Interview - John Robb
Image by John Middleham
Last year, author, journalist, musician and all round polymath John Robb released a book of select interviews accumulated over 40+ years working in (or more specially, around) the music business.
Its title? Do You Believe In The Power Of Rock & Roll?.
A matter of minutes in his company provides a comprehensive affirmative. A human encyclopedia, Robb doesn’t so much know about Rock & Roll, but is steeped in it.
We meet at Bristol Folk House, approximately midway through an extensive tour in support of Do You Believe In The Power Of Rock & Roll?, yet it’s a tour with a twist: the first half features John Robb rattling through how punk rock ‘ruined’ his life, while the second comprises an interview with a local creative artist.
The first hour flies past, Robb barely drawing for breath as he regales the audience with tales of his early dalliances with glam rock, how punk rock informed his outlook on life, through to encounters with Nirvana and Oasis.