HAPPENIN’ NEAR YOU
Forthcoming gigs and clubs to get your asses down and shake a tail feather to
Ray Hanson (Thee Hypnotics) and Jon ‘Mojo’ Mills.
EDITORIAL
The first thing you will have noticed, without me having to say anything, is the weight of the debut issue of Shindig! Volume 3. This baby is hefty! And yep, we’re quarterly too. We figured if you lose two issues a year we might as well make what you love bigger and better than
ever.Any queries about our “change for the best” should be directed to me. We not only love hearing your thoughts, but we need the feedback too. Our first issue of 2011 features no less than five or six grandiose
delights from right across the board. All could be front cover stories in their own right. There’s a horses’ mouth account of The Electric Prunes’ early days (with part two to follow), more on our beloved pulp novels and firsthand accounts of The Majority and
Q65.An in-depth look at 10CC’s Strawberry Studio, a focus on LA’s beatnik haunt The Insomniac’s Café and my epic history of Thee Hypnotics all add further colour to the palette, and I haven’t even touched on our equally impressive shorter pieces. Having taken time off from serious feature writing for the past few
years it was with trepidation that I undertook the task of tracking down one of my very favourite bands from my formative years,Thee Hypnotics. Both the interview and feature writing were something I threw myself into heart and soul.What was intended to run to 3,000 words ended up being 9,000. If not aware of Thee Hypnotics you will be after reading my tragic tale of missing the big time, accidents, bad management and rock ’n’ roll excess. As the years are passing by faster than I care to mention, it’s about time we cover a few of the superb bands who hated music of their era (the late ’80s through mid-90s) and looked back to the Shindigverse for inspiration. I saw Thee Hypnotics frequently, and their high energy show, oil lights and wild performance were as close as I got to seeing The Stooges in 1969 or The Pink Fairies in ’71. It was an honour to spend time with Jim, Ray and Phil and writing the piece was an eye opener when considering how our very own scribes regularly offer so much of themselves when submitting lengthy pieces they have toiled away on. I hope you enjoy both mine and our superb writers’ efforts. See you in three months,
Jon ‘Mojo’ Mills Editor-In-Chief Shindiggin’
What’s hot on the Shindig! turntable 1. The Cowsills – On My Side (Now Sounds CD)
2. Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band – Safe As Milk (Rev-Ola CD)
3. Thee Hypnotics – Preachin’ & Ramblin’ (Beggars Banquet 12”)
4. Wilson McKinley – Now I’m A Jesus Freak (Tanignak Productions CD)
5. Thurston Knudson, Augie Goupil & Their Jungle Rhythmists – Tahitian Rhythms And Jungle Drums (Decca LP)
6. Therapy – Stoney Mountain (Outburst 45)
7. Sweet Feeling – Sherry Cherie (Columbia 45) 8. Landslide – Two Sided Fantasy (Capitol LP) 9. Feathers – Feathers (Feathers Family LP)
10. Various Artists – Mixed-Up Minds Part One (Past & Present CD)
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Our very own HAPPENING night continues its monthly appearance at The Drop (below The Three Kings), 175 Stoke Newington High Street, London on March 5th with garage powerpoppers The Kits and psych lords The Moles, and April 2nd with Cardiff’s garage/soul act The Method and high octane surf from One Fathom Down. May 7th sees French garage punkers Sheetah Et Les Weissmuller and the similarly inclined The Savage Kicks grace the stage. Be there or be square. Shindig! magazine is on sale at a discount price too.
After their staggering performance at The 100 Club, our fave protagonists of neckerchief rock SLIM CHANCE return to the stage at The Boston Arms Music Room, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, London. On hearing ‘The Poacher’ and ‘Ooh La La’ you could be forgiven for thinking Ronnie Lane is still with us.
