Record Collector Presents… Paul Weller (June 2021)

 

Record Collector Presents… Paul Weller provides fans of the ever-changing singer-songwriter a comprehensive guide to collecting his impressive back catalogue. Featuring an exclusive rummage through Paul’s record collection with the man himself; new pieces on his classic albums, from The Jam to The Style Council right up to the present day; features on the most sought-after records from throughout his career; a behind the scenes look at About The Young, the upcoming exhibition of memorabilia from his days with The Jam; Pete Paphides on what Weller means to him; a glimpse at the collections from some of the most dedicated collectors out there; a meticulously put-together, career-spanning discography; classic features from the RC archive and plenty more.  

Available for pre-order: 10 June 

Release date: 24 June 

BREAKING NEWS: Detour Records release 3-song (1986/87) picture disc 7" by The Threads

 

Detour Records ARE Pleased to announce the next release

FRIDAY 9th JULY 2021

<<< Pre Orders Being Taken Now >>>

Detour Records ARE Pleased to announce the next release in their popular Picture Disc series.. As these three tracks were from the Mid 80s we have decided to add the following caption to our The Classic '79 Mod Series...The Next Generation.

Detour Records feels that the 80s Mod scene has been overlooked somewhat so we feel this needs to be rectified and what a way to start by one of the leading lights who were were very active within the Mod seen in the 80s. The Threads were aligned to the Mod scene and wore their hearts on their sleeves.

Paul Hooper-Keeley remembers...

‘Hey Little Lady’ was recorded at the Slaughterhouse Studios in Driffield and was test pressed as the A-side of a 7” & 12” single by Prism records that was scheduled for release in early 1987 but never saw the light of day. This is the full 12” version. ‘Man With 1,000 Faces’ was recorded at The Blue Room next to The Oval on FA Cup Final day in 1987 and was originally released on the ‘Unicorn Two - Modern Times’ compilation. ‘With Ourselves’ was recorded for Eddie Piller’s Countdown Compilation series. When the Prism deal fell apart, all 3-tracks were recalled by The Threads and featured on their ‘As Yet Untitled’ LP on Unicorn Records in 1987.

Once again, ONLY 300 Copies pressed!

FEATURES

Hey Little Lady

The Man With A Thousand Faces

With Ourselves

The Night Owl in Finsbury Park to launch on 3rd & 4th July

 ***UPDATE**UPDATE**UPDATE***

Our launch weekend is now going down a little something like this...

SAT 3RD JULY

The Flirtations (live vocal performance) (The Night Owl Finsbury Park Launch Weekend: Part 2) is going ahead! Seated, socially distanced + VERY limited capacity!

Dig? With Eddie Piller and more (Opening Night, Seated & Socially Distanced) is also going ahead! Again, seated, socially distanced + VERY limited capacity!

SUN 4TH JULY

Reggae Cookout London w The Tighten Up Crew and Rhoda Dakar (Night Owl Finsbury Park Launch Part 4) yes yes this is also going ahead seated, socially distanced + limited capacity + delicious Caribbean food!

Plus tons more fab events coming soon! All tickets on sale here:

https://www.skiddle.com/.../The-Night-Owl-Finsbury-Park/

PH2 (Purple Hearts 2) at The 100 Club, London on Sunday 10 October 2021

 

AGMP presents

PH2 (Purple Hearts 2)

featuring
Bob Manton - Vocals
Jeff Shadbolt - Bass
Kevin Iverson - Guitar
Steve Smiler Besemer - Drums

+ special guest support: -

CHRIS POPE of THE CHORDS UK (Solo)
+
SQUIRE

PH2 is the Acronym for Phase Two of the Purple Hearts.

Formed from the ashes of Romford Punk group The Sockets, the Purple Hearts were one of the key bands from the late 1970's Mod Revival along with The Jam, Secret Affair, The Chords, The Lambrettas, and Squire.

The Purple Hearts had three singles which reached the UK charts - Jimmy, Frustration & Millions Like Us - and an incredible 1980 debut LP Beat That! on Fiction Records. Further classic singles followed such as My Life's A Jigsaw, & Plane Crash before the band split in 1982.

Two original members of the Purple Hearts, Bob Manton and Jeff Shadbolt, return to perform music from the band's back catalogue along with a few surprises.

Support tonight comes from Chris Pope of The Chords/The Chords UK performing an exclusive solo set.

