Bido Lito! <strong>May</strong> <strong>2014</strong> 3 Editorial They say never meet your heroes, and I have to admit that I was a little cautious when I stepped in to a room of former Tranmere greats the other night. A selection of ex-Rovers players were convened in honour of our legendary manager Johnny King, who led us from the pits of anonymity to the brink of the Premier League and its bright lights and piles of cash. Now, some of you won’t know (or even care) about Kingy’s heroics in turning a bunch of journeymen pros in to a swashbuckling team that captured the imagination of a seven-year-old me, and I’m not going to bore you with the details now. Suffice to say, Kingy and his ’93-’94 team of Coca-Cola Cup and Division One Play-Off semi-finalists will always hold a fond place in my heart. The event, hosted by the Tranmere Supporters Trust, brought some of the players from that halcyon era together to honour ‘the gaffer’, and to raise funds for a bronze statue of the great man (which will be placed outside Prenton Park next season). I’ve no shame in admitting that I was welling up when Kingy entered the room to a standing ovation from the fans, flanked by two of his former protégés – Ian Muir and Pat Nevin. And I couldn’t pass up the chance to rub shoulders with these characters either, many of whom I pretended to be during back garden kick-arounds with my brothers (sadly stopped in 2008): Steve ‘The Headmaster’ Vickers, still consummately cool and now working in corporate entertainment at Middlesbrough; the wily Muiry, Tranmere’s top goalscorer of all-time, who stayed late in to the night to pose for photos with virtually everyone; Dave Higgins, who chatted to my Dad like an old mate (nice one Higgy); and countless others. And then the night’s guest speaker, former Scotland international and BBC Radio 5 Live presenter Pat Nevin, came and plonked himself down next to Craig and myself. Long-time readers of Bido Lito! may be aware of Pat’s erudite charms and impeccable taste in music from the interview we did with him in <strong>Issue</strong> 23 (June 2012), and so will be able to appreciate the regard in which he is held by some at Bido HQ. The wing wizard hadn’t dropped in to dish out platitudes on an aimless circuit of tables; instead, he came to talk music, specifically the playlist we’d put together for the evening’s entertainment. I can’t quite remember if it was Camera Obscura’s Swans or Pink Industry’s Don’t Let Go that piqued Pat’s interest, but it did spark a 15-minute conversation that took in Cocteau Twins, Simple Minds, U2, and whether or not Future Islands frontman Samuel T. Herring was putting it on or not during that Letterman performance (which I’m sure Dr Marc Fadden will be able to explain in fine detail…). We could have carried on all night. Characters like this - Nevin and Muir, Higgy and Vicks, Mungy, Eddie Bishop and all those who attended the event - are fast-becoming a rare thing in football, as overly protective clubs squeeze any bit of independent thought from their commodities in case they drop them in it in a post-match interview. This is probably why I was so made up to share a few words with them. And the reason why I’m prepared to make a small adjustment to that old adage: never meet your heroes, unless they’ve got great taste in music. <strong>May</strong> brings with it the annual music gluttony that is Liverpool Sound City and the start of festival season, which we’re looking forward to immensely again this year. We’ve tried to pick out some highlights for you from this year’s bill, in our preview on page 10, but you’ll no doubt be charting your own route through the three days of thrills and spills. See you on the other side, however you get there. Christopher Torpey / @BidoLito Editor Features 6 WE CAME OUT LIKE TIGERS 8 HOOTON TENNIS CLUB 10 LIVERPOOL SOUND CITY <strong>2014</strong> PREVIEW 12 14 16 GLOSSOM HELIOCENTRIC THE VIPER LABEL Regulars 4 NEWS 18 PREVIEWS/SHORTS 20 REVIEWS Bido Lito! <strong>Issue</strong> Forty Four / <strong>May</strong> <strong>2014</strong> bidolito.co.uk 4th Floor, Mello Mello, 40-42 Slater St, Liverpool, L1 4BX Editor Christopher Torpey - chris@bidolito.co.uk Editor-In-Chief / Publisher Craig G Pennington - info@bidolito.co.uk Reviews Editor Sam Turner - live@bidolito.co.uk Online Editor Flossie Easthope - flossie@bidolito.co.uk Designer Luke Avery - info@luke-avery.com Proofreading Debra Williams - debra@wordsanddeeds.co.uk Interns Hannah McEvoy, Ryan McElroy Words Christopher Torpey, Craig G Pennington, Will Fitzpatrick, Sam Turner, Joshua Potts, Alastair Dunn, Laurie Cheeseman, Ryan McElroy, Richard Lewis, Flossie Easthope, Josh Nevett, Josh Ray, Maurice Stewart, Dave Tate, Jessie Main, John Wise, Patrick Clarke. 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