Hillage Green Preservation Society

Deeply Vale - wish i'd been there!



i'd have had to have been  a very different 15 year old than the just turned fifteen year old i was in July 1978
























As I've noted before,  one thing that's striking - and surprising if you had preconceptions - about Hillage’s music from 1977’s Motivation Radio onwards is its sheer funk -  the hot rhythm section of Joe Blocker and Reggie McBride shimmy and strut on a par with the Blockheads.

in a mini-interview he told me that he was mad about Parliament-Funkadelic which can hear on "Unidentified" for sure