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shindig_019_happening 11/10/2010 18:00 Page 87 90 the jim jones revue ------- MY GENERATION 94 events 87 STYLE 92 listings 88 LIVE 88 shindig_019_HAnews 11/10/2010 17:56 Page 88 Today’s newest hitmakers pick their favourite artifacts from yesterday. This Issue Carwyn Ellis of Shindig!’s favourite Welsh psych-pop outfit COLORAMA picks his top 10 Japanese instruments, people and bands. , IT S HAPPENING Were you there in September? If so then you know just how brilliant live garage rock can be. A full venue witnessed intense performances from Midlands dandy-pop wonders The Silver Factory and Austrian mentalists The Incredible Staggers. It just so happened to be a night to live on long in the memory. So what delights do we at Shindig!, working in association with promoters Sweet but Deadly and Dirty Water, have in store for you in the upcoming months? Well on Saturday November 6th expect Mexico City’s finest garage punkers, the appropriatelynamed Los Explosivos, to burn up the stage, supported by all-girl German garage punk quartet The Boonaraaas!!! – those exclamation marks are also appropriate. Then the December 4th event will feature a trio of psychedelic wonders: from Dusseldorf come the mighty Vibravoid, who will play alongside London acts The Lysergic (heavy acid rock) and The Snap Elect (power-pop-sike). Neither night will leave you short of excellent entertainment, and that’s a guarantee. It all takes place in the heart of Swinging London, at the King’s Cross Social Club on the King’s Cross Road. Both events kick off at 8pm and we party on til 2am. See you down the front, and on the dancefloor! GOOD NEWS TRAVELS FAST THE FUZZTONES 30TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR The “Gurus Of Garage Grunge” The Fuzztones are proud to be able to go on the road in 2010 for two months, a full 30 years on from their formation. Originally founded by singer/guitarist Rudi Protrudi in New York’s Lower East Side, the band had the looks and sounds to create a sizable cult following which lasts to this day. They are effortlessly able to win over new fans too, with their classic songs ‘Ward 81’, ‘Bad News Travels Fast’ and ‘She’s Wicked’, plus their many cool versions of ’60s songs like ‘Gloria’, ‘Jack The Ripper’ and ‘1-2-5’. Now based in Germany, the band’s autumn anniversary tour includes over 40 shows, taking in a Halloween bash in Berlin, plus extensive dates in Greece and Italy, before finishing at the legendary 100 Club in London on December 5th. They are promoting their upcoming long-player on Stag-O-Lee, Preaching To The Perverted. They are unmissable in full flight on stage, so make sure you don’t get caught short! 88 6. FOLK CRUSADERS Wonderfully quirky folk trio who only made a few records together but struck big. The Incredible Staggers 7. TEISCO Makers of budget instruments in Japan in the ’60s, launched a thousand garage bands the world over. SAVE THE 100 CLUB The 100 Club in London has been the host of many jazz, blues, soul, mod, punk, and powerpop legends over the past half century. Yet this Christmas might be the last for the iconic Oxford Street venue, as the owners struggle will crippling debts from increases in rent and rates. Luckily musicians Tony Morrison and Jim Piddington have set up www.savethe100club.co.uk and are hoping to raise half a million pounds by the end of November to secure the club’s status, after which the venue would apply for heritage status and be eligible for financial support from bodies like The Arts Council. The plan is to switch the club to operate as a non-profit organisation with its new owners being the donors. A board of Trustees would be democratically elected by the donors. Sounds simple doesn’t it? So why not get involved and be proud to say you did your bit. OUR FAVE RAVE Casting an eye over the club scene The Old Psychiatrists Club, Leicester Luke Whittemore gave us the lowdown on his new monthly psychedelic club that’s sprung up in the Midlands. It’s run in conjunction with Luke’s Daylight Frequencies musical brother-in-arms Adam. The night is based at The Independent Arts Centre after having been up and running throughout 2010. Club philosophy? “Aiming towards that niche market and advertising