Wilko Johnson

“I already had a gig when they asked me to do Game of Thrones…”

Wilko Johnson has played his last gig, according to a story in the Daily Express. He was hoping to do a series of gigs on his home turf of Canvey Island in Essex, but his failing health wouldn’t allow it.

Dammit, dammit, dammit…

Just saw on Facebook that Dr. Feelgood founding member Wilko Johnson has pancreatic cancer, and has elected not to have treatment. Doctors give him less than a year to live, but in true Road Warrior fashion, he’s off to Japan for a tour, back to England to mix a new album, a short tour of France and then, hopefully a series of farewell gigis in the UK.

Absolutely F**king Brilliant

Oil City Confidential is the gritty story of the greatest band to ever come out of Canvey Island in Essex. If you’re a regular around here, I don’t have to tell you that that band is Dr. Feelgood.

Even better, it’s a product of the all-too fertile imagination of Julien Temple, the man behind the Sex Pistols’ movie, “The Filth and the Fury“.

A clip –

  

If that doesn’t look like an entertaining way to spend 90 minutes, I don’t know what is.