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Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt

Kathy Valentine joins the Rockonteurs to talk Go Go's and Clem Burke

Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt

Rhino UK

Pop, Interviews, Music, Rock

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2026

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

This week on the Rockonteurs podcast, we welcome Go Go’s bassist Kathy Valentine to the show. 

She talks to Gary and Guy about her own career in music and also the new book from Blondie drummer Clem Burke that Kathy helped finish after his passing last year. Clem and Kathy were great friends for many decades and the book is a joyous and fascinating story that he started over 20 years ago. ‘The Other Side of the Dream’ is out now.

Find out more at linktr.ee/kathyvalentine


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0:00.0

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0:05.7

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0:09.6

Hello Gary.

0:10.8

Hello, Guy.

0:11.6

So today we have Cathy Valentine on from the go-goes.

0:16.6

Our second go-go.

0:17.9

But we're not... It is our second go-go because we had Belinda on, didn't we?

0:20.7

But we're not just talking about Kathy's story. Kathy's story, isn't that a song? It never should be. Or a film. It's a kitchen sinky film, isn't it, from the 60s? Yeah, John Osborne. Oh, is Cathy Come Home, that's why. Not Cuffy come home. Cuffy? did you say Kathy come home but we'll be talking to

0:39.7

Kathy Antone

0:40.2

but not just about

0:41.1

her talking Not Cuthie come home. Cuffy? Cuffy? Cuffy come home.

0:38.3

But we're talking to Cathy Ante, but not just about her time in the go-goes and her time growing up in Austin and all the band she's played in.

0:48.3

But the fact that she has helped Clem Burke, well, during the process of Clem writing his autobiography and not being

0:56.2

able to completely finish it before he died, Kathy took over the reins and sat with him and did

1:02.8

the editing process and wrote a very poignant, sad afterward in the book. And the book is called

1:10.3

Clem Burke the other side of the dream. And the book is called Clem Burke, the other side of the dream and my life in and out of Blondie. And of course, you knew Clem a bit, didn't you? I knew him a little bit back in the 80s, but and he's, yeah, he's wonderful. And he's someone, it's a real shame that we never got him on because he would have been fantastic. Yeah, but a fantastic important influential character. It's one of those people who you kind of forget was always there. If you look, you know, he was always doing something. Yeah. He was always somewhere. You know, I love the fact that he even sat in for the Ramones under the pseudonym of Elvis Ramon. That's right. That's brilliant. So he's done, I mean, you obviously played with Blondie for years and years, but

1:46.2

when they weren't playing, you know, sometimes he did a Eurythmics tour, he did a

1:49.5

go-go's tour.

1:51.1

I mean, Iggy, you know, I played with him once at South by Southwest.

1:57.5

And I might put the picture up, actually, because I had a nice picture with some of my members of the band and B.P. Fallon was standing next to B.P. Phelan, I've got the legendary press. What was it? P.R. P.R. Man, really. From Dublin, who knew everybody. Check him out. If no one's heard of B.P. Fallon, check him out. In fact, we could get him on. We should get him on.

2:17.5

We should get him on. He would have so many stories.

2:19.6

I mean, go. Yeah. If you're out there, BP. He was the guy. If you've ever seen Bob Goldoff's, this is your life. He's the one who comes on eating an apple. I think that was called affectation. Yes.

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