This one has passed me by over the summer – indeed, I only noticed it via a review in the recent Shindig! But after reading that, I suspect The Who By Numbers: The Story Of The Who Through Their Music by Steve Grantley and Alan G. Parker with Sean Body […]
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Old Psychiatrist's Club – Leicester
If your musical tastes lean towards the late 60s and you happen to be in the Leicester area, the Old Psychiatrist's Club could be a place to check out. It offers live music, DJ sounds and two live bands – The Draytones, who we have featured in the past and […]
Rare Record Price Guide 2012
This sneaked out a couple of weeks back – the Record Collector Rare Record Price Guide 2012. It is pretty much what it claims to be – the 11th edition of the best-selling guide to record collecting. The new edition packs 1,440 pages and over 100,000 entries, covering pretty much […]
Crosley Revolution now in UK
Mystic Meg, Derren Brown, they've got nothing on us. Last month we said that the Crosley Revolution CR6002 portable record player was available in the US and that we expected Urban Outfitters to jump on it in the UK eventually. Well, it just has. It's a reworking of the Sound […]
The Skatalites live in London
Once described by Rolling Stone magazine as 'Jamaica's answer to the Motown house band and Booker T. and the MG's combined', The Skatalites are playing live in London for one night only – Wednesday 24th November. It's the band's first London date for two years, this time with a line-up […]
Shindig! issue 19 out now
You'd think, with all the advertising I've given 'em over the years, that I might be on a free copy one day. Oh well, I live in hope – in the meantime, there's a new Shindig! on the market. Anyway, as the cover suggests, the new issue (November/December, but out […]
60s psych event in Liverpool
You don't get many psych events 'up north', so The Butterflies Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast in Liverpool is one for the diary, if that kind of sound is your thing. Described as a celebration of 1967-1969 West Coast Americana, the date is Saturday 27th November and 'brings together music, […]
Dexy's debut reissued and reviewed
It's been 30 years since it first appeared, now Searching For The Young Soul Rebels by Dexy's Midnight Runners has been reissued (appropriately) as a 30th anniversary edition. That means the original album and a bonus disc of 21 rarities recorded around the same time – demos, radio sessions, b-sides, […]
