https://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/christchurch-life/124846683/1967-mods-vs-rockers
He made less than £10,000 for three million plays of his latest album
https://www.nme.com/news/music/paul-weller-says-hell-never-support-spotify-for-the-artist-its-shit-its-disgraceful-2923433
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SHARP
CLASS Living For Kicks 7” SHARP CLASS "Living For
Kicks" / "Time Meant Nothing To Me" Heavy Soul Records
ROR128 Eight months is a long
time, even more so if you are prolific gigging and recording band like SHARP
CLASS (formerly SubCulture). It's been that long
since "Move" came out, but the band have been busily writing and
this is the first fruits of their labour - a double sider of pure Jam-like
Modness that tilts it's Pork Pie hat to the late 70s Mod Revival sound but is
as fresh as a Spring morning. In our opinion the
best young Mod band out there and this first single from an upcoming album
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A welcome return to the Classic Albums series, which has seen artists and their producers pick apart bestselling records including everything from Amy Winehouse’s Back to Black to Nirvana’s Nevermind and The Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds. Starting this new series is The Who with a deep dive into their 1967 album The Who Sell Out. Roger Daltrey and Pete Townsend recount the making of hits like I Can See For Miles and their attempts to ape the pirate radio stations of the time. Ammar Kalia
At a time when the music business was dominated by men, the Memphis soul label Stax Records employed a host of women in key positions.
https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/the-women-of-stax-records/
https://bestclassicbands.com/billy-stewart-documentary-pbs-2-3-21/
https://eu.commercialappeal.com/story/entertainment/music/2021/03/23/malaco-records-the-last-soul-company-rob-bowman-music-books/4735772001/
http://thebaybridged.com/2021/04/12/local-book-release-in-defense-of-ska-by-aaron-carnes/
JACK Up
Events will pay homage to flower power and free love as it brings a special
Jack Up The 60s evening to Shanklin Theatre this summer.
Friday,
August 13 will see a celebration of all things retro, featuring pop-rock
fivesome The Zoots, who will take audiences on both a visual and musical
journey.
Having won
the 2021 Global Entertainment award for Best Classic Pop Rock Music Act, the
band will mark the birth of British pop culture with the hits of The Beatles,
The Stones, The Monkees, The Beach Boys, The Kinks and others.
Event
organiser, Sarah Moss, said: “We are excited to be throwing our arms around and
supporting Shanklin Theatre.
"This
wonderful venue is incredibly important to our Island community and we’re keen
to play our part in facilitating the return of much-missed cultural
experiences.
"The
Zoots performed to sell-out crowds at our (most recent) event in February 2020
and were a phenomenal success. Having played more than 1000 shows and toured
over 35 countries, they are quite simply the best live band in town."
Zoots lead
singer, Jamie Goddard, said: “There is always something special about
performing on the Isle of Wight, there is a magical feel about it.
"Growing up, my family and I used to come here on holiday on a regular basis so it’s very nostalgic.”
https://www.nme.com/news/music/paul-weller-recalls-recording-with-paul-mccartney-1995-2922308
He says the Beatles copied him when they made Sgt. Pepper, and that he’ll agree to a Who biopic if it helps him “pay for my yachting”
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/who-pete-townshend-interview-who-sell-out-1154720/
He’s been a reader since Issue #1 and a MOJO cover star 11 times. Qualifications that make Jam legend Paul Weller an ideal MOJO Guest Editor (our sixth). He asked for features on Paul McCartney, The Coral, CSNY, My Bloody Valentine and Funkadelic, gave us the lowdown on his new LP, and recommended new bands and buried treasures for you to check out. We added a summit with St Vincent and the exclusive inside track on a new Jeff Buckley biopic. Plus: Tony Joe White, Jayne County, Manic Street Preachers, Peggy Seeger, Mdou Moctar, Spiritualized, The Who, The Fall and John Lennon. Then it’s all back to KISS’s Paul Stanley’s for some rock and soul all nite.
