Archive for November, 2008
by Modculture 21 November, 2008
Mojo magazine comes up trumps again with its latest issue that features another quality cover-mounted compilation CD.
The Heavy Mod CD contains 15 tracks from artists such as The Move, The Yardbirds, Deep Purple, The Creation, The Pretty Things, Small Faces, and Aphrodite’s Child. Mojo says it is celebrating ‘the artists who took the ‘60s mod batton and carried it into a fierce, overdriven future’.
The CD comes with the latest issue, out this Tuesday (25th November). Mojo cover stars this month are those much-loved/much-hated (delete as appropriate) pseudo-mods Oasis. Also featured this month are the new Kinks boxset, Neil Young, and The Beach Boys. For more on Mojo visit their website here.
by Modculture 21 November, 2008
It’s been running a couple of months now and seems to have settled in nicely, so let us take some time to let you know about Club J.A, held in south London’s new artistic quarter Deptford.
Organised by local lad Johnny Reggae (aka Jay), it’s an opportunity for Londoners north or south to get a monthly dose of 60s Jamaican sounds. Alongside resident DJ Paul T will be a guest spinner each month: at the next date, Saturday 29th November, that guest will be Adam H.
Club J.A
@ The Deptford Arms, 52 Deptford High Street, London, SE8 4RT
last Saturdays of the month (29th November etc)
8pm-1am, free entry
There’s no website for the club (as yet), but if you need to contact Jay you can email him here.
by Modculture 20 November, 2008
It’s amazing to think that no-one has managed to compile a Kinks’ box set in all these years – until now.
Yes Sanctuary has got round to compiling Picture Book, a six-CD box of tracks compiled by Ray Davies. It covers all of the band’s 40-year career (which could be good or bad), packing in plenty of previously unreleased tracks, rarities and live recordings, along with a 60-page, full colour booklet, which as well as telling the story of the band, also features never seen before photographs.
You can pick it up from December 8th (just in time for Christmas) – a full tracklisting is over the page.
Find out more about the boxset at Amazon.co.uk
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by Modculture 20 November, 2008
Adidas has been back into its archives, returning with the Adidas Italia 1960 trainers.
That same sleek and slimline shape has been maintained, only this time there’s a new colourway of white and green (with black detailing), along with a bump up in the quality of the leather.
These go on sale in January 2009, but you can pre-order now – the price is £79.
Find out more at the End Clothing website
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by Modculture 20 November, 2008
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 21st November to Thursday 27th November 2008.
Highlight of the week
It’s a mixed bag this week on TV, with the only new things to talk about being The Culture Show (Tuesday 25th. BBC 2,10pm) in which actor and Motown devotee Martin Freeman meets legendary house band the Funk Brothers and True Stories: Mr Untouchable (More4. Tuesday 25th, 10pm) a documentary charting the rise and fall of Nicky Barnes (inspiration of Ridley Scott’s recent American Gangster film) a heroin addict who in the 1970s went on to become the most powerful black drugs baron in the history of New York.
Channel 4 start a season of recent Film4 productions this week, with terrestrial screening of Shane Meadows’ This is England (Monday 24th, 10pm) and The Future Is Unwritten (Wednesday 26th,11.40pm) a revealing documentary charting the life of Clash star Joe Strummer, while BBC 4 repeat two excellent sessions from LSO St lukes on Thursday 27th, starting with Georgie Fame (11pm) followed by Van Morrison (12Midnight).
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by Modculture 19 November, 2008
British documentary maker Winstan Whitter has finished making a film about London’s Four Aces club, and special screenings are to be shown in the next month.
Legacy in the Dust: The Four Aces Story documents the history of the Hackney club which became a home to the most influential black music of the early 1960s. Founded by Jamaican east Londoner Newton Dunbar, The Four Aces Club held shows by Desmond Dekker, Prince Buster, Jimmy Cliff, Ann Peebles, Percy Sledge, Ben E King and Billy Ocean, then in the 1970s Bob Marley, Chrissie Hynde, The Slits, Sex Pistols and Bob Dylan. The film charts the club’s history right up to its closure as a result of the 2012 Olympic urban regeneration.