it to the masses,” Luke says, “giving exposure to new and underground bands that embrace the great movement of the ’60s”. To aid the “vibrations” at the club the organisers project cult clips and OHP Oil light projections. The next outing is on November 12th, with live performances from South American/London beatsters The Draytones and locals The Wicked Whispers, and it’s a measly £4 entry. I do believe this club is about to be a-happening! For more details please visit www.myspace.com/oldpsychiatristsclubnight or search for their Facebook page. 8. MISORA HIBARI Enka star and singer of one of my favourite songs, ‘Makkana Taiyou’. 9. AKIRA IKUFUBE Composer of soundtracks, including those of the Godzilla series. Meiko Kaji 1. THE SPIDERS One of the all-time great beat groups, featuring future Monkey star, Sakai Masaaki. 10. TADANORI YOKOO Psychedelic graphic artist and creator of breathtaking posters. The current Colorama podcast is available at http://bit.ly/bjESHe 2. MEIKO KAJI Stunning actress and singer, inspiration for Tarantino’s Kill Bill. 3. ACE TONE Forerunner of Roland, made keyboards, amps and drum machines. I treasure my Top-5 organ! 4. CARMEN MAKI Made amazing folk-psych albums early in her career, moved on to heavier stuff. 5. CARNABEATS High octane beat-fuzz combo, made a groovy single with Walker Brother Gary. Folk Crusaders shindig_019_HAnews 11/10/2010 17:56 Page 89 November THURSDAY 4 LONDON Magic Swirling Ships with Los Explosivos, Pussycat & The Dirty Johnsons, The Crushers + The Cinders The Coburg Club, 4 Coburg Road, Wood Green, London N22 6UJ. 7.45pm-midnight Pete Molinari THE JAZZ CAFE, LONDON 28 SEPTEMBER 2010 Bruce Springsteen recently became the latest celebrity fan to sing the praises of Chatham’s astoundingly talented singersongwriter, Pete Molinari, citing him as one of his favourite contemporary artists. And judging by tonight’s rip-roaring performance, Springsteen certainly isn’t going to be the last big name to fall under Pete’s spell. Molinari’s mighty fine band back him with drive, grit and subtlety, cruising through tracks from all three of his albums, including a fantastic revved-up re-working of early fave, ‘Love Lies Bleeding’. These days, Pete seems equally comfortable when plugged in and rocking out as he does when he’s singing solo and acoustic, his haunting falsetto voice and rasping harmonica – as ever – pushing to the fore. By the time Molinari exits stage right to rapturous applause following a rousing rendition of Joe South’s ‘Walk A Mile In My Shoes’, there’s surely few people left standing that don’t believe Pete’s star has still got a hell of a long way to rise. Matt Frost Fabienne Delsol, The Piney Gir Country Roadshow, Cee Bee Beaumont THE 100 CLUB, LONDON 3RD OCTOBER 2010 Cee Bee Beaumont offer a dual guitar, pounding drum-wave of surf-stramentals for lovers of the twang. Piney Gir is country-pop in a party dress, dishing up Sandy Poseyesque songs of heartbreak and shit kicking. Chic chick Fabienne Delsol shimmies on stage in black leather boots and mini-dress. Her black-clad beatnik band eschew the bass guitar and rely on the heavy-footed stomp of the bass drum to power a wellblended mixture of originals and covers of tracks by Gene Vincent, The Troggs, Miller and Michel Polnareff. A classic Brit-beat backing perfectly complements the ye-ye beat girl vocals like a Gainsbourg protégé on a ’60s summer holiday at The Cavern. The mostly upbeat twisting numbers have an occasional shiver of minor chords to add an eerie touch of psych melancholy with Fabienne’s wistful, fragile vocals aided by fuzz guitar and swirling organ for new album’s title track, ‘On My Mind’’s dreamy meander. Delia Dansette The Black Angels THE BORDERLINE, LONDON 26TH AUGUST 2010 A band that has been described as everything from a Texan version of The Doors to a raw Spiritualized has comes up trumps big time on their new album Phospene Dream, and is on the verge of mainstream recognition in their native land. So it’s an expectant, sold-out crowd in attendance tonight. They aren’t disappointed. Front man Alex Maas bumbled on stage looking every inch the fisherman in eyecovering cloth cap and full beard, whilst the earthy band behind swapped instruments and fiddled with sonic devices