Also, legendary Mod Revival group Squire are performing a set including hits such as It's Mod, Mod World, Walking Down The Kings Road, Jesamine and more

https://www.seetickets.com/event/ph2-purple-hearts-2-/100-club/1828375?fbclid=IwAR0hP1OHd8vaKiX-YkUGGJ38q3g0WwhHqzAHildHp0IW9PGVLq0_srjUGO4

Rusty unrestored Vespa sets new world record price

 

A 1951 Vespa scooter has set a new world record price of £10,925 – more than a new city car would cost.

The Vespa Douglas scooter has had just one owner since 1955, and is said to be one of the earliest produced in the UK under licence from the Italian parent company. It was even used to tour Scandinavia the same year by its owner.

Sold by H&H Classics at the National Motorcycle Museum in Birmingham on June 9, the £10,925 hammer price set a new world record for an unrestored Vespa of this vintage, and was well above the estimate of £1,500 to £2,500. For comparison, a new Dacia Sandero is priced from £7,995.

Although the rusty scooter is said to need ‘full restoration’, H&H said it was ‘solid and original’, and it even comes with its original registration documents.

Ian Cunningham of H&H Classics Motorcycle Division said: “The family had no idea of the potential value of a small collection of bikes and scooters that their father had put together. They initially asked me if the machines were even worth anything!”

Vespa was and remains headquartered in Italy, but demand was so strong for its scooters in the late 1940s that licensing agreements were struck for companies to produce Vespas around the world.

The Bristol-based Douglas motorcycle company became Vespa’s UK partner to manufacture the scooters, although production in Britain didn’t start until April 1951.

The sale at the National Motorcycle Museum achieved a combined £1.2m, with some 83 per cent of items finding new owners.

Tributes paid to Northern Soul legend Dean Parrish reports Wigan Today

 

A soul singer hailed as “probably one of the best”, who made his name thanks to Wigan’s Northern soul scene, has died.

Dean Parrish was best known for his song ‘I’m On My Way’, which was the last track played every night at Wigan Casino.

The song reached the UK charts and DJ Russ Winstanley later invited him to perform in Wigan and around the UK.

Northern soul fans have been left stunned by his death on June 8, aged 79, in his home city of New York, USA.

Russ, who DJs worldwide, said: “It was just such a shock. We didn’t know it was going to happen.

“The best thing was he was an absolute gentleman, as well as being probably one of the best soul singers you could ever know. He was a lovely man.

“He came and stayed with me. He used to absolutely love coming over here.”

Mr Parrish, whose real name was Phil Anastasi, began performing as a singer in the 1960s and released a number of songs in the USA, including ‘I’m On My Way’, ‘Skate’ and ‘Determination’.

About ‘I’m On My Way’, Russ said: “It hadn’t done very much. I started playing it at Wigan Rugby Club, before the casino. I was always looking for a certain record to finish off every night and it got so very, very popular at the rugby club.

“When I started the Casino, I used it as the finishing record. I used it for every night really, except the very last night, where it was played a number of times and then another was played.”

The song was re-released in 1975 and reached number 38 in the UK charts, thanks to its popularity among Northern soul lovers, and was later part of an EP entitled Three Before Eight released by Wigan Casino’s record label Casino Classics. While it sold 250,000 copies, it did not chart.

Russ later tried to find Mr Parrish, struggling initially as he had reverted to using his real name.

He said: “I did end up finding him and brought him over to Wigan eventually, after the casino had shut. I became very friendly with him. I must have brought him over about 20 times.

“He had such a soulful voice that everyone loved him. When he came across he was just as good, probably one of the best ever live acts.”

Mr Parrish performed in Wigan several times, including at a Wigan Casino reunion at the DW Stadium, as well as at other shows organised by Russ around the country.

He also worked as an actor and appeared in TV series The Sopranos as a wedding singer.

He was close to the heart of so many Northern soul fans that this year’s event to mark the 48th anniversary of Wigan Casino will be held as a tribute to him.

Due to take place from September 24 to 26 at Charles Dickens Hotel in Wigan, it will feature Russ, Tommy Hunt, Paul Stuart Davies, Johnny Boy, Brian Rigby, Alan Cain and others.

Tickets cost £10 for the weekend and will be on sale at the venue from 5pm on July 24. All proceeds will go to local charities in memory of Mr Parrish.

The ska revival is here, but ska never really went away reports The Washington Post

 

The evidence that we are in the midst of a ska revival is plentiful. ­Indie-punk phenomenon Jeff Rosenstock managed a critical hit with “Ska Dream,” a reimagining of his 2020 album “No Dream.” The genre thrives online, where the Ska Tune Network has more than 200,000 subscribers and ska cover versions rake in the views, including a version of Billie Eilish’s “Bad Guy” by Los Angeles band the Interrupters that has 5 million and counting. This year sees the release of two major books, one a 400-page oral history of American ska and the other a spirited defense of the often-maligned genre. And with We Are the Union, there’s a band with genuine breakout potential; the group’s new album focuses on singer Reade Wolcott coming out as a trans woman.

