This Special Edition of The Beatles’ REVOLVER features a new mix by Giles Martin and Sam Okell, plus the original mono mix, a 4-track EP, 31 session takes and home demos, a 100-page book with a foreword by Paul McCartney, an essay by Questlove, detailed track notes, photos and ephemera including handwritten lyrics, tape boxes and extracts from Klaus Voormann’s graphic novel on the making of the cover art. On 5 CDs in a 12.56” x 12.36” slipcase.
Will Of The People follows up Fly On The Wall and takes the listener through a similar mix of rarities, this time spanning the period 2002 to 2021. Like its predecessor not only does it make for some great listening but it’s a superb way to hear all those hard to get solo tracks that haven’t been featured on an album before. This collection has been compiled by Paul Weller himself and Paul has provided artwork ideas and sketches for the design. Alongside this Paul has written track-by-track sleeve notes. The release includes additional sleeve notes from writer and broadcaster John Wilson.
The Mark Three
The 5 x 3 EP
Side 1
1)
One Last Time (Paul Hooper-Keeley)
2)
The Road and the River (Mark le Gallez)
Side 2
1)
Kiss Me (Mark le Gallez)
2)
I Can’t Live Without You (Paul Hooper-Keeley)
3)
The Rest Of My Life (Paul Hooper-Keeley)
The Mark Three are: -
Mark Le Gallez – Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals, Bass
& Handclaps
Paul Hooper-Keeley – Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals,
Rhythm Guitar, Lead Guitar, Hammond B3, Piano & Handclaps
Emma Page – Backing Vocals, Drums, Tambourine
& Handclaps
Recorded at Robannas Studio on 4th & 5th
June 2022
Engineered by Miguel Seco
Produced by The Mark Three
52 Hours in Birmingham
Mark Le Gallez, Paul Hooper-Keeley and Emma Page first came together at Robannas Recording Studio & Rehearsal Rooms in Birmingham at 4pm on Friday 3rd June 2022. The intention was to rehearse and record ‘One Last Time’ and ‘Kiss Me’ for a 7” single, with demos of the two songs having been circulated in advance. But something special happened in that 4-hour rehearsal session with the instant chemistry between the three musicians resulting in additional songs, previously unheard by anyone but the songwriter, being thrown into the mix and coming together almost instantaneously. The Mark Three were born.
Over the next two days, recording and mixing sessions from 10am to 8pm took place, engineered by the wonderful Miguel Seco until, after 52 hours in Birmingham from the band’s formation, The Mark Three had the masters to the 5-songs on this EP in their hands.
We hope you enjoy these recordings and, if so, The Mark Three may just descend upon Robannas again to see what we can come up with over another 52 hours in Birmingham.
He's Back and what a blinder!!!
Over nearly 40 years
later prolific singer songwriter and bassist, guitar player and multi
instrumentalist MARK LE
GALLEZ releases his follow up to MARK ONE. Mark is best
known as bassist and singer with MOD/POWERPOP band THE RISK, also singing
in garage psyche band THE
SACRED HEARTS and garage punk band THEE JENERATORS, and of
course not forgetting mod/power pop band SPEAKEASY!
also known for such alter egos as STEAMPUNK ARTISTE and general
mischief maker THE CROWMAN
and BABA
GANOUSH rhythm and soul nutter. He has also played bass and
guitar in skiffle turn THE
JOHN WESLEY STONE. Mark has toured extensively played many many
gigs and worked with quite a few, shall we say interesting people.
So why release the
follow up now, well, to be honest had the time and energy a meeting in the pub
in GUERNSEY
and the help of long term multi instrumentalist, producer and engineer:
JAMES LE
HURAY’
This release is a
limited run of only 250
copies of high quality green vinyl. 10
tracks are featured and are basically a potted history of the man’s song
writing and career over many years.
COLIN
LEACH, Mark’s colleague and
guitarist and singer from THE
RISK produced the artwork and KERRIN SEARS did the photography, and yes
the jacket still fits and is the same one worn on the original MARK ONE.
