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back how are you sir hello marty um very well
thank you nick very well top of the world at
the moment yes and sue sue as well so uh as we
said we uh oh fair we saw you at east grinstead
and that was your 85th anniversary tour you called
it and we can see you we've got quite a lot on
this month and going well you're going back there
in september you've got quite a lot already and
we're going aren't we we're going again yeah
uh so 87 and that's this month you've got another
birthday I think Sue wanted to actually ask you
something about something longevity wasn't it?
What gets you up in the morning? What gets you
going with your music? The energy Music is the
energy, music is the fuel I don't have religion
so I needed something and music has taken the
place really of anything of that side of my life,
the spiritual side of my life. And it is a very
spiritual thing because it's with me 24 hours,
25 hours a day is that long. And even in my dreams,
I write songs in my dreams and I alter songs
in my dreams. I can't seem to escape, but it's
a sort of escape thing I don't want. I like it
the way it is. Just recently, and it's got worse.
I mean, that's the strangest thing. This love
of music has got deeper and deeper and deeper.
And I find, instead of playing golf now as much
as I used to, which I adore golf, don't get me
wrong, but I just love constructing songs. and
writing now, and it's paying off as well, thankfully.
It is paying off. It's wonderful. Now we've been
talking about this new album. three interviews
probably now last two three years anyway you've
been talking about it and uh now we have got
the album we've got the new single from it uh
let's rock this place so uh inspiration behind
some of these songs i mean we got the as i say
let's rock this place out uh what else can people
expect what would you like people to really listen
out for on the album are there certain tracks
that mean a lot to you marty Well, they're not
all self -penned. I mean, some are, but one of
the tracks, apart from Let's Rock This Place,
I like your loving touch, but I also love...
We did a version of Sting's song, Can't Stand
Losing You, and it's one of my favorite tracks
on the album. And another one of Kim's tracks,
Words Fell Down, which I took and... because
I'd written that, I'd co -written it, and I wanted
to just try a little bit of a different slant
on it slightly, but with a rockabilly feel. And
the whole album has got this rockabilly, rock
and roll, double bass, drum, real sound, real
people, you know, none of this phoniness, no.
Because that's what made me, turned me onto this
album, was I said to my wife, I have another
album, you see, which I made. I'll take a year
to make an album. It takes about a year for me
because I'm very fastidious with on tracks and
I do the arrangements till I have to get the
sound right and et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
So the first album was finished almost, but not
quite. And I was getting fed up with doing the
same old thing. And I just got fed up. And I
said to my wife, no, this is not working for
me for a while. She said, well, why don't you
have a rest from it and try some rock and roll?
And I thought, rock and roll? I said, no, I can't
do that. I said, you know, I've done that for
years. She said, no, go back to it. And because
I've always been telling her that rock and roll
and the rockabilly boys, it would be great if
they commandeered some contemporary writers to
give them their songs and then put the rockabilly
beat to it. You can't go wrong. The rockabilly
sound and the rockabilly beat is one of the best
in the world. but it's been neglected it's been
absolutely neglected and that's what this record
does it's bringing back and it's waking people
up to what we've lost what we forgot too many
american too many american very clean very perfect
songs to hell with all that we've got a double
bass there mate there's a few mistakes on it
don't get me wrong few mistakes on on this record
but tiny ones there were mistakes on elvis's
first album and look where it got him so all
that matters is the feel and that's what's on
this album that's great that's brilliant and
of course your wife would be one to a good one
to get some advice from because Joyce I think
it is she in her own right was a very successful
singer and I believe you met on a on a whatever
the tv show was in the late 50s and of course
she was yeah one of the vernon's girls who of
course ended up having hits in their own rights
lover please and so on so she also was in the
music business so wonderful so yeah it's a it's
family yeah it's a showbiz family it's a showbiz
family um in many ways but we're not show business
like normal show business we don't hang around
showbiz in in you know around We've always been
quite insular in some ways. We keep ourselves
to ourselves, but don't get me wrong, we love
our industry, but we're not what I call show
business. Show business is like Liberace. That's
what reminds me of show business. And that's
the last thing we are. We're just basic people
trying to do a reasonable job. in a fantastic
business. You mentioned a branch, it made me
smile. You've got some great outfits, but I think
it could be a long time before in one of them
long white flowing coats that go 50 feet. That
wouldn't work, no. Oh, wow. I see also, Marty,
on the album, featuring Daryl Hyam and the Enforcers
as opposed to the Wildcats. Who's Daryl Hyam
and the Enforcers and are the Wildcats coming
on tour? Do you still or how's that working out
this year? Well, Daryl Hyam is a rocker rocker
Billy a brilliant rocker Billy and has been he's
been you know He's worked with him. He's worked
with a mailed a May he's worked with Jeff Beck
He's worked with all the big boys and he's one
of the best and But my my band my own Wildcats
that I have at our tour with they're a different
kind of band They're much more sort of, musicianly
in a funny kind of way, they're a softer sound.
