'Almost Grown' at Westcliff On Sea on 10 December

 

NUTS announce New Year's Eve Rock and Roll Circus Party in London

 

After missing out last NYE through lockdown the “ROCK and ROLL CIRCUS” returns to Hackney with exciting live acts and performances with theatrical décor.

For your partying pleasure we have two amazing live bands that will make you scream & shout.
Oh Gunquit! are the ultimate party band, a cross between the Cramps and The Sonics.
Support from Spain’s groovy Psychedelic garage combo The Liquorice Experiment.

Our venue Paper Dress Vintage is a fantastic 2 room space opposite Hackney Central station that will be turned into a Circus tent.

Our DJ team Dr Robert, Lee Petryszyn, Stutter, Penny & Stella (The Psychedelic daffodils), Charles Whitehouse, Gary Milan, Russell Deal & Lee Miller will spin Rhythm & Blues, Garage Rock, Psychedelia, Northern Soul, Funk, Ska and Reggae party choons on vintage vinyl in 2 rooms.

Other attractions include Light show and Dancers.

Don’t miss out on the wildest party in town this NYE and book your ticket now!!!

Early Bird Tickets £15 https://www.newuntouchables.com/tickets/

Venue- Paper Dress Vintage, 352A Mare Street, Hackney Central, E8 1HR London

Times 9pm-4am

Variety review of ‘The Pebble and the Boy’ movie - "Mod Nostalgia Barely Fuels a Sputtering Scooter Road Movie"

 

The U.K. mod revival of the late 1970s and 1980s was a retro-minded movement, albeit meshed a little with then-current trends: a bit of contemporary punk, a bit of mid-century Teddy Boy grease, all swirled together with a swagger that peaked in 1979’s time-capsule rock opera “Quadrophenia.” An anodyne Manchester-to-Brighton road movie that somewhat wishfully imagines a strain of enduring mod enthusiasm in today’s teens, “The Pebble and the Boy” forgets the present-day touch that made the earlier revival hip, presenting us with a pair of Zoomers on scooters who feel wholly middle-aged in conception and sensibility. The result is an exercise in retro-upon-retro nostalgia that feels as ill-defined as a Xerox of a Xerox, though die-hard dad mods will thrill to its styling and soundtrack.

“Once a mod, always a mod” is the mantra repeated by multiple characters in the course of writer-director Chris Green’s leanly plotted film, which, even across a scant 80-minute running time, manages to repeat itself in more ways than that alone. The story, such as it is, is almost wholly determined by the wavering will and temperament of its 19-year-old protagonist, John (Patrick McNamee), a semi-intrepid man on a mission who throws in the towel every quarter-hour or so just to keep things from wrapping up too fast. The winsome presence of feature-film newcomer McNamee keeps the character more amiable than the script might suggest, though either way, he’s something of a cipher, with feelings and motivations as floppy as his center-parted bangs.

The real star of the show, as it happens, is a gleamingly preserved Lambretta scooter, painted the most royal of blues and adorned with at least two dozen sparkly rearview mirrors. It’s John’s inheritance from his recently deceased father, an original mod revivalist who, in his salad days, once led a bikers’ protest against Margaret Thatcher on the streets of Brighton. Straitlaced Mancunian college student John, who has never so much as sat on a scooter and can’t tell the Jam from Secret Affair, has hitherto paid little mind to his dad’s wilder past. But there’s an urn of ashes to be scattered, and the mod mecca of Brighton is where they belong, so over his mother’s protests, he straddles the Lambretta and hits the road.

Cue an episodic narrative in which bike and script alike run into sporadic patches of engine trouble. In the first, John is bailed out by a mate of his dad’s, whose spunky tomboy daughter Nicki (Sacha Parkinson) joins him for the ride. That the supposed romantic chemistry bubbling between them never plays out as much more than a chummy brother-sister bond is a distraction, though Parkinson — so memorable in Daniel Kokotajlo’s searing Jehovah’s Witness drama “Apostasy” — is a welcome enlivening force, even when saddled with a one-note cool-girl stereotype of a character. She doesn’t seem half so interested in John as she does in the pair of Paul Weller concert tickets found in his dad’s parka pocket, and who can really blame her?

