Featuring Who fan favourites such as ‘My Generation’, ‘Baba O’Riley’ and ‘Won’t Get Fooled Again’. Mastered by long time Who engineer Jon Astley and cut by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios.
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Friday 19 April 2024
The Story Of The Who - out tomorrow for RSD 2024!
The Kinks Tribute Show & Sightseeing Tour at The Gatehouse Theatre in N6 on 27th April
Paying homage to one of the greatest groups of all time!
Celebrating 60 years since their formation, Music Heritage London invites you to this one-off Kinks tribute event in association with their music management team at BMG, upstairs at the Gatehouse theatre in Highgate Village, North London.
The event begins with a guided sightseeing tour of the Davies brothers' old stomping ground in Muswell Hill in a vintage double-decker London bus. On this 2-hour (approx) tour, you'll see the homes they lived in and the locations they frequented, all to a musical backdrop of their recently released 'The Journey 1' compilation album. You'll stop at the school where they attended with Pete Quaife, visit the pub where Ray and Dave first performed in 1960 and see the music shop location where Ray was bought his first guitar on his 13th birthday and hear about the tragic event that followed.
We'll then drop you off right outside The Gatehouse in good time for a swift libation or two before the theatre doors open and the show begins... The critically acclaimed 'Konks' tribute band will be playing all of their hits and more - and we've invited some special guests along who have been associated with the group over the last 60 years.
TIMETABLE
- 4.00pm TOUR - 'The Journey 1' leaves The Gatehouse SOLD OUT
- 4.10pm TOUR - Pick up outside East Finchley tube station SOLD OUT
- 6.00pm ARRIVE AT THE GATEHOUSE
- 6.30pm DOORS OPEN
- 7.00pm SHOW - PART 1
- 8.00pm INTERMISSION
- 8.30pm SHOW - PART 2
- 9.30pm (approx) END
• For those taking public transport after the show, Highgate tube station is a 10 minute walk.
UPDATE 16.01.24 The Kinks 'Journey' guided bus tour option on our 1960s Routemaster is now SOLD OUT. However, those wanting to book a private tour on our psychedelic minibus (pictured) on Friday 26th or Sunday 28th April can do so from the link below. The price shown is for up to 7 people (not each) and includes a FREE goodie bag donated by the Kinks' management team at BMG for the booker. https://www.60sbus.london/service.../the-kinks-private-tours
Thursday 18 April 2024
The Crystal Teardrop sign to Rise Up Records - new 7" single announced
***NEW SIGNING ALERT***
We are excited to announce the signing The Crystal Teardrop to Popclaw/Rise
Above Records. Based in Stoke On Trent, they are undoubtedly destined for
greatness.
By The River/Nine Times Nine, is their debut 45 and gives us just a glimmer of
insight into their fantastical, psychedelic world. Already gaining a name for
themselves in the underground 60s/mod scene, their popularity can only grow
stronger in the months ahead. Their debut full-length album is scheduled for an
early 2025 release.
In the meantime, don’t miss out on this fantastic double sider. Release date is
May 31st but you can pre-order now directly from the RA webstore. 200 copies
pressed (x100 back & x100 pink sparkle). Once they’re gone they’re gone!!
Get yours here:
https://riseaboverecords.com/product/by-the-river-nine-times-nine/
Tuesday 16 April 2024
Monday 15 April 2024
Paul Weller, Victoria Hall, Stoke – 12th April 2024. Review - Andy Rax Coops
After the best part of a half century as a recording artist, the force of nature that is Paul Weller is back on the road, this time promoting the forthcoming new album ‘66’, which is the age he is on the cusp of turning in May. For this evening’s show, the delightful Grade II listed Victoria Hall played host to the assembling middle age Modfather mob, ready to pay homage to the master changing man.
Providing support were Brighton based Barbara, led by Tydeman brothers John, the front man and Henry on keys. Taking on influences such as The Divine Comedy and ELO, the sharp suited five piece set about the Stoke crowd with their theatrical and quirky pop, including vocal harmonies aplenty. There were also playful attempts to invoke a crowd wave along during ‘Rainy Days In June’ to mixed success, while later in the set they moved into Randy Newman territory with the plinky plonky ‘Don’t Send Me Messages’. Clearly wearing their influences on their sleeves, Barbara do not take themselves too seriously, and had set a relaxed mood for the main event.
With so much back catalogue to work through, and an imminent new album for release, it was interesting to see what could be squeezed into the two hours Weller and his Woking 6- a-side team had to play with. Starting it off was the rousing ‘Rip The Pages Up’, followed closely by a couple of Bowie influenced numbers, namely ‘Nova’ and then ‘Cosmic Fringes’, which also has a hearty nod of the hat to Ian Dury.
Next up was one from the forthcoming album, ‘Soul Wandering’ (yet more Bowie saluting here) before launching into the first of the Style Council tracks, ‘A Man Of A Great Promise’, a winner with the slightly sweaty hordes. At this point Weller slows things down with the acoustic led ‘All The Pictures On The Wall’, a changing of tempo that would occur throughout the night’s proceedings.
After an airing of ‘That Pleasure’ from previous long player ‘Fat Pop’, Weller takes his place at the keys and launches into the crowd pleasing ‘Stanley Road’, all the while aided by the saxophone accompaniment of Jacko Peake, which raises the energy levels up a notch or two. The next couple of tracks are from Weller’s recent repertoire, including the chugger ‘Village’, sounding better live than the studio version, and then the super-slo-mo-part-Blur-part-Bowie-esque ‘Fat Pop’ itself.