THIS MONTH’S COVERMOUNT CD is curated and compiled by Paul Weller. Titled Into Tomorrow, it features 15 tracks including songs by Richard Hawley, Durand Jones, Third Ear Band, Declan O’Rourke, Marvin Powell and a Weller rarity!
https://www.caribbeanlifenews.com/remembering-the-life-career-of-marvin-gaye/
https://www.reportdoor.com/madness-frontman-suggs-talks-bonkers-lost-sitcom-how-they-could-have-been-the-new-monkees-and-their-songs-hidden-meaning-of/
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/75-years-on-the-vespa-is-still-going-strong
https://www.leccotoday.it/notizie/beat-mod-guglielmi-libro-spazzi-.html
https://wwd.com/fashion-news/fashion-features/the-roaring-20s-and-swinging-60s-are-explored-in-new-exhibition-1234779260/
Liverpool
city centre was once again transformed into 1960s London as filming continues
for a new ITV spy thriller.
North John
Street was transported back in time to the swinging 60s as a cast and crew
visited to film a new version of The Ipcress File.
Michael Caine
famously starred in the 60s movie inspired by Len Deighton’s novel set during
the height of the Cold War.
The ITV
production has been filming in Liverpool city centre over the last few months
and today the crew was based near the business district.
Actors and
extras were seen in 1960s dress, while a retro double decker London bus was
spotted.
Old fashioned
black cabs were also seen outside of a vintage looking Odeon cinema.
The new ITV
spy thriller stars Joe Cole, Harry Palmer, Lucy Boynton and Tom Hollander and
is adapted by BAFTA winning Trainspotting writer John Hodge.
Len
Deighton's novel will be adapted into a six part series for ITV, with the
majority of filming taking place in Liverpool and other scenes being shot in
Croatia later this year.
Film crews have so far filmed outside of The Philharmonic Pub, Exchange Street West and Lime Street.
https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/cars/article-9376787/Radford-returns-One-coolest-car-names-Swinging-Sixties-roar-2021.html
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/roger-daltrey-the-who-drunk-jim-morrison/
https://www.historyextra.com/period/20th-century/britain-swinging-sixties-everything-you-wanted-know-dominic-sandbrook-podcast/
https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/lifestyle/9552311/from-history-to-biographies-here-are-the-best-books-about-jazz
https://www.virginradio.it/gallery/foto/1283062/rock-culture-guarda-le-foto-dei-mods-a-clacton-on-sea.html
The Who have
partnered with Heinz for a new charity venture to celebrate the upcoming
reissue of the band’s 1967 concept album ‘The Who Sell Out’.
The record’s
original artwork featured frontman Roger Daltrey sitting in a bathtub filled
with Heinz beans, while the second track on the LP was titled ‘Heinz Baked
Beans’.
With an
expanded, super deluxe edition of ‘The Who Sell Out’ set for release on April
23, The Who have partnered with Heinz to launch a new collaborative and limited
edition set of ’Beanz Meanz The Who’ baked beans cans.
In the UK,
Heinz are selling 1,967 415g cans – with Daltrey and guitarist Pete Townshend
personally hand-signing 50 cans – with all net proceeds being donated to Magic
Breakfast and the Teenage Cancer Trust. In the US, all proceeds will go to Teen
Cancer America.
Recalling the
experience of sitting in a bath of baked beans for the album artwork shot,
Daltrey said in an accompanying statement: “[Afterwards] I ended up with a week
in bed with either the flu or probably the worst cold that I’ve had in my
lifetime and I put it down to the baked beans because they’d just come out of
the fridge; they were freezing cold!
“I sat in
them for 20 minutes until they had the great idea of putting electric fire
round the back of the bathtub I was sitting in, which worked for a while. It
started to heat them up, but then they started to cook. So my arse was roasting
while my front was freezing and within 24 hours, I was in bed with the
sniffles. I don’t blame the beans; I blame the electric fire!”
