tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14720830976437413092024-03-19T04:58:55.937+00:00Groove Grove GraphicsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1472083097643741309.post-17169029053158395792010-07-26T16:23:00.006+01:002010-07-27T13:31:09.515+01:00Tom Vague's Harrow Road Pop History - August 5th<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0NAHR_AdqhXPzln5is6TnmTFF3KLH9Y8l1RQNm52-UFn24z6qrw9F9UGw9taXbAkhkCNVEoTQpoQIaCOjSBgiv_sNFHnk0bBNp33sboWAJVkLeTy0VyIjWP8swIZFfkSfTq6Jm5jx5cpt/s1600/Vague+47.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5498239648621606386" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0NAHR_AdqhXPzln5is6TnmTFF3KLH9Y8l1RQNm52-UFn24z6qrw9F9UGw9taXbAkhkCNVEoTQpoQIaCOjSBgiv_sNFHnk0bBNp33sboWAJVkLeTy0VyIjWP8swIZFfkSfTq6Jm5jx5cpt/s320/Vague+47.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 320px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">While Sugar did not have too many explicitly direct connections with West London, he was one of the few Jamaican artists to achieve international success while nurturing talent in his homeland. Along with the aforementioned UK success Sugar also had a productive stint recording for Lloyd "Bullwackie" Barnes' label Wackies in New York, while he continued to promote other talent through his Youth Promotion soundsystem and "Black Roots" record label. A selection of previously unexhibited photographs of Sugar Minott and members of his Youthman Promotion crew taken by Stella Whalley are on show at the Groove Grove Graphics exhibition. </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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<li><b>Sugar Minott - Oh Mr DC (Studio One)</b></li>
<li><b>Sugar Minott - Hard Time Pressure</b></li>
<li><b>Sugar Minott - Dancehall Style</b></li>
<li><b>Sugar Minott - You've lost it (plus DJ cut by Papa Honey aka Sugar Minott)</b></li>
<li><b>Sugar Minott - Good Thing Going (U.K. TV appearance)</b></li>
<li><b>Sugar Minott - International Herb (Wackies)</b></li>
<li><b>Youthman Promotion dance 1986</b></li>
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A warm night in West London - a fantastic opening party with more than 200 guests, Mark M.'s old skool sound system and great music. It was good to see people relating to our album covers as design works, interesting to hear some of the memories stirred by the exhibition.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1472083097643741309.post-90602055012166591882010-06-29T12:17:00.003+01:002010-06-29T12:48:11.266+01:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4cZ8bR5GSlK04z0d2j0Mxt2XirpRzGd3EL3HBDN4e34b_0Xf5jhtJIw-mu7eVpEPQXiwh4vnWKUUp5g22k3PPah_KntLhNZPSexya9k1cJjFROHJlMzvs5zSKX2a81_VtSBfqU_UmUbKD/s1600/courtney.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 243px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4cZ8bR5GSlK04z0d2j0Mxt2XirpRzGd3EL3HBDN4e34b_0Xf5jhtJIw-mu7eVpEPQXiwh4vnWKUUp5g22k3PPah_KntLhNZPSexya9k1cJjFROHJlMzvs5zSKX2a81_VtSBfqU_UmUbKD/s400/courtney.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5488160137143132130" /></a><br />West London's internationally acclaimed jazz <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">saxophonist</span> Courtney Pine will be playing at one of the many concerts at Hampton's Summer Picnic Concerts to help <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">fund raise</span> for the Hampton pool.<div>Pine has spent more than two decades revitalising a public interest in jazz beginning with his 1986 debut album <i>Journey to the Urge Within</i>, which was the first jazz record to infiltrate the UK Top 40.</div><div>The concert will showcase material from his 2009 album <i>Transition in Tradition</i>, a tribute to legendary Creole saxophonist Sidney <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Bechet</span>, who Pine sites as one his most important influences as a jazz musician. </div><div><br /></div><div>You can buy tickets direct from <a href="http://www.hamptonpool.co.uk/4_concert_2.htm">Hampton Summer Picnic Concert's website</a>.</div>Kerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06836322551153215946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1472083097643741309.post-51442962676460084392010-06-19T17:46:00.006+01:002010-06-19T18:27:03.903+01:00M.I.A. - Galang<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK4hVddqJ9hlSXCMbw3qVdhoSK3XcYqF9nOassGVJVB0RPxI-ESzFuXOiUg_gqvuCWcnEM69bO-V7YAL0HVxS-0L1L0wNA8jC84jamyKNAPXU4eDIxp5zmXz4kpUVuOvpuf6rowlXf7e9L/s1600/album-arular.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK4hVddqJ9hlSXCMbw3qVdhoSK3XcYqF9nOassGVJVB0RPxI-ESzFuXOiUg_gqvuCWcnEM69bO-V7YAL0HVxS-0L1L0wNA8jC84jamyKNAPXU4eDIxp5zmXz4kpUVuOvpuf6rowlXf7e9L/s320/album-arular.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5484537386151696482" border="0" /></a><br />Is M.I.A. the ultimate West London rebel girl? 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</div><div style="font-family: arial; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;">One serious contender for this title is the Railway Hotel in West Hampstead. During the 1960's it ran a weekly club night known as Klooks Kleek. </span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><a name='more'></a></span><div style="font-family: arial; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;">Originally a jazz club, the music changed to reflect the new interest in Rhythm and Blues. West and South West London were UK blues centres in the early '60's, and a number of small venues became part of a thriving new club scene including the Marquee, the Flamingo, the Ricky Tick, and the Crawdaddy. Klooks was small upstairs function room. Unlike other venues it had no stage at all. There were no mixing desks, lighting rigs, or sound checks; the bands just tuned up and played. While the Graham Bond Organisation was probably the most respected band of that era, others went on to much more success, among them the Rolling Stones, The Yardbirds, The Animals, Eric Clapton, Family, The Who, Rod Stewart, Cream, Jethro Tull, Led Zeppelin all of whom played at Klooks. There was also Zoot Money’s Big Roll Band, Chris Farlowe and the Thunderbirds, Georgie Fame, Herbie Goins and the Nightimers, Geno Washington and the Ram-Jam band, Cliff Bennett and the Rebel Rousers. Occasionally, American bluesmen would drop in -Howlin' Wolf was there, and Jimi Hendrix jammed with John Mayall.</span></div><div style="font-family: arial; margin: 0px;"><b><br />
