GHETTORAGA The Third Ear Band's Official Archive

Edited since 2009 by Luca Ferrari

October 26, 2025

Do you know Hanif Kureishi's The Buddha of Suburbia (1990) quotes the Third Ear Band?

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  Do you know that a great novel as Hanif Kureishi 's "The Buddha of Suburbia", published in England in 1990 by Faber & Fa...
October 12, 2025

Viv Albertine remembers first time she saw the Third Ear Band.

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Viv Albertine , singer, guitar player, founder of seminal female punk band The Slits (1977-1982), in 2014 published an autobiography title...
October 05, 2025

Bernard Parmegiani's "Pop Secret" on album.

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For some time now, the music market and the web have been full of surprises and twists and turns that have made it almost impossible to keep...
September 27, 2025

The lost Third Ear Band's 1970 John Peel Session found!

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Last June, the excellent YouTube channel FoundTapesLost ( https://www.youtube.com/@FoundTapesFound ) released this rare find, which had be...
September 10, 2025

What kind of amplification is used by the Third Ear Band?

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Reader Jack Bancroft from Ealing (UK), asked Melody   Maker expert Chris Hayes on 7th February, 1970 issue.  Here below the reply:    no©...
September 01, 2025

On the road with the Third Ear Band. Steve Pank's memories on driving for the band.

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Dave Tomlin (left) and Steve Pank in London, 2010 After I had published the magazine, Albion , I was running weekly benefits in All Saints C...
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May 27, 2025

Goldmine's obituary on Simon House.

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I want to bring to your attention a very good and touching obituary about Simon House published in the last hours on the Web. It was writte...
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May 26, 2025

Violinist Simon House passed away yesterday at 76.

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Bad news for all of us! Great violin and keyboard player Simon House , a true giant of the underground, old collaborator of the Third Ear Ba...
May 14, 2025

A composition by Dave Tomlin for the London Youth Jazz Orchestra in 1967.

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An article by Bob Houston published by the "Melody Maker" on August 5th, 1967 reveals that Dave Tomlin composed at least a score ...
April 25, 2025

Some memories about Anacondas Skiffle Group by Steve Pank.

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Steve Pank, Third Ear Band's former manager and driver, close friend of Glen Sweeney, Carolyn Looker, and Dave Tomlin, Ursula Smith'...
March 27, 2025

Rare photo of the TEB pops ups on the Web!

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This rare photo of the band in its brilliant, wonderful line-up with Sweeney, Minns, Buckmaster and Bridges (note his legendary double deck ...
February 22, 2025

Italian singer and musician Jenny Sorrenti quotes the Third Ear Band in an interview on Rolling Stones Italian edition.

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Jenny Sorrenti, photo by Francesco Desmaele Titled "Voice is consciousness", in the last issue of Rolling Stone Italian edition, i...
February 14, 2025

Dave Tomlin' son sent to The Guardian an obituary about his great dad.

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Tom Hennessey , one of the three children of Dave Tomlin , sent to the Guardian a obituary about his great dad. You can read the original We...
February 10, 2025

A memoir book by Don Falcone (Spirits Burning) quoting Third Ear Band and Ursula Smith.

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" Don Falcone presents a world where anything can happen and often does…collecting albums and then recording with some of the musician...
February 05, 2025

A tribute to Paul Buckmaster on Italian magazine "Musica Jazz" web site.

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  A tribute to our late Paul Buckmaster by Gennaro Fucile is on the web site of Italian magazine "Music Jazz". The journalist, a...
January 30, 2025

"Druid One" album review by Italian musician and writer Alessandro Monti.

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Here's a brilliant review on "Druid One - Live at Essen Pop and Blues Festival 1970" by my friend Italian musician and music w...
January 15, 2025

Third Ear Band music on Italian national radio.

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Just yesterday night, on the third channel of Italian national radio RAI (the programme was called "6 Gradi", six grades) Third Ea...
January 01, 2025

A book by Steve Pank available in Amazon.

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A book written by STEVE PANK titled " Hole in the Moon " is available on Amazon in paperback and Kindle Edition formats ( go here...
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Luca Chino Ferrari (b. 1963) is an Italian music writer. Since 1985 he has written and translated books about folk and rock musicians as Third Ear Band, Robyn Hitchcock, Captain Beefheart, Tim Buckley, Nick Drake, Syd Barrett & the Pink Floyd for the main Italian publishers. He met Syd Barrett in 1986 and did contribute to the reunion of the Third Ear Band during the '80s. His latest books was published in 2020 for English ReR November Books, as a collection of stuff about the Third Ear Band, and in 2024 as a collection of writings about Syd Barrett (in Italian). He runs a personal Web site (in Italian/English) at https://chino6339.wixsite.com/gelatoaicorvi
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