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Miscellaneous - June 2010

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published: 12 / 6 / 2010



Miscellaneous - June 2010

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Hello and welcome to the June edition of the Pennyblackmusic magazine.For this edition, we thought that we would try something different and a little out of the ordinary for a predominantly independent music-based magazine such as ours. We have focused on the decade in music between

Hello and welcome to the June edition of the Pennyblackmusic magazine. For this edition, we thought that we would try something different and a little out of the ordinary for a predominantly independent music-based magazine such as ours. We have focused on the decade in music between 1955 when Bill Haley and the Comets first burst onto the charts with ‘Rock Around the Clock’ and 1965 when the Beatles sold out Shea Stadium. It was a cruise trip that provided the genesis for this. When our Chicago-based writer Lisa Torem was offered a journalist pass to review Malt Shop Memories, a four day rock ‘n’ roll memorabilia boat tour off the Florida coastline, and which featured on-ship performances from acts of that era such as Lou Christie, Little Anthony and the Imperials, Lesley Gore, the Platters and Frankie Avalon, it seemed like too good an opportunity not to do something. There is a live review of the Malt Shop Memories cruise, and interviews with both Little Anthony and the Imperials, who are now in their 52nd year of making music together, and Lesley Gore who talks about her long musical career, 1963 American number one hit ‘It’s My Party’, and continued love of playing live. There is a feature too on Frank Sinatra during his golden era of making music in the Fifties. Adrian Huggins also tells of his recently ignited interest in Rockabilly and Psychobilly and the currently revitalized status of both movements, while in ‘Rock Salt Row’ Lisa debates with me about whether Elvis Presley really is the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll. In our Re: View section there is a feature on the foresaid Little Anthony and the Imperials’ fiftieth anniversary album, ‘You’ll Never Know’, and for our Website of the Month Fiona Hutchings has come up with a suitably topical website, Spyvibe, a 60’s nostalgia and style-meets-website. While we have something on this theme in each of our major sections, we have not skimped out on any of our regular features. In our lead interview this month Spencer Robertshaw to pioneering punk poet John Cooper Clarke about his writing and continued enthusiasm for performing poetry. Our other main interviews for this month are with Californian singer-songwriter Chuck Prophet who talks about his years with influential Americana outfit Green on Red and recent solo career ; 1980’s synth pop band Heaven 17 who are about to tour with their never performed debut album ‘Penthouse and Pavement’, and Mancurian post-punks A Certain Ratio who have just released 'Mind Made Up', their first album since the 1990s. There are interviews also with American art rock/synth punk band Devo who are back with 'Something for Everybody',their first album in two decades ; former Strangelove front man Patrick Duff about his second solo record ‘The Mad Straight Road’ and Marc Morrissette, the front man with Canadian indie rock act Octoberman about his band’s just released third album of slacker pop anthems, ‘Fortresses’. We are running interviews as well with 60’s-influenced Los Angeles all girl garage punks the Dum Dum Girls; London-based sunny noise pop band Male Bonding; Chicago-based indie pop/rock outfit, Aaron Fox and the Reliables, and Stuart Mackay, the founder and organiser of the Derbyshire indiepop festival Indietracks which is now in its fourth year. In our Features section there are articles on new DVD releases from classic rock band Renaissance and of ‘Lizard in a Woman’s Skin’ a restored 1970’s Italian horror film which stars Stanley Baker and includes a soundtrack from Ennio Morricone. In our Live Reviews section there is a three part article from Mark and Jamie Rowland, Ben Howarth and Sarah Johnson who discuss a recent Pavement-curated All Tomorrow’s Parties weekend at Minehead in Somerset and each of the bands and acts involved. There are also reviews tin that section of Glaswegian festival the Southside Festival and gigs by Athlete, Mission of Burma, Alkaline Trio, Boredoms, Villagers, the Pipettes and Airship. In our Regular Features section Spencer Robertshaw in his ‘Evidently Spencertown’ poetry column pays testimony to John Cooper Clarke, while Ben Howarth in ‘Condemned to Rock ‘n’ Roll’ writes of his favourite band the Divine Comedy's first new album in four years, 'Bang Goes the Knighthood'. With Lou Reed and his wife Laurie Anderson's recent announcement that they will be playing a concert outside the Sydney Opera House for dogs, Jon Rogers in his 'Hitting The Right Note' looks at some of the grander eccentricities and way-out ideas of other musicians, while Jeff Thiessen in ‘This Metal Sky’ writes an open letter to the Stone Temple Pilots about their eponymous first album in nine years. Anna Gudaniec in a ‘Photoscapes’ column meanwhile photographs American indie pop act fun. at a gig in London. In our Re: View section, there are, as well as the article on the Little Anthony and the Imperials album, features on New Orleans group the Dirty Dozen Brass Band’s 1984 debut ‘My Feet Can’t Fail Me Now’ and the Adverts 1979 second album, ‘Cast of Thousands’. There are also 32 album and single reviews. We ran a further 32 reviews in our album and singles reviews only up-date in late May we put on-line another 32 reviews. It is perhaps worth noting that in a month in which one of our writers who is on benefits was visited by the DSS who wanted to know how much Pennyblackmusic was paying him, all of our writers and photographers give their services voluntarily. Thank you for all their hard work to Carl Bookstein, Aaron Brown, Malcolm Carter, Andrew Carver, Dixie Ernill, Russell Ferguson, Tony Gaughan, Benjamin Howarth, Adrian Huggins, Fiona Hutchings, Sarah Johnson, Chris O’ Toole, Spencer Robertshaw, Jon Rogers, Jamie Rowland, Mark Rowland, Maarten Schiethart, Anthony Strutt, Jeff Thiessen, Lisa Torem and Paul Waller, all of whom contributed articles to this edition or to the reviews up-date in May. Thank you too to Anna Gudaniec for the fun. photos. Special thanks to our webmaster Richard Banks at Pennyblackmusic HQ. We will be back with a reviews up-date in late June and then at the beginning of June with a full edition. We hope then to be running interviews with Tendertrap, Freebass, Jimmie Vaughan, Scout Niblett, Mary Gaughan, Puddle of Mudd, the Lotus Eaters, Jim Gweskin and Geoff Muldaur, Marianne Dissard, Otis Gibbs, Exit Calm, the Monkey Power Trio and music writer Roxana Shirazi. There will also be the usual range of features, live reviews, profiles and more album and single reviews. Thank you as always for reading John Clarkson Magazine Editor www.pennyblackmusic.co.uk




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