Tuesday 20 December 2022

Mojo - The Collectors Series presents 'Weller Essentials'


Introducing Paul Weller Essentials, a new deluxe magazine from the MOJO stable. The Jam. The Style Council. Paul Weller solo... The definitive companion. Order a copy now: https://www.greatmagazines.co.uk/mojo-the-collectors-series-39

'Dance Craze' to be released on DVD/Blu Ray and as a 3-CD and 3-LP Deluxe Edition on 24 March 2023

 

Dance Craze is being released on DVD/Blu Ray for the first time ever on 24 March 2023 plus 3LP & 3CD box set Deluxe Edition of the previously unreleased 27 song film audio soundtrack

You can pre-order here now - https://twotone.tmstor.es/

Dance Craze offers a vivid, immersive snapshot of the 2Tone era, through performances by The Specials, Madness, The Selecter, The Beat, Bad Manners and The Bodysnatchers.

The Soundtrack: through 2Tone Records/ Chrysalis Records and available as a Deluxe Edition 3LP vinyl or 3CD box set with the full film audio soundtrack along with the 1981 original soundtrack album.

The Film: newly restored by the BFI from original film materials and being released on Blu-ray and DVD. Featuring brand new Dolby Atmos sound mix supervised by Jerry Dammers and Dermot James (Chrysalis Records).

Terry Hall of The Specials dies aged 63

 

Terry Hall, the frontman of socially conscious ska band The Specials, has died at the age of 63.

Known for his dour image and sharp wit, the singer found fame in the 1970s and 80s with hits like Ghost Town, Gangsters and Too Much Too Young.

He left The Specials in 1981 to form Fun Boy Three with fellow-bandmates Neville Staple and Lynval Golding, scoring another run of hits.

The singer died after a brief illness, The Specials said in a statement.

"Terry was a wonderful husband and father and one of the kindest, funniest, and most genuine of souls," they wrote.

"His music and his performances encapsulated the very essence of life… the joy, the pain, the humour, the fight for justice, but mostly the love.

"He will be deeply missed by all who knew and loved him and leaves behind the gift of his remarkable music and profound humanity."

In a separate message, Staple told the BBC he had learned of his friend's passing as he landed in Egypt for a holiday with his wife.

"It's really hit me hard," he said. "We fronted The Specials and Fun Boy Three together, making history.

"Terry, he surely will be missed."

Jane Wiedlin, co-founder of band The Go Gos who co-wrote the band's hit Our Lips Are Sealed with Hall, said he was a "lovely, sensitive, talented and unique person".

"Our extremely brief romance resulted in the song Our Lips Are Sealed, which will forever tie us together in music history."

Singer Elvis Costello described Hall's voice as "the perfect instrument for the true and necessary songs on The Specials".

"That honesty is heard in so many of his songs in joy and sorrow," he said.

The band asked for respect for Hall's family's privacy. No cause of death was shared.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-64029430

Wednesday 9 November 2022

On The Up in Sheffield on 4th February

 


James Taylor Quartet - last few tickets remaining for November dates in Colchester and Guildford

 


These Animal Men / S*M*A*S*H: The New Wave Of New Wave Box Set

 

These Animal Men / S*M*A*S*H: New Wave Of New Wave (6CD)

Charting the rise & fall of the scene that lit the blue touchpaper for the Britpop explosion!

Including sleevenotes by Paul Moody

Archival photos & rare recordings

6CD box set

BRITAIN in 1993 now seems like another time, another place. Paralysed into a state of torpor by 14 years of Tory government and cowed by England's failure to qualify for the World Cup, the national mood was one of escapism.

Pop music was also short-circuiting, the charts full of manufactured boy bands (Take That, East 17), inane electro-pop (2 Unlimited's'No Limits', Culture Beat's 'Mr Vain') and novelty records (Mr Blobby). The independent sector, too, was entering its darkest hour. With Seattle’s nihilistic grunge scene —headed by Nirvana — championed as the cure for rock’s ills. This lack of self-belief was reflected in a cover story in rock bible NME on 30th October 1993 titled “21st Century Joy”, which suggested that the music scene in 2003 would be entirely electronic.