in their attempt to make our heads explode. Their nu-gaze psychedelia is more accomplished than many of their contemporaries can manage, with many influences seeping in. At points during the show I could hear Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Syd-era Pink Floyd and even harmony-laden freakbeat, as well as their two touchstones – The 13th Floor Elevators and the Velvets. I must say that throughout the show Stephanie Bailey not only looked beautiful drumming her heart out, but she seemed to be the heart of the band, driving on the songs in perpetual crescendo. Based on tonight’s evidence this band is destined to be a cult favourite. Phil Istine The Moles BUFFALO, CARDIFF 1ST JULY 2010 You have to give kudos where it’s due. The wonderful See Monkey Do Monkey label are on the cutting edge of the current Welsh psych scene, putting time and passion into a movement that is truly beginning to bloom. Their latest signings are Bristolian acid technicians The Moles. On tonight’s showing the band are becoming a formidable live force. Ditching their dandy threads for a more casual look the band stamp their charismatic presence on proceedings from the opening bars of ‘FSOA’ To say the band take an idiosyncratic approach would be an understatement, for it’s immediately evident in the singularly individual songwriting. The essence of their influences (early Soft Machine, Syd Barrett, XTC) are ingredients in the stew, but the sheer quality of their craft is clear in ‘Song Of A Quail’, ‘Circles’ and ‘The Flaming Cilla Black’s On LSD’, which hints at a spirit not far removed from our beloved Bonzos. Brin Moles’ mad professor-esque presence runs through the imagery of ‘Magnets Round The Sun’ and ‘Ginger Tom’. By the time we reach the classic psychodrama of ‘Fuller’s Dram’ it seems possible that the material is shaping up to be future standards. With ‘Three Ghosts In My House’ garage patent they close to a rapturous reception. We are left craving more of this kaleidoscopic netherworld. Ghosts of Robyn Hitchcock and Robert Wyatt haunt eccentric solo encore ‘Cuckoo’ and finalise proceedings with a suitably surreal coda. All hail the Moles! Andi Edwards FRIDAY 5 GLASGOW Eyes Wide Open Club with The Fast Camels live Blackfriars, Bell Street, Merchant City, Glasgow G1 1LG 11pm-3am www.facebook.com/eyeswideopenclub LONDON The Membranes, The Lexington, 96 Pentonville Road, London N1 9JB 7pm Diddy Wah, The Haggerston, 438 Kingsland Rd, Dalston, London E8 4AA 9pm-3am diddywah.blogspot.com NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LYME The Octopus Club: DC Fontana & The Black Apples The Old Brown Jug, Bridge St, Newcastle-Under-Lyme ST5 2RY 8pm www.theoctopusclub.co.uk NOTTINGHAM The Hoochie Coochie Club, The Central Venue, 310 Huntingdon Street, Nottingham NG1 3LH 9pm-3am SATURDAY 27 LONDON Blow Up, 4 Denmark Street (basement), London WC2H 8LP 10pm-3am www.blowupclub.com Vinny Lynes + The Mynd Set at Peter Parker’s Rock’n’Roll Club, 4 Denmark Street, London WC2H 8LP 7.30pm December FRIDAY 3 GLASGOW Eyes Wide Open Club 6th Birthday with El Toro & guests, Blackfriars, Bell Street, Merchant City, Glasgow G1 1LG 9pm-3am facebook.com/eyeswideopenclub SATURDAY 4 BELFAST Dr. Crippen’s Waiting Room, The Menagerie, 130 University St, Belfast BT7 1HH 9pm-2am LONDON Happening, with Los Explosivos + The Boonaraaas King’s Cross Social Club, 2 Britannia Street, London WC1X 9JE 8pm-2am LONDON Blow Up, 4 Denmark Street (basement), London WC2H 8LP 10pm-3am www.blowupclub.com 13th Floor (60s garage, psych and pop) The Albany, 240 Great Portland St, London W1W 5QU 9pm-2am www.13thfloorclub.com Happening with Vibravoid, The Lysergics + The Snap Elect, King’s Cross Social Club, 2 Britannia Street, London, WC1X 9JE 8pm-2am THURSDAY 11 SUNDAY 5 WEDNESDAY 17 LONDON Out Of Our Tree with MFC Chicken, Acid Pony + The Sideliners, The Buffalo Bar, 259 Upper Street, London N1 1RU 8pm-1am THURSDAY 18 BAARLO Castle Space Sound, Vibravoid Live, Lightshow & Festival, Castle, Baarlo, Netherlands 8pm www.vibravoid.com SATURDAY 6 LONDON Out Of Our Tree with The Kits, The Sonic Jewels, The Francis Jetty + The Blonde Vipers, The Buffalo Bar, 259 Upper Street, London N1 1RU 8pm-1am MONTREAL JunkshoPop Discothèque with The Biters, Mother’s