Scorcha! Skins, Suedes and Style From The Streets 1967-1973 by Paul ‘Smiler’ Anderson and Mark Baxter, with a foreword by Madness front man Suggs. If the title, the authors or Suggs doesn’t excite you, maybe think again. Anderson is the…
If you were sober enough in mid 1996 you might not have been able to avoid the flurry of fever pitched excitement for Manchester’s Oasis as they headlined their own Spike Island at the vast and lavish lawns of Knebworth,…
Scorcha! Skins, Suedes and Style fromthe Streets 1967-1973 By Paul ‘Smiler’ Anderson and Mark Baxter Foreword by Suggs Published 9th September Preorder HERE “I thought it was a great cultural movement, the music, the look, they’re things that have shaped…
Working with Captain Beefheart has been described as hard work, often a task masker who had a vision in his mind how he wanted his music to be played but it would take days, weeks if not months for his…
Flag Waves: House Flags from the National Maritime Museum by Sue Prichard Coming soon: to be published 17 May, 2021. From the Girl Guides to Greenpeace, Royal Mail and the Orkney Steam Navigation Company, Flag Waves presents a unique and…
Charming and intriguing, Heavenly Records, the independent record label that emerged in the early 90’s has now been going strong for 30 plus years. Founded by the spring haired Jeff Barrett he has helped introduce many an iconic band to…
Jonny Trunk, the expert archive collector has gone and done it again. In Cooperation with Fuel Publications he’s releasing another fab book, this time all about cars. The following dialogue is taken directly from the Kickstarter book funding page: AUTO…
Depending on when you were born you’re more than likely to have different experiences of first hearing about and seeing Jimmy Page. Me personally it was watching a rerun of the 1966 Blow Up film featuring David Hemmings and Vanessa…
The Mod or Modernist phenomena has had many words and books written about the right and wrong way to describe its appeal, the look, the thinking, the origins and its never ending appeal. There have been books written on the…
When buying the weekly music papers the likes of which included Sounds, Melody Maker and NME it was more than like the pictures that were displayed on the cover and within its pages that initially attracted you to buy. I…