Within a month, however, it was obvious to keen observers that a new sound and attitude was emerging from Britain’s satellite towns like the proverbial bat out of hell. At the inaugural ‘In The City’ event in Manchester in November 1993 — a music industry showcase organised by Factory Records boss Tony Wilson — a crop of spiky young bands shared a radical, back-to-basics approach. Two in particular stood out — S*M*A*S*H and These Animal Men. Angry, articulate and caustically tuneful, both bands would — over the course of 18 glorious months — light up the British music scene as spectacularly as a distress flare.

Backed by electrifying live performances both bands would go to be heralded by the NME in January 1994 as part of the ‘New Wave Of New Wave’. Both signing record deals with Virgin off-shoot Hi-Rise Recordings, the bands would go onto to releases a string of EPs such as You’re Not My Babylon, Spring 1994, Too Sussed? & I Want To Kill Somebody. Before debut albumsSelf-Abused and (Come On, Join) The High Society came out to respectable chart positions of 59 and 62.

However, with both Blur and Oasis enjoying unprecedented chart success — Oasis’ Definitely Maybe, released in August 1994, sold 100,000 in four days — both were seen as disappointing. Internal divisions, too, were pushing both bands to breaking point. SMASH imploded and TAM would go onto release the criminally overlooked second album Accident & Emergency.

This unique 6CD collection brings together both bands output from this short lived scene. All of the EPs and albums are here and ordered chronologically to give the listener the best possible perspective of the how the scene unfolded.

Accompanying the 6CDs is a 32 page booklet featuring former NME journalist Paul Moody’s (the man responsible for coining the phrase the New Wave of New Wave) in-depth essay depicting the rise and fall of the scene, along with interviews with members of both bands. The booklet also includes previously unseen photos by photographers Martyn Goodacre and Andy Wilshere and short essay’s from both Ed Borrie(S*M*A*S*H) and members of These Animal Men.

As the music and photographs compiled here illustrate, the look and sound of both bands remains timeless. Turn up the volume. S*M*A*S*H and These Animal Men will see you in the speakers.


Track Listings

Disc: 1

1 Speed King (Demo)

2 You're Not My Babylon (Demo)

3 Ambulance (Demo)

4 Drugs Again

5 Lady Love Your Cunt

6 Revisited No.3

7 Shame

8 Real Surreal

Disc: 2

1 Too Sussed? (Live)

2 Speeed King

3 Jobs for the Boys

4 Who's the Daddy Now?

5 You're Not My Babylon

6 (I Want to) Kill Somebody (Topper Mix)

7 (I Want to) Kill Somebody (Keith Le Blanc Mix)

8 (I Want to) Kill Somebody (Gunshot

9 Headhunter Mix)

10 (I Want to) Kill Somebody (Bragg Reshuffle)

