7” 45s


KING CHARLES Love Lust/Mr Flick Mi7 www.mi7records.com


Nothing can dissuade me at the moment from singing the praises of King Charles. On paper – or perhaps more accurately press sheets bearing


platitudes as softly stated facts that he is “folk” and is a “singer-songwriter genius” – these tired old allusions can hide inevitable disappointment. Not, however, in this instance as these


plaintive facts don’t really do his talent justice. Sure this is folk, but not proper folk. This is spiralling pre-everything folk, the sort of folk that steals your attention and swirls impressive descending/ascending vocals on the right subjects through hypnotic drum taps and break- laden urban savvy. As heavenly as it is heavy, the flipside – ‘Mr Flick’ – carries this confidence through progressive rock passages and kaleidoscopic synths, showing two sides of an extremely priceless coin as it were. A “singer-songwriter genius” though? He’s


certainly caught our attention. Richard S Jones


ARTHUR LEE Love Jumped Through My Window/Sad Song Sundazed www.sundazed.com


If you felt the hush that just came over Shindig!’s readership, it’s because word has leaked that Sundazed has unearthed, and will


soon release, a previously unheard 1971 album by Arthur Lee and Love. They’ll call it Love Lost, and it will also contain a batch of acoustic demos Arthur made around the same time.


This 7” serves as the teaser. Both songs


are tuneful enough, both are very much Arthur doing his thing with his voice and acoustic axe. But neither track is anything you’d want to use to turn on an uninitiated somebody to the splendour of Arthur Lee and Love. For ardent fans it is a must have, of course, and something we can cling to while waiting with baited breath for Love Lost. The sleeve contains some humorous notes


about the wild household Arthur was running at the time that he made these recordings. Brian Greene


LENNY’S IN THE GARAGE


LENNY HELSING gets his ears around some of the hottest new garage and beat 45s


Copas Disque’s ‘Serie Soul’ present THE FONXIONAIRES and THE BUTTSHAKERS, both female vox- fronted groups. The former are a bit too slick for me, while The Butts are deliciously raw, as ‘Talk Too Much’ shows.


Larsen Recordz offer Berry Express, an EP by Danish funsters PETER BERRY & THE SHAKE SET. This Toe Rag production includes melody, thump and twang, the best being ‘Let Me’ and ‘Wait And See’ – like 1965 never happened. Also from Larsen are L’ORCHIDEE D’HAWAI with Eleki Vol 1 and Eleki Vol 2, featuring ‘Black Sand Beach’, ‘Bangkok 1997’ and some breezy Japanese surfin’ moves.


Wondering about the latest from Spain’s THE PHANTOM KEYS? Here ‘tis. This is the first waxing since Mal Kergan (ex-The Thanes) joined. The wild ‘n’ snotty topside ‘Shut Up Johnny’ has Roi’s wired licks, Mal’s pulsing bass and Marky’s yelps all vying for attention. Flip for a raving ‘I Don’t Wanna Be Free’ sourced from genius Coventry ’60s gang The Sorrows.


The passion that oozes from new Barcelona combo ELS TRONS pitches their all-


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covers debut EP on Butterfly way beyond the average neo-60s dip-in. 12-string chimes come courtesy Marc Argenter – formerly


of much loved combo The Flashback V. Title track ‘El Que Queda De Mi’ is The Music Machine’s ‘The People In Me’ and ‘Decideix- Te’ is ‘Are You Gonna Be There’ by The Chocolate Watchband. Spirited readings of garage classics ‘Going All The Way’ and ‘I Ain’t No Miracle Worker’ are also included. Fab!


THE SUPER SNIPES on Radiowave showcase the delightful Bongo Debbie (Headcoatees/Nuns) on ‘Ghost Ride’ and ‘He Was Lying’ – a right royal Heinz rip-off it is too. Armitage Shanks’ Dick Scum vocalises over a tinny rock ‘n’ back-beat ensemble for ‘Ain’t That Nuthin’ and the cautionary ‘Justine’.


Fed through the buzz of ’65 clashing with ’77 are THEE VICARS, whose ‘You Lie’ and ‘Gonna See Me Again’ appear on Dirty Water, while ‘Feel So Good’ and ‘Out Of My Mind’ is the first 45 on Holy Twist. All cool, but the sound and basic garage attack of the latter has the edge.


More soon kids!


