John Robb
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Editor of the fast rising music website http://www.louderthanwar.com and frontman of Goldblade http://www.goldblade.com John Robb is a high decibel philosophic misanthropic musician, journalist, author, curmudgeon.

His generation came thundering out of the punk rock wars, eyes screwed up with righteousness over the barricades and tumbling into the mainstream- John Robb was just one of them- on a one man guerilla raid against boredom.

He was born in Blackpool, raised by punk and set free to roam the world with a high decibel hard-on for the freaky side of modern culture.

He spent the eighties turning it up to 11 out of 10 in the molten dayglo musical freak show of the Membranes who toured the world and released lots of noisy pissed off records that got lots of great press and started loads of mini riots at gigs which has all been documented in his recent ‘Death to Trad Rock’ book.

He became a journalist with fierce, shrapnel prose and a keen eye for what was happening; he had already learned to move fast in the fanzine days with his 'zine Rox- part of the legendary 'clique versus the bleak' fanzine scene.

He wrote for Sounds enthusing punk rock whilst discovering Nirvana, Madchester, chunks of acid house, grunge, noiseniks and American post hardcore noise whilst inventing words like 'Britpop' on the way.

In the nineties he wrote more books and became a TV pundit regular gobbing off about shit culture or providing musical insight into the holy stuff.

In the 21st century this has continued- presenting TV series-like a ten part history of punk, writing more books- one on punk rock, 'Punk Rock- An oral History' becoming one of the definitive best selling statements on the form and another 'Death To Trad Rock' a key book on the discordant eighties noise underground that included bands like The Ex. He also fronted punk rock crew Goldblade and touring the world and occasionally plays gigs with a reformed Membranes.
He is currently a vegan, punk rock, soul power brother, a black belt in musical arts who has just set up a record label, internet radio and TV station and multi media website, http://www.louderthanwar.com and writing thousands of words a day…

Blog Entries by John Robb

Sod the Olympics: Why My Band is Making an Olympics T-Shirt

(0) Comments | Posted 27 July 2012 | (15:51)

Someone on TV when asked if they were going to the Olympics said they were looking forward to going to the world's largest Mcdonalds.

They were not joking.

The Olympics is a complex issue.

We love sport.

All sport.

We even love the shot-put- I used to train in the...

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Alex James in Bizarre McDonald's - or Should That Be Muckdonald's? - Plug

(4) Comments | Posted 18 January 2012 | (14:15)

Alex James, the former Fat Less bassist and the man who put 'ur' into Blur has done a bizarre 'food' column in the Sun. In what reads like an advert he has championed Kentucky Fried Chicken, McDonald's and Greggs in a series of PR puff quotes and those...

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21 Great Things About the Stone Roses Reforming

(4) Comments | Posted 26 October 2011 | (00:00)

  1. Next year is going to be rough for most people. Everyone needs a dream and just in time a band that have become shrouded in mystery, question marks and are folk heroes to many have returned.
  2. There was a real sense of unfinished business when the band fizzled out spectacularly...
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Playing In The USA: Why UK Musicians Are Finding It Hard

(2) Comments | Posted 29 August 2011 | (20:32)

Labour MP Kerry McCarthy and muscian/ author/ journalist John Robb have been working together on trying to raise some of the problems UK musicians are having getting to tour the States...

The special relationship between the UK and the USA has been the backbone of international post war pop culture....

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