Shindig! Annual No. 1

Here's an ideal Christmas present for the late-60s music lover in your life - the first ever Shindig! Annual.

Shindig! Annual No.1 is a 112-page hardback book, featuring a selection of articles that first appeared in the out-of-print Volume 1 series of Shindig! Magazine. All the features have been redesigned with new illustrations and extra photographs. Inside the annual are stories and interviews with The Move, Love Affair, Buffalo Springfield, Johns' Children, Grapefruit, Kaleideoscope, The Action, Les Fleur De Lys, and many many more.

The annual costs £12.50/£14.50 to Europe/£18 ROW, with a small discount on these prices for subscribers. You can place your order here.

Meanwhile the next issue of the regular bi-monthly magazine is published on December 30th. If you haven't yet brought a copy of Shindig! you can see what all the fuss is about here.

Skins & Punks Exhibition in London

If you happen to be in the Carnaby Street area of London between 5th and 14th December, you might want to check out the Skins & Punks Pop-Up Exhibition.

The images on display are from the camera of Gavin Watson, natural day-to-day images shot between 1978 and 1985. According to the photographer: "Carnaby Street was probably the most important street in London for us out of town boys, we would save up and get the train down and head straight for Carnaby. In fact without Carnaby Street and shops like Sherrys, Merc and The Face , I don’t know if skinheads and mods would have lasted as long as they have. It is great for me to be back in Carnaby with this exhibition, to come full circle.”

The photos are also being gathered together in a book of the same name - and Gavin Watson will be signing copies of it at 1pm on Saturday 13th December at 3 Lowndes Court in the Newburgh Quarter of Carnaby, W1.

Find out more about the book at Amazon.co.uk

Pop 60s photography book

If you're on the look out for something new for your coffee table, Pop 60s by the Magnum Photos agency could be worth a look.

It's a photobook featuring the movers and the shakers of the 1960s, including big names like Andy Warhol, Twiggy and the James Bonds, as well as movements like  Beatlemania and biker culture, 'street' life from the major cities of the day and events including the original Isle of Wight festival.

150 colour and black and white photographs from around the world compiled in a hardback book. And you can pick it up for just under £10.

Find out more about the book at Amazon.co.uk

Important: Joining the forum

Sadly, the various messages abut joining the forum seem to be being missed right now, so it's time to flag up the one important change re joining the forum.

We do not allow webmail addresses for new users of the forum.

That means you cannot join with an address like Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo or another other webmail address from similar companies. It's not ideal, but the current forum is being spammed to death with applications right now - the only way we can spot genuine people is via genuine addresses.

If that causes you major problems, contact us and we'll try to sort something out. If you have applied with a webmail address of late, your application will have been refused - as will all future applications from webmail and freemail.

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Chelsea skinhead Christmas cards

London Books is responsible for reissuing some great cult novels - and now some seriously quirky Christmas cards.

Two retro designs to choose from, the one above and another from the same era, featuring the messages 'Merry Christmas from the Chelsea Youth 1970' and 'Happy Christmas from the Chelsea Shed'.

Ok, your gran might not appreciate it, but your mates just might. A pack costs £10 for 10, all with envelopes. You can order via the link below..

Find out more at the London Books website

Double Breasted fanzine - issue 2

The first issue went down a storm, so it's no surprise to see issue 2 of Double Breasted fanzine.

It will be on sale from 31st October at the cost of £1 + p&p. It's a bigger issue this time, packed full of varied articles of interest to those into Mod and 60s culture. Next year there will be 3 issues, coming out March, July and November, if you're interested in subscribing to issues 2 - 5 it will be at the cover price of £1 per issue so you don't have to worry about any price increases.

Payment can be made by cash/cheque/postal order and paypal, but paypal fees will be added on. Issue 2 and back copies of Issue 1 will be on sale at October's Friday Street and at the Aftershow Party at The Admiral following Paul Weller's Glasgow gig on 14th November. Or just get in touch with the editors via the MySpace site.

Pop Art of Sheffield's King Mojo

Sheffield's King Mojo Club is best-known as the mod hangout (and live venue) owned and run by Peter Stringfellow and his brother Geoff). But a new book on the club takes a look at it for a different reason - its art.

The Pop Art of Sheffield's King Mojo is produced by Peter Stringfellow and artists Dave Marvell and Paul Norton, with all author proceeds from the book being donated to the Sheffield Children's Hospital Charity. It looks at the 'pop art' on display on the club walls over the years, as well as offering a view of the posters, adverts and membership cards from the club and other local artwork of the era - from The Ark Club, Broadway, The Penthouse, Chesterfield's Victoria Ballroom and even the C&A shop.

Should be an interesting slice of period history. It's released on October 17th by YouBooks, priced at £9.99

YouBooks website

Collective Disorder trainers guide

If you fancy shifting your trainer buying hobby from pastime to obsession, the Collective Disorder book should be an essential first purchase.

Produced by Soleseek, this luxurious limited edition book is about trainers - and nothing else. In fact, there aren't any opinions or witty one-liners, it's just packed full of images of vintage and deadstock trainers. A full-colour wish list if you like.

There's 280+ pages of classic and rare trainers, with stylish hardback and box/sleeve to keep it in one piece. And that's something you'll need to do - just 100 of these being made, so certain to be a collector's item itself, the book sells online for £29.95 plus postage.

Find out more at the Soleseek website

Via Retro To Go

All Mod Icon Special Edition

In November All Mod Icon will publish a 48 page full colour edition printed on 130 gsm glossy paper to commemorate Paul Weller's 50th year. The magazine will have a limited edition print run of 5000 and will be priced at £4.99. Pre-orders will be available from October 16th.

Contents will include:
3 Decades Of Modernism - An overview of Paul's career with contributions from Joel Stoker (The Rifles), Johnny Clarke (Dogs), Steve White and Gabrielle, Icon Classic -Confessions Of A Pop Group reappraisal, Icon Classic -Our Favourite Shop reappraisal, Icon Classic - Wild Wood reappraisal, Twink interview, John Reed interview, Steve White interview, Candie Payne interview, 22 Dreams review, an exclusive Paul Weller Interview by John Reed, Gary Crowley interview, Mark Baxter interview, Carleen Anderson interview, Thousand Things review and a Weller At The BBC review.

For more info, email the editor at allmodicon@hotmail.com

Taschen's Jazz Covers

Not just a coffee table book, Jazz Covers is an excellent resource for the world of jazz from the 1940s to the 1990s.

As the name suggests, this is very much about the album sleeve - a number of cool and classic sleeves are featured here, along with fact sheets listing performer and album name, art director, photographer, illustrator, year, label, and more. But that's not all - there's also a number of special features including top-10 favorite records lists by the likes of King Britt, Michael McFadden, Gilles Peterson, Andre Torres, and Rainer Trüby, plus interviews with some of the leading personalities.

Published by Taschen and packing in 496 pages, it sells for £24.99.

Find out more at the Taschen website