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Update: June 2013
It's been a while! First up the fourth double A-side release from Spoke Records with the sought-after psych of 21st Century - Hard Act To Follow on one side and a femme blue-eyed Rn'B scorcher from Tammy St. John on the flip. On sale June 21st!
Check out soundclips to both tracks at the Spoke Records website here. As ever, there are stickers involved so purchasers should check their packages carefully.
Loving vinyl 45s as we do we love good vinyl nights out wherever we find them. Voodoo Boogie made it's debut in Norwich in February 2013 and as you can
see above, a great time was had by all dancing to 50s/ 60s Rn'B, Mambo, Boogaloo, Rocksteady, Ska and Reggae. Highly recommended!
Snow days meant clearing a backlog of articles and Craig Sayers (top left) is the latest addition to our Collectors series.
A regular contributor to the Waxidermy, Forumusic and Very Good Plus music forums, Craig has weaved from Electro and Hip Hop via Funk and Easy Listening through to psych and beyond.
He's featured here because a) he's cracking company and b) a vinyl blood hound who regularly scours boot sales and markets in the North East of England to find fresh sounds to weave into his regular live sets at the Tanners Arms in Newcastle.
Craig also organises the annual Byker Groove record meets which we'll feature in a future update.
Despite being the wrong end of the dreadful A11 Forumusic likes to get down to London occasionally especially when Vinyl Vultures from the Very Good Plus forum are gathering for their annual Best Of Brillo. This year the event was held once again at the Three Blind Mice pub in Shoreditch East London.
In December 2012 this slightly cramped cellar with a Dickensian feel had walls reverberating to sounds from around the globe played by an assortment of Very Good Plus regulars.
Far left is Sir Slim aka Wee Gee who regularly spins library grooves, crime-jazz, 60s soundtracks and vintage reggae at his club night called The Fickle Formula at the Three Blind Mice itself.
Regular readers may recognise Tom Bigg (above) who was the first featured Collector on Forumusic sharing a fine selection of Latin sounds with us.
On the right is Tom Watt, a sound man in more ways than one. By day he's the sound man at the Islington Academy in London and by night he's the drummer for fast- rising psych band Wolf People whose latest album Fain was released in May 2013.
Far right at the top; rifling through his 45 box in search of something relentlessly funky is VG+ regular Eclipsechaser Phil. Below Phil is Ninja Simone;a vinyl fiend by night and artist by day.
Not moving as fast as we'd like it to, our series on The 90s Boot Boom nevertheless rolls on to Part 4: 1996 where you can read about how some Dexters were getting extra mileage from their boots by adding
photographs of unclad models alongside hi-falutin' promises of higher states of consciousness to attract potential listeners. There was definitely something in the air back in 1996.
More tastefully clad girls abound on covers Mercury Super Stereo Sound lps from the 60s. We have the complete set of these fisheye lens feasts for you to peruse in our Art section.
Some very unclad girls crept onto the covers of 90s Easy Listening Compilations, a new article kickstarting a new series on the 90s Easy Revival.
Returning to nights out the Backstreet! Soul Club in Norwich celebrates its 30th anniversary all this year. We interviewed Backstreet! promoter Mark Chamberlin way back in November 2012 but you can read it here now.
Health and Safety: When trying to photograph old VG+ Swap CDs for a forthcoming article never allow pets near the CDs! Check out the cover art of the the VG+ Swap 2012 anyway.
Two bites into Sarge McSargery's Super 3000 Psych VG+ Swap CD this dog danced to Romantic Pysch breaks non-stop for 48 hours before he collapsed laughing on the sofa.
Fresh interviews and articles by Christmas if we keep crawling at this rate! They'll include interviews with Shindig! magazine's Si Norfolk and respected Gospel 45 collector and DJ Greg Belson.
We'll do our best to bring it all to you much sooner. Here's hoping....
Ian Townsend , Col Wolfe, Andy Cann
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