The British Film Institute are screening the documentary at the NFT on Southbank on Friday the 28th November. After the film ska/rocksteady maestros Freetown and ‘queen of lovers’ rock’ Janet Kay perform live on stage. Whitter will join DJs Nick Luscombe and Emma Pettit in the Benugo Bar after the show as well. The ICA will also be showing Legacy In The Dust on Sunday 7th December.
Tickets for the BFI event are available for £8.60 here, whilst tickets for the ICA screening can be bought for £8 here. The film has its own website here.
by Modculture 19 November, 2008
Back in April we told you about 60s femme pop night Here Comes The Girls in Manchester. Well now it has a sister night: The In Crowd.
DJ David Jackson will be playing 60s pop, soul and rock’m'roll on 1st and 3rd Thursdays (such as tomorrow, the 20th November) at the Tiger Lounge, the same venue as Here Come The Girls (which is now 2nd and 4th Thursdays).
The In Crowd
Alternate Thursdays
@ Tiger Lounge, 5 Cooper Street, Manchester
9pm til late, free entry
For more on The In Crowd visit the Myspace page here.
by Modculture 17 November, 2008
The forthcoming Pop Culture auction at Christies is something of a mixed affair, covering everything from pop art to film posters and music memorabilia. And one item in particular covers all bases.
This is a Quadrophenia poster from the 1979 movie – but it’s not any old Quadrophenia poster. This is actually a prop from the movie, announcing The Who’s upcoming residency at London’s Marquee club. I can’t say for sure whether this is a mock up or a copy of an original – maybe someone out there knows?
Sized at 76 x 51cm, it’s selling for what sounds like a fairly reasonable £300 – £500, especially when you consider how unique this item actually is. Find out about the poster and all the other lots via the link below – the auction takes place at the South Kensington auction house in London on 4th December 2008.
Find out more at the Christies website
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by Modculture 17 November, 2008
Norfolk doesn’t exactly get much mod-culture you can participate in, so take advantage of it where you can in the form of Spoilt Broth.
Taking place in Norwich on Friday the 5th of December, Spoilt Broth is to be the first of a regular chain of events in East Anglia. Expect to hear funk, soul, Hammond grooves, ska, R&B, reggae, freakbeat, and psychedelia. Providing this will be a motley crew of disc spinners: Col Wolfe, Hayden, Mutters, Sid Various, and Stevie G. And what is more, the whole event is free to attend. Attendance is a no-brainer, you might say.
Spolit Broth
@ The Cricketer’s Rest, 207 Queen’s Road, Norwich
7.30pm-2am, free entry
There is no website as yet to look at, but go to the Modculture forum to discuss the event.
by Modculture 17 November, 2008
Wolverhampton: riding high in the Championship, and now also in the 60s-influenced music stakes with the introduction of Jensen And The Interceptors.
The four-piece consist of Izzy Izenstain (Vocals/Guitar), Joey Ropper (Guitar/Vocals), James Campbell (Bass), and Andy Bowker (Drums/Vocals). Melting together the holy trinity of freakbeat, British Invasion pop and gritty garage rock, Jensen And The Interceptors formed only a few months ago but already have their songwriting skills sorted. The propulsive, ‘Hey Joe’-aping ‘There’s A Girl’ has the garage-jangle and snotty vocals we all have come to love, the demo of ‘Just To Cry’ is pure primitive Thee Headcoatees-esque joy, whilst ‘Sitting Side by Side’ is one-part cheese-grating guitars and one-part ‘bop sha woo wop’ vocals. These Interceptors are surely the offspring of the Black Lips generation, and doing it just as well as the masters.
Have a listen to Jensen And The Interceptors yourself by visiting their Myspace page here. They are not hanging around on the gigging front, so whether you live in the Midlands, the North or the South you should be able to catch them soon. With full marks on the looks and the attitude front we wouldn’t be surprised if they are huge before 2009 is done.