11 Revisited No 5

12 Barrabas

13 Oh Ovary

14 Altruism

15 Reflections of You (Remember Me)

16 Self Abused

17 Intermission (Instrumental) ['Silence Scream']

18 Another Love

19 Another Shark in My Swimming Pool

20 Real Surreal

21 Dear Lou

22 Bang Bang Bang (Granta 25)

23 Time

24 A*L*L*Y*C (Bonus)

25 Trainspotter (Bonus)

Disc: 3

1 Soul Around the World

2 Hooligan's Progress

3 Sharp Kid

4 Empire Building

5 Ambulance

6 This Year's Model

7 You're Always Right

8 Flawed Is Beautiful (Edit)

9 This Is the Sound of Youth

10 Sitting Tenant

11 Too Sussed?

12 (Come on, Join) the High Society

13 We Are Living

14 High Society (Return)

Disc: 4

1 Another Love (Bobb It Mix)

2 Another Love (Uncut)

3 Petal Buzz

4 You've Got a Friend Who's a Friend of Mine

5 Reflections of You (Remember Me) (Live)

6 Time (Live)

7 Self Abused (Live)

8 You're Always Right

9 Nowhere Faces

10 My Human Remains

11 False Identification

12 Wait for It

13 You're Always Right [Extended Version]

Disc: 5

1 Hammond Heavy (Emptyheads)

2 (My) Magazine

3 Wichita Lineman

4 Life Support Machine (Bentley Rhythm Ace Go to Town)

5 Life Support Machine (Freebie and the Bean Blip Mix)

6 Every Bullet ('s Got My Name on It)

7 Louis Louis

8 Seaman's Mission Lament

9 Sister Anne

10 Light Emitting Electrical Wave (Mandy's Mix)

11 Light Emitting Electrical Wave (Mutronic Mix)

12 Life Support Machine

13 Emitting Electrical Wave

14 Riverboat Captain

15 Monumental Money Maker

16 24 Hours to Live

17 Sophisticated

18 New Wave Girl

19 Going Native

20 April 7th

21 When Your Hands Are Tied

22 Ambulance Man (Picking Up the Pieces)

Disc: 6

1 Renumerator

2 Motorway Fast

3 Cleaning the System

4 Don't Get in My Way

5 Louie Loui (Origins)

6 Arthur Kane

7 When Your Hands Are Tied (Blues)

8 Hammond Heavy (Alternate Mix)

9 I Now Pronounce You

10 (This Is the) Sound of Youth (Fierce Panda Version)

11 Bang Bang Bang Granta 25 (Fierce Panda Version)

12 Shame [Demo]

13 Llyc [Demo]

14 Dear Lou [Demo]

15 Self Abused [Demo]

16 (I Want to) Kill Somebody [Demo]

17 Drugs Again [Demo]

18 Real Surreal [Demo]

19 Another Love [Demo]

National Scooter Rally dates for 2023


 

York Scooter Club heading home from Brighton in 1977


 

Ocean Colour Scene announce 25th Anniversary 'Salute To Stirling' concert on Saturday 26th August


 

The Selecter announce European Tour Dates and new Studio Album for 2023

 


The Who Are Headlining This Christmas Carol Concert In Chelsea

 

Roger Daltrey and Pete Townsend from The Who will headline a charity carol concert this December, raising money for music therapy charity, Nordoff Robbins.

The greenfingered Brexiter frontman and no-longer-tends-to-smash-up-his-guitar guitarist will perform at St Luke's Church in Chelsea on Tuesday 13 December, although don't hold out for a deafening axe solo mid-Bleak Midwinter — this'll be an acoustic performance.

If you're wondering if The Who ever did a Christmas song themselves, yes they did — it appears on the 1969 album Tommy, and is called... Christmas.

While the two Who legends are headlining, the Nordoff Robbins Carol Service promises a lineup of various  celebrity readings, peppered in-between traditional Christmas carols. There'll also be mulled wine and mince pies.

The Nordoff Robbins Carol Service, St Luke's Church, Chelsea, 13 December, tickets £55+booking

Eddie Piller Presents British Mod Sounds of The 1960s Volume 2: The Freakbeat & Psych Years

 

Curated by Acid Jazz Records and Modcast founder Eddie Piller, “British Mod Sounds of The 1960s Volume 2: The Freakbeat & Psych Years” is the follow up to the hugely successful “British Mod Sounds of The 1960s”, featuring 95 original tracks across a 4CD set - a deep dive into the post-Mod scene in '60s Britain. Featuring a selection of classic and rare tracks, tracing the scene from early '65 to the dawn of a new decade.

Even before Demon's well received 2022 box set 'British Mod Sounds of The 1960s' was released conversations were being had around a follow-up, though rather than just offering a straight if slightly diluted second volume, compiler Eddie Piller decided to put together a collection exploring "What the Mods did next". Once again, long conversations (and the occasional heated debate) were had to ensure the quality of music and attention to detail were second to none. Anything less just wouldn't be the Mod way.

The British Mod bands that had made the first half of the decade so exciting were still around but inevitably their influences had changed. No longer content with re-hashing American R&B, the scene split in multiple directions, not all of it forward looking - some hardened their up-tempo sound and gradually evolved into what we would come to know as Freakbeat. Others bought in psychedelic, esoteric or Eastern influences. A third strand explored a more pastoral or Folk based route. Simply put, songs and hair got longer.

