one of the BEST shows i have ever seen was squeeze at the agora ballroom

(tilbrook left, squeeze album cover right)

way back when (don't know exactly). i still listen to their cds. love annie get your gun and cool for cats and pulling muscles from the shell, another nail in my heart. good stuff all (and i STILL miss the agora and the sting and how great toad's USED to be)

'I'd film him brushing his teeth' When Squeeze's Glenn Tilbrook was reduced to touring in a camper van, one fan sold everything she had to record the results. By Caroline Sullivan Tuesday January 24, 2006The Guardian
Glenn Tilbrook's three sons are too young to remember when he and Squeeze singer/guitarist Chris Difford were briefly hailed as the cockney Lennon and McCartney, responsible for 21 picaresque UK hit singles and able to headline New York's 20,000-seat Madison Square Garden. To them, Dad is the dude who, when he hits the road, does it with a staff of one - manager/wife Suzanne Hunt - and a 1988 mobile home, which he drives from gig to gig, where he plays to a few hundred people a time.



'I'd film him brushing his teeth' When Squeeze's Glenn Tilbrook was reduced to touring in a camper van, one fan sold everything she had to record the results. By Caroline Sullivan Tuesday January 24, 2006The Guardian
Glenn Tilbrook's three sons are too young to remember when he and Squeeze singer/guitarist Chris Difford were briefly hailed as the cockney Lennon and McCartney, responsible for 21 picaresque UK hit singles and able to headline New York's 20,000-seat Madison Square Garden. To them, Dad is the dude who, when he hits the road, does it with a staff of one - manager/wife Suzanne Hunt - and a 1988 mobile home, which he drives from gig to gig, where he plays to a few hundred people a time.

"I'm perfectly able to look at my career and see an attitude here where I'm a sad old git who continues to tour at age 48," says Tilbrook, deftly beheading a filter-tip cigarette and lighting up the unfiltered remnant. "But while I was still successful, I had the certainty that I would always do this, no matter what, because I have an absolute love of music."
Despite the cheeriness, it's hard not to see the poignancy of his situation. There's the contrast, for instance, between the studio's fancy recording gear - presumably bought when he was minted - and the fact that he now lives in what he calls a "more downmarket" patch of south-east London than he once did. But American indie film-maker Amy Pickard saw it differently. A "music anorak" and Squeeze nut from her days as a teenage VJ on her local Ohio cable station ("like Wayne's World, but with music"), she perceived Tilbrook as heroic for carrying on despite every indication that the world wasn't listening. Believing he'd been dealt a shabby hand by the music business, she embarked on a kind of one-woman "Justice4Tilbrook" campaign. ...........