</b><span style="font-size: small;">By the late '60's, the scene had moved on, and the venue was renamed the Moonlight Club with bands like Siouxsie And The Banshees, The Cure, The Jam, Joy Division, and The Stone Roses playing gigs there early in their careers.</span></div><div style="font-family: arial; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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1. Let's start with the biggest one. When I first saw Bedknobs and Broomsticks as a child I was convinced there must have been another Portobello Road market somewhere- the scenes in the movie bore such little similarity to the street I knew. Watching this now I get the idea the Bedknobs and Broomsticks version is really a strange combination of all London markets, but at this point Portobello must have had enough pop cache to feature as the named street. This section of the movie features a large multi ethnic dance sequence with a jazz band, dancing Sikhs, Highland dancers, a Caribbean steel band, a young (albeit non-dancing) Bruce Forsyth and plenty of stock tap-jazz dancers. This was in 1971 and the idea that Portobello Road was a multi-ethnic place where you could find just about anything you could think of seemed to be firmly established in the mainstream. <br />
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2. The Spectrum recorded their song "Portobello Road" at some point in the two years of their existence between 1967-1969 and included it on their only LP "The Light is Dark Enough" in 1970. The song is a twee description of Portobello Road in a pop-psychedlic style. The group also recorded the closing credits tune for the sci-fi puppet show "Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons" while band member Keith Forsey later wrote "What a Feeling" for Flashdance, and produced Billy Idol and Psychedelic Furs. <br />
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3. Billy Nicholl's take on Portobello Road is taken from his 1968 album "Would You Believe". The song describes screaming children and, in perhaps a 1960's LSD inspired moment, "people taking off the lid to see what's beneath". It also continues the idea that "you can buy most anything- paperclips or Eastern European wedding rings". Billy Nicholls probably knew the area well enough being a local from nearby White City. Before recording "Would You Believe", Billy Nicholls was a staff writer for Andrew "Loog" Oldham's Immediate record label- Oldham apparently wanted the album to be a UK version of Pet Sounds, and it features the cream of the session musician from the time along with John Paul Jones from Led Zeppelin and almost every member of the Small Faces.<br />
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4. Cat Stevens released his song about Portobello Road before any other on this roundup as the B-Side to his 1966 single "I Love My Dog". Again the song describes the street as a unique place where "nothing is weird, not even a beard". Although Cat is known as an impressive songwriter this was written by American Kim Fowley who later assembled and managed The Runaways. <br />
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5. Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil both lived in London while in exile from Brazil. Although it seems Gilberto Gil had the better musical experience in West London (attending performances by Yes, Incredible String Band and being exposed to reggae with Jimmy Cliff, Bob Marley and Burning Spear, while Caetano Veloso said "London felt dark and I felt far away from myself") Caetano Veloso recorded a song mentioning the area. In "Nine Out Of Ten" he describes walking "down Portobello Road to the sound of reggae" and name checks the Electric Cinema. While he acknowledges the effect the market meeting point of cultures has on exposing him to new sounds, the song is melancholic although this is probably more attributable to the reasons behind him being in London than the area itself. <br />
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6. I'm not a big Dire Straits fan so I wasn't aware of their Song "Portobello Belle" until I started a bit of research for this list. The song describes the "Barrow Boys" and the market in much the same way as the first four songs in the list and as with "Nine out of Ten" the "Reggae Rumble" as now one of the most identifiable sounds in the area. For the first time in the list, though, it describes another person separate from the singer who the singer identifies with the area. <br />
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7 . "Bunny Lee and the Aggrovators Presents Super Dub Disco Style" features a track titled "Portobello Special Dub"- Bunny Lee would doubtless have encountered Portobello Road at some point in his many trips to London but it is unclear whether this is a direct reference to an event on the street or a commercial move thanking some of the UK purchasers of his products. <br />