Before the decade was out the choices for the discerning listener included Jazz-Rock, Proto-Prog, Whimsy, Heavy Rock, and Psychedelic Soul - even sounds derived from Cockney music-hall made an appearance.

'Volume 2: The Freakbeat & Psych Years' tracks the development of the original Mod mainstays (the Small Faces, The Who, The Action, The Kinks), with a generous selection of future superstars (David Bowie, Marc Bolan, Fleetwood Mac, Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin and Steve Howe of Yes are all represented here), alongside a few artists so obscure, so rare, that they never got to release a record in the '60s, but Eddie has tracked down the tapes nonetheless.

Stylishly packaged (of course) and including a new sleeve note by Richard Norris, author, musician, producer and DJ, who worked at pioneering psychedelic reissue label Bam Caruso in the '80s, produced Joe Strummer's Mescaleros, but is perhaps best known as one half of Techno duo The Grid and the critically acclaimed group Beyond The Wizard's Sleeve.

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1 The Fairies - Get Yourself Home

2 The Birds - No Good Without You Baby

3 The Poets - Call Again

4 The Sorrows - You've Got What I Want

5 The Eyes - When the Night Falls

6 The New Breed - Unto Us

7 The Riot Squad - I Take It We're Through

8 Jan Panter - Scratch My Back

9 Wimple Winch - Save My Soul

10 Loose Ends - Taxman

11 The Ivy League - My World Fell Down

12 Yardbirds - Happenings Ten Years Time Ago

13 Fleur de Lys - Mud in Your Eye

14 The Truth - Hey Gyp (Dig the Slowness)

15 Scots of St James - Tic Toc

16 The Flies - I'm Not Your Stepping Stone

17 The Move - Disturbance

18 The Craig - I Must Be Mad

19 The Drag Set - Day and Night

20 Apostolic Intervention - Tell Me (Have You Ever Seen Me)

21 David Bowie - the Gospel According to Tony Day

22 Tomorrow - My White Bicycle

23 John's Children - Midsummer Night's Scene

24 Caleb - Baby Your Phrasing Is Bad

25 The Attack - Created By Clive

26 The Gods - Come on Down to My Boat Baby

27 Alex Harvey - the Sunday Song

28 Keith West - Excerpt from a Teenage Opera

Disc: 2

1 Our Plastic Dream - Encapsulated Marigold

2 The Action - in My Dream

3 Dantalian's Chariot - Madman Running Through the Fields

4 Kaleidoscope - Flight from Ashiya

5 Sands - Listen to the Sky

6 Scott Walker - Montagu Terrace (In Blue)*

7 The 23rd Turnoff - Michael Angelo

8 The Fairytale - Listen to Mary Cry

9 Felius Andromeda - Meditations

10 Ice - Anniversary of Love

11 Rupert's People - Dream on My Mind

12 The Accent - Red Sky at Night

13 The Creation - Life Is Just Beginning

14 The Who - I Can See for Miles

15 Fleetwood Mac - Rambling Pony

16 The Cymbaline - Matrimonial Fears

17 Tintern Abbey - Vacuum Cleaner

18 Traffic - Coloured Rain

19 Andy Ellison - It's Been a Long Time

20 The Micky Finn - Garden of My Mind

21 Warm Sounds - Nite Is a Comin'

22 Mike Stuart Span - Children of Tomorrow

23 Nirvana - Rainbow Chaser

24 Mark Wirtz - (He's Our Dear Old) Weatherman

Disc: 3

1 Spencer Davis Group - Moonshine

2 The End - Shades of Orange

3 The Fire - Father's Name Is Dad

4 Turquoise - Tales of Flossie Fillett

5 Billy Nicholls - London Social Degree

6 Aquarian Age - 10,000 Words in a Cardboard Box

7 Status Quo - Pictures of Matchstick Men

8 The Idle Race - the Morning Sunshine

9 The Montanas - a Step in the Right Direction

10 July - Dandelion Seeds

11 Family - See Through Windows

12 Icarus - the Devil Rides Out

13 Plastic Penny - Your Way to Tell Me Go