Children, The Walnut Kids, Bar L’Esco, 4467 Rue StDenis, Montreal, Quebec, Canada 9pm LONDON Deviation Street with The November Five, Holstenwall, Tin Hearts, + The Roves Peter Parker’s Rock’n’Roll Club, 4 Denmark Street, London WC2H 8LP 8pm-3am FRIDAY 19 VENLO Psychedelic Night Out with Vibravoid, guests + Lightshow, Kafee De Splinter, Dominicanenstraat 6, Venlo, Netherlands 9pm www.vibravoid.com SATURDAY 20 LONDON Blow Up, 4 Denmark Street (basement), London WC2H 8LP 10pm-3am www.blowupclub.com Dirty Water All-Dayer With Muck & The Mires, Thee Vicars, Thee Exciters, King Salami & The Cumberland Three and more, The Boston, 178 Junction Road, London N19 5QQ 1pm-3am LONDON The Fuzztones + The Lysergics, The 100 Club, 100 Oxford Street, London W1D 1LL 7.30pm-11pm THURSDAY 9 FRIDAY 10 THURSDAY 16 LONDON Deviation Street with The No-Brainers, Peter Parker’s Rock’n’Roll Club, 4 Denmark St WC2H 8LP 8pm-3am SUNDAY 19 LONDON Wapping Wharf presents: A Christmas Mod Ball The 100 Club, 100 Oxford Street, London W1D 1LL 7.30pm-11pm TUESDAY 28 COLOGNE Psychedelic Night Out, Vibravoid, Helen Green + Lightshow, Blue Shell, Luxemburger Str. 32, Cologne, Germany 9pm www.vibravoid.com THEHAPPENING PRESENT 6 NOVEMBER LOS EXPLOSIVOS + THE BOONARAAAS!!! 4 DECEMBER VIBRAVOID, THE LYSERGICS + THE SNAP ELECT K I N G ’S C R O S S S O C I A L C LU B 2 BRITANNIA STREET, LONDON WC1X 9JE – KINGS CROSS TUBE – 8pm–2am – £5 ENTRY SWEET BUT DEADLY DJ S PLAY GARAGE, BEAT, PSYCH, SOUL & ROCK’N’ROLL NONSENSE 89 shindig_019_JimJones2 11/10/2010 16:49 Page 90 LIGHT MY FIRE 90 shindig_019_JimJones2 11/10/2010 16:50 Page 91 Energy-exchanging levitators, DIY industry advocates, and acting like the last gang in town. Trashy garage R&B firebrands THE JIM JONES REVUE encapsulate the pure energy of unspoilt rock ’n’ roll. It’s time to meet your new favourite band. PHIL ISTINE meets the members of 2010’s most exciting rock ’n’ roll band! T Photos: Georgina ConstantinouConstantinou hings are definitely happening for Jim Jones and his Revue right now. The former Thee Hypnotics frontman has just finished a UK tour to promote second album Burning Your House Down, which was interspersed by an appearance on The BBC’s flagship Later…With Jools Holland music show. It’s a pleasant surprise to witness a band with members now in their 40s hit their stride and have the world sit up and take notice. But how could it not, what with their live shows becoming near-religious experiences for the growing band of devotees? What’s more they’ve done it using the template of Bunker Hill’s in-the-red 1963 classic ‘The Girl Can’t Dance’ alongside the genius ideas contained within the Here Are The Sonics! album. Shindig! caught up with the band recently for a coffee and smokes session in Soho to talk over how they got here and why they have come to “save your soul”. The fivesome – High Wycombe-born Jones, Rupert “brother of Beth” Orton on guitar and management duties, plus bassist Gavin Jay, keyboardist Elliot Mortimer and drummer Nick Jones – formed in 2007. Jones and Orton had been friends on the London music scene since the former stumbled across the latter’s promotional work for the Not The Same Old Blues Crap club nights. “When we put the band together,” Orton explains, “we had various discussions about what it is we wanted to achieve. One of the things we talked about was what it must have been like to see Little Richard in the ’50s. This imaginary gig we were talking about from just listening to the records and watching the YouTube clips… we were thinking whatever we do can never be close to that. But if we can just take a little bit of that excitement and put it into now we think it could work. When I was a promoter going to see bands it was often a soulless experience. I’d be thinking ‘Why are you looking at your shoes?’ Jones agrees: ‘The 90-year-old original delta blues players that Rupert put on seem to have more charisma than all of these 20-year-old bands put together. I mean, why accept that?” A first album was recorded just to get gigs. “We had no money at all,” Jones continues. “We just wanted to document what we were doing at that moment.” An album was duly dispatched in two days, recorded in a tiny rehearsal room in Camden. “I mixed it to make sure it sounded pretty rude,” he chuckles mischievously to himself. “Hearing the white noise of the first album on the radio was great, belligerent, but clubs couldn’t play it because it was too noisy.” Jay then reveals the not-so-secret recipe for their transformation from no-budget albums to the cusp of mainstream recognition. “There’s definitely something to be said for getting out there and paying your dues. There comes a point where we actually know how to give 100% as a band, and to let that egotism go.” Singing the praises of people actually working hard over time to earn their success still feels in the music thought, ‘How are we gonna make it through this gig?’, but once we stepped onstage the crowd were just so ecstatic. The energy of that crowd lifted us off the ground and we played probably one of the most intense shows we’d ever played. You couldn’t see the edges of the room because of the sea of people. By the end of it we were all a stone lighter! It was one of those thrilling moments where you look at your band mates for a split second and think, ‘Fucking hell, this is amazing.’ It levitates you.” Yes, he did describe an almost miraculous event just there. Yet from his mouth it doesn’t sound anything but ordinary, another “At a show in Helsinki people were taking their clothes off, losing all their inhibitions. It was like a Baptist meeting, like we’d put rock ’n’ roll snakes out there!” world of 2010 like an alien concept, but the matter-of-fact arguments made by The JJR make it hard to disagree with them. If you have heard anything about the band so far it’s almost certain to revolve around their blistering live shows. Talking about it with them for a little while and it’s clear they’ve done their testifying homework. Orton explains that the fanatical live support they have built their reputation on involves an “energy exchange” between themselves and the audience. “The two elements build and build” he enthuses. “When we come offstage we are slaughtered, drained of all energy. It’s a great feeling because you’ve had that sort of connection in life which you don’t normally get very often anymore.” You can tell from Jones’ smile that an explanatory story is forming on his lips: “We were playing in Strasbourg last year and we got a call to come and play the next night with The Dead Weather in London. That’s a long drive. So we drove through the night in fog, did an amazing gig, hung out with Jack White and talked for ages. Then we’re straight in the van again to drive all the way across France to La Havre for the next show, arriving exhausted. In the dressing room we everyday occurrence in the madness of his band life. This otherness extends to feeling little affection for their musical contemporaries. Jones reckons they “definitely feel out on a limb and feel quite pleased about it. It’s like we have the whole playground to ourselves!”, he says. “You don’t need to be associated with a scene. We do seem to be able to transcend a genre-type audience. You’ll get really young kids with their parents with them and they are really excited. And at the other end of the spectrum you get older guys coming up saying, ‘I saw Gene Vincent back then in the early ’60s and you guys are doing something really amazing, and I’m so glad you’re around capturing the lightning in a bottle’.” When pushed on the subject they admit a love for some other mavericks: Guitar Wolf (Japanese garage punkers), Jon Spencer’s Heavy Trash, The Black Diamond Heavies, Scott Byron (hillbilly blues-punk), The Orphans (Brighton garage act), and Russell & The Wolves (Newcastle psychobillies) to name just some. Discussing older influences are where the guys are most visibly animated. Jones takes the lead here. “When I was in Thee Hypnotics, the garage and psychedelic sounds we loved had that feeling of elitism. Nobody knew about them, you discovered them yourself. I had wished there were more bands around like that, so because no one was doing it we had to do it. But everything ties in all along with what I first heard as a kid, when I inherited a load of my mum and dad’s old singles by Little Richard, Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, etc. I also loved (freakbeat classic) Big Boy Pete’s ‘Cold Turkey’ single. That record