Radio Gonzo

I first met Steve Bolton in 1990 or 1991. My first wife and I had finished a tour with Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel during which we had become particularly friendly with the soundman Roy Weard. A few days before the end of the tour he asked us whether we fancied going to a gig in London. At the time we were publishing a magazine called ISMO which was very much a precursor for Gonzo Weekly, except for the fact that it had nothing to do with Gonzo and it wasn't weekly. However, it had much the same mix of music, humour, anarchism and general malcontendedness as this current organ (oo-er missus) and only goes to show that either I was a rather prescient man in my late-20s, or that I am totally socially retarded now I am in my mid-50s. It so happened that we were going to be in London doing something completely different on the days that Roy mentioned, so we agreed. It was only then that Roy explained that the lead singer and guitarist of this band called 6Foot3 was a bloke called Steve Bolton, who had b