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8. Clifton "Larry" Lawrence moved to the UK from Jamaica in 1965, worked as a truck driver and launched a soundsystem, later producing local talent for Trojan subsidiaries. In 1974 he launched the Ethnic Fight label, based out of the same premises as his record shop on Kilburn High Road. "Portobello Dub" is on his LP "Out Of One Man Many Dubs" which indeed features many local-named dub tracks with "Harrow Road Dub" and "Kilburn High Rock Dub" also among the titles. <br />
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9. Damon Albarn describes writing the songs for "Modern Life Is Rubbish" as "in a classic English vein" and using "weird caustic lyrics about England as it was at that moment" and certainly mentions the area of London in which he was living in the track "Blue Jeans". Not a celebration of the area, just a nonchalant mention of buying some "air cushioned soles" on Portobello Road within a rather melancholic song. At this point it seems the image of the market has reverted to a commercial area, far from an inspirational creative place. <br />
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10. The Pink Fairies were one of the main acts in the London Underground scene which was centered around the Ladbroke Grove / Portobello Road area. Portobello Shuffle is another storming track from their second album "What a Bunch Of Sweeties".<br />
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</span></div><span style="color: black;">For the next in our </span><a href="http://groovegrovegraphics.blogspot.com/search/label/SHRINES" style="color: black;">shrines</a><span style="color: black;"> series we stir up that old rivalry, moving from Abbey Road and the </span><a href="http://www.thebeatles.com/" style="color: black;">Beatles</a><span style="color: black;"> to Kings Road and the Stones.</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.rbkc.gov.uk/vmgallery/general/medium.asp?gallery=vm_chelsea_walk&img=chelsea_walk/thumb/vm_cw_0028.jpg&size=medium" style="color: black;">The Chelsea Drugstore</a><span style="color: black;">, opened in 1968, shocked Royal Avenue residents not only with its modern glass and aluminium facade but even more so with it's clientele.</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">Noted in the famous Rolling Stones song, it was also used as a location in the controversial Kubrick film </span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066921/" style="color: black;"><span style="font-style: italic;">A Clockwork Orange</span></a><span style="color: black;">.</span><br />
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<div style="color: black; text-align: left;">Here you can see Alex chatting up a few devotchkas...</div><div style="color: black; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoGmDgu3vi6k3XEXGoqi8wtUBEDb3F5s65DFgSlHJzIAS1yB_7JlBCZvhznMdcvYQgAnmtBCthIVao13DzaoWZdhJErzgrtgkNa_2wDOKZI1nKIKigeVeHMupyggFVpy6g0Js6PEHkZO0/s1600/clockwork.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467380525187156626" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoGmDgu3vi6k3XEXGoqi8wtUBEDb3F5s65DFgSlHJzIAS1yB_7JlBCZvhznMdcvYQgAnmtBCthIVao13DzaoWZdhJErzgrtgkNa_2wDOKZI1nKIKigeVeHMupyggFVpy6g0Js6PEHkZO0/s400/clockwork.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a></div><span style="color: black;">For more stills from the movie, as well as an anoraks guide to the records and magazines featured in this scene, check out <a href="http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2006/04/13/alex-in-the-chelsea-drug-store/">John Coultharts blog</a></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">Unfortunately the Chelsea Drugstore is no more, having been turned into a McDonalds restaurant, but there is an official </span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/London-United-Kingdom/Chelsea-Drugstore/59889492435" style="color: black;">Chelsea Drugstore facebook page</a><span style="color: black;">, aimed at connecting old friends and sharing tales of this important place in London's music, film and fashion history.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; text-decoration: underline;"></span>Cathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17534167989749651877noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1472083097643741309.post-15787188805300874252010-04-25T16:03:00.006+01:002010-04-26T13:23:34.702+01:00DominicThere are a couple of good pieces about Peter Metro and DJ Dominic in the Jamaica Gleaner from last week:<br />
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<a href="http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100418/ent/ent9.html">Dominick moves from journalism to deejaying</a><br />
<a href="http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100418/ent/ent8.html">Story of the song: "Cockney and Yardie" combines foreign speech</a><br />
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Dominic is a Ladbroke Grove local, if you don't know much about him the interview on <a href="http://www.ricenpeas.com/docs/dominic.html">ricenpeas.com</a> is a good place to start- I especially like the comment about Super Cat and Early B:<br />
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<i>How they DJ is how they live, they’d be singing, “A de kitchen mi de, mi de listen reggae.” And they’d have a tape playing and be cooking fish and all of that in the kitchen. It was wicked.</i><br />
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Dominic is best known for his track "Boy George", recorded in Jamaica on Jammys, included on his Island Records LP "Ready For Dominic", and described with a nice turn of phrase in the Mel Cooke article as a song which: <br />
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Caution: there is a little "slackness" in these clips, particularly from Lecturer in the third video.<br />
