Terry Hall

I don't think people think...

The age-old expression that you will have been acclimatised to, and one of my very dear friends, very dear friends, was Terry Hall, the lead singer of The Specials.

And Terry suffered from... clinical depression for many, many years.

And he was often subjected to the idea of pull yourself together is the mentality.

But Our Lips Are Sealed actually came from a secret romance.

Jane Weedland co-wrote it with Terry Hall of the Specials while the two were carrying on a long-distance affair.

And awkwardly, Terry had a fiancé.

So the title wasn't exactly a suggestion.

That's fucking one to avoid.

Terry Hall.

Remember him? Yeah.

Specials and Fun Boy 3.

Okay.

Terry Hall.

And currently, although I gave up on this, I don't know if they're still in it, but Jerry Hall was in Celebrity Traitors, was also in...

Batman.

Not in that hoodie? One of my biggest crushes, again, in terms of musical inspiration is obviously Amy Winehouse.

Also Terry Hall from the specials.

I saw him live before he died as well.

And Polly Styrene from X-Ray Specs.

You know what? We're going to see what happens.

Terry Hall is taking a night off, so we may do the weird news of the week.

We may do something else.

I'm not sure yet.

still to this day one of my favourite gigs.

I mean, just to play that venue, if you think the artists that have played there, just to be on that stage and think, my word, you know, some of my heroes like Terry Hall, Specials, you know, Paul Weller, Blur themselves.

Dan,

that was the gig, if I can interrupt, that was the gig where everything clicked.

We're in the fourth wave now.

Terry Hall's gone.

His ghost is here, who we all miss.

So, yeah, to open the show, which was, is, and will continue to be the ceremonial opening of the fourth wave of Scott, was capped down with Civil Disobedience, which is the title track from their album, Civil Disobedience.

So it's about some of what we've talked about.

You know, it's a mixture of musicians, Naina Cherry, Terry Hall, Jarvis, Pete Shelley, his last ever interview, Andy Weatherall, also actors, Paddy Considine from Dead Man's Shoes and so much else.

Maxine Peake, wonderful human being, artists, writers, 18 people.

Yeah.

The thing which he epitomizes in the book is I'm really interested in those people who have immense credibility and flirt with the mainstream but don't ever get eaten up by the mainstream, maintain that credibility and authenticity.

And I'm talking about people like Maxine Peake.

nana cherry terry hall and and i think andrew wetherill is that dj i mean for people who remember the 90s when there was a kind of big rush for people to hang the label superstar dj around each other we took when i'm talking to wetherill in the book He's explaining absolutely why that label was never pinned on him.

He didn't want that label.