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Wednesday, 29 September 2021
The Specials' new album: "A curious collection of covers... with no ska" say The Express
https://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/music/1496316/the-specials-new-album-curious-cover-collection-no-ska
Tuesday, 21 September 2021
The Specials - new studio album, 'Protest Songs 1924 - 2012'
The Specials who enjoyed a triumphant 2019 with the release of the critically acclaimed “Encore”, their first-ever number 1 album, coming 40 years after they exploded onto the music scene and launched the 2 Tone movement, make a very timely return with the release of their brand new album “Protest Songs – 1924 -2012”. Released on August 27th through their new label Island Records, the album features twelve singular takes on specially chosen protest songs across an almost 100-year span and shows The Specials still care, are still protesting and are still pissed off!
Tracklist
1. Freedom Highway
2. Everybody Knows
3. I Don't Mind Failing In This World
4. Black, Brown And White
5. Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Us Around
6. Fuck All The Perfect People
7. My Next Door Neighbour
8. Trouble Every Day
9. Listening Wind
10. Soldiers Who Want To Be Heroes
11. I Live In A City
12. Get Up, Stand Up
Stone Foundation announce new album, 'Outside Looking In', for February 2022
We're delighted to announce our 10th studio album Outside Looking In
will be released on 18th February 2022!
The title track is out now on all digital platforms and the album is available
for pre-order in a variety of limited and signed formats.
The album includes 12 new Stone Foundation tracks
(including the previously-released Echoes of Joy)
As ever, the band have brought their collaborative approach to this new album
with guest vocalists including the legendary disco diva Melba Moore
as well as past collaborators Laville and Sulene Fleming
1: Soon You’ll Return
2: Turning Up The Hurt
3: Outside Looking In
4: Now That You Want Me Back (feat. Melba Moore)
5: I Need Your Love
6: Echoes of Joy
7: Movin’ On
8: Stylin’ (feat. Sulene Fleming)
9: Feel The Colours
10: Heaven Knows Why (feat. Laville & Sheree Dubois)
11: Reach Up Higher (feat. Graziella Affinita & Sheree Dubois)
12: Somewhere A Voice
The album is available in a variety of formats:
CD, Deluxe 2CD, Vinyl, Yellow Vinyl, Pink Vinyl and Cassette
The Deluxe 2CD and Yellow Vinyl are exclusive to our webstore
Pink Vinyl is exclusive to independent record shops in the UK, contact your favourite one to reserve your copy
The 2CD contains a bonus disc featuring b-sides and a selection
of the very best live sessions we have recorded for our Patreon
PROPER – A MODERNIST GUIDE TO IMPECCABLE TASTE BY ANDY MORLING
Proper explores the concept of beauty and good taste in music, cinema, food, vehicular design and clothing, through a Modernist lens.
Published 21st September 2021.
https://modghosts.co.uk/product/proper/
Flat 19 - Perfect Girl EP - Picture Disc 7" on Detour Records
"DETOUR RECORDS" are Pleased To
Announce their next anticipated release in their Popular MOD PICTURE DISC
Series.
THREE UNRELEASED MOD GEMS FROM 1981
RELEASE DATE :
FRIDAY 8th OCTOBER 2021
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Pre Orders Being Taken Now >>>
FLAT 19 - Perfect Girl EP (PICTURE DISC) 7"
Well here it is, the wait
is over and we can now reveal the THIRTEENTH Picture Disc in this very
collectable '79 Classic Mod series.
Hailing
from South London, Flat 19 were formed in the spring of 1980 when old pals
Steve and Gordon found Barry through an ad in a music paper and Andy was a mate
of Gordon’s older brother.
So the
band was formed with Steve Bartlett on Vocals & Guitar, Gordon Watson on
Vocals & Guitar, Barry Frost on Bass and Andy Hunter on Drums.
All four
of them had a love of all things Beatles, Stones, Mod and the Sixties. They
named themselves after an, at that point an unreleased Merton Parkas song as
they were their local band and they were all fans.
Their
first live performance took place at a school friend’s wedding in late1980 but
their first proper gig took place at The Castle pub in Tooting in Feb 1981
supporting Andy’s brother’s band “Hit and Run” who were very popular at the
time playing RnB that was very similar to Nine Below Zero.