LE BEAT BESPOKE (as mentioned last issue) returns for its annual three-day run on 22nd-24th April at The Venue, Great Portland Street, London W1W 5PN. The weekend’s highlight will notably be Roy Loney and Cyril Jordan backed by The A Bones. Although calling themselves The Flamin’ Groovies may not be entirely accurate, and may disappoint powerpop fans, we’re sure their early ’70s raunch ’n’ roll will be faithfully served up for the partying masses. Bands across the rest of the event are King Khan & The Shrines, The Dragtones, The See See, The Diddlers, Dc Fontana, The Shoestring, De Keefmen and The Routes. There’ll also be international DJs galore, a record fair, vintage market, cult films, psychedelic lights and go go dancers to keep things lively.
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April 24th sees another all-dayer across town at The Drop (see Happening). WYLD THINGS features The Vicars, Wild Evel & The Trashbones, Brand New Hate and many other garage/trash acts to stupefy the mind.
Finally, heading north of The Big Smoke: Nottingham’s BLAST OFF! FESTIVAL is something caveman and gurls can look forward to across 16th-18th
September.Acts are to be confirmed so please check back at
www.blastoff-festival.co.uk for regular updates. Meanwhile, Scotland’s Eyes Wide Open club host the DOUBLE SIGHT weekend between Oct 7th and 9th with DJs from across Europe and two live bands: Shindig! faves The Hidden Masters kickstart the weekend followed by Le Bof on Saturday. Oh yes, it’s Shindig! sponsored too.
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THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME
Best start saving your £sd as the spring schedules include a raft of top Shindig!-friendly releases.
All 10 7” sides by Vox-sponsored Pacific North West legends The Velvet Illusions are gathered together for the first time on Acid Head 66-67 courtesy of Tune In/Cherry Red; The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown’s scrapped ’69 album Strangelands makes a belated appearance with new artwork and liners on Esoteric; Gene Vincent’s ’69 “comeback album”, I’m Back And I’m Proud, featuring LA luminaries such as Linda Ronstadt, Red Rhodes, Skip Battin and Mars Bonfire and produced by Kim Fowley is out on RPM; from the same year (and city) comes former Millennium mainstay Sandy Salisbury’s exquisite solo album Sandy, which remained unreleased until Poptones’ late ’90s CD edition and has now been remastered for vinyl on Poppydisc; The Outsiders’ outstanding ’68 psych- punk classic CQ gains its first official UK re- release on RPM, bolstered by half a dozen contemporary live versions; more vinyl comes from our friends over at Light In The Attic – jazz pianist Overton Berry’s two break-heavy early ’70s albums,TOBE/Overton Berry Trio At Seattle’s Doubletree Inn 1970-72, coupled as a deluxe gatefold double album; another vinyl outing is surprise Shindig! Writers’ Poll winner, Test Flight by Airbus, released in truncated form by Guerssen; Guerssen is also set to issue vinyl replicas of the first three Dando Shaft albums (An Evening With..., Dando Shaft and Lantaloon) annotated by Shindig!’s very own Andy Morten; Canned Heat’s self-titled ’67 debut gets the currently vogueish mono vinyl reissue treatment courtesy of Sundazed; much-coveted ’82 Whaam! Records LP Pop Goes Art is the next instalment of The Times’ reissue campaign on Artpop!/Cherry Red, although we’ll be lucky to see the original’s individually handmade covers; The Clarke, Hicks And Nash Years is a fairly self- explanatory trip through The Hollies’ ’63-68 glory days at EMI, although at this stage we don’t know exactly what it contains; Al Stewart’s first three albums – Bed Sitter Images, Love Chronicles and Zero She Flies –are collected on EMI’s double CD set, Images; and finally, Charly’s definitive overhaul of The 13th Floor Elevators’ back catalogue continues with The Albums Collection – a dinky box containing facsimile editions of the Texan psych outlaws’ four original albums, including a brand new and improved mix of the oft-derided ’67 Live set that aims to set the record straight once and for all.
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