There’s only one argument against the idea that we’re in the midst of a ska revival, and it’s a simple one — ska never went away.

Read the full story at: -

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/ska-revival-we-are-the-union/2021/06/17/950d5e10-cae1-11eb-81b1-34796c7393af_story.html

The legendary The Who and The Kinks gigs played at Hertford Corn Exchange over the years says The Hertfordshire Mercury

 

We've all missed live music over the last year, but even as concerts and gigs resume there are some that will be impossible to beat.

While now we're all used to having to travel into London to see the biggest names that didn't used to be the case.

Long before the big arenas and chain venues, Hertfordshire has helped break through some of the most famous artists in the world.

That includes smaller gigs including Pink Floyd and The Police at Hatfield Poly, as well as the huge shows including Oasis at Knebworth.

Perhaps two of the most incredible were in Hertford, at a venue now fighting for its future.

Hertford Corn Exchange is one of the town's most striking buildings and dates back to 1857.

Then it was built on the site of the old Butchers Market, and before that a prison - so it definitely has some stories to tell.

While there was no chance of filming the gigs on your mobile during its heyday, two of the most interesting concerts to take place in the county have been fondly remembered by people who were there.

The Who played in Hertford on Friday, March 25, 1965, with flyers still living on today as memorabilia.

The Kinks' show is also almost completely lost to history, and there aren't even posters that have survived.

However, fans have documented as many shows as possible, so we know it took place on June 25, 1966.

It was the day after they appeared on Ready Steady Go, playing Sunday Afternoon and Dandy so we're able to piece together the era.

The band would play until 1997, so it was a very early performance, but there would still be You Really Got Me and Sunday Afternoon to enjoy, so fans would have known they were watching something special.

One commentator online managed to get two impressive stories out of the gigs - he had to miss the first show, but his friend won a competition to meet The Kinks before he saw The Who.

He added: "I did see ‘The Who’ performing at the Corn Exchange in 1966 and, on this occasion, it was ‘packed out’. My friend met Roger Daltrey in the Warren House pub that evening and he bought her a drink!"

That's definitely a story worth telling for the decades after.

In recent years, the Hertford Corn Exchange has been revived as a place to enjoy live music and comedy.

It might not have as iconic names these days, but you never know who they could turn out to be.

Is The Kinks' Arthur a lost prog classic? asks Louder Sound

 

They might be better known for Lola and Sunny Afternoon, but The Kinks' Arthur had all the hallmarks of a prog album. Read the full article at: -

https://www.loudersound.com/features/is-the-kinks-arthur-a-lost-prog-classic

Paul Weller's net worth: The Jam frontman's enviable multimillion pound fortune according to the Express

 

PAUL WELLER is one of the UK's most successful musicians, fronting two chart-topping bands - The Jam and The Style Council. What is his net worth?

Paul Weller, 63, was born in Woking, England, and knew he wanted to pursue a career in music after being inspired by The Beatles and The Who. He formed The Jam while still at school in the early 70s, and was not only able to just pursue his childhood dream, but rose to the top of the charts time and again.

The Jam's number one hits include Going Underground, Start! and Town Called Malice.

In 1982, the band broke up at Weller's behest, and he told The Mirror in 2015 that he "wanted to end it to see what else I was capable of, and I'm still sure we stopped at the right time".

Next came The Style Council, who were together from 1983 to 1989 before Weller became a solo artist.

16 albums later, he is still one of the most respected artists in the UK music industry.

So after enjoying three decades of success, what is Paul's net worth?

According to CelebrityNetWorth.com, he is sitting on a £7.2million fortune ($10million).

He has eight children - Leah and Nathaniel, with first wife Dee C. Lee, Dylan, with makeup artist Lucy Halperin, Jesamine and Stevie Mac with Samantha Stock and twin boys, John Paul & Bowie and daughter Nova with current wife Hannah Andrews.

Fay Hallam - New Single and New Album News

 

'Window' is the first single from a new Fay Hallam album 'Modulations' which is scheduled to be released in August.

Fay Hallam in association with Suit Yourself Records

Produced by Andy Lewis.

 

'Window' - Available Now as a Digital Download from the Fay Hallam Website and on Pre-Sale from digital stores - released 25th June

 

>>>  www.fayhallam.co.uk/downloads

'Modulations' - Limited edition 300 hand numbered vinyl LP's

Released 27th August 2021