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After a very long coach ride and unappetising service station breakfast we arrived in sunny Leeds and then headed through the country side (chock full of sheep and daffodils) to his lovely home where we talked a bit about his work over the years and his involvement in the West London scene of the 1960's.</span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"> Back in the 1960's he created some of the most awe inspiring artworks with the pop art collective Binder Edwards & Vaughn. From chairs to cars their early psychedelic designs gave way to painting and conceiving design concepts for shops, most notably on the Kings Road in Chelsea and painting murals on Carnaby Street.</span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"> The relationship between visual art and music is long standing and Dudley's career encompasses the connections the two mediums hold, with designing album covers for <a href="http://www.thekinks.org/">the Kinks</a> and painting murals for Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney, as well as Sir Paul's famous Magic Piano.</span></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDKaZIt5PGW5z3ssBFh2gLmI_FNRhFtzTcLgMqbfgHazukE0jmMpR6VYW7imTxcr-kI5Y20-hoE5OIFiUR-EBracrhXvpdHBJFEYXOXB4C5EiCiGIw4m5AJqSlrRsByx9AzQgJ5mkmb0sl/s1600/bev2.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5460533026108503234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDKaZIt5PGW5z3ssBFh2gLmI_FNRhFtzTcLgMqbfgHazukE0jmMpR6VYW7imTxcr-kI5Y20-hoE5OIFiUR-EBracrhXvpdHBJFEYXOXB4C5EiCiGIw4m5AJqSlrRsByx9AzQgJ5mkmb0sl/s400/bev2.jpg" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; text-align: center; width: 322px;" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-style: italic;"> Painting McCartney's piano</span></span></div><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"> Dudley continues to make inspired and colour filled works with his most recent one man show at Crossley Gallery at <a href="http://www.deanclough.com/">Dean Clough</a> in Halifax this past spring.</span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"> We will be showcasing a number of prints of Dudley's major works and presenting the filmed interview we conducted with him at the Groove Grove Graphics exhibition this summer.</span></div>Kerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06836322551153215946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1472083097643741309.post-69431947634697978132010-04-09T19:32:00.008+01:002010-04-16T03:49:19.599+01:00Blur back on 45<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbDW4Jje85pitlc4W2rbA1F7Lx8RaSDMWwRDZh1jcSc06OIbet8RuuL2sLj2-EhNaFSyAPQBlyji5J-ez6gazZCNunfN3ujwa2nZjlfCSnG0eT5ntqg4nXYnFtzbkTH2_CYhs8lUSJjK8/s1600/blur-blondie.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbDW4Jje85pitlc4W2rbA1F7Lx8RaSDMWwRDZh1jcSc06OIbet8RuuL2sLj2-EhNaFSyAPQBlyji5J-ez6gazZCNunfN3ujwa2nZjlfCSnG0eT5ntqg4nXYnFtzbkTH2_CYhs8lUSJjK8/s320/blur-blondie.jpg" width="264" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Blur are set to release a surprise new single, their first for seven years. They have already recorded the new material, two new songs, in between Albarn's commitments with his other group <a href="http://groovegrovegraphics.blogspot.com/2010/03/gorillaz-gall-grant.html">Gorillaz</a>, and will release the 1000 limited issue single for Record Store Day on the 17th of April. </div><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">The group reunited in 2009 for a series of large summer festival shows, but also took the time to appear at Rough Trade East record shop. Other than their 2010 documentary, No Distance Left To Run, it was thought the group would not be putting their name to any new releases. The as yet unnamed single, their first since "Good Song" in 2003 is one of a series of limited issue material to be released on 7" for Record Store Day. 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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Although McLaren was most well known for having solidified the role of the Sex Pistols in the punk rock history books, he managed ( and disbanded) several other groups before and after them, most notably the New York Dolls, Adam and the Ants and after disbanding them, with the musicians that made up the Ants, he put together and managed new wave one hit wonders Bow Wow Wow, best known for their cover of "I Want Candy".</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">His foray into music management flourished from opportunities he saw arise from running his own shop on the Kings Road with designer and former partner <a href="http://groovegrovegraphics.blogspot.com/2010/03/punk-rock-schoolmarm.html">Vivienne Westwood</a> beginning with Let it Rock, which led to Sex and then to Seditionaries - all influencing and changing the look of an entire sub culture.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">McLaren himself was a musician, releasing the critically acclaimed <span style="font-style: italic;">Duck Rock</span> in 1983 which featured a number of new wave musicians of the time, from Trevor Horn to Thomas Dolby. The album had two major hits, <span style="font-style: italic;">Double Dutch</span> which featured African and South American inspired instrumentation and <span style="font-style: italic;">Buffalo Gals</span>, of which parts are taken from an traditional folk song from the 19th century. He would continue to release albums until 2009, with Shallow- Musical Paintings.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Born and raised in Hammersmith, West London, Numan and his band Tubeway Army got into the punk scene a little late but they were the first 'punks' to use synthesizers, changing the sound of electronic music. </div><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">Numan later went solo and had a number with his first album <span style="font-style: italic;">The Pleasure Principle</span> released in 1979 including "Cars" and "Complex".