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NICK LOWE IS IN YOUR DNA He still mystifies, and we want to know why. • BY CHERYL GRAHAM
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ick Lowe has toured the globe, but when he brings his solo show to the Englert on Oct. 14 (8 p.m.; tickets $37.50), it will be his first time in Iowa City. I spoke with him last month, on the phone from his home in London, about his career, his fans and his upcoming tour. “It’s good fun to turn up someplace where quite a large number of people in the audience don’t really know who I am,” he said. “And then I play a tune and they go ‘Oh blimey, I know this one. It’s that guy!’ That really gives me a kick.” Yeah, “that guy.” The guy who, according to his website bio, is “songwriter of at least three songs you know by heart.” The guy who, as a producer for Stiff Records in the 1970s and ’80s, worked with the likes of Elvis Costello, Graham Parker and the Pretenders to craft the New Wave sound. The guy who played in the rockabilly-flavored pop group Rockpile with Dave Edmunds. The guy who was in a band called—no kidding—Little Village. With Rockpile, he spent the better part of three years, from 1977 to 1980, touring America. “Part of the reason I’m lucky to have this really nice audience in the U.S. is because of all the gigging we did back then. Also, I play to quite a lot of younger people and I’m amazed when they come up to me after the show and start talking about Rockpile. It’s almost as if it’s been handed down like
EDITORS’ PICKS Wed., Oct. 5 Larkin Poe w/ Juni West, The Mill, 8 p.m, Free-$12 Ghost: Popestar w/ Carpenter Brut, Paramount Theatre Cedar Rapids, 8 p.m, $31.75-275 Fri., Oct. 7 SHEL, Legion Arts CSPS Hall, 8 p.m, $11-14 Sat., Oct. 8 Renée Flemming, Hancher, 7:30 p.m., $1080 Sun., Oct. 9 John Hiatt, The Englert Theatre, 7 p.m., $39.50 Dallahan, Legion Arts CSPS Hall, 7 p.m., $20-25 Mon., Oct. 10 First Fleet Concerts Presents: Waka Flocka Flame w/ DJ Whoo Kid, FMG Red, DJ One Way, Blue Moose Tap House, 6 p.m., $25-65 Fri., Oct. 14 Jes Raymond and the Blackberry Bushes w/ The Feralings, The Mill, 9 p.m., $10-12 Sat., Oct. 15 Linear Symmetry w/ Kick, Hex Girls, Iowa City Yacht Club, 9 p.m., $7
FRIDAY, OCT. 14. Nick Lowe, The Englert Theatre, 8 p.m., $37.50 Illustration by Cheryl Graham
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