14 The Elastic Band - 8 1/2 Hours of Paradise

15 Vamp - Floatin'

16 Paul West & Compass - Hey You

17 Sam Gopal - Escalator

18 Sound Barrier - Groovin' Slow

19 Apple - Buffalo Billycan

20 Timebox - Gone Is the Sad Man

21 Locomotive - Mr Armageddon

22 Ossie Layne Show - Rock My Plimsoul

23 The Californians - the Cooks of Cake and Kindness

Disc: 4

1 The Koobas - Barricades

2 The Troggs - Evil Woman

3 Graham Bond - Love Is the Law

4 The Misunderstood - Children of the Sun

5 Small Faces - Me, You and Us Too

6 The Fruit Machine - I'm Alone Today

7 Brian Auger Feat. Julie Driscoll - Flesh Failures (Let the Sunshine in)

8 Terry Reid - Superlungs My Supergirl

9 Jason Crest - Black Mass

10 The Open Mind - Magic Potion

11 Quiet Melon - Diamond Joe

12 Humble Pie - Wrist Job

13 Mighty Baby - Same Way from the Sun

14 Colosseum - Elegy

15 Blonde on Blonde - Castles in the Sky*

16 Peter Wyngarde - Neville Thumbcatch*

17 The Kinks - This Time Tomorrow

18 Satisfaction - My Fixation (Edit)

19 Nucleus - Song for the Bearded Lady

20 Graham Dee - Car Chase

Monday 7 November 2022

Chez 66 at the Freedom Bar, 66 Wardour Street, London on Saturday 26th November


 

The Great Eastern End Of Season Scooter Rally in Mablethorpe from 18th to 20th November


 

Small World to headline the 2022 Mod Xmas Ball at The Waterloo Music Bar, Blackpool, on 10 December


 

Stone Foundation announce 25th Anniversary 2023 tour dates for Germany


 

Nine Below Zero kick off their 'Third Degree 40th Anniversary Tour' at The Jam House, Birmingham, this Thursday 10 November


 

An Evening With Rick Buckler In Conversation With Eddie Piller comes to Gillingham and Birmingham

 

AGMP presents an evening with

RICK BUCKLER

in conversation with EDDIE PILLER

Rick Buckler was the drummer for The Jam throughout the band's entire existence. He performed every concert and played on every record the band ever made.

We are thrilled to welcome Rick Buckler to a special evening where we will discuss his time with one of the UK's finest band's with Eddie Piller (Acid Jazz Records/The Modcast).


Friday 4 November 2022

New Untouchables 25th Birthday Party on Saturday 26th November

 


NOT LONG NOW!

Join us for a fun night in the Capital celebrating 25 years at Orleans/ Limited tickets here www.newuntouchables.com/tickets

Small Fakers play The Night Owl, Birmigham, on Saturday 12 November


 

Northern Soul & Motown Night in Sleaford, Lincolnshire, on Friday 2nd December


 

171 Club at The Highbury, Birmingham, this Saturday 5th November

 


The Atlantic Players may have pulled out, but the show still goes on. Come along to the 171 CLUB at the Highbury, Saturday night, and enjoy some classic Soul, Motown, original RnB, Jazz, original Ska, Psych, Garage, Boogaloo and Northern. All on beautiful vinyl 

Who's Who & Small Fakers in Glasgow on Saturday 19 November




 

Northern Soul Mini All Nighter at Lifestyle Bar, Burton-on-Trent, on Saturday 19 November


 

Purple Weekend 2022 to feature The Charlatans, Corduroy, The Hurricanes and Small Fakers

 


Chris Pope at The Portland, Cambridge, on Wednesday 23 November

 


Nine Below Zero re-release 'Third Degree' LP on white vinyl (Heavy Soul)

 

NINE BELOW ZERO

THIRD DEGREE White Vinyl LP

ROR150

What a way to see in the 150th release on Heavy Soul Records than with one of my personal favourites from my youth. Memories of blasting out 1982's "Third Degree" come flooding back from the opening bars of "Eleven Plus Eleven" and the other singles "Wipe Away Your Kiss" and Sugar Beat".

