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Thursday, 5 September 2013
The Strypes – latest news and a free EP on Amazon
The
Strypes say, “The track-by-track video for our debut album 'Snapshot' is now
online!
The
album launch at the Electric Ballroom in London next Thursday 12th September is
now SOLD OUT but you can still be in with a chance of winning a pair via their
website.
Don't
forget that our album 'Snapshot' is finally released next Monday 9th September!
For those of you that can't wait until then to get hold of some new music from
us, don't worry! We've just dropped a live mp3 album for free download over at
Amazon, which you can pick up here right now, or take a listen to the Spotify
Live Session we did.
Finally
- a limited amount of wristbands will be available for entry to an in-store gig
that we're playing at Rough Trade East next Wednesday 11th September for those
of you that pick up a copy of our album in the store from Monday 9th September.
Can't make it down on the day? Have no fear. A limited number of streaming
passes will be available online next week also.”
How The Who’s Stolen Equipment Led To The First 100-Watt Amp
Nowadays
a 100-watt amplifier or a large “stack” amp is a mainstay of heavy metal bands
and big, loud live rock shows. But they were once considered impossible to pull
off – until Pete Townshend and John Entwistle insisted otherwise.
In the
summer of 1965, The Who debuted new amplifiers and equipment from Vox. But the
guys believed their new brand new stuff would attract potential thieves, so
they decided to shop for a guard dog.
Well, in
one of the more ironic twists in rock history, while the band was inside the
Battersea Dogs’ Home shopping on September 4, 1965, the van containing their
new equipment was indeed stolen. Turns out they were right! But that one theft
turned out to be something of a blessing in disguise for both The Who and the
now-legendary amp brand Marshall.
Townshend
and Entwistle had tried Marshall amps before, but their 50-watt models weren’t
loud enough to overpower the crowd noise (and Keith Moon’s relentless pounding
on the drums). Even though they were already dissatisfied with the sound of
their Vox equipment, the stolen van prompted them to return to Marshall to
create something new.
Sure
enough, they came back to Townshend with 100-watt heads and a giant 8×12
speaker cabinet stacked on top of each other, and thus the “stack” amp was
born. The model proved too unwieldy for roadies, however, and evolved into two
4×12 cabs that he stacked on top of each other.
It’s
been said that Townshend designed the amp himself, but in actuality he just
inspired the concept.
This is
just another big reason The Who have a reputation of being one of the loudest
bands in rock history…And another reason Townshend today struggles with his
hearing.
Wilko Johnson: Sir Elton John's Award Tribute
Sir
Elton John has paid tribute to terminally ill British guitar legend Wilko
Johnson by presenting him with an award he had just received himself.
The
singer, who had been handed the Genius award at the GQ ceremony by the Dr
Feelgood musician, promptly handed it back to him declaring: "You're the
f*****g genius here."
Sir
Elton added: "He's too busy living life to think about f*****g
dying."
Speaking
later, Johnson, who has cancer of the pancreas and has chosen not to undergo
treatment, said he was "very, very touched" by the gesture.
He said:
"I didn't expect it, but I'll probably put the award on my mantelpiece
like you're supposed to."
A
founding member of the 1970s Essex band Dr Feelgood, noted for his exuberant
performances and mad-eyed stare, Johnson later went on to lead his own band and
had a stint in Ian Dury's band The Blockheads.
He has
won a new generation of fans who watch him on the TV fantasy series Game Of
Thrones, in which he appeared as silent executioner Ilyn Payne.
Did you see Ska group Symarip in 1960s?
An
Oxford film maker is looking for people who saw the ska group Symarip in the
late 60s and early 70s for a new film.
Sharon
Woodward, a fan of the group, is a director specialising in local heritage, who
recently made a documentary about her own adolescence called Thank you Skinhead
Girl.
Symarip
was formed in the late 1960s and had also been known as The Bees, The Pyramids,
Seven Letters and Zubaba.