They
played regular gigs at The Castle in Tooting (and became their house band as
Andy was now DJing there too) and Kings Head in Fulham and in no time they had
built up a hard-core following of fans as they mixed their set up with some
classy original tracks along with the trusty covers one of which was “Run Run
Run” by the Who which they always closed their set with, accompanied with
plenty of feedback along with an manic strobe lighting show! The Crowed loved
this and it always went down a storm!
On
Saturday 30th May 1981, they ventured into ‘Wave Studios” in
Twickenham to lay down these three tracks. This was actually 40 Years ago and
has stayed unreleased to now!!!!
During
their three year existence they played a lot of gigs, sometimes up to 4 in one
week. The biggest gig that the band got to play was supporting The Purple
Hearts in Ilford.
When Andy
and Barry left for reasons no one can remember, Simon Smith of The Merton
Parkas and Andy’s Brother Phil filled in until permanent replacements could be
found and then a young Steve White took over the drums and Mick Martin was
drafted in on Bass. This line-up did one gig supporting The Truth at the
Marquee. They were offered more gigs, but decided to call it a day as it wasn’t
the same in the summer of 1982.
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ONLY 300 COPIES PRESSED AS PER USUAL >>>
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Perfect Girl
Silently Crazy
Flat 19
£12.99
Plus delivery
Secret Affair - "Let Your Heart Dance" / "Sorry Wrong Number" out on 7" blue vinyl now (Heavy Soul)
Blue Vinyl, official reissue
Got one? Order now at www.heavysoul45s.co.uk
The Times 6-CD Box Set - My Picture Gallery – The Artpop! Recordings (Cherry Red)
Six CD box set containing the complete recordings released between 1981 and 1986 by Edward Ball’s indie mod band The Times including their albums Go! With The Times (recorded 1980 but released in 1985), Pop Goes Art! (1982), This Is London (1983), Hello Europe (1984), Up Against It (1986) and Enjoy (1986).
Also includes The Times’ rare 1981 debut single ‘Red With Purple Flashes’ / ‘Biff! Bang! Pow!’ which has sold for over £300 on Discogs and was named as one of the top five mod revival singles in Mojo magazine.
Bonus tracks include The Times’ legendary take on the ‘Theme From Dangerman’, a cover of
David Bowie’s ‘London Boys’, tracks from the 12” EPs ‘I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape’ (1983), ‘Blue Period’ (1985), ‘Boys About Town’ (1986) and ‘Times TV’ (1986) and an alternative version of perhaps their most famous song ‘I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape’ (inspired by cult TV series The Prisoner) taken from the ‘A Splash Of Colour’ compilation that celebrated the early 1980s psychedelic revival.
Edward Ball was a member of cult band The Television Personalities alongside his school friend Dan Treacy before leaving to concentrate on The Times. Treacy plays guitar on the Pop Goes Art! album which was originally released on Dan and Ed’s Whaam! Records before being reissued on Edward’s Artpop! label.
The Whaam! label set up by Edward Ball with the Television Personalities’ Dan Treacy and Ball’s own Artpop! Label were a direct inspiration for Alan McGee to set up Creation Records who signed Edward Ball in 1988. McGee was a fan of The Times and the ‘Pop Goes Art!’ and ‘This Is London’ albums and they inspired his own band Biff Bang Pow! and Creation Records.
The 1986 album Up Against It is the soundtrack to Joe Orton’s rejected screenplay for The Beatles that was staged by Edward Ball and Mood Six’s Tony Conway at a West London theatre. Edward Ball has approved the box set and has contributed notes alongside MOJO and Record Collector writer Lois Wilson.
The albums This Is London, Hello Europe and Enjoy make up the ‘Frank Summit’ trilogy, an ambitious work with the scope of Tommy or Quadrophenia that foretells Brexit and the rise of right wing leaders such as Donald Trump.
https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/the-times/my-picture-gallery-the-artpop-recordings?utm_source=CJ&cjevent=4b0e34891af111ec8235f7460a180512
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The Mark Three release second LP, 'Happy Today', on coloured 12" vinyl
https://marklegallez.bandcamp.com/
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