did what Elvis did, it linked black music and white music. The guitar sound on that record is much like the sound on The Stooges’ Fun House.” Being in the Revue is like coming full circle for him: “It’s hard work but yet very easy and very natural.” Orton is equally effusive about his childhood discoveries: “Johnny Ramone really influenced me, as did Johnny Thunders. In the ’80s The Birthday Party made incredible records, I’d never heard anything like that before. The Gun Club ‘Fire Of Love’ was introduced to me via The Cramps fanzine. That was a gate to opening up all the blues records; all those tough motherfuckers who are still alive.” For the new album, the band was keen not to make the first album again as they had taken the white noise approach as far as it can go, says Orton. Jim Sclavunos, drummer with The Bad Seeds and Grinderman, was signed up after he had been to see a couple of JJR shows, and he added “a more in-depth musical palette” to the band’s sound. Orton again: “He knew all the people involved in albums we wanted to sound like, it was a bit like our record collection coming alive in front of us.” Meanwhile Jones’ often brutally honest lyrics come from his everyday experiences. “I stay away from anything vaguely nostalgic,” he spits. “I’m into writers like Charles Bukowski, who have a good way of transferring that certain magical energy about a very simple event that has gone by. I’m trying to twist that together with a Little Richard-type delivery and make it all fit rhythmically. Sometimes day-to-day living can be really astonishing.” Burning Your House Down is out now on Punk Rock Blues/PIAS. The band tour France throughout November and December: see www.jimjonesrevue.com for dates. Jim Jones Revue’s thoughts on going-italone in The Music Industry can be read on www.shindig-magazine.com 91 shindig_019_fashion2 11/10/2010 11:03 Page 92 From the snappiest shops to the slickest Shindigger style files, let RACHAEL ADAMS set you on the road to sartorial splendour Shop of the month: Lucy in Disguise Lily Allen’s not the first name that springs to mind when you think of fashion (remember that ball gown and sneakers combo?), but all that’s changed with Lucy In Disguise, the vintage clothing shop she founded with her sister in Covent Garden. Based around the fictional Lucy, a timetravelling style guru who’s accumulated a wardrobe of epic proportions over the years, the shop stocks everything from Chanel skirt suits to Biba printed dresses. It’s a seriously impressive set-up; there’s even a blow-dry bar, a make-up counter and a men’s waiting area. Lucy, we salute you! Blog of the month: usedandabusedvintage.com I could literally spend hours perusing Corinne and Mia’s fun, informative blog. More than just iPhone shots of each other sporting vintage garms, it’s got advice on everything - from what to look for in the perfect vintage winter coat to making your own fringed tees - and you even get a sneak peek into Mia and Corrine’s lives (my personal fave entry is the one about Mia’s wedding). Get clicking, ladies. Fred Perry Kidswear Not sure what to buy the boy who has everything for Christmas this year? Panic ye not, Fred Perry’s got it covered with its recently-launched range of clothes for the discerning mini mod. From the classic polo short to a rather adorable Harrington jacket and smart little tipped cardigan, he’ll be the coolest kid in school with this capsule collection. Event of the month: The Vintage Kilo Sale 13-14 November, The Rag Factory on Brick Lane, London. It’s true that looking sharp doesn’t come cheap, but I’m always looking for a way to cut financial corners - and I think I may have found the ultimate solution, with November’s Vintage Kilo Sale. The basic premise is pretty simply: you show up at the event (which will be holding 2.5 tons of high quality vintage threads), take your pick, then head over to the weighing station where staff will weigh and price your bargains for you, at £15 a kilo. For an idea of just how cheaply you can buy these clothes, the website reveals that five cotton dresses/t-shirts and three heavier dresses/trousers are all within the £15 range. How you get all your new gear home is a different question... Fast Fashion For something that was