They're not rock and rollers. They're not, well
they're not, they can play rock and roll, but
they're not like the way Daryl and the Enforcers
are. Daryl and the Enforcers play rockabilly
full -time with that rockabilly double bass sound
and that great thumping sound. That's what I
wanted for the album. I've worked all these years
with the Wildcats and it was time for just a
little bit of a change, you know, and I will
retain the Wildcats. They've been my dear friends
for 40 years, so I'm not going to drop them,
but also it's lovely to work with someone else,
you know, and Daryl and Tony and Adam of the
Enforcers are three wonderful people, and I get
on great with them, so it's lovely. And there's
a wonderful video. goes with the uh with the
uh single uh let's rock this place uh who's sort
of i don't know if uh but it's not quite choreographer
is it who devised who came up with the idea of
the video what actually happens in it with the
girls and doing what they do and the actual moves
was it just you guys all being yourself or was
there some planning there No, there was planning
in there. I wanted the video to start off with
Daryl's guitar, his Grèche guitar. So it's right
in the front of the picture. And I thought that's
what you'd need, that guitar, show it off. Because
the Grèche guitar means a lot to the Rockabilly
people and to me. I've got a Grèche myself. It's
a fantastic guitar. And it's just to remind us
of those wonderful years. I mean, Eddie Cochran.
always had a Gresh that was his that was his
calling card and um you know it's just this whole
album really is like a rallying call for wake
up you know to some of these people because we've
all got in steeped steeped in this sort of very
very boring but not all of it some of it really
boring American music and I'm sorry but that's
how I feel and I think that it's about time You
know, I made the move and I'm so glad I did.
When I go on stage, I shall be with the Wildcats.
That will be a slightly different thing. And
I will love that and enjoy that as well. But
I will also do some rockabilly dates at some
point with Daryl, hopefully. So, yeah, it's just
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shadowbox, shadowbox. I was actually going to
ask you, so when we see East Grinstead or when
somebody, well whatever one of these venues you're
going to, somebody sees you, what are they expecting
in the 2026 tour? I mean is it mainly the oldies
or can we expect a couple of songs or at least
a single for this new album when we come and
see you this year? I don't honestly know yet.
I don't honestly know. I don't know. I'm not
made up my mind. I mean, whatever happens, I
mean, my show will be basically the same. It's
all nostalgia. And it's all laughing at myself,
really. You know, I just, I have to laugh. I
can't take myself seriously. And thankfully,
this is one of those lovely things which I've
got. I don't take myself too seriously. And I
really adore what I do. So whether I'm with,
you know, with the Wildcats or Daryl, whoever,
it's just an absolute joy. And I do love, I love
to, because I think there's so much poppycock,
you know, that goes on with show business, you
know, that people that become sort of untouchable.
Well, they're not, mate. They're not. They're
as ordinary as you and I. And they're just damn
lucky to be where they are, like I was, because
you need a phenomenal amount of luck. Forget
all the talent. there were talented people all
around me, far talented than me, I can assure
you, many of them, but they didn't have the brakes,
they didn't have the aptitude, they didn't have
the thing in their head, you know, and also just
unlucky, you know, I was a very lucky man, very
lucky. Now we've got some great... Some great
places you're visiting, you know, some great
venues that I know well. I mentioned East Richard's
a few times because that's close to us, the Czechomede,
20th September. But also another great theatre
here, 26th September, St George's Theatre, Great
Yarmouth. But let's bring it the other way round.
So this will go out, the Hellenion Thames would
already have gone. You've got the 18th of April,
Epstein Theatre, Liverpool. uh you then you go
to hunstanton in may we've got the tivoli of
windborne a very popular little venue that one
in 11th of june uh if you're honest but one that's
standing jumping out here at me is the tower
ballroom in blackpool what a great venue what
an amazing venue yeah i mean i can't i know i
must have been there at some point in my life
i must have been there but yeah i'm looking forward
to that it's a rock and roll thing so That would
be very, very interesting to see what happens
there. The only thing that I worry about is my
voice. You know, my age traveling now. Traveling
does, you know, get me down a little bit. I adore
driving, so that's one phenomenal bonus. But,
you know, like a four hour drive now and then
do a show and four hour back to home again is
for a guy who's 87 is pretty tough. It can be,
put it that way, it can be. So I have to watch
out for my voice. My voice is not as strong as
it was. It can't be the same as it was because
I'm not a young man anymore. But it gets by and
as long as I can keep it flowing, that's the
main thing. You know how your voice range was
to yourself. I mean, we know how it has been
on records and I can tell you even as recently
as two years ago, you were belting them out in
East Greenwich. Yes, definitely. You know, we
were up up the front and we could actually, you
were belting them out. You weren't really needing
that mic or anything. You were still okay. So
to us, you've got it. But you know how your voice
range has changed to yourself. And when you were
singing away, when we first joined you today,
you know how the voice range is. But to us, it's
still perfect. belt it so you know that's to
us. Well yeah I've lost about a tone I mean most
of my songs Jezebel are singing the same key
that I recorded originally the only song that
ever gets me sometimes I have to watch out with
Jezamine which I wrote and Jezamine sometimes
the original key that I used to do it and I have
to take it down I have had to take it down about
a tone and Sea of Love sometimes catches me.
