Thursday, 2 January 2025

Stone Foundation to release 11th studio album, 'The Revival of Survival', on 28th March

 


11th studio album from Stone Foundation. To be released 28th March 2025.

Vinyl LP, presented on classic black vinyl

Tracklist:

A1 How Many Times

A2 The Revival Of Survival

A3 Everything & All I Want

A4 Cut Me Loose (feat. J.P. Bimeni)

A5 Close To Where You Are

B1 Fix You Up

B2 The Beat I Know (feat. Sheree DuBois & Carmy Love)

B3 2 Die 4 U

B4 When Worlds Collide

B5 Reach Out (feat. Laville)

B6 Summer Song (feat. Omar)

The Molotovs sign to Marshall Records

 


https://www.facebook.com/TheMolotovsLondon

Heavy Soul Records to re-release Secret Affair's 'Glory Boys' LP with bonus tracks on blue vinyl

 



OFFICIAL REISSUE, FULLY LICENSED WITH PERMISION FROM THE BAND

EXPECTED RELEASE DATE of mid-FEBRUARY

 

To celebrate the up-coming tour with the added bonus of the headline slot at Mods Mayday 2025, the bona-fide Mod Revival classic LP 'Glory Boys' gets an official reissue on Heavy Soul Records.

Coming with the original artwork with nice new touches added by ex-Jetsetter Paul Bevoir with the added attraction of a stunning gatefold sleeve featuring memorabilia from the day.

The vinyl version also has two extra tracks - both the b-sides from the album's lead singles 'Time For Action' and 'Let Your Heart Dance'.

Only 500 copies pressed (100 on blue vinyl, 400 on black) and individually numbered you also get a fab A5 promo card of the band..

Chris Pope & The Chords UK to release triple 44-track CD with 16-page booklet

 

Chris Pope & The Chords UK
" BUT THEN AGAIN"
26 track Double Vinyl album with bonus 18 track ' Bootleg CD
A Triple 44 track CD with a 16-page booklet
RELEASED in 2025

Secret Affair - 'Glory Boys' 45th Anniversary Tour

 


Purple Hearts - 'Beat That!' 45th Anniversary Tour Dates

 


The Style Councillors 'Shout To The Top' 40th Anniversary Tour

 



The Style Councillors will be celebrating the 40th anniversary of 'Shout To The Top', the 5th single by The Style Council. 

The Style Councillors are the world’s one and only tribute to 

The Style Council. 

Formed in 2013, The Style Councillors celebrate their first decade of performing the music of The Style Council, the group that was the home for Paul Weller for the majority of the 1980’s, and where he wrote some of his finest songs. 

After the dissolution of The Jam in 1982, Paul Weller joined forces with Mick Talbot, formerly of The Merton Parkas, Dexys Midnight Runners and The Bureau, to form The Style Council. 

The Style Council released a string of successful singles between 1983-1989 such as Speak Like a Child, Money-Go-Round, Long Hot Summer, My Ever Changing Moods, You’re The Best Thing, Shout To The Top, Walls Come Tumbling Down, A Solid Bond In Your Heart, Come To Milton Keynes, The Lodgers, Why I Went Missing, and more.

Friday, 20 December 2024

The Specials last ever filmed concert (at Coventry Cathedral) on Sky Arts at 9pm today

 

TONIGHT!

The last-filmed concert by leading Ska-band The Specials, before the sudden and tragic passing of lead-singer Terry Hall in 2022, is to air on Sky Arts 20th December at 9pm.

Returning to their hometown of Coventry, the band performed all their greatest hits from the past 40 years to a sell-out crowd in the beautiful ruins of Coventry Cathedral.

It was a night to remember and marked a monumental moment for the band,returning to the city where two-tone was born.

Songs performed include Ghost Town, Rat Race, Nite Klub, Vote For Me, We Sell Hope and The Lunatics (Have Taken Over The Asylum).

This special televised concert follows the Sky Original ‘Record On: The Specials – A Message to You,’ which aired earlier this year on Sky Arts. This behind-the-scenes film with the band is available to watch now on @skyarts and @nowtv.

The Specials: Live From Coventry Cathedral airs 20 December at 9pm on Sky Arts, Freeview and NOW.

Episode 3 of the Hit The Road Jack Podcast interviews 'Women of the Mod Revival'

 


Joanne Earl and Jackie Donald (nee Earl)

Ani de la Prida

Nicky Crancher

Katherine Hanrahan

Paula Binni

Diane Cracknell

Interviews

Susan Avery and Diane Lyons

Graphic Design Izzy Avery

Music

The Purple Hearts - Frustration 1979

The Scene - Looking For Love 1983

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/new-episode-17-10-2024-hit-the-road-jack/id1782798337?i=1000680884122

Tuesday, 17 December 2024

Debut PHK single, 'Sanctimonious Sue', to be released on 7" by Intervallum Music in January 2025 featuring an original drawing by Makin' Time's Neil Clitheroe

 

‘Sanctimonious Sue’ is Paul Hooper-Keeley’s debut solo single, released under his PHK moniker. 

A singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, he has had releases in each of the last five decades in bands such as The Threads (Unicorn Records/Prism/Twist/Detour/Biff Bang Pow/Intervallum Music), The Deep Six (Heavy Soul Records) and The Mark Three (F.A.B. Records).

This debut solo single (Paul playing everything on both tracks apart from drums) is taken from the forthcoming PHK album, ‘You Should All Be Ashamed Of Yourselves’; his songwriting style relying to a large degree on societal observation and injustice, certain questionable characters and an element of challenge and protest.

'Sanctimonious Sue' will be released in late January by Intervallum Music (INT003) on 7" vinyl.

Following this, Paul returns to the recording studio in January with The Mark Three to record the follow-up album to their 'Paisley Paradise' debut, and then plays 'live' dates with The Threads at Mods Mayday 2025 at 229 The Venue, London, and a Lincolnshire homecoming show at The Courthouse, Skegness, on 17th May (also featuring a Q&A session with The Jam's Rick Buckler). 

Expect some PHK solo dates to be announced soon too.

60-Years of Small Faces on 8th March at 229 The Venue, London, starring Small Fakers and Steve Brookes


 

PHK's debut Limited Edition 12" LP, 'You Should All Be Ashamed Of Yourselves', out now with sleeve notes by Detail Magazine Editor, Claire Mahoney

  You Should All Be Ashamed of Yourselves ‘You Should All Be Ashamed of Yourselves’ takes aim at the complacency and chaos of modern life ...