Marshall Chess’ Introduction To Chess Records

 

https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/marshall-chess-interview/

'To Be Someone' Film - An Interview with Pete Meadows & Ray Burdis

 

Watch the interview on YouTube at https://youtu.be/YTw-RQJ6xqw

NINE BELOW ZERO 'Don't Point Your Finger' 40th Anniversary Tour

 

UK-based Rhythm 'n' Blues Group celebrate acclaimed second LP's 40th anniversary. 

After the critical and public acclaim of Nine Below Zero's Live at the Marquee (1980) debut LP, the band kept the momentum going with 1981's Don't Point Your Finger. Produced by Glyn Johns, it was the band's first studio LP and featured the singles Three Times Enough, Helen and Ain't Comin' Back along with covers of Roy Head's Treat Her Right, Howlin' Wolf's Sugar Mama and Bobby Day's Rockin' Robin. 

Nine Below Zero toured with The Who and The Kinks around the time of this LP and also appeared on The Old Grey Whistle Test, The Young Ones and The South Bank Show. 

Nine Below Zero are still going strong and the band's most recent LP Avalanche came out in 2019 to critical acclaim. 

'Anthony Meynell - Live In Tokyo' CD now available to buy

 

A treat for Squire fans!

We are thrilled to announce the arrival of the latest album: Anthony Meynell - Live In Tokyo.

Acoustic versions of all your favourite Squire songs combined with unheard compositions taken from the 'Passengers On Trains' album. These never heard before acoustic performances hark back to the original songwriting arrangements. You never hear them like this!

1. Every Trick (In The Book Of Love)
2. Passengers On Trains
3. B-A-B-Y Baby Love
4. September Gurls
5. Your Golden Finger
6. Tapestry Of Fire
7. Something To Believe In
8. Nervous Laughter
9. Jesamine
10. My Mind Goes Round In Circles
11. Troubadour

In June 1995, Anthony visited Japan for the debut of his album 'Passengers On Trains'. The album launch included solo concerts in Tokyo, combining the new material with some favourites picked from the Squire repertoire. This album captures one of those concerts in entirety, and the stark arrangements and intimate atmosphere reveal the songwriter behind the songs, while the occasion amplifies the passion behind the performer.

Recorded live at Ebisu Guilty, Tokyo, Japan on 16 June 1995.

Front Cover Design Revealed For Heavy Soul! Modzine Issue 53 - Out In April

 

'A Band with Built-In Hate: The Who from Pop Art to Punk' book out now! Available for £12.79 from Amazon

'Ours is music with built-in hatred.' Pete Townshend

A Band with Built-In Hate pictures The Who from their inception as the Detours in the mid-sixties to the late seventies, post-Quadrophenia. It is a story of ambition and anger, glamour and grime, viewed through the prism of Pop art and the radical levelling of high and low culture that it brought about - a drama that was aggressively performed by the band.

Peter Stanfield lays down a path through the British pop revolution, its attitude and style, as it was uniquely embodied by The Who: first, under the mentorship of arch-mod Peter Meaden, as they learnt their trade in the pubs and halls of suburban London; and then with Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp, two aspiring filmmakers, at the very centre of things in Soho. Guided by contemporary commentators - among them George Melly, Lawrence Alloway and most conspicuously Nik Cohn - Stanfield describes a band driven by belligerence, and of what happened when Townshend, Daltrey, Moon and Entwistle moved from back-room stages to international arenas, from explosive 45s to expansive concept albums. Above all, he tells of how The Who confronted their lost youth as it was echoed in punk.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Band-Built-Hate-Who-Punk/dp/1789142776/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1U6UH9LEGBNCV&dchild=1&keywords=the+who+from+pop+art+to+punk&qid=1616145210&s=books&sprefix=the+who+from+%2Cstripbooks%2C147&sr=1-1

50 years of Get Carter: a new interview with director Mike Hodges

 

Half a century after the release of perhaps the greatest of all British gangster films, the BFI caught up with director Mike Hodges to sift through his memories of the shoot and ask whether Get Carter could be made the same way today.

Read the full interview at: -

https://www.bfi.org.uk/interviews/get-carter-mike-hodges

The Spitfires announce July shows and rearranged dates for their April/May UK tour

 

Paul Weller on' Later.....with Jools Holland' this Friday

Paul Weller has announced that this Friday at 10pm GMT he will be on Later with Jools Holland. After many incredible performances on the show before, we know it'll be one not to be missed with the first performance of Glad Times, a new track from FAT POP!

BREAKING NEWS: The Deep Six announced as Special Guests for The Circles Blackpool show on 6th August

BREAKING NEWS: The Deep Six have been announced as special guests for The Circles show on Friday 6th August @ The Waterloo Music Bar, Blackpool.

Tickets Available at: -

https://www.seetickets.com/event/the-circles/the-waterloo-music-bar/1807497?fbclid=IwAR1fUgUVl0bYOdrlIJjm2LHPEZ9L473PjFr_4kjQDyX6rFJ5V_WrSvLveTE

The Vapors & The 79ers rearranged tour dates for 2021

 The Vapors are a new wave band who formed in 1978. Discovered by Bruce Foxton of The Jam (who went on to be their co-manager with John Weller), The Vapors released the classic singles Turning Japanese, News at Ten, Jimmie Jones, Prisoners, Waiting for the Weekend, Spiders and two incredible LP's Magnets and New Clear Days before splitting in 1982.

 

The 40th anniversary of the release of their 1980 debut album 'New Clear Days' is being celebrated with the album performed in full + more.

 

The 79ers comprising Brett "Buddy" Ascott and Kip Herring (The Chords), Simon Stebbing (The Purple Hearts) and Ian Jones (Long Tall Shorty). The sounds of the mod revival played by the people who wrote and recorded them.