Author: Kathy Etchingham

The theatregoer hoping to get some insight into Jimi Hendrix and London in 1966/67 will leave the theatre disappointed or duped by the film makers. Before seeing the film I was apprehensive, as I had been told that my character was portrayed in a derogatory and potentially defamatory manner. I had been told that Jimi… Continue reading Jimi: All is By My Side. Review. Starring Andre 3000, Hayley Atwell & Imogen Poots

John Ridley has written the script of “All is By My Side” on the premise that “Send My Love to Linda” is about Linda Keith and assumed that she had been his mentor and muse in the early days. Sadly, the truth is much more prosaic. The only contribution that Linda made was to tell… Continue reading All is By My Side, John Ridley and Send My Love to Linda

John Ridley has written the script of “All is By My Side” on the premise that “Send My Love to Linda” is about Linda Keith and assumed that she had been his mentor and muse in the early days. Sadly, the truth is much more prosaic. The only contribution that Linda made was to tell… Continue reading All is By My Side, John Ridley and Send My Love to Linda

          I have seen some stills of the location scenes filmed in Dublin and practically everything about them is wrong. This photo is an example. My clothes are wrong, the lamp posts are wrong for London, the police uniforms are wrong (they are dressed more like the Keystone Cops than the… Continue reading Jimi Hendrix Biopic. All is By My Side. Hayley Atwell fashion disaster.

I have been rather quiet the last month or so because I have been waiting for news about the upcoming film. I have been asked by so many people about it that I can’t answer everybody. Most people are asking whether I have anything to do with this film and the answer is a categorical… Continue reading All Is By My Side. Jimi Hendrix Biopic. Hayley Atwell and André Benjamin.

Madeline Bell and her boyfriend Tony had been asked by Chas to keep an eye on the flat in Upper Berkeley Street because he had heard rumours that I had been having noisy parties while they were away touring. My friend Barbara was staying there while Chas and Jimi were away and I must admit… Continue reading Madeline Bell

Ringo owned the flat at 34 Montagu Square and rented it to us after we moved out of the Hyde Park Towers Hotel. We were lucky to get it as Paul McCartney had just moved out of the flat before us. The neighbours weren’t too happy about having musicians in the flat. Paul had been using… Continue reading 34 Montagu Square

During our first weeks together we did a little shopping and sightseeing and I introduced him to friends. Because we didn’t have much money we went everywhere on the Underground.                 There were two stations near the Hyde Park Towers Hotel. Queensway was the station for the Central… Continue reading Jimi Hendrix at the Ice Rink

Now most people seeing this picture would not have any idea of why Jimi is sitting on the floor with two phones. We had started to get problems with unwanted visitors. People would just knock on the door and barge in uninvited and they would also phone us up at any time of the day… Continue reading Jimi Hendrix and the Two Telephones

              This is the entrance to the Scotch of St James in Masons Yard off Duke Street where I was the DJ. I had been DJing at the Cromwellian when I was poached by Rod Harrod, who had worked at the Cromwellian previously, and Louis Brown. They came to… Continue reading At the Scotch of St James