Email
her on info@mischiefpictures.co.uk
GQ Magazine Men Of The Year Winnesr 2013 - Editor's Special: Roger Daltrey
There
are two sides to the Who, both equally valid but often at war with one another.
While Pete Townshend freely admits to overthinking every element of his life,
Daltrey is one of life's doers - and all the better for it. He remains one of
the best rock frontman: a man of passion, force and formidable charisma. He is
an Icon who wears the title lightly - in recent years when he's not been
recording dynamite tracks like "Black Widow's Eyes" he's been working
tirelessly on the Teenage Cancer Trust concerts. This year he's toured
Quadrophenia + More (no, not on a moped) and we can't wait to hear the
definitive version of rock opera Tommy due out in November. At 69, he remains
the benchmark by which all future frontmen will be measured. As lifelong fan
Jeremy Clarkson explains in our new issue: "Everybody should be forced to
go and see the Who before they're allowed to pick up a microphone."
Read the
full exclusive interview and photo shoot in the The Men Of The Year Issue of
British GQ, on sale 4 September, priced £3.99.
Wednesday, 4 September 2013
Pop Art Bridges Sixties Mod with Modern Tech by Kelly Reid (Kingstonist)
Schaefer
is a local artist and musician and has been working on his Pop Art series for
about a year. Though his work hearkens back in many ways to the 1960s,
Schaefer’s process is surprisingly technical and twenty-first century.
“I draw
small images with brush and India ink,” explains Schaefer. “I take a photo of
the completed image with my cell phone and email it to Hersh Jacob.” Jacob is
the owner of Studio 22. Jacob then alters the image via computer, fiddling with
texture and colour, before emailing the image back to Schaefer. “I reproduce by
hand several iterations of the image,” Schaefer goes on. Jacob then makes
glycee prints and sends other images off for silkscreen printing.
Sound
complicated? The simplicity behind Schaefer’s graphic tulips and cows belies
the inordinately technical process. Most of Schaefer’s work is a progression of
recurring images with variations: red, yellow, blue; small, larger, largest.
The seriality of his work is as much a comment on the convolutedness of
production as on the retro commercialization of art. Or, perhaps more
accurately, Art.
But
Schaefer is certainly having fun while he’s at it. The pièce de resistance of
his exhibit is the ubiquitous pointing finger. Available on buttons, on
postcards, and on prints, the pointing finger of varying hues is everywhere in
the collection. The endless fingers cheekily implicate us, the viewers. “I’m
often a bad machine,” says Schaefer of his attempts to make his works of art as
uniform and precise as possible. With Schaefer pointing so many fingers (quite
literally) at us, I suppose I should consider my own uniformity, my deference
to commercialism, my endless use of technology, my own – as it were –
machinery.
Then
again, maybe Schaefer is just giving us all the finger.
The Pop
Art series runs at Studio 22 between August 17th and September 15th. - See more
at:
Button Up announce new album and gig dates
A new
Button Up album, ‘Beat Street’, will be recorded at Greg Kane’s Studio in
Glasgow in January 2014. Button Up have joined Pledge Music on this project.
Button
Up have some really special gigs coming up...
Friday
11th October
Paisley
MOD Festival @ Bungalow Bar, Paisley
Saturday
2nd November
Brown
Bull Bar, Lochwinnoch nr Paisley
Saturday
9th November - 8pm
Shildon
Civic Hall (Tighten Up 2 Fest), nr Durham
Friday
29th November - 8pm
Blues
Kitchen (ZooZoo Club), Camden, London
Saturday
30th November - 8pm
The Adam
& Eve, Digbeth, Birmingham
Friday
6th December - 8pm
Berit
and Browns, Eurocentral M8(Acoustic Set) Opening Glen Tilbrook (Squeeze)
Friday
27th December
Georgian
Hotel, CoatbridgeIn aid of Norries Kitchen
Friday
21st March 2014 - 4pm
Classic
Grand (March of the MODS), Glasgow
Saturday
3rd May - 9pm
The
Cavern Club (MOD Culture weekender), Liverpool
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