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Thursday, November 06, 2025

Seat Fillers? and Nice Guy Jonathan Richman . . . . .

 POPBITCH NEWS:

Pop punk is officially dead: Those poor Busted and McFly boys were flogging seats for their (ambitious?) O2 gig for £10. 😂



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Good guy Richman 

Occasionally — not that often admittedly, but occasionally — PBHQ is blessed with stories of slebs being surprisingly, well, nice. Like Mark Wright getting involved in an impromptu charity five-a-side match, or Keeley Hawes cleaning up all the tables in Pret. 

This week, proto-punk god Jonathan Richman of Modern Lovers. He apparently never let his own fame and influence go to his head. 

When Richman did a gig at Bush Hall in Shepherd’s Bush, he showed up with his own equipment, a cheap, tiny mixing desk he brought up on stage with him. Then he turned all the front monitors off before proceeding to do all his own sound engineering and stage checks. 

Once he was done, he insisted that the staff on hand that night be paid anyway - so they just sat there and enjoyed the gig.


 

Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers - Egyptian Reggae 1978
He recorded with his band a TopPop TV special on  16 September 
Joey Ramone's birthday party at Coney Island High
Jonathan Richman ‘Roadrunner' 1998

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