Another competition comes to an end – The London Nobody Knows (1967) / Les Bicyclettes de Belsize (1969) DVD. And we have five winners for the five DVDs. They are:
Darren Whitehead – Manchester
Mikki Francis – London
Kevin Barclay-Jay – Shanklin (Isle of Wight)
Cathy Littlejohn – London
Alison Brown – Newbury
All have been contacted and prizes will be sent out this week.
A little later than intended, the winners of the New Breed R&B With Added Popcorn CDs from Kent have just been drawn – and they are the following people:
Tracey Dexter – Solihull
Jo Fisher – Edinburgh
Allan Derbyshire – Wrexham
Guy Joseph – Perpignan (France)
Nick Wain – Sheffield
All winners have been contacted and prizes will be sent out this week.
The BBC are currently working on a new five-part series exploring British style and fashion. And they want you to appear in it.
One of the five episodes is looking at post-war British street styles – from Teddy boys to mods to skins and football casuals – working class street fashions as well as the influence of black culture.
For the show, the Beeb is keen to make contact with genuine mods and those who ‘know about the clothes and history of the mod style’. And they also want people to appear in film reconstructions and sequences with people dressed authentically in mod-styled clothes, from early modernist jazzers through to skins and suedeheads.
If you want to appear in the show or have a say in it, get in touch with the man from the BBC by emailing Tony Higgins at tony.higgins@bbc.co.uk.
We reviewed Sounds From The Kitten Casino by Scottish mod favourites Modus back in October last year. But there was one problem – a lack of distribution. That’s not the case anymore.
US-based label Hammondbeat is releasing the album from July 2008 (with general US distribution to follow in September), so if you want a copy, check out the Hammondbeat website for details of ordering. We rated it – certainly one to hear.
And if you want to know more about the band, a feature on singer Miss Modus appeared in the Daily Express recently, which you can read here.
Read our review of the Modus album
If you fancy yourself as a model, we’ve just been informed about some paid work available to promote a film in pre-production.
The movie is called Within You Without You, described as a ‘psyche-out 60s feature film’ and the people behind it require ‘two mod/60s "Dollybird"-type girls and one mod/60s guy’ for the fashion shoot.
This has nothing to do with Modculture, so do not contact us. Instead, contact Steve Kemp on 020 7 350 0917 or 07955 170097 (mobile) or email stevekemp9@hotmail.com.
Originally released (in limited numbers) on vinyl in 1988 on Billy Childish’s Hangman label, Rare & Unissued by The Prisoners gets a welcome reissue this week from Big Beat through Ace Records.
Rare & Unissued brings together all the hard-to-find recordings by the ‘pioneers of modern day garage’, but is slightly different to the original vinyl release. That’s because Ace has already reissued some of the album’s tracks on previous Prisoners reissues – so rather than offer duplicate tracks, there’s two previously undiscovered cuts – the instrumental Unbeliever (fast) from the Wisermiserdemelza sessions and a take of Love Me Lies recorded live in a studio some time before the its appearance at those sessions.
Also added are two cuts recorded at a demo session in 1984 which appeared on various small run compilations – Joe 90 and a version Hush – and new sleevnotes, with contributions from band members. You can pick it up now from Amazon, which is selling it for £8.98.
Check out the flyer above for the next Boiler in Barcelona, which takes place on May 10th 2008.
Gues DJs are Jo Wallace, Roberta and Moonwolf, with the night running from 11:30pm until 5am and admission 10 Euros.
If you want to know more, contact the organisers via the Boiler website.
First held at the Dublin Castle in Camden in 1990, Phil Otto & Dom Strickland (ex of The Clique ) return with the Black Cat Club on Saturday 10th May.
It takes place every second Saturday of the month at The Poll Hill Arms, between Orpington and Sevenoaks Kent, running from 8pm – 12.30 and playing soul/R&B, British beat/R&B, Mod, and Hammond by a mix of (to be confirmed) guests and resident DJs.
The Poll Hill Arms is an old-style pub, with the club in the back room, extending outside – and the drinks are obviously pub prices. If you want to know more, contact iangrinham@hotmail.com.
Barry Murphy returns once more trawl 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 25th April to Thursday 1st May.
Highlights of the week
BBC 4′s latest session from the LSO sees legendary Celtic soul curmudgeon Van Morrison playing tracks from his recent (rather good) album as well as a smattering of classics (BBC 4 Friday 25th 10pm – repeated Sun 27th 10.50pm). Also showing as part of BBC 4′s Friday night Van-fest is another repeat showing of the first episode of Soul Britannia, which, if you haven’t already seen it, is essential viewing. (BBC 4, Friday 25th 9pm).
On the radio this week, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings have a session on Craig Charles’s always excellent Soul & Funk show (BBC Radio 6, Sat 26th, 6pm), Duffy joins Jools for a quick rendition of Northern Soul classic Tainted Love (BBC Radio 2, Mon 28th 10.30pm) and BBC Radio 6 repeat the Smokey Robinson narrated Stubborn Kind of Fella – Remembering Marvin Gaye (Week nights 9.30pm)
Solid Gold Weekends present two autumn events in Hemsby, Norfolk for ’60s music lovers.
First up is their ’60s Weekend’ from the 24th-27th of October. This is one for the beat fans amongst you, as headlining are The Nashville Teens and The Merseybeats. Then comes the ‘Soul and Motown Weekend’, from the 21st-24th of November. This event see performances from Geno Washington and His Ram Jam Band, Cliff Bennett and The Rebel Rousers, The Soul Detectives, and more. Both events are compeered by Steve Cherelle of BBC Essex.
The weekenders take place at Seacroft Holiday Village in Hemsby, near Gt. Yarmouth. For 3 days and nights of live acts and accommodation combined costs from £99. To book ring 01493 733610. For more info and updates visit the Solid Gold Myspace page here.
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