</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div>Numan continued his initial commercial and critical success throughout the 1980's, resulting in a great deal of influence in music. Gary Numan's songs are some of the most sampled and covered songs of the last 30 years from an entire album of covers called Random featuring Damon Albarn, St. Etienne and the Magnetic Fields to some of the chart topping sampled songs like Basement Jaxx's 2002 hit "Where's Your Head At?" using Numan's "M.E." and the Sugababes "Freak Like Me" which used Tubeway Army's "Are Friends Electric?". Most recently he collaborated with Little Boots for BBC Radio 6 at the Maida Vale studios in 2009 which was very well received, with over a million views, making it the most popular session available on the interactive Red Button service to date.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">2.<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"> I Spy</span> - <b>Pulp</b></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> The band originally from Sheffield signed to West London label Island in the early 1990's and recorded this song for their album <span style="font-style: italic;">Different Class</span> and had the lyrics:<br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><i>Take your year in Provence and shove it right up your arse.</i></span><i><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Your Ladbroke Grove looks turn me on, yeah.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">With roach burns in designer dresses</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">And thousands of tiny dryness lines</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Beating a path to the corner of your eyes</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">And every night I hatch my plan, it's not a case of woman v man.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">It's more a case of haves against haven'ts and I just</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">4. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Warwick Avenue</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> - </span><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Duffy</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> Welsh artist signed to West London label Rough Trade with a song about breaking up with the setting of </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Warwick Avenue</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> station.<br />
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<i style="font-family: arial;">Getting hung up all day on smiles<br />
Walking down portobello road for miles<br />
Greeting strangers in indian boots,<br />
yellow ties and old brown suits<br />
Growing old is my only danger</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial,serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><i><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Slits take to the stage on the 27th May with their new multi-generational lineup featuring orginal members Ari Up and Tessa Polit together with newcomers Anna Schulte, NO, and Hollie Cook, the daughter of <a href="http://www.sexpistolsofficial.com/">Sex Pistols</a> drummer Paul Cook. Their 2009 album <span style="font-style: italic;">Trapped Animal </span>garnered <a href="http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/13598-trapped-animal/">mixed reviews</a>, but as a live proposition they are apparently still a <a href="http://www.the-fly.co.uk/words/reviews/live-reviews/6097/live-review:-the-slits">stunning experience</a>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Fresh from the <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2010/02_february/12/6music.shtml">BBC's hugely sucessful</a> 80's inspired <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/">6 Music</a> Live sessions, and a performance with <a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.littlebootsmusic.co.uk">Little Boots</a>, synth-legend <a href="http://www.numan.co.uk/box/news.html"><b style="font-weight: normal;">Gary Numan</b> </a>has added a date at Primavera to his tour. Taking to the stage on the 29th of May, his performace will follow his one off London show at the Scala, as well as appearances at <a href="http://www.coachella.com/">Coachella</a> festival and San Francisco in the U.S.A and Porto, Portugal.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Will you be attending any of the performances?</div>Cathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17534167989749651877noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1472083097643741309.post-35684155453410031112010-03-16T11:10:00.009+00:002010-04-16T03:45:00.747+01:00The Raincoats perform "The Raincoats"<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDDYP87eMKfr-z9gu9jKF3AA-R8fiZBt6MKsoZ2rRRWOQM8g1BZ7ehdKR3TA5CKzV9pK1_I8d6TA_PtpLRtPa7r5GnPgW2Pwij1ZApyFCvLF3Vy2HokbUtVTfkaM4F30MI4jJWugKYDM3q/s1600-h/the-raincoats.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDDYP87eMKfr-z9gu9jKF3AA-R8fiZBt6MKsoZ2rRRWOQM8g1BZ7ehdKR3TA5CKzV9pK1_I8d6TA_PtpLRtPa7r5GnPgW2Pwij1ZApyFCvLF3Vy2HokbUtVTfkaM4F30MI4jJWugKYDM3q/s400/the-raincoats.jpg" width="400" /></a><span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Photo courtesy of Rough Trade</span></span><br />