FEATURES
TRAFFIC JAM
GHOSTS
ELVIS
LUCIFER LADY
GOD BLESS YOU, GENE
CLARK
ONLY CRY THE LONELY
YOU CAPTURED MY HEART
SOLD MY SOUL
YOU SAY
MYSTERY TRAIN
£16.99
Plus delivery
Countdown Records is proud to announce the return of Graham Day to their roster. Their relationship with Graham stretches back to 1986 when his renowned band The Prisoners released their album In From The Cold on the label.
Fronted by Graham on vocals and guitar, The Prisoners were a pioneering and inspirational 80s British garage band, who fused beat-era rock with R&B, American garage and psychedelia. A restless and independent spirit, Graham has released albums under many guises, including: Solarflares, Graham Day and The Forefathers, and current group, The Gaolers. He has also worked as a producer and long-time collaborator with fellow Kent coast musician Billy Childish, briefly playing drums in Billy’s group The Mighty Caesars and later bass in The Buff Medways.
Graham’s debut solo album ‘The Master Of None’ is more the result of circumstance than by design. Demoing songs for the third Graham Day and The Gaolers album, Graham’s plans were scuppered by lockdown – with a drummer based in the U.S. there was no real chance of recording the album in the foreseeable future. Despite his urgency as a writer, and reluctance to dwell on a song for too long, Graham set himself the challenge of trying to turn his Logic Pro X demos into an album-proper. Building each track up from scratch, he added bass guitar, Hammond and congas to the exciting vocal and electric guitar track, and the most challenging instrument of all, drums. These had to be played along to the demos, which were built on quantised computer drum tracks.
The resultant 12-track album is a remarkable achievement. It defies the fact it’s been pieced together, sounding more like a live studio album recorded by a full band. Packed full of great hooks, melodies, killer riffs and Graham’s gift for writing a short, sharp visceral garage-pop song, The Master Of None is one of his finest albums to date. Full of youthful exuberance it belies its creator’s years and is the sort of album younger garage bands would love to create.
Released 25th March 2022.
PRE-ORDER UPDATES
This is the shit bit....
I have been in regular contact with the pressing plant and orders have now been put back by about two months. Smart Alec has arrived and the next one will be PH2 "1974" which many of you have kindly pre-ordered. This was due end of December, then end of January and now looks like end of MARCH!!!
This is purely down to the greed of companies like Universal etc who have basically booked all the pressing plants in Europe to fill HMV up with reissues of albums you can buy at a third of the price in your local second hand record shop.
I took a look in my local HMV and was shocked to see what mediocre LPs are being pushed out. When I last looked at the vinyl chart Fleetwood Mac were still #2 behind Adele!
Anyway, these are the reasons everything is taking so long. I profusely apologise for all of this and the plant are trying to get things to me earlier, but the next few releases are looking like this time-wise:
ROR139 PH2 "1974" 25/03
ROR140 REACTION "This Is Now, That Was Then" LP/CD 27/04
ROR141 THE CHORDS UK "21st Century Girl" 05/05
ROR142 PH2 "Urban Soul" 10/05
ROR143 THE TIMES "Patrick McGoohan" 15/05
ROR145 THE TIMES "Here Comes The Times... Vol 1" 27/06
ROR146 tba
ROR147 THE TIMES "Whatever Happened To Thamesbeat" 27/07
ROR148 tba
ROR149 tba
After 9 years and four
incredible albums, The Spitfires have decided to call it a day on the
eve of their final LP Play For Today (Acid Jazz Records).
The original line up of Billy Sullivan, Sam Long and Matt Johnson will say goodbye to their loyal fans at Camden’s Electric Ballroom on Saturday 26th February 2022.
Stone Foundation announce their only
London concert of 2022 at the newly re-opened Koko in Camden in support
of the incredible new LP Outside Looking In.
Very special guests will be announced shortly.
The seeds of British modern soul band Stone Foundation were sown in the early ’90s when Neil Sheasby and Neil Jones met.
Over the years they’ve collaborated with Paul Weller, Peter Capaldi, Bettye Lavette, William Bell, Nolan Porter, Graham Parker, Carleen Anderson, Mick Talbot, Kathryn Williams, Laville, Melba Moore, Hamish Stuart, Dr. Robert from the Blow Monkeys and many more.
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