John Waters is about to embark on a run of dates for his new show Radio Luxembourg featuring the iconic sounds of the sixties.
Inspired by his childhood spent huddled next to a medium wave radio set to hear the sounds that excited him, Waters will be accompanied by Stewart D’Arrietta and a four piece band as they rock out the songs that came after The Beatles broke.
“These are about my teenage years when there was no commercial radio in England,” John Waters, singer and actor said.
“The BBC had a monopoly and you would get Pat Boone and a little of the latest pop music for a couple of hours, but mainly they didn’t see that it was their job to promote songs.”
To get around the impasse, the record companies in the sixties and…