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<div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;">Originally released in 1979 by <a href="http://www.roughtrade.com/site/shop_detail.lasso?sku=199279"> Rough Trade</a> the <a href="http://www.theraincoats.net/">Raincoats</a> debut album was remastered and re-released in November 2009. It's been 30years since they emerged from the musically fertile West London squat scene that also produced the <a href="http://www.theclashonline.com/">The Clash</a>. Since then they've seen a mid 90's resurgence of interest, facilitatied by Kurt Cobain (who claimed their music cheered him up!) and now <a href="http://www.atpfestival.com/">ATP</a> and <a href="http://www.dontlookbackconcerts.com/">Don't Look Back</a> have got together to present a live performance of their first album in it's entirety.</div></div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;">Tickets for the one-off show at the <a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.scala-london.co.uk">London Scala</a> on the 20th of May 2010 are on sale <a href="http://www.atpfestival.com/events/theraincoatslondon/tickets.php">now</a>.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span></span></div>Cathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17534167989749651877noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1472083097643741309.post-84332666704585249662010-03-16T10:23:00.010+00:002010-04-16T03:44:01.972+01:00Gorillaz Gall Grant<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">It's all over the news that Eddy Grant is furious with Gorillaz. He claims "Stylo", released by Damon Albarns cartoon supergroup is a "blatant rip off" of his 1982 track "Time Warp". Grant and Gorillaz both share their publishing company, EMI. "I am very angry that this was not picked up by our mutual publisher EMI's administration division."</div><a name='more'></a><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">"It's such an obvious copy that from day one, the band and their management should have taken control of this situation with EMI Publishing.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">"I would like the outcome to be that the band admits that they have lifted my song, that I have a full credit for the song and an apology from the band."</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Eddy Grants 1983 smash "Electric Avenue" is one of the great London landmark songs. He also has prior relations with West London bands; the Clash covered his song "Police On My Back" for their album Sandinista! whose Mick Jones and Paul Simonen both appear on the new Gorillaz album. </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e9b18d; font-family: Times,serif; font-size: medium;"></span>Great to see John Sinclair in this BBC documentary. John is a GrooveGroveGraphics supporter and contributor. As manager of the legendary MC5, he was an extraordinary cultural catalyst and campaigner on Detroit's late '60's music scene. </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><a name='more'></a><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">It was quite a scene - Motown quit Detroit for LaLaLand - but the hard music of Detroit kicked out the jams and kept on developing. George Clinton and Parliament fused rock and soul to give birth to funk, while Iggy and the Stooges became proto punks. And on it continued - Detroit Techno, Eminem........</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">There are parallels with the development of West London's punk /reggae scene in the '70's- for which Iggy and the Stooges were an inspiration.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">John Sinclair is one of the artists featured in the <a href="http://www.csad.uwic.ac.uk/csad/news_04_03_10_01.htm">'Taking Issue'</a> exhibition in Cardiff, curated by londonprintstudio.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Motor City's Burning: Detroit from Motown to the Stooges<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b009372j/Motor_Citys_Burning_Detroit_from_Motown_to_the_Stooges/"> here</a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1472083097643741309.post-72871534885029261402010-03-13T11:00:00.005+00:002010-04-16T03:42:19.271+01:00Blues Britannia - Can Blue Men Sing the Whites?<div class="post"><div style="text-align: justify;">A great documentary with brilliant music shown on BBC4. Who'd have thought that the Chicago and Delta blues could be transported to West London?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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<div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Oh Dame Vivienne, you've done it again! Vivienne Westwood's most recent collection for Fall/Winter 2010/ 2011 at Paris Fashion Week featured an interesting mix of florals, graphic prints and knee high socks - one part schoolmarm and one part rock n roll. It also had all the signatures of Westwood; yards and yards of beautiful (and indeed costly) fabric in every colour that ever existed, layered on top of one another with clashing patterns and graphics in what at first glance would appear to be a disheveled manner. But if you know Westwood's work, you know nothing is ever unintentional and upon closer inspection, the attention to detail is anything but haphazard. </span></span><br />