This is about the halfway stage, and with the majority of tracks being from recent years, the crowd are itching for a stream of classics, the first of which is introduced by guitarist and Dadrock purveyor-in-chief, Steve Cradock, as ‘a f***ing banger’, is the majestic and evergreen ‘Hung Up’. The momentum is maintained with the stylish ‘Shout To The Top’, a definite highlight to this entertainment which is then followed by a rapidly departing Weller from the stage – not to check on the potential status down in the tube station at midnight but in fact, for a call of nature! When you’re one of the top songwriters of the last 5 decades and you’ve almost reached retirement age, and you gotta go, well, then you gotta go…
Up to this point, Weller hadn’t communicated a great deal between songs, but upon completion of this brazen Britpop bio-break, it is announced that we will resume with a new track, co-written with some fella you may have heard of called Noel Gallagher, the upbeat stomper ‘Jumble Queen’.
Keyboard duties are then swiftly resumed and with a dropping of tempo we are treated to the gorgeous ‘You Do Something To Me’. Throughout the whole show, it has to be said that both Weller’s energy levels and vocals have been of the highest standard, and this has been very much consolidated by his fellow musicians, who provide the perfect backing, none more so than with the arrival of the first Jam song of the evening, the peerless state of the nation address ‘That’s Entertainment’. A supreme track that is raucously welcomed, even those on the balcony rattled their jewellery to this one, a trick that was aptly repeated for the George Harrison riff rip ‘Start!’. Weller, evidently strutting his stuff by this point, continued in a similar vein, concluding the initial set with one of his early classic solo songs ‘Peacock Suit’.
Phew! A brief pause was required after all that, to watch phones and think about our holidays and then it was back to it, with the double header of more early solo material in the form of the reflective ‘Wild Wood’ and soul ballad ‘Broken Stones’. Again, Weller’s voice sounds astonishing after all this time and without saying much between songs, he edgily prowls the stage, in charge of all he sees before him. This section is completed with one more intergalactic acknowledgement to Bowie (and why not?), the cosmos closer ‘Rockets’.
One final pause and then one final class war cause, with the Motown inspired, organ overloaded, ‘Town Called Malice’, which to say goes down a storm is an understatement, inducing an ultimate sing and stomp along. Unquestionably, a fitting end to a performance that covers such a comprehensive auditory arsenal, that was delivered in the changing man style and left the audience Well stoked.
The Weekend Starts Here! Amazing Photos of the Classic Pop TV Show – Ready Steady Go!
Soon after the recording of the pilot episode of a new pop music show was completed on Tuesday July 16th 1963 the presenter Keith Fordyce (previously involved with ABC’s ‘Thank Your Lucky Stars’) approached a group of Mods who had travelled from Sheffield’s King Mojo club and said ‘so you chaps have come all the way from Sheffield on a Tuesday no less. I expect you’ll be eager to go home and get back to work, what with the weekend coming up and all.’
John Varney, Sheffield ‘Ace Face’ replied ‘are you kidding mate – the weekend starts here’ and the slogan was born. Over the next three years Pete Stringfellow and the Sheffield Mojo crowd were regulars on the now renamed Ready Steady Go!.
Ready Steady Go! was a British rock/pop music television programme produced by Associated-Rediffusion broadcast on Friday evenings from 9 August 1963 until 23 December 1966 and presented usually by Keith Fordyce and the demure ‘Queen of the Mods’ Cathy McGowan. McGowan had been working in an office at the television company when she answered an advertisement for a ‘typical teenager’ to act as a ‘youth advisor’ to the show and was thrust, without any previous experience whatsoever, in front of the cameras as one of the main presenters. George Harrison described her as ‘….the posh bird who gets everything wrong’ “.
Rediffusion at the time, according to the Guardian, was a company headed up by ex-naval types who ran it like a ship, posting schedules in seafaring jargon: “Rehearsals will begin at eight bells on the lower deck.” The artists, of course, were the stars of show but the trendy audience, chosen the day before from Carnaby Street by the production team, came close.
The series was initially recorded at small studios in Rediffusion’s headquarters in Kingsway. As the studios were compact, to say the least, it was not possible to hide cameras which then became a featured part of the show with audience members shoved out of the way by panicking camera operators. The show later moved to Rediffusion’s Studio 5 at Wembley, enabling artists to perform live. Artists’ own recorded backing tracks were not allowed by the Musicians’ Union so the whole of Studio 5 (normally divided into 5a and 5b) was used so an orchestra could perform the backing live.
The show was cancelled late in 1966. Michael Lindsay-Hogg, one of the directors, once said, “Most of the shows were wiped because tape was so expensive, so stuff like the James Brown special and The Who special are gone forever. I took home £37 a week but, every so often, I’d buy a video tape and preserve it. It cost me £1 a minute, but the only reason any shows survive is because I did that.”
https://flashbak.com/weekend-starts-fabulous-photos-classic-pop-tv-show-ready-steady-go-361445/
Jamaican Ska/Rocksteady Legends THE PIONEERS to play London on 28th October
Trojan Records favourites The
Pioneers are rightfully acknowledged as one of the global pioneers of
reggae, ska and rock steady.
Formed in the mid 60’s in
Kingston, Jamaica, they were one of the first groups to have international hits
such as ‘Long Shot Kick de Bucket’, ‘Let Your Yeah Be Yeah’ and 'Give
and Take'.
The Pioneers have
been covered by other artists such as
The Specials (‘Long Shot Kick De Bucket’), Madness (‘Starvation’), The Selecter (‘Time Hard’), The Beat (‘Jackpot’), and UB40 (‘Starvation’).
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