LEE CROOKS (Ex Manchester City)

Just a quick mention for ex Blue Lee Crooks, who is now a Gunner in 1 Squadron, Royal Air Force Regiment. As he is due to ship out to Afghanistan I wish him luck & a safe return. PS I hope you give the Camel Jockeys hell !!

TALCUM SOUL Volume 4 (26 Stonking Northern Soul Greats)

THE GOLDEN TORCH (Northern Soul Story Volume 3)

More class tracks from the Northern scene, as heard at the Torch, Tunstall, Stoke on Trent back in the day.

TALCUM SOUL Volume 3 (26 Stonking Northern Soul Greats)

FREE : BBC Sessions (1968 -1970) aka Free Climbing

L-R Kossoff, Rodgers, Fraser & Kirke.

Further treasures from the BBC vaults... Here's several sessions by FREE, dating from between 1968 + 1970, covering the "Tons Of Sobs", "Free", "Fire and Water" and "Highway" album material. I still have loads of Free boots on cassette from their Appreciation Society, run by a great lad in Nottingham called David Clayton. (He produces an excellent magazine also).

I've managed to find already digitalised (is that a word??) versions, so have edited them into one file along with artwork and reuploaded them via Rapidshite. I've just done this as a CD for in the car - takes me back years to when I was regularly doing a West London - Derby - Manchester trip every week or so in my old Granada.

These are clips from a Granada TV show called "Doing Their Thing", filmed live in Manchester, 1970. My youngest Uncle swears he was there - still can't see you Tim !!

SUGGS : Desert Island Discs (Radio Show) 19/5/02

Blurb below from the Beeb Web Site :

Suggs made his name as front man of 80s pop phenomenon Madness and impressed a whole generation with his unique style of singing, silly dancing and fondness for making the mundane the subject of his songs, such as Baggy Trousers, inspired by memories of school.


Although his cockney accent is part of his singing style, he was actually born in Hastings and moved to London as a child. His singer mother was perhaps a subconscious inspiration, but Suggs didn't have any particular ambitions in his teens. He dropped out of school and did what a lot of teenage boys do - formed a band with his friends.


Madness, a seven-piece gang of friends, became a huge success. Their first single The Prince went to Number 16 in 1979 and three years later they had a Number 1 with House of Fun. In seven years they had 20 singles in the top 20 UK chart and travelled the world playing to large audiences.


Now Madness occasionally meet up and play their hits list, and Suggs has launched a successful solo career and is also working in TV: hosting Night Fever on Channel 5 and captaining a team on BBC1's A Question of Pop.


1. Cry Me a River
Performer: Julie London
Composer: Arthur Hamilton

2. Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll
Performer: Ian Dury
Composer: Ian Dury/Chas Jankel

3. London's Burning
Performer: The Clash
Composer: The Clash


4. On a Portrait of a Deaf Man
Performer: John Betejman accompanied by Jim Parker
Composer: John Betejman and Jim Parker

5. Al Capone
Performer: Prince Buster
Composer: C Campbell
6. Is That All There Is?
Performer: Peggy Lee
Composer: Lieber/Stoller


7. Village Green Preservation Society
Performer: The Kinks
Composer: R Davies  


8. Cleaning Windows
Performer: Van Morrison
Composer: Van Morrison

If Suggs could take just one record it would be No 6, Peggy Lee singing Is That All There Is?.


His book, apart from The Bible and the Complete Works of Shakespeare, would be a concise book of Italian verbs.

His luxury would be a nucleus of bees.

A quick note for overseas visitors - Desert Island Discs is a long running (since 1942!) BBC Radio Show. Every guest can choose 8 records, a book and a luxury item.

THE VIBRATORS : V2 (1978)

With thanks to Martin... here's more Vibrators.

FREE : Isle Of Wight Festival 30/8/70 & Santa Monica 1971

Sheer class : Free at the Isle of Wight, 1970. (File also includes a Radio Broadcast from Stockholm 12/12/70). Amazing players - these performances are excellent, even more so when you consider that they were all in their late teens !!! Paul Rodgers is now sadly touring with Queen (!), though he remains one of the greatest English Rock singers.

A further gig excerpt, this time from the States in 1971 is also included, often bootlegged as "Rock Me Stealer". Download these & enjoy...

For the late Paul Kossoff (lead guitarist). 

1970

  

 

1971

THE VIBRATORS : Pure Mania (1977)

Thanks to Martin for sending this stuff...

BLOGGERS' TATTOOS

EASY LADIES...! This fine set of pins & great Ska tattoos belong to blog regular Paul of London. I know a lot of you out there in blogland have some great designs so why not see them on t'internet ?? Feel free to mail them in & we can all check 'em out.

I must admit I've not got any - haven't plucked up the courage yet... I shouldn't be scared of needles though, as I'm on 4x injections daily for my Diabetes... All I want is a St George Flag, City crest & the wife & kids' names. maybe soon... 

THE CURE : Dusseldorf 18/6/81

Thanks again to Martin.

THE CURE : De Melkweg, Amsterdam, 12/12/79

Another great gig courtesy of Martin.

THE CURE : John Peel Sessions 1978 - 1985

Bit of a Cure - fest today as Martin has sent me a load of decent files, the first of which is a John Peel Session collection of material from 1978 - 85. Please leave a note or two for him in Comments or on the C-Box. Many thanks !!

Kindly remember - no comments = END OF BLOG

THE CURE : Bournemouth 29/8/79

Thanks to Martin for this...

CHAMELEONS VOX : Poppodium Nieuwe Nor Heelen (Netherlands) 29/1/11.

Thanks to Phil for the ongoing support & supply of decent shared files. Much appreciated mate. Here's a very recent set from The Chameleons Vox.

For Herr Pauli...

CHAMELEONS VOX : Manchester Gigs 2009 - 10

Thanks, as always to Phil for these cracking files. Please leave a comment or two for him...

I was delighted to receive these this afternoon, especially as I was going to the Band On The Wall gig until last minute circumstances dictated otherwise....

PS I realise The Witchwood is in Ashton under Lyne, which is in Tameside as opposed to Manchester - just mentioned this as someone was otherwise bound to e-mail in about it...lol

Mcr Sub 61, 28/12/09

Witchwood 30/5/10

Band On The Wall, 11/10/10

ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS : Agora, Cleveland, USA, 77

Here's another I came across in the vaults...

THE CHAMELEONS : Rock Garden, London, 29/4/82

Many thanks to Phil for sending me the link for this !!

THE JAM : Brighton Centre 11/12/82 (Farewell Performance)

I roiginally posted this as a sharecode along with several others for Farewell Tour gigs in the early days of the blog. Brand new (working !!) sharecode posted 17/2/11.

All tracks labelled & presented in MP3 (ignore the FLAC details on the sleeve - too large to upload sensibly!!)

Thanks to Phil for sending me the artwork and, as always, respect to the original bootleggers.

Sadly no footage exists of this gig... Instead here's a couple of tracks from Paris. Both always meant a great deal to me, especially "But I'm Different Now"...


GOD... must just add one of my favourites..."Private Hell"...



& in conclusion, we'll employ a double negative & end with "Start"...  Can't get over the quality of the USA footage (1980) of "Start" & "...Hell"