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Miles Tredinnick
Also known asRiff Regan
Born (1955-02-18) 18 February 1955 (age 69)
Warrington, England
GenresRock
Occupation(s)Musician, songwriter and a stage and screenwriter

Miles Tredinnick, also known as Riff Regan, (born Warrington 18 February 1955) is a rock musician, songwriter and a stage and screenwriter. In the 1970s, he was the lead singer with the British rock band London.[1] Afterwards he went on to write comedy plays for the stage. He has also written scripts for Frankie Howerd, including the television special Superfrank![2] and the stage comedy Up Pompeii!

Rock musician

In 1976, with drummer

Yardbirds and ex-Marc Bolan manager Simon Napier-Bell.[5] He secured them a record deal with MCA Records and a nationwide tour supporting The Stranglers. Their singles "Everyone’s A Winner", "Summer of Love"/"Friday on My Mind" and "Animal Games" and their one and only album Animal Games were all produced by Napier-Bell at the IBC Studios in London. Their recording of "Friday on My Mind" was made in the same studio that The Easybeats
had made the original.

Although London had a popular live stage act, ticket sales never transformed into record sales. This was despite flamboyant film director Mike Mansfield directing the video for "Everyone's A Winner". The highest UK chart position they reached was 52 for their EP Summer of Love. Jon Moss was particularly impatient to have chart success and following a nationwide tour the band decided to call it a day. They broke up after a farewell gig at the Marquee Club in Wardour Street.[6] Jon Moss joined The Damned and later formed Culture Club with Boy George; Colin Wight became a Professor in International Politics;[7] Steve Voice formed The Original Vampires; Simon Napier-Bell went on to manage George Michael and Wham!.

Tredinnick, as Riff Regan, released four more singles on MCA Records; "All The Nice Boys And Girls in the World" (produced by Napier-Bell), "Japanese Girls" (produced by Andy Miller), "You Call Me Lucky" and "The Only One" (both produced by

Milestones
was released on Beach Café Records.

In 1997, Captain Oi! Records released a best of

London The Punk Rock Collection.[8]
It contains all the band's MCA recordings.

Tredinnick also co-wrote the song "Hottest Woman in Town" with Andy Miller in 1982. Recorded at London's

Bernie Torme
, it was released as a single and featured on the "Metal Killers" album.

In 2007 he reformed

Reboot, their first studio album in 34 years, was released in February 2012[9]
and The Hell for Leather Mob album was released in July 2020.

Theatre and television

Tredinnick's first stage play,

Laugh? I Nearly Went To Miami! had a successful fringe run at the Pentameters Theatre
in Hampstead. The latter was later produced for the first Liverpool Festival of Comedy.

In translation, Laugh? I Nearly Went To Miami! has been produced in many cities, including Vienna, where its title was ...Und Morgen Fliegen Wir Nach Miami. British Director Cyril Frankel directed with German translation by Adolf Opel.

In 1990, Tredinnick wrote the stage thriller Twist. This was translated into German by Ursula Grutzmacher-Tabori under the title Der Letzte Dreh and was later produced in London under the title Getting Away with Murder at the Pentameters Theatre in Hampstead. The play had its US debut in Taunton, Massachusetts in 2010[11] and an acting edition was published by Josef Weinberger Plays in 2019.

His next stage comedy was It's Now or Never![12] in 1994. Directed by Marina Calderone at the Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch, England, it starred Tony Roper, Peter Polycarpou and Leyton Sommers as Elvis Presley. A German version, Jetzt Oder Nie, translated by Christian Wolffer has been successful as has a Dutch version translated by Martine Deboosere.

Topless in Sydney
(2014) and Topless in Las Vegas (2018).

Frankie Howerd

From 1985 to 1992 Tredinnick wrote regular stage and television scripts for

Are You Smarter Than A Ten Year Old?, as Lurcio the slave. An acting edition of the play was published by Josef Weinberger Ltd in 2012.[14]

Television

In 1987/8 Tredinnick created and wrote the BBC1 comedy series Wyatt's Watchdogs.[15][16] Produced and directed by

Alan J W Bell, it starred Brian Wilde and Trevor Bannister. In 1992 he joined the Alomo/BBCTV show Birds of a Feather as a writer on series 4.[17]

Other work

In 1986 Tredinnick started writing for the international Disney Magazine[18] creating cartoon stories for Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy and other well-known Walt Disney characters.

His first novel Fripp, was published in 2001. A Kindle ebook version was published in 2011.

Bibliography

Records

Television and radio shows

  • So It Goes (1977 Granada Television)
  • The Weekend Show (1979 ITV Television)
  • Superfrank! (1987 Channel 4 Television)
  • Wyatt's Watchdogs (1988 BBC Television)
  • Laugh? I Nearly Went To Miami! (1992 South Africa Radio)
  • Birds of a Feather (1992 Alomo Productions and BBC Television)
  • It's Now or Never! (1993 South Africa Radio)
  • Topless – (1999 Carlton Television excerpt and report)
  • Topless – Live from London (2000 The Amy Lamé Show, BBC Radio London)
  • Generation X (2001 BBC Television)
  • Facing the Music with David and Carrie Grant (2005 BBC Television)
  • Don't Get Done, Get Dom (2006 BBC Television)

DVD, videos and film

  • Everyone's A Winner – Director Mike Mansfield (1977 MCA Records)
  • Animal Games – So It Goes (1977 Granada Television)
  • London Live at the Marquee – (1977 Italy)
  • You Call Me Lucky (1979 Westward Television)
  • Birds of a Feather (2011 Series 4 DVD on Network)
  • Superfrank! (2011 Oh, Please Yourselves – Frankie Howerd at ITV DVD on Network)

References

  1. ISBN 978-1-84353-473-0
    , p. 155
  2. ^ "Superfrank! (1987) | BFI". Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk. Archived from the original on 24 October 2012. Retrieved 26 July 2014.
  3. ^ Jo-Ann Greene. "London | Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved 26 July 2014.
  4. ISBN 978-0-571-13739-8
    , p. 40-42
  5. ISBN 978-0-09-186992-2
    , p. 163
  6. ^ "London- Riff Regan Interview". Punk77.co.uk. Retrieved 26 July 2014.
  7. ^ "Professor Colin Wight – The University of Sydney". Sydney.edu.au. 11 April 2013. Retrieved 26 July 2014.
  8. ^ Dave Thompson (9 May 2000). "The Punk Rock Collection – London | Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards". AllMusic. Retrieved 26 July 2014.
  9. ^ "*". Detour-records.co.uk. Retrieved 26 July 2014.
  10. ^ "Finborough Theatre". Finborough Theatre. Retrieved 26 July 2014.
  11. ^ Marc Larocque (18 October 2010). "Brit playwright's work makes U.S. debut in Taunton – News – The Taunton Daily Gazette, Taunton, MA – Taunton, MA". Tauntongazette.com. Retrieved 26 July 2014.
  12. ^ "It's Now Or Never 1994". Queens-theatre.co.uk. Archived from the original on 26 June 2004. Retrieved 26 July 2014.
  13. ^ "Damian's a slave to his art". Derbyshire Times. 26 January 2011. Retrieved 26 July 2014.
  14. ^ "UP POMPEII | Plays & Pantomimes". Josef Weinberger. Retrieved 26 July 2014.
  15. ISBN 978-0-563-36977-6
    , p. 730
  16. ISBN 978-0-85112-638-8
    , p. 276
  17. ^ "Comedy – Birds of a Feather". BBC. Retrieved 26 July 2014.
  18. ^ "Miles Tredinnick". Coa.inducks.org. Retrieved 26 July 2014.

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