originally developed to distinguish officers in the British and French Armies from other ranks, the trench coat has done pretty well for itself. The shoulder straps that define it now were for attaching epaulettes, and the D-rings were designed to hold swords— neither are used for anything so functional today, of course, but they’re an integral part of the jackets worn by everyone from the Sandman to Dick Tracy to Mulder and Scully. Sci-fi agents and mythical sleepdisturbers aside, the trench’s place in fashion history was cemented in the 1960s when mods started wearing them as a smarter alternative to fishtail parkas. Hepworths, Aquascutum, Burberry (if you were feeling flush) and Baracuta were the premier purveyors of the trench— Baracuta’s even recently relaunched its G26 Lancer trench, in the classic doublebreasted style and lined with original Baracuta check. Gents, if you’ve been looking for the perfect winter coat, your search ends here. Last chance to catch... Photographing Fashion: British Style in the 1960s, Bath Fashion Museum If you ever wanted a definitive collection of 60s fashion paraphernalia, this is it. Photographing Fashion showcases hundreds of the prints and original fashion drawings commissioned by Ernestine Carter, fashion guru and Women’s Editor of the Sunday Times until 1968. It includes shots of Twiggy and the Shrimp, and displays clothes from the period alongside the photographs—Mary Quant’s hessian effect pinafore miniskirt’s a particular highlight, as are some of the suits by Mr Fish. It’s only running until the end of the year though, so you might want to hurry along... 92 shindig_019_fashion2 11/10/2010 11:04 Page 93 If you go down to the woods today, you’re sure of a big surprise - and it’s better than the teddybear’s picnic. Natty woodland naiad Maura is a sun worshipper, designer and photographer hailing from Hawaii, and I don’t need to explain why we’ve chosen her as Happening!’s very first Reader Style File. Shall we start with Maura’s mind-blowing cape? She won’t give much away, but reveals that she found it “in a secret vault near Haight & Ashbury streets in San Fran” (you don’t get much more psychedelic than that). An aspiring world traveller, Maura has been to the farthest reaches of the world in the name of exploring; she cites some of her favourite things as cruising the countryside, wild nature, old cities and flea markets, and takes as her nomadic influence Vashti Bunyan in her caravan. Appropriate, then, that some of Maura’s top listening material comes from all over the world – from sitar-drenched fuzz to Aussie surf like The Atlantics, from the UK’s very own Small Faces to Brazil’s Os Mutantes – and that she picked up those amazing vintage boots in Italy, during one of her many Mediterranean market meanderings. Not that she doesn’t love what she calls the “Aloha Spirit” of Hawaii (the people are chilled out, lovely and kind), but Maura draws much of her style inspiration from far-flung corners of the earth and, understandably wants to travel more (I would if I were picking up clothes like these) – especially if she can make those travels on a motorbike. Finally, what about that frankly fantastic dress? Maura, tell us more! “This is my Zodiac Dress, one of my own designs,” she says. Which segues very nicely into Maura’s other style stimulation – starry skies. To be fair, she is a lot closer to them, than the rest of us. She lives about 760m up a volcano in the island, and names it as one of the most incredible star-watching spots in the world – Maura’s clearly combined her astral appreciation with her love of Swinging London, Pucci and Courreges to come up with this frock... Maura, we salute you! 93 shindig_019_mygeneration 11/10/2010 16:48 Page 94 Ciao my friends, it’s time for another My Generation special. This issue PHIL ISTINE takes a trip down to Italy to check out the new hot combos doing the rock and the roll in the sunshine. Let’s start with Florence’s THE APES PARTY (www.myspace.com/theapesparty), whom we caught here in London recently and were mightily impressed with. Featuring former members of The Ultra Twist, the threesome beat out sweary garage-punk with an audible disdain for their place in history. Download their latest EP from iTunes or wait for