DVD


WILLIAM S BURROUGHS: THEE FILMS Cherry Red Films www.cherryred.co.uk


This is a treasure of rarely seen and memorable footage of Burroughs on film. The disc opens with a series of shorts Burroughs and his cohorts Brion Gysin and Ian Sommervile made in the early ’60s with


experimental filmmaker Anthony Balch, whom they met at the Beat Hotel in Paris. The movies, all of which feature Burroughs on screen, are as trippy, subversive, and darkly humorous as the writer’s cut-up novels that inform them. Burroughs’s sinister, deadpan voice is heard as he reads from his mischievously seditious writings, while dizzying film edits and psychedelic camera trickery assault the viewer’s visual senses. The disc concludes with a 50 minute film


called Ghosts At No. 9, which combines snippets from the shorts and other Burroughs on film moments with more WSB voice-overs. Psychic TV’s Genesis P Orridge provides the fittingly avant-garde soundtrack that plays over most of Ghosts. Brian Greene


DEEP PURPLE History, Hits & Highlights 1968-'76 Eagle Vision www.eagle-rock.com


As the title suggests this double DVD comes subdivided into three sections. Firstly, History, a condensed summary of the band from their beginnings in 1968 to their less than glorious end in the spring of '76 is


entirely made from edited clips of material included elsewhere in the collection. Hits is essentially a compilation of live,


studio and documentary footage, promo clips and TV appearances covering each of the distinct phases in the evolution of Purple from Mark I through to the shortlived Mark IV. Highlights meanwhile is a mixture of TV appearances, vintage live performances, a ’75 New Zealand TV documentary and a Leeds Polytechnic student film from ’74 which includes interviews with Jon Lord and Ian Paice plus a backstage audience with Ritchie Blackmore. With a total playing time in excess of four


hours there's an adundance of rare and fascinating material here including hilarious early footage of the band with pipe-smoking hipster Hugh Heffner on Playboy TV. Grahame Bent


LITTLE FEAT Skin It Back Eagle Vision www.eagle-rock.com Originally broadcast as part of West German TV show Rockpalast's inaugral trans European telecast in July 1977 this high quality in concert DVD captures the classic Little Feat line up in


their pomp at Essen's Grugahalle. Not only does this particular show have them slipping and sliding with all their customary swagger (this was the tour which later spawned the ’78 live album Waiting For


Columbus), it was also to be the last tour to feature the band's late lamented frontman Lowell George. On top of the full one hour plus live show


which comes fit to burst with such staples as 'Skin It Back', 'Fat Man In The Bathtub', 'Oh Atlanta', 'Dixie Chicken', 'Tripe Face Boogie', 'Willin'' et al the DVD also includes 30 minutes of previously unseen rehearsal footage of the band running through a selection of songs prior to the evening's live broadcast which, in addition to the formentioned songs also includes signature tune 'Rock ‘n’ Roll Doctor'. Grahame Bent


THE MOODY BLUES Threshold Of A Dream: Live At The Isle Of Wight Festival PROCOL HARUM In Corcert With The Danish National Concert Orchestra & Choir Eagle Vision www.eagle-rock.com


Music chronicler Murray Lerner patches together the August 1970 concert of The Moody Blues with the band’s latter day recollections. If the talk of “archaic amplification”, “the huge audience” and “the mellotron” of the


first section add little, the concert itself (which fills the second half in its entirety, bar the odd missing song) is essential viewing. If in doubt of the Moodies’ majesty watch


this concert and forget the bloated rich Las Vegas showmen who have been churning out ‘Nights In White Satin’ for what seems like an eternity. Justin Hayward, slight of frame, high of cheekbones and attired in slender white trousers, ribbed t-shirt and Timotei hair strikes an elfin presence while the remaining group – having moved on from looking like Brummy hairdressers –appear relaxed in their less flamboyant hippy influenced gear, but it’s the music that speaks loudest. From the perfect rendition of ‘Gypsy’ through the wildness of ‘Tortoise And The Hair’ and ‘Question’ The Moody Blues show themselves as a force of psychedelic rock that few could reckon with. Ray Thomas can be forgiven. If The Moody Blues suffer from the ghost of


‘Nights In White Satin’ you can’t help but think of Procol Harum without ‘A Whiter Shade Of Pale’ springing to mind, but they too deserve far more credit than they are ever given, for being forefathers of psychedelia and progressive rock. Hit records don’t always work in a band’s favour! This 2006 concert performed in the grounds


of a beautiful Danish castle to white haired folk in deck chairs (who were undoubtedly turned on 40 years ago) features a wealth of Procol


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