I have to be careful with that track because
it's just a, you know, it's just, your voice,
you know, you can't, you know, your voice, it's
just like all things, you know, it's just nature's
way really and I accept that and I get around
it. I get around it. Possibly. I mean, we've
obviously heard you sing, seen you sing, Jesumaine.
You mentioned the Welsh group who did it originally,
and I know you really like that version. I think
possibly, in my mind, you would probably see
it more like the original, which I have heard
now, rather than the casuals. They were very
high, weren't they? But whatever, Marty, it's
the most beautiful song. That's an incredible
creation there. Beautiful song, amazing song,
yeah. And the little dance moves that Marty does
when he's on stage. Yeah, it's perfect. Well,
he's had quite a few years to perfect it, really.
He's had a few. My Biden impression was the best,
though. The way you walked on when you did it,
it was brilliant. It really was, yeah. Yeah,
that was the start to our part two, wasn't it?
Yeah. Obviously, we've got another, as I mentioned,
it's your birthday. The fact you share your birthday
with Marty my son although he wasn't well he's
only 18 but so we wish you a happy birthday 15th
of April Marty this be going out about that time
so happy birthday for them of course thank you
ask Marty something else when I was in full flow
you'd and then that was it you asked the question
I asked the question okay now the album I probably
lost it now did have it already here we go uh
because i've got a date now the single is already
out uh let's rock this place uh cover picture
it's a wonderful cover i love that i love that
cover so 1950s was the idea absolutely brilliant
uh and the album of the same name i've got that
being released here on the 17th of april 2026
uh being uh released by the amazing cherry red
records and they're an incredible yeah incredible
they are they're wonderful wonderful company
to work for yeah so that says to me i'm going
to have a guess here being cherry red that there's
going to be vinyl and all sorts i guess for this
yeah there is there's vinyl the i've just got
the vinyl now and um got the vinyl behind me
uh just come in and the cds have just come in
and they will be going out, obviously, around
the country, the album. Well, the vinyl will
be limited. It's a limited edition, but it looks
pretty good. I just keep my fingers crossed that
the people enjoy the music inside because we
tried, as I say, for one whole year, three wonderful
musicians, rockabilly boys and an old man got
together and really tried to bring something
back to people to sort of restart the old engine
again, get their memories going. People are forgetting
just how fantastic that time was. The rhythms,
the time, all those songs coming out. Now we
have to listen to whatever's coming out, obviously,
because that takes up for youngsters, they want
their own music. But I think also we should try
and get our foot in the door sometimes. And that's
what we're trying to do. And yes, the other thing,
of course, a fantastic feat is a big congratulations.
I think we might mention this a couple of years
ago, but of course, we've now been recognized
by the official charts company here in the UK
of being a singer -songwriter across eight different
decades. Of course, that includes your 50s stuff,
includes Kim's stuff in the 80s as a songwriter
and other stuff that you've done. So yes, so
across eight different decades so big congratulations
for that But that that is one incredible feature
singer -songwriter across the eight different
decades amazing Marty. So well done to that Thank
you Marty when you go on tour, can we buy your
CDs when you come to like a venue? Like the one
yes, you can Yeah, they'll be there. They'll
be there. All right. Yep. The new album will
be there definitely I loved it. Once it comes
out on the 17th, I would imagine we get quite
a few into so we can shoot them out. I just hope
people really enjoy it because we did. We've
had an absolute ball making the record. It was
the most fantastic, joyous feeling. And if that
comes across to people, then I'm going to have
a good album out there. Brilliant. Brilliant.
Well, Marty, every success for this year. I don't
like downloading off a platform. I like to have
a CD. I've got a hi -fi. I have to have the CD.
Oh, you'll get that all right. You'll get that.
Don't you worry. I love the smell of it. You
like the smell of it? I love the smell of it.
It's like a new jar of coffee. It's so wonderful.
Martin, obviously continued success for this
year with the album, the single, The Tour. Continued
health, most important, and happiness. Thank
you. Absolutely. We're looking forward to seeing
you. Have a nice birthday. And a lovely birthday.
And also, I'm looking forward to the next chat
already, because you already mentioned another
album before we went on air, so when you were
singing and doing your few notes. So every success.
We're looking forward to the next time already,
Martin. Martin, of course, yeah. Thank you for
your kindness. You've been really kind to me.
Thank you. I've enjoyed it. Sorry, can someone
say hello to you? She does it every time we do
an interview. This is Twinkle. There you go.
Every time we do an interview, she has to say
hello. She's rubbing round and round me. She
has to say hello, see who we're talking to. She's
fine now. So there we go. Thank you so much,
and it's always great chatting to you. I know
the listeners are going to love it. We can't
wait till September, can we? We can't wait till
September. All right, thank you very much. Take
care, Barty. Take care. Yeah, and you look after
yourselves. Take care. Thanks, Barty. Bye -bye.
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