Blah Blah Blah Blah Bernie Connor Blah Blah Bernie Connors Sound of Music. For those who get it good. For thsoe who havent yet. Heres Greg Wilsons take on our Bernie. To conclude, I’d like to say something about Bernie Connor, who apart from spinning a few tunes, will be our host on the day for the talks. Bernie is one of those people that’s been there all along, witnessing first-hand all the cultural shifts in Liverpool since he was a teenager back in the 70’s sat in the Liverpool School of Language, Music, Dream and Pun with a cup of tea and a slice of cake, checking out a who’s who of bands in Eric’s, working behind the counter of Probe Records with Pete Burns prior to his Dead Or Alive stardom, hanging out with the Teardrop Explodes at Club Zoo. It goes on and on, right through the rave era and bang up to date. Bernie, for me, is one of the great Liverpudlians, and a somewhat fearsome music aficionado – it’s scary that one person can store so much knowledge. Sometimes the individuals are in place, but the timing is out. I remember listening to one of the greatest radio shows I’ve ever heard circa 1998, when Bernie had been given a daytime slot on a new Liverpool station, Crash FM, with an alternative remit. It was a joy to hear someone play music you just weren’t hearing anywhere else on daytime radio. The track that has always stayed with me is the madcap delight of ‘Dog In The Piano’ by Indian Ropeman. youtube/watch?v=6YLaAvXU734 Sadly, it was too good to last and no sooner had it begun than Crash was replaced by the tepid dance station Juice FM. Now that was some mighty cultural own goal for Liverpool – can you imagine what may have transpired if Bernie’s show had found its way into the city’s consciousness, which it certainly would have given a bit more time. I’ve no doubt it would have led to a greater appreciation of music in its wider scope. Take a look at these forum comments that popped up on a Google, and just imagine what could have been: shacknet.co.uk/forums/index.php?/topic/204-the-sad-death-of-crash-fm/ It’s no surprise that Bernie’s musical mentor was the great Roger Eagle, a man who, as I’ve stated before, should have statues in both Manchester and Liverpool, given his crucial contributions to the culture of both cities. In this respect Bernie is very much the keeper of the flame, but his opportunity to share this legacy in a way which would have benefitted the city greatly was snatched from his grasp, and he had to return to the periphery, nowadays doing what he can in his own indomitable way, sharing his great love of records via his regular ‘The Sound Of Music’ podcasts: https://soundcloud/bernie-connor
Posted on: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 08:23:12 +0000
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