If you’re in London on Sunday 25th March, it might be worth checking out The Nitty Gritty!
The day/night event runs from 3pm until 10pm and promises 60s soul, R&B, rocksteady and beat for your £3 admission fee. The event takes place at The Constitution, 42 St Pancras Way, London NW1.
For more information, contact thenittygritty@hotmail.co.uk.
Top Hammond combo Reverend Cleatus have a new 45 out – under the name The Fantastics (AKA The Soul Saviours).
The limited edition 45 is Cheeba’s Couch / Chickin Lickin (live) and is available online from Raw Wax. Numbers are very limited, so you’ll have to get in quick. Alternatively, you can sign up to the Raw Wax club for five forthcoming 45s plus stickers, fanzine and t-shirt for £45.
They’ve been rumoured for some time, but finally, the Paul Weller-designed Ben Sherman shirt range is in the shops.
Going under the name Candy by Paul Weller, it’s a limited edition range (no mention of specific numbers) for spring/summer 2007. Two styles so far – pink and brown or light and dark blue "Candy" stripes, with a "superior" finish and 100% cotton composition. An additional design is expected soon.
Like the Paul Weller-design Fred Perry polo shirts, I’m sure everyone will have their opinions on these. If your opinion is positive, you can pick one up online from Cazual for £47.
Barry Murphy once more trawls the TV and radio guides (so you don’t have to) to find anything worth tuning into this week. All listings are for UK terrestrial TV, Freeview and national radio, with the shows running from Friday16th March to Thursday 22nd March.
Highlight of the week: The Cinema Show – Rock and Roll Camera: The Great British Pop Movie. BBC 4, Sunday 18th March. 7.00pm.
From A Hard Day’s Night to Spiceworld, this is the story of what happened when the world of British pop music made its way onto celluloid.
Friday 16th March
TV
Top of the Pops – BBC 4. 7.00pm – 8.00pm
As part of 1997 week, a hour of classic chart-toppers. Where there actually any classic chart-toppers in 1997??
Top Gear of the Pops – BBC 2. 10.00pm – 10.35pm
Top Gear collides with Top of the Pops as part of red nose day. Sounds pretty bloody awful, actually.
Tales of the Unexpected – ITV 3. 9.00pm – 10.10pm
Double bill of the classic series. In the first, a woman tries to obtain her inheritance. In the second, an elderly aristocrat reveals a shocking secret.
Crossfire returns on Saturday 5th May at the International Students House in London.
3 rooms of vintage club sounds – Voice Your Choice (rare/northern soul), Boogaloo In’ (R&B, boogaloo, dancefloor jazz, club soul and ska) and the beat Basement (beat, garage, psych, freakbeat and blue-eyed soul).
For full details, check the events section.
See the event listing and large flyer for Crossfire 9
If you happen to be in Manchester over the May Bank Holiday weekend, it’s worth checking out No Way Out.
Promising very best in rare R&B, Jazz, and Soul from DJs Smiler, Lee Miller, Stevie Z and resident Phil Saxe, it takes place in the self-contained basement club of the Rampant Lion, just off the Mancunian Way – 10 minutes from the city centre.
There’s a free afternoon warm-up, an Ibis hotel five minutes from the venue and Manchester’s famous Curry Mile a stone’s throw away.
To coincide with the Freak Out Ethel! night at the ICA, there’s another event which sounds much more interesting – a talk plus Q&A session covering the original 14-Hour Technicolor Dream event with people key to it.
These include Joe Boyd, producer of the likes of The Pink Floyd, The Incredible String Band and Fairport Convention and author of the must-read White Bicycles, Miles – founder of the UK’s first underground newspaper (International Times) and the Indica bookstore, Hoppy Hopkins – man behind the resurrection of the Notting Hill carnival, UFO Club and original 14-Hour Technicolor Dream and John Dunbar – founder of the Indica art gallery.
Tickets are £10 / £9 Concessions / £8 ICA Members or you can bag a joint one for this and the Freak Out Ethel! night.
Interesting event at London’s ICA on 21st April – Freak Out, Ethel!, which is described as "an evening of musical mayhem".
What that means in reality is three bands and a play about Syd Barrett. The play is Malcolm Boyle’s one-man The Madcap - a journey into the psychedelic underground as seen through the eyes of Syd Barrett, mixing narrative with hallucinatory film, slide projections and Boyle’s own interpretations of Barrett’s songs.
Along with that, there’s live performances from The Amazing World of Arthur Brown, Circulus and The Pretty Things, plus psychedelic visuals from Optikinetics (as pictured).
Tickets are £20 / £18 (concessions) and £16 ICA Members
Barry Murphy once more trawls the TV and radio guides (so you don’t have to) to find anything worth tuning into this week. All listings are for UK terrestrial TV, Freeview and national radio, with the shows running from Friday 9th March to Thursday 15th March.
Highlight of the week: BBC One Sessions: Amy Winehouse. Friday 9th March. BBC 1, 11.05pm.
Hot from her triumph at this year’s Brits, where she won Best Female in a tough field, Britain’s bestselling albums artist of 2007, Amy Winehouse sashays into West London’s Porchester Hall for a one-off concert. Featuring songs from her current hit album Back to Black, including singles Rehab and You Know I’m No Good.
Arguably the best live soul/funk act around today, Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings are returning to the UK in March/April for three dates.
They’re playing at the Jazz Cafe in London on Friday March 30th, Saturday March 31st and Sunday 1st April. Tickets are available now from the Mean Fiddler website.
The band are also playing other dates in Europe, check out the band’s MySpace site for full details.
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