Fully licensed reissue on WHITE vinyl with the following too:

Limited postcard celebrating the release

Original promo sheet announcing the '82 tour to promote the album

4 page bio of the band

The last two were included in original promo copies of "Third Degree"

Strictly limited to 400 copies

Billy Sullivan (ex-Spitfires) to release 'Paper Dreams' album on 10 March


We’re pleased to announce that Billy Sullivan’s solo debut album ‘Paper Dreams’ will be released 10th March 2023 on Kickstart Recordings. Including singles ‘Overcome’, ‘I Will Follow’ and the blistering ‘Running Out Of Time’.

Recorded over just three days in Coastal Sound recording studios in Liverpool, ‘Paper Dreams’ is Sullivan’s first collection of songs since the demise of former band The Spitfires.

“I can only really compare each album to the previous one” Sullivan says regarding the new album. “The last Spitfires record ‘Play For Today’ was so thought out. From the sound concept to the subject matters of the lyrics. Every tiny detail was planned and poured over and then of course debated. However ‘Paper Dreams’ was completely natural - a collection of songs that me and Simon Dine just wrote for fun without it being an album or us particularly working towards anything at first."


A Spinout Explosion with Purple Hearts (PH2) in Rochester on 19 November

 


Thursday 3 November 2022

Secret Affair to play Cambridge Junction on Wednesday 28th December


 

From The Jam are the cover stars on November's Scootering magazine


 

December's Record Collector is a Paul Weller Special


 

Sunday Got Soul at The Nightingale Room at Grand Central, Brighton, this Sunday 6th November

 


Cover artwork revealed for Detail Magazine issue 7


Here it is..the new cover of Detail #7 our Winter issue with stunning artwork from the famous 5:15 train scene in Quadrophenia from the brilliant @jaymokidart full interview with Jay about his art work in the mag

The Selecter to release 'Celebrate The Bullet' Deluxe Edition Box Set on 11 November

 

Product description

The Selecters's second album, Celebrate The Bullet was released in February 1981 as the follow up to the successful 2 Tone debut album Too Much Pressure, along with the hit singles On My Radio, Three Minute Hero and Missing Words.

Switching labels to Chrysalis Records, the band returned to On My Radio producer Roger Lomas, moving into a more melodic slower pace, whilst keeping their lyrical commentary on racial and social issues. Original members Desmond Brown and Charley Anderson departed before the recording began, with Lomas and Norman Watt-Ray (Ian Dury) helping on bass before new members James Mackie and Adam Williams joined to complete the recording.

Due to unfortunate timing, upon release the title of this album was misunderstood due to the recent murder of John Lennon and an assassination attempt on U.S. President Ronald Regan meant radio stations didn't support the single or album and the release was largely ignored.

This forgotten classic from the 2 Tone era is a timely reissue and will give time for a re-evaluation in the same way the 2021's reissue of too Much Pressure showed the band as relevant.

Pauline Black, who was recently awarded an OBE in 2022, and the band will be touring in November 2022 and into 2023 performing the album in full along with selections of their previous album.

Format: a 3CD deluxe clamshell box set with 20 page booklet featring bands notes. Remastered by Alchemy Mastering At AIR from the original production tapes.

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1 (Who Likes) Facing Situations

2 Deep Water

3 Red Reflections

4 Tell Me What's Wrong

5 Bombscare

6 Washed Up and Left For Dead

7 Celebrate The Bullet

8 Selling Out Your Future

9 Cool Blue Lady

10 Dream Goes On

11 Bristol And Miami

Disc: 2

1 Celebrate The Bullet [Single Version]

2 Last Tango In Dub

3 Deepwater [Single Version]

4 Deepwater [Version] (BBC Session John Peel 11/10/1980)

5 Selling Out Your Future (BBC Session John Peel 11/10/1980)

6 Tell Me What's Wrong (BBC Session John Peel 11/10/1980)

7 Washed Up and Left For Dead (BBC Session John Peel 11/10/1980)

8 Deep Water (BBC Session Mike Read 14/11/1980)

9 Bombscare (BBC Session Mike Read 14/11/1980)

10 (Who Likes) Facing Situations (BBC Session Mike Read 14/11/1980)