Weller’s spiky songs — along with the mournful title track, accompanying a montage of melancholy beachside moping in Brighton — form the bulk of a hit-filled period soundtrack that must have taken a chunk out of this modest indie’s budget. Given the film’s primarily nostalgic audience pull, you can’t say it’s not money well spent. (A handful of cameos from mod-revival figures wholly unrecognizable to non-acolytes — plus Patsy Kensit, also an associate producer — make it clear the film is only paying lip service to youth culture.) Still, the pinch is felt elsewhere in a road movie that never gives in to the thrill of open asphalt, with John’s handsome two-wheeled steed remaining little more than a posing prop in scene after scene. “Quadrophenia” is blatantly referenced via a late-breaking, swiftly resolved plot twist, but the reminder does “The Pebble and the Boy” few favors. Like a fully accessorized mod scooter, it’s festooned with rear-view mirrors — so many that it can hardly see the road ahead.

New Book - '1975 - A Year In The Life Of Northern Soul' - A definitive account of a year in the life of Northern Soul

 

1975... the year that broke the mould! 12 months that saw the musical direction of the scene broker two different styles, acceptable to many, hard to swallow for some.

208 pages determining exactly where allegiances would lie...fully documented, many photographic items never in print before, along with media coverage of those heady times and the advertising to go with it.. the banality, the fun and the vociferous voices..

a year in the life of the devotee to the ever changing, constantly strange world of Northern Soul...and its Modern bedfellow!

Tim Brown, puts it all into sharp focus and perspective. The real world through the eyes of one of the scene's foremost experts on not just the vinyl but the history as a whole.

This will make a fascinating read for any collector and a momentous year end addition to your personal library!

Official Description:

The first ever detailed look at a specific year in the life of Northern Soul focuses on its most important year. It was the year when seventies soul was embraced to sit alongside traditional sixties stompers in all dancehalls and venues such as Cleethorpes Pier and The Ritz, Manchester as all-dayers took a hold on the scene. Wigan Casino and the Blackpool Mecca remained as twin towers of the nightlife however. Television, radio and newspapers were fascinated by the ultimate underground music scene and this book analyses their interest. Tim Brown, author of "The Wigan Casino Years" details all the events and records that make 1975 Northern Soul`s most important year, many of which are recounted for the first time. A definitive account of a year in the life of Northern Soul, richly illustrated in full colour.

Check out the Anglo American website (link below) for full details of how to purchase

https://www.raresoulvinyl.co.uk/

or email : raresoulvinyl@btconnect.com

Or call: 01706 818604

Detail Magazine announces annual subscription - 4 issues for £36 including UK delivery

 

ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION (4 Detail magazines) includes Uk Delivery. 
 
Issues: Spring, Summer, Autumn,Winter
 
Subscriptions are manged via PAYPAL payments only, and will be automatically renewed every 12 months.
 
Non-UK delivery will be charged for all 4 issues.

Heavy Soul Records release Bread - 'Song Of A Baker' / 'Hey Joe' from 1968 acetate

BREAD

Song Of A Baker / Hey Joe
HEAVY SOUL RECORDS ROR136
HEAVYWEIGHT VINYL
 
The much muted, but until now, unheard versions of classic Small Faces and Hendrix covers have been lying on an acetate belonging to original member Pete Stone since they were recorded at Hollick & Taylor in Birmingham in 1968.
These are the only recordings of the band who supported The Pretty Things at the University of London in 1967. Fully restored and remastered by the genius Dan Husayn to create a crystal clear sound.
Pete went onto form the much-respected Tapestry band who had a big fan in John Peel between 1970 and 1972.
 
These great versions show the impact these great bands had on the wider musical community and especially in Cheltenham for Bread:
Pete Stone - Bass
Tony Newman - Guitar / Vocals
Mike Newman - Drums
 
Limited to 250 copies on heavyweight vinyl in plain white paper bags

Heavy Soul Modzine - Issue 56 Available now!!!

 

HEAVY SOUL Modzine Issue 56 
Release date: 22/11/2021
 
Last edition of 2021 and a great insight into many new and old bands that has influenced our way of thinking... What's in this one then....
Interviews with:
carrying on from last issue, cover star Tony Benson of The meddyEVILS
JON ABNETT on the new Paul Weller book
Jack from teh brilliant Reggae / Soul label HARLEM SHUFFLE RECORDS
NEIL CLITHEROE of Makin' Time / Deep Six fame on his artwork
BOBBY TARLTON from ace band DR, BIRD
 
Plus many ARTICLES like:
New releases on 7" and LP/12"
Loads of Jazz articles, The Prisoners, The Times, Shel Talmy, loads of books, Squire + more
Also - the 25 track CD featuring big 60s Club Sounds