The Who recently contributed vinyl to a charity exhibition that will see a range of artists transform the records and test presses into unique pieces of artwork.
Paul Weller
has shared his new single ‘Shades Of Blue’, which was co-written with his
daughter Leah – you can hear the track below.
The song is
taken from Weller’s upcoming new album ‘Fat Pop (Volume 1)’, which is set for
release on May 14. The LP was written and recorded during the first coronavirus
lockdown last year.
Following on
from previous singles ‘Cosmic Fringes’ and ‘Glad Times’, ‘Shades Of Blue’ has
now been released. The song was co-written with Leah Weller, who contributed
lyrics and backing vocals to the track.
An official
video for ‘Shades Of Blue’ is “coming soon” according to Weller’s Twitter
account, but you can hear the song now.
Weller
recently rescheduled a number of his upcoming UK tour dates to spring 2022 due
to the coronavirus pandemic. He still plans on embarking on another tour in
November.
Leah Weller,
who released two solo singles (‘Change’ and ‘Strangers’) last year, spoke to
NME back in September about how she feels about having her music compared to
her dad’s.
“I think that
with anybody who puts something out, there’s always the fear that it might be
judged, as it’s something that’s very personal to you,” she said. “I do usually
run stuff past my dad to see what his opinion is, from the musician’s point of
view. I would rather show it to my dad and him give me his feedback than
release something that’s really not good and hear it from someone else.
“My parents
have always been just very supportive no matter what I wanted to do, but coming
from a musical background, I knew from an early age that I was into music. I
was always singing; I was always trying to pick up guitar. My dad got me my
first guitar for my 12th birthday. I remember writing my first song. I think it
was called something like, ‘Same Shit, Different Day’ – I was a bit of an emo
kid!”
“It was
because it never originally came out on vinyl,” he says of the reissue, which
is out today on his own label, Kundalini Records.
Unhappy with
the original mix, the Ocean Colour Scene guitarist, who is also a key member of
Paul Weller’s band as well as performing with The Specials, spent part of last
year tweaking it.
“I found all
of the old masters and spent the best part of a month making it sound like I
imagined it,” says the 51-year-old. “I took out all of the interludes and I
just thought I’d concentrate on the songs and it seemed to make more of a
collective album.”
Back in
December 2010, Cradock had visualised “trying to make an underground, garagey
type of record” at “beautiful farm” on the southern tip of Devon. “It was like
living on the Moon while I was there,” he says. “I spent a month doing it.
James Buckley (from cult TV show The Inbetweeners) came down with his
girlfriend and stayed for a couple of weeks, and my kids were there all the
time.”
The song Last
Days of the World had been left over from sessions for Cradock’s previous
album, The Kundalini Target. Its lyrics about the rise of technology and social
media seem prophetic. “I wrote the chorus for that and Andy Crofts wrote the
first words, so I have to thank him for that,” he says. “I guess it does still
ring very true, that song.”
Many of the
other songs were co-written with Crofts while they were “out on the road” with Weller.
Cradock remembers: “We’d spend a lot of time in changing rooms just picking
away at it and demoing it as we were on tour with Paul.”
The lyrics
for Lay Down Your Weary Burden come from a poem penned by Weller. “I really
liked it as a poem,” Cradock says. “He gave me a few, actually, just to see if
I could do anything with them.”
Peace City
West has a 6os feel, with its mixture of psychedelia, pop and folk steeped in
melody – some of the touchstones of Cradock’s musical taste. “I love new and
old, I love all music,” he says. “If you’ve got an old-fashioned kind of song I
guess unless it’s got rapping over it’s going to have a tinge that reminds you
of something form a time gone by.”
Cradock has
also been producing tracks for Weller’s eldest daughter, Leah. Her first
single, Strangers, was released at the tail-end of last year. He says they are
“not far away from completing” a full album. “It may need a couple of tunes,
but the main part of it is done, it’s in a good state. At the moment she’s
talking to record labels.”