11 Cool Blue Lady (BBC Session Mike Read 14/11/1980)

12 Selling Out Your Future (Live at the NEC, Birmingham, 27/12/1980)

Disc: 3

1 Out On the Streets (Live at the NEC, Birmingham, 27/12/1980)

2 Danger (Live at the NEC, Birmingham, 27/12/1980)

3 Deepwater (Live at the NEC, Birmingham, 27/12/1980)

4 Missing Words (Live at the NEC, Birmingham, 27/12/1980)

5 Washed Up And Left For Dead (Live at the NEC, Birmingham, 27/12/1980)

6 On My Radio (Live at the NEC, Birmingham, 27/12/1980)

7 Celebrate The Bullet (Live at the NEC, Birmingham, 27/12/1980)

8 Selling Out Your Future (Live at the NEC, Birmingham, 27/12/1980)

9 Street Feeling (Live at the NEC, Birmingham, 27/12/1980)

10 They Make Me Mad (Live at the NEC, Birmingham, 27/12/1980)

11 Bristol and Miami (Live at the NEC, Birmingham, 27/12/1980)

12 (Who Likes) Facing Situation (Live at the NEC, Birmingham, 27/12/1980)

13 Bombscare (Live at the NEC, Birmingham, 27/12/1980)

14 Too Much Pressure (Live at the NEC, Birmingham, 27/12/1980)


The Selecter - 2023 Tour Dates


 

The Bristol Modernist & Sixties Weekender 2023

 


THE BRISTOL MODERNIST AND SIXTIES WEEKENDER 2023 is on its way and tickets are selling fast. For all the information, venues, DJ's, Bands and more follow the link below. You can even pay for tickets in installments. What's not to love: -

https://www.suityourselfmodernists.com/bristol-2023-mod-weekender?fbclid=IwAR13iw4A9kXvhDH0AI81bEYpo4hKEMMTuGc20E7W-ybJab1gwRyTxyOEPH8

The Exits limited edition Power Pop Pack available from Blaamm Records now!

 

Limited Edition Pack! NEW 12” ALBUM ON GOLD VINYL: ‘THE LEGENDARY LOST ALBUM’ THE EXITS.PRINTED INNER BAG, FACTORY SHRINK WRAPPED.

......PLUS 7” A COPY OF 4 TRACK VINYL E.P. 'FOUR BY FOUR' ALL TOGETHER IN ONE PACK.

Available now from diane@blaammrecords.com

Pack Price: £25.00 plus £5.50 post and packing

The Style Councillors' Keeps On Burning Tour Dates 2022/23


 

Tuesday 1 November 2022

Foxton & Hastings new album, 'The Butterfly Effect', out now!


Product description

Bruce Foxton and Russell Hastings team up once again to release their third album together 'The Butterfly Effect'. Serving as the lead single from the album, the addictive 'Lula' is described by Hastings as 'A catchy pop song about a spoilt woman who seemingly has everything yet has nothing'. This standout track succeeds in capturing a summer vibe, thanks in part to a blistering saxophone solo from Tony 'Rico' Richardson. This vigour is apparent also on 'Two Of Us', which Hastings labels 'a nod to Quadrophenia'. The 'sha-la-la' repeats and loud, ringing guitars instantly takes you back to a time of mods vs rockers and heady sunny days in Brighton. The duo both name The Beatles as a huge influence on their work - no more is this apparent on the lively closing track 'Anything You Want' with its bouncy rhythm and psychedelic ending. Recording the vocals for this track unknowingly with covid, Hastings' voice nevertheless shines and brings the album to a rousing end.

Track Listing

1 Electronic Lover

2 Feet Off the Ground

3 Lula

4 She Said

5 Wanted

6 Circles

7 Time On Your Side

8 Two of Us

9 Rain

10 Too Old to Cry, Too Young to Die

11 Walking With Me

12 Anything You Want

Detail Magazine - Issue 12 Out Now!

  The Spring issue of Detail - features on Dee C Lee, Gabicci, Ted Carroll, Eddie Piller, Jimmy Smith, Tim Vickery, Tony Briggs, Paul Smiler...