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Sir Horace Gentleman
SIR HORACE - GOA BLUES 7" vinyl
Debut single from Sir Horace Panter (bass player from The Specials).
Killer instrumental ska!!!
Limited edition 7" vinyl (only 300 copies available), with Horace's own Sir Horace label design and hand painted sleeve. A true collectors piece for fans of The Specials, ska & reggae alike.
As bass player of The Specials Sir Horace Gentleman aka Horace Panter provided the backbone for one of the most iconic British sounds...The Specials & 2 Tone.
Post-Specials Horace went onto play for The Pretenders (for a day), General Public, Ranking Roger, but it's only now that he releases his first ever solo material and fantastic stuff it is to.
Featuring Fuzz Townshend (PWEI, Bentley Rhythm Ace, Pama Intl) on drums, who Horace played with in General Public and Ranking Roger's band, his son Lawrence on keyboards and a host of friends from Coventry.
Side A- Goa Blues
Side B- Depleted Uranium Dub
Available now from Rockers Revolt
http://www. rockersrevolt. com/products-page/genre/sir-horace---goa-blues-7-vinyl/
UK exclusive distribution
If You're Ever Down in Brighton
Talking of raising 2 fingers in a Situationist manner, plans are afoot to stage regular irregular detournements in a pub in Hove starting in September, where it is intended to subvert the empty mannerisms of the festival on the first friday of every month.
Provocatively, this venture will be known as the Hove Folk Club, "partly because calling anything an Acoustic Club or a Roots Club sounds even worse, & partly because we wish to reclaim the concept of folk music from the Professional Museum Curators who currently claim to define it in their Perpetual Tours of Art Centres, Festivals & interviews in the Guardian."
Those of you who are alert to these things will perhaps detect the hand of our friend Robb Johnson in all of this? Joining Robb in this venture is author & "stark raving genius" Robert Rankin.
Kicking the season off will be Maggie Holland on 5/9, then we have Steve Hunt (3/10), Leon Rosselson (&/11) & Pressgang's Damian Clarke(5/12) - with more to come in the New Year.
Putting music, words & performance into a proper perspective will take place at The Eclipse, Montgomery St, Hove, which is a very nice pub selling Harveys beer, close to Hove hauptbahnhof. Entrance will be a minimum of £5 to provide artists with the pittance necessary to buy whatever cheap wine they rely on to fuel their art etc.
Maybe see you there. Website details etc will appear as soon as we get it constructed...
Beggin'
From the "No news is, er, no news!?" department our good buddies at www.olliehalsall.co.uk write to tell us that Cherry Red/RPM have released a Timebox complilation Beggin - The Sound Of London's Mod/Club Scene.
Before we get too excited, this is simply a duplicate but, nonetheless, welcome re-vamp of the now deleted Deram Anthology minus one track [Misty].
Olliezine was only made aware of this album by Timebox keyboard wizard Professor Chris Holmes himself, who wins the "Any news is better than nothingaward."
Anniversary
A belated note but we couldn't let it pass that July 15 was the 30th (thirtieth) anniversery of I-Jog & The Tracksuits recording Red Box at Unit One.
Bible Code Sundays
Bible Code Sundays release their debut album 'GHOSTS OF OUR PAST' in the USA this September via COSMIC TRIGGER RECORDS. Check em out for a night of glorious fun and make sure thy play maybe It's Because I'm an Irish Londoner
Kings of the Wild Front Ear
If you've got a moment could you check out www.latest7.co.uk/chart/ and give 'The Healer' a listen. It's currently No 27 and needs a little encouragement!
Rebel Control
Our buddies Rebel Control have just been confirmed for a slot at the Beachdown Festival. The full line up includes De la Soul- Gogol Bordello- Horace Andy- Fun Lovin' Criminals- Terry Callier- Roy Ayers- Roisin Murphy [you can't have everyhting] and dj's include Don Letts- Mr Scruff, Andy Weatherall.
The weekend runs from Thursday 21st August to Tuesday August 26th August with a full line-up of entertainment commencing at noon on Friday 22nd through to 9pm on Monday 25th.
With a capacity of just 10,000 Beachdown will be a truly unique boutique festival experience and boasts the only site with full sea views from the Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty - the South Downs overlooking Brighton.
Luxury Camping will be available at the Beachdown Beachclub with a variety of options to suit all tastes - complete with some Beachdown quirks such as complementary deck chairs, towel, beachball, ice cream and swimwear.
Forum
Its level pegging at 8 all in the Rain v Sunshine song titles debate over in the Forum and we're even talking Family B sides!!
One Man Bands
Heres quite an Untidy game to play from those nice people who make Gibson guitars:
http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/Features/10-great-one-man-band-albums/
September Night Out
We've finalised the line up for the Big Untidy Night Out on September 12th at Readings Rising Sun Institute.
Apart from Trashvilles very own Los Chicos Muertos we'll be welcoming Makkelas Trash Lounge, from Finland via Furth Germany, as well as our long time Untidy Pal Bluesmaster Robert Hokum. There'll be fun and frolics from hometown heroes Bidgie Reef and the much travelled Harry Pane, who came busiking with us at Brackley Music Festival, will complete the bill. What a wonderful evening and we hope to see you there.
