket was draped in black velvet embroidered with the word "
Blockhead", after his band Ian Dury and the
Blockheads.
Show him some sympathy, tell him he's brave, and Ian Dury may well knock your
blockhead off with his rhythm stick.