<a name='more'></a>As with all of Vivienne Westwood's runway shows she shows a playfulness and attitude that many of her contemporaries lack, this time the models had moustaches and wore enourmous brightly coloured crowns. That particular 'punk spirit' has found its way into all of her collections.</div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 0px;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Westwood's designs are very much a part of our 'fashion consciousness', and she has continued to stay relevant and inspire others. With her success she has managed to bring punk not just to the mainstream but elevate it to high fashion status. She has been made a Dame, has had a retrospective at the Victoria & Albert Museum, been involved in the Sex and the City film and many a celebrity has walked the red carpet wearing one of her dresses. How did this shocking (and arguably, political) fashion statement become a part of our everyday?</span></span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Westwood was once a school teacher ( which might explain the schoolmarm thing) before she began dabbling in clothing design. Her then partner Malcolm McLaren had a stall in the Paradise Garage shop at 430 Kings Road before making the shop his own and changing its name to Let it Rock, and sold Teddy boy clothing, which was going through a revival at the time. Such were McLaren's tendencies to cash in on the latest trends, it wasn’t long after that the shop changed its name to Too Fast to Live Too Young to Die and began selling Westwood's original designs beside rock n roll revival apparel. These early designs were an indication of what was to come, with t-shirts with zippered embellishments and printed with quotes from the manifesto for the <a href="http://www.womynkind.org/scum.htm">Society for Cutting Up Men</a>. </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0000ee;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5447786934887372082" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhZ0OfHUlJkaI1LTa8QOTT1blJyji-VuwmolYhvFbMWNjwcHMEYdTgRySOD-lchzRDwYGQeWlf9-9j0XzodpxLW_A6-AyYlH1-Vt07xDpNZQAacoNyjqQc_zXlo6-wu6tmjtJPm7ThFg_j/s400/westwoods-kings-road-shop-sex.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 318px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 400px;" /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">After a trip to New York and a heavy influence from <a href="http://www.richardhell.com/">Richard Hell</a>, McLaren and Westwood once again changed the direction of the shop. This time, everything from the previous incarnations of the shop was left in the dust. The SEX shop went through a complete rebirth - now selling bondage gear, whips, leather and kinky lingerie; some of it 'redesigned' with Westwood flourishes.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">By this time McLaren had already attempted a reinvention of the <a href="http://www.nyrock.com/misc/nydolls.htm">New York Dolls</a>, which ultimately did them no favours. Dressing them in full red PVC outfits with Communist touches wasn’t fully taken on by an audience and McLaren had no use for them anymore. This would not be his last foray into band 'management'.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The Sex Pistols had been playing as the Strand when McLaren began acting as their manager. Soon after McLaren, ever the svengali removed Wally Nightingale as frontman and went on the hunt for someone new. What is important to remember is that John Lydon was not chosen by Malcolm McLaren for his vocal prowess but for his fashion sense, specifically his "I hate Pink Floyd" shirt and green hair. The Sex Pistols would be the models used to show some of Vivienne's most interesting creations, and her <a href="http://www.cddc.vt.edu/sionline/">Situationist</a> inspired politics, to the world. Following their first gig at Saint Martins College the band played all over town and gained quite a following. </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">As the Sex Pistols grew in notoriety so did SEX and Westwood's designs. Screen printed t shirts with pornography, ripped and burned clothing, tartan trousers with straps and zippers and PVC pockets were becoming a trend on the Kings Road among those who liked their fashion cutting edge and expensive. As a means of both promoting and banking on the Pistols rise to fame the shop began selling various Sex Pistols inspired items, mostly t-shirts with their name and a variety of controversial images. From here, SEX became a very cool place to be. Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders worked there briefly, Glen Matlock - a founding member of the Sex Pistols started out as a shop assistant and Sid Vicious followed in his footsteps (as a shop assistant and then taking over Matlock’s position in the band), as well, Jordan ( aka Pamela Rooke) and anyone else in the <a href="http://www.punk77.co.uk/groups/bromley.htm">Bromley Contingent</a> could be seen in and around the shop.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5447784863574630418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMhq0sGlOBr5ORwZ0pR53iKuo8a-EQwVq3nWOS78DCVwk1g8uzh-GwikXaNZ8YdeSgqT-CD-boqspgYwGJP9SPz32aO0JJNCcxubaIEtCml0dH0SlbLJ4aVoXIF6vqnCLxpV_2ifrc68fE/s400/cs_photo03.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 400px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 283px;" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Westwood and McLaren went on to change the name of the shop once again, this time to Seditionaries. It is this incarnation of the shop that produced some of the most iconic designs and images from the punk era, including the infamous Destroy shirt emblazoned with a swastika and screen-printed t-shirts with the image used for Pistols single 'God Save the Queen' by artist Jamie Reid.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Seditionaries became World's End; as it still is today and Westwood went on to create her first runway show in 1981 with her <a href="http://eightyeightynine.com/culture/80s-fashion.html">Pirates collection</a>, leading to yet another new trend in eighteenth century excess called New Romantic. Vivienne Westwood had her first Paris fashion show in 1983. From there Westwood became a bona fide fashion designer, an insider in the world of haute couture and legitimacy even while breaking a number of 'high fashion' rules. </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Her collections manage to pull from opposing aesthetics, always rooted in punk with against-the-grain silhouettes, shredded and layered fabrics and fetish inspired studded leather while maintaining a distinctly historical British character with her past and present use of tweeds, tartans and corsets. With a keen eye for a trend and brazenly putting upfront the meaning and inspiration of her garments instead of giving in to subtlety, Vivienne Westwood managed to bring a small sub culture from West London to the high fashion world, making her name synonymous with </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">punk couture.