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Update: May / June 2012

 

Being a UK-based website we're officially allowed to bang on about the weather. After the dreary Siberian February came the Mad March heatwave. This steers us deftly onto a band that many of a certain age will have heard but will not have heard of.

 

Assisted by a band member Col Wolfe has threaded together the story of Heatwave.

 

Courtesy of a strange old radio ruling called needle time they were the most heard band on BBC Radio One in 1969 and 1970 whilst remaining unknown.

 

Confused?

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All you need to know is they're not the chart-tabulous disco 70s Heatwave. Just read Col's article and everything will become abundantly clear.

 

We like records so much at Forumusic we occasionally spend time with them in complete silence. This is very easy when they're 78s in dusty boxes in a garage without a gramophone.

 

Like tombstones in a graveyard, the writing on their labels and sleeves reveal tiny fragments of the past but not a complete picture. Who collected these? Why are there Dutch and Belgium sleeves amongst them? Who started to catalogue them? Were they aiming for a complete label run?

 

Unhelpfully we have no answers (sorry!) but it hasn't stopped us hypothesizing wildly and snapping loads of photographs. It's vintage record pron after all.

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Getting answers about record collections is much easier when the collector himself can relate tales of forming the only Hip Hop crew in Stockport or of DJ-ing above Elbow but below Badly Drawn Boy on a New Years Eve.

 

When that record collector and DJ is Boney Votel he'll also share a smorgasbord of musical goodness with you ranging from deep soul and Hip Hop to Bollywood heat and from private press folk raers and jazz to seriously wigged-out nun funk.

 

Forumusic was delighted to spend a day with Boney at both his lock-up and his home in Preston in the company of nightclub flyers, mid-90s Wants Lists, fantastic records and endless cups of tea.

 

You may have to refresh your browser to find Boney Votel as the third collector in our Collectors series.

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We promised a PSpring Psych and Prog Pspecial in the February update and we have a little psych from France for you right now.

 

In a very short space of time the Six Ton Armor website has attracted exclusive mixes from many influential private collectors of psych from around the Globe.

 

Etienne Mézin / Olsun, ably assisted by his partner-in-pysch Olivier Monthaye / rimrimrim has created a site that's beautiful to look at and allows psych collectors free rein to stretch definitions of the genre.

 

Go to www.sixtonarmor.com to see and hear for yourself then swing back here to read interviews with Olsun and rimrimrim.

 

STA: a cyberspace Garden of Eden for psych heads.

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We're not quite there yet with Part 3 of the 90s Boot series.

 

If you've read the Intro and first two parts of the series you'll know it focuses on those naughty boot lps which appeared in independent record shops and on major city market stalls throughout the 1990s just before the Internet really took off.

 

You'll also know we subtitled 1995 as the Gentle Reign of Nuggets, because it's the first of three very golden Years for these crate-digger chronicle lps.

 

Check back for this at the end of May and as a kindly heads-up for reading this far, nab copies of Diggin Deeper 4 and the Folk Funk Experience lps before the article gushes all over them and prices start going up. They really are essential 90s boots.

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We've nearly completed our reviews of the ten most interesting looking Decca / London Phase 4 lps and they will also be along around mid-May.

 

The lovely young lady below is Sylvan. She was trapped on the Radio Caroline ship Mi Amigo for a long weekend back in 1965 when she was promoting her superlative double suicide ballad called We Don't Belong.

 

The BBC ruined the chances of it being massive but the song never went away and for 45rpm fans it's now on one side of the third single from Spoke Records.

 

For new readers, Spoke Records gave birth to Forumusic. Check out our history on the January 2012 Home page to see how we got here.

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The other side of Spoke 1203 is Steve Flanagan - I've Arrived and it's a killer. You can hear soundclips of both tracks at the Spoke Records website. www.spokerecords.co.uk

 

We know little about Flanagan so anyone furnishing us with more reliable information on him could win one of only ten test pressings of SPK 1203. Go to Spoke Trails on the Spoke Records website to see the information we have so far.

 

We hope you enjoy reading the articles here. Feel free to lurk the forumusic forum or say hello, and if you're thinking of up-sizing or down-sizing your music collection there's a healthy Set Sales / Trades area.

 

Thanks for stopping by.

 

Ian Townsend, Andy Cann, Col Wolfe

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