He’s been
setting up a new studio at home, and there is another solo album on its way
too. “I’ve also recorded an instrumental album that’s going to be released on
vinyl this year sometime,” he says. “I had a few bits of music and it seemed
like it was for an imaginary movie. It’s quite meditative, for example the
first track on the second side is five minutes of me playing gongs. Especially
the second side is me playing simple melodies and repetition melodies, piano
pieces and it seems cohesive as an album.”
Cradock also
continues to be involved with The Specials. He reveals Lynval Golding asked him
to work on an acoustic track. Additionally, he says: “There are lots of ideas
floating around that sound very exciting but I haven’t really played on
anything yet.”
The Specials
have a tour pencilled in for September, while Paul Weller is due back on the
road in November. Cradock says he’s missed playing live. “It’s not only us,
it’s all the technicians and all the crews, it’s been a really bleak time for a
lot of people,” he says. Of course I’m hoping things will be better later in
the year.”
Peace City West is out today. www.stevecradock.com
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A SIXTIES
soul legend and headline favourite is returning to The Concorde as the
Eastleigh club unveils its bumper post lockdown programme, writes Duncan Eaton.
And it be
will be very much a family affair when the legendary Georgie Fame steps on
stage with his sons Tristan (guitar) and James (drums) Powell.
Georgie's
links with The Concorde go back to practically the day he started his
star-studded musical journey.
He will be
showcasing all the hits which made him a household name when he appears on
September 8 which is traditionally the Stoneham Lane club's Wednesday jazz
night.
Georgie was
the only British music act to have three number one hits with his only Top Ten
chart entries – Yeh Yeh (1964) Get Away (1965) and The Ballad of Bonnie and
Clyde (1967).
One of the
best Hammond organ players in the business, his career spans more than 5
decades.
He’s worked
with Eric Clapton, Count Basie, Stevie Wonder, Muddy Waters, Van Morrison, Bill
Wyman and many others and is widely credited as being among the first artists
to introduce Britain’s youth to soul, R&B, Blues and SKA.
He has a treasure trove of anecdotes of smokey blues clubs, including Soho's iconic Flamingo , and appearing with a host of rock giants including Eddie Cochran and Billy Fury and jazz giants.
"Ma's Place" / "Place Called Love"
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At last - two of the biggest Mod club dancers have been reissued. "Ma's Place" has long been a favourite with the R&B crowd - an uptempo Club Soul fave rave that has been filling the dancefloor for decades. You also get the other great number by the band in the shape of "Place Called Love" - an Artwoods-style R&B groove with blueswailing harmonica and organ
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The
Who's 1981 album Face Dances
will be reissued on Record Store Day 2021 – 12 June – to celebrate its 40th
anniversary. The album has been extended to 18 tracks over two LPs pressed on
coloured heavy weight vinyl – one blue LP
and one yellow. The set includes previously unreleased studio tracks and live
tracks from the band's 1981 Rockpalast show. The vinyl is housed in a slim line 12” box with four bonus art
prints. You can get a copy from a participating indie record shop near
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Creation
Day Festival is coming to Wolverhampton in May 2022. To celebrate, the curator
and co-founder of the legendary Creation Records label, Alan McGee, is coming
to Arena Theatre to share his stories in “An Evening with Alan McGee”. Hosted
by Clint Boon (Inspiral Carpets) and with a special performance from Marquis
Drive, hear the insider stories from the man who signed Oasis, went to school
with Primal Scream and transformed the music industry.
Date: Friday 28 May 2021
Venue: The Arena Theatre
Doors open: 7:15pm
Show starts: 8pm.
Price: £20 in venue. £10 for Livestream
You have 24 hours to pre‐order one & there are only a 1000 of these available exclusively through Paul’s official store!
TONIGHT! The last-filmed concert by leading Ska-band The Specials, before the sudden and tragic passing of lead-singer Terry Hall in 2022,...