the Jerk-Off Records 7” coming soon. A band already fully-grown, however, is Venetian duo THE MOJOMATICS (www.myspace.com/themojomatics). Three albums in, and to call their sound simply “garage” would be doing them a grave disservice, seeing as it takes in hillbilly, country, folk, and blues, plus the melodic simplicity of The British Invasion and the energy of punk. On the road constantly, they have proved crowd winners in every nation they have visited, so you are ordered to go see them when they reach your town, all right? The Last Killers B-BACK (www.myspace.com/b-back) are a foursome who hail from Tuscany. Last year they released their third album, Experiment In Colour, on Area Pirata and it is full of their usual frantic classic/garage-rock, which remains heavily indebted to ’80s heroes The Chesterfield Kings, Gruesomes, and Fleshtones, as well as the Stones and The Seeds. Funny Dunny OJM (www.myspace.com/ojmsuperrock) from Treviso play super loud rock and have established themselves nationally as prime movers over the past few years. This has been aided and abetted no doubt by getting Michael Davis of MC5 fame to produce their last album, and the new one Volcano (Go Down) by Dave Catching (QOTST etc.). You can hear why they chose these people, for their muscular riffing dominates their songs. From the east coast and the seaside town of Fano come THE BARBACANS (www.myspace.com/thebarbacans). Mr. Helsing raved about their debut LP God Save The Fuzz in these pages last year, and now it’s my turn. Expect Farfisa-heavy spiky fuzz powerpop done the Italian way! We’re bringing them over to England next Easter, so catch them if you can. THEE PIATCIONS (www.myspace.com/ theepiatcions) are from the northernmost region of Italy and their isolation has meant they’ve ingested plenty of head music, emerging with the garage-psych sound that we now call nu-gaze. Recent EP ‘Time’ showed their talent for wall-of-sound guitars and bubbling organ, all set to a pretty melody or two. THE BOILERS (myspace.com/theboilers catania) from Catania are a hardworking four-piece that trade in hyperventilating garage/trash on songs called things like ‘High Heel Lovers’ and ‘Call Me Devil’. They are a smokin’ band and someone needs to get them to put a record out, and soon! Bologna’s BOOM BOOM & THE LONG SEX (www.myspace.com/boomboomthelongsex) meanwhile have very little back story (make that zero back story) but more than make up for that by producing four-to-the-floor garage riffage that smacks of loneliness and desperation in the best way garage-rock can do. THE CAVEMEN (www.myspace.com/ thecavemenbeat) are signed to scene leaders Misty Lane Records of Rome and play romantic sometimes-spiky, sometimesjangly garage-beat in their native tongue whilst wearing stripy t-shirts. Well respected in their home country, but definitely worthy of a wider audience. Next up are one of my favourites, THE CLEOPATRAS (www.myspace.com/ thecleopatras), also of Tuscany. The five piece all-girl band have been plugging away now for a decade of high-jinks set to a trashy garage-punk-surf soundtrack. Latest album Things Get Better (Area Pirata) demonstrates their knack with an angstinflected tune, and fans of na-na-na-ing will be in heaven listening to their Ramones and Runaways-inspired rockers. ELECTRIC SHIELDS (www.myspace.com/ electricshields) on the other hand will appeal to fans of hard/classic rock a la Hendrix, Deep Purple and The Black Crowes. The foursome hail from Trento in northern Italy and have only been around for a year or so, but know exactly which musical buttons to push, i.e. the “loud”, “fuzzy” and “funky” ones. 94 The Mojomatics The Cleopatras B-Back The Barbacans FUNNY DUNNY (www.myspace.com/ funnydunnyband) came over to London last year and tore a new hole in many people’s pants with their full-throttle monoglorious garage-punk. Seeds, Standells, and The Pretty Things in all their raw beauty are channelled by these party animals. The fourth album from the Avellino five-piece ‘Things Have Changed’ (Radiation) was on my stereo a fair bit last year, but live is where they really cut the mustard. THE LAST KILLERS (www.myspace.com/ lastkillers) take us to the halfway point of our Mediterranean journey. Holed up in Cesena, they recