Happy Christmas Shindiggers!
It’s the end of the year, the snow is deep outside (it really is) and Christmas is just around the corner. Best of all, Shindig! Vol. 2 Issue 20 will be landing on your doormat very shortly. Doesn’t that sound like the ideal time to slow down and leave the rat race behind for a couple of weeks? It’s certainly what we intend to do at Shindig! HQ… and as we all drink single malt whiskey, eat walnuts and sleep, we’ll leave the elves to keep the office running. But before we do, once again we would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
It’s not quite out with the old and in with the new yet though, so let me tell you a little bit about issue 20, which may have our best cover of the year. You tell me.
And remember; if the pavements are covered in snow and ice, why bother trudging to the shops for your Shindig! fix? Issue 20 is available directly from us and is also sold at Amazon.
Here’s to some festive fun,
Jon ‘Mojo’ Mills
Editor-In-Chief
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Happening!
DECEMBER
Tuesday 28
Cologne
Psychedelic Night Out, Vibravoid, Helen Green + Lightshow, Blue Shell, Luxemburger Str. 32, Cologne, Germany 9pm www.vibravoid.com
Friday 31
London
Nutty New Year's Party! Beat basement, northern soul & mod club classics
229 Great Portland Street, London W1W 5PN
www.229thevenue.co.uk
JANUARY
Friday 7
London
Snakehips, DJs Bioux + Barbarella
The Monarch, Chalk Farm Road, London NW1 8BG. 8pm-4am
Saturday 8
London
Happening, with The Galileo 7 + The Fabulous Penetrators
The Drop, Below The Three Crowns, 175 Stoke Newington High Street, London N16 0LH. 8pm-2am
Thursday 13
London
Out Of Our Tree, with Sweet But Deadly DJs playing Garage, Beat + Psych. The Buffalo Bar, 259 Upper Street, London N1 1RU. 8pm-1am
Friday 14
London
Double Shot O' Soul, Spinning the best in Tamla Motown, Stax Records, Northern + Club Soul
The Drop, Below The Three Crowns, 175 Stoke Newington High Street, London N16 0LH. 8pm-4am
Sunday 16
Leicester
The Lava Lounge with the High Class Joes live!!!
Firebug bar, Millstone Lane, Leicester LE1 5JN. 9.00pm
www.myspace.com/leicesterlavalounge
Thursday 20
London
Deviation Street, with Sweet But Deadly DJs playing Garage, Beat + Psych.
Alley Cat, 4 Denmark Street, London WC2H 8LP
8pm-3am
Friday 21
Bournemouth
Dollyrocker Club
The Winchester Pub, 39 Poole Hill, The Triangle, Bournemouth BH2 5BW. 9pm-Late
www.dollyrockerclub.co.uk |
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SHINDIG! No.20
THE SOFT MACHINE
From the madcap Dada-inspired freakouts of the ’60s to Robert Wyatt being politely told where to go. We follow the trials? and tribulations of the lads from psychedelic saviours to serious jazz nuts.
ALLIED RECORDS
Jac Holzman is deservedly remembered as the trailblazing force behind the truly independently-minded Elektra Records, but further north in Toronto, Canada, Jack Boswell was mining a very similar terrain on the similarly pioneering label Allied Records. The Nihilist Spasm Band, The Folklords, Plastic Cloud, Reign Ghost and the underbelly of ’60s Canadian music are explored in depth.
EUPHORIA
Shindig! rightly believe the sole 1969 LP by Californian duo EUPHORIA to be one the finest of its era. Fuzz, country-rock, acid-drenched madness, England, MOR and orchestration fight for space on the invigorating A Gift From Euphoria.
MERREL FANKHAUSER
Merrell Fankhauser is best known for the sunshine pop, folk rock, and psychedelic music he and his various bands recorded in California and on the Hawaiian Islands in the late ’60s and early ’70s. He also dedicated much of the ’70s to studying the lost civilisation of Mu.
THE LOVIN’
Great Britain’s provincial suburban sprawl threw up countless aspiring guitar-wielding mod bands in the ’60s. Some even achieved the dizzy heights of record contracts, high fashion photo shoots and Georgie Fame support slots that eluded so many.
Ellis Kingston shines a valuable light on one such band – known during their ’60s odyssey as The Children, The Lovin’, The Nerve and The Duffy Taylor Blues – with the help of singer, songwriter and guitarist Rob Duffy.
NIRVANA
In the ’60s, the original Nirvana were pioneers of orchestrally-driven psychedelic folk-pop, and can lay claim to creating what many recognise to be the first concept album in The Story Of Simon Simopath. Their only single to reach the UK Top 40, ‘Rainbow Chaser’, is rightly regarded as a classic today, and its appearance on countless reissues ensures that the legacy of Nirvana lives on. Founder member Patrick Campbell-Lyons has been re-living his youth, and details the whole crazy trip in his new book, Psychedelic Days.
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| PRIVATES ON PARADE
We fine fellows and ladies at Shindig! adore what The BFI have been doing through their Flipside imprint of late. January sees two more nuggets of British cinema resurrected. Barney Platts-Mills' Private Road (1971) starring Withnail & I creator Bruce Robinson and the divine Susan Penhaligon is a follow-up of sorts to Mills' Bronco Bullfrog, transplanting the setting to middle class London and rural Scotland. A second release combines two obscure features, Duffer ('71) and Moon Over The Alley ('75) from writer-director team Joseph Despins and William Dumaresq, the latter boasting a music soundtrack from Galt "Hair" MacDermot.
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| CLUB TOGETHER
The fight to save London's oldest music venue from closure is gathering pace. YVONNE McKEOWN looks back and forward
Legends such as Mick Jagger, Glen Matlock and Ray Davis have backed the campaign to save The 100 Club which originally faced closure in December last year. Now it seems the venue has bought itself a few extra months of survival after donations from the public and an anonymous sponsor. The venue, which has staged stars such as Muddy Waters, The Rolling Stones, and The Kinks over the decades, is still posting gigs far into 2011.
The 100 Club is a key celebrator of the jazz and R&B scene. However, little is reported of its support for British psychedelic acts in the late '60s, with listings in 1968 boasting the likes of The Mike Stuart Span supported by The Penny Peeps. Mike Ketley, singer of The Penny Peeps, spoke about taking to the famous platform. "It's an honour to play a venue like The 100 Club. It houses lots of fond memories for people – it is part of our musical history. It's sad to see that threatened".
The renowned basement club fell into financial problems when the rent rose by 40%, making it a struggle to keep up with the dramatically developing Oxford Circus. Furthermore, originally admitting 700 music fanatics through its doors nightly, it has been reduced to 300 people due to strict health and safety responsibilities.
Regular events are being organised to raise money for the club. One campaigner, Jim Piddington, said, "Letting it disappear isn't an option – where else in London can you see a band like The Sex Pistols in a venue where sweat drips off the walls?"
For more information on the campaign, events, and how to get involved, go to www.savethe100club.co.uk |
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