When: October 2004 Where: Marquee Theatre in Phoenix, Arizona And: After getting to be the only non-crew, non-band person at the venue watching the band soundcheck, I was able to interview Snow Patrol’s Nathan Connolly and Mark McClelland on their tour bus a few hours before their Phoenix show. (Read the interview here at SheKnows.com.) Than after our chat,...

Snow Patrol’s “Spitting Games” is on Final Straw...

A photographer friend of mine (Fred Solopow) took this photo of Ian McCulloch, and Mac signed an 8×10 version of it for me during this musical extravaganza in 1987. (The pen was silver metallic, obviously on its last leg. If pens have legs.) And for more from Echo & The...

I found a few more photos from this day in February 1987. Nick Marsh onstage And Nick before the show, during our dinner interview (dinnerview?) Rocco at dinner And for more from Flesh for...

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And for more from Flesh for...

Here’s another picture from this day with the Church. I’m here with Richard Ploog, the band’s former drummer man. (FWIW, I’m wearing a Models t-shirt.) And for more from The...

And for this whole Catherine Wheel album… But you also must check out Rob Dickinson’s solo...

Here’s the late, great Paul Hester on Haight. (That’s Haight Street in San Francisco for any non-hippies out there — I think this was at the northeast corner of Haight at Shrader.) Two friends and I took the Crowded House drummer shopping in the area one afternoon in 1987 and had a blast. There are other photos from this day — like one of us...

And now for something a little more modern than the past few entries! For an article I’m writing, I was looking for the lyrics for the song “Oceans” from Rob Dickinson — formerly of the very extraordinary band The Catherine Wheel. I couldn’t find them, so I transcribed them myself. (Hey, if someone’s not going to do your job for...