</span></span></i></div>Kerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06836322551153215946noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1472083097643741309.post-9628574216967924782010-03-06T14:55:00.003+00:002010-04-16T01:22:22.532+01:00SAVE OUR ABBEY?<div style="font-family: arial; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmGvmQht3LGddnTiO7sKciGUzazSSohs692X7MpxxMNTgQ37Xuf0WQue32O5UHsilwRWQfVEg-8E4MEwzaLDLEbEarvsf2X9wC_fHqm8AWHfAx-W1JILEtP0e89hej4TDZduE7cwWEmvLv/s1600-h/5+Abbey+Road.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmGvmQht3LGddnTiO7sKciGUzazSSohs692X7MpxxMNTgQ37Xuf0WQue32O5UHsilwRWQfVEg-8E4MEwzaLDLEbEarvsf2X9wC_fHqm8AWHfAx-W1JILEtP0e89hej4TDZduE7cwWEmvLv/s320/5+Abbey+Road.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">One of the biggest pieces of music related news around the Western half of London recently was the rumour </span><a href="http://www.emirecords.co.uk/">EMI</a><span class="Apple-style-span"> were to sell their </span><a href="http://www.abbeyroad.com/">Abbey Road Studio</a><span class="Apple-style-span"> for property developers to turn into luxury flats.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">This attracted outrage across the media spectrum and the Government rushed through a </span><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8531054.stm">Grade II protected status</a><span class="Apple-style-span"> on the studios in popular response. But should the studios be protected in their current state?</span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: arial; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></span></span><br />
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</span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: arial; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Abbey Road has been the site of many historic British music recordings, from the composer </span><a href="http://www.elgar.org/">Elgar</a><span class="Apple-style-span">, who opened the studios in 1931, to the first European recorded rock’n’roll </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">single (</span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.cliffrichard.org">Cliff Richard</a><span class="Apple-style-span"> and the Drifters “</span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuhhH-AaeMA">Move It</a><span class="Apple-style-span">”) through to the groundbreaking album “Dark Side of the Moon” by local band </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.pinkfloyd.co.uk">Pink Floyd</a><span class="Apple-style-span">.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Between the fey pop rock’n’roll of Cliff Richard and the space rock sounds of Pink Floyd stood the most famous residents of 5 Abbey Road.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.thebeatles.com">The Beatles</a><span class="Apple-style-span"> laid down almost every studio recording they made at Abbey Road studios, named their final recorded album for the studio and announced “All you need is Love” live to the world in 1967.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">After the late 70’s, the studios most high-profile use was in recording film scores for British-filmed movies </span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086190/">Return of the Jedi</a><span class="Apple-style-span"> and </span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082971/">Raiders of the Lost Ark</a><span class="Apple-style-span">, until it was “rediscovered” by British bands in the mid-to-late 90’s British rock boom.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">The recorded sounds produced at Abbey Road have doubtless inspired millions of people, both as fans and anti-fans (</span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.malcolmmclaren.com">Malcolm McLaren</a><span class="Apple-style-span"> recruited </span><a href="http://www.johnlydon.com/">John Lydon</a><span class="Apple-style-span"> to the </span><a href="http://www.sexpistolsofficial.com/">Sex Pistols</a><span class="Apple-style-span"> on the strength of his "I Hate Pink Floyd" T-Shirt).</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">It is undeniable 5 Abbey Road is the site of some the most important cultural artifacts of post-war 20</span></span><sup><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">th</span></span></sup><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"> century Britain. But will protecting it positively contribute to an emerging music scene?</span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: arial; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br />
</span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: arial; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">I hope this protected status doesn’t freeze the studios into a fixed nostalgic point.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Instead it could become part of a network of people, places and events which are to be celebrated as part of our cultural heritage to inspire image and sound into the future.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Groove Grove Graphics aims to be a part of this and tell the story of the surprisingly large number of people, places and events associated with music in West London.</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><br />
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