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The rock writer Nick Kent on hedonism, Phil Lynott’s death and why Trump is like Axl Rose

Various Artists Fergal Kinney , March 4th, 2021 09:40 A compilation of space age prog and disco novelties curated by Jon Savage recalls an era when the future was still something to look forward to A recent Sunday broadsheet interview with the former rock critic Nick Kent raised eyebrows for his assertion that he stopped writing about music in 2007 as “there was no mystery, and rock’n’roll needs mystery.” Like Principal Skinner in black leather and a beanie hat, Kent had assessed the landscape and come to the shock conclusion that it was the kids who were wrong. I couldn’t find the...

Legendary NME scribe Nick Kent shares his tallest tales: “Going to extremes gets results” The rock'n'roll writer holds court on his time as a Sex Pistol, what Donald Trump has in common with Axl Rose and the dark inspiration for his debut novel ‘The Unstable Boys’. By Nick Kent started writing for NME in 1972, which was a good year to be a rock’n’roll writer. And no writer in Britain was more rock’n’roll than Kent, who was soon as notorious for wearing a perpetually ripped pair of leather trousers and dating Chrissie Hynde as he was for writing novelisti...

Nick Kent: 'I was in the right place at the right time, on the wrong drugs' Sean O’Hagan Nick Kent, who is as close as British music journalism ever came to producing a legend, finally stopped writing about rock in 2007. “There was really nothing around that sparked my imagination,” he tells me. “There was no mystery, and rock’n’roll needs mystery.” So ended a singular odyssey that had begun 35 years earlier, in 1972, when Kent joined a then struggling NME and, within a year or two, had helped push its weekly readership to near the 300,000 mark. Back then, a tal...

Johnny Rotten with his young fans in Huddersfield Credit: Huddersfield Examiner On Christmas Day 1977, the Sex Pistols played their final UK concerts for 19-years. A festive gift for the families of striking firefighters, and for the region’s lone-parent households, the venue for this historic occasion was Ivanhoe’s, a deeply unglamorous club in the West Yorkshire town of Huddersfield. As if this weren’t quite enough, the first of the band’s two sets was performed to an audience of children as young as six.  “A place like Huddersfield was pure hell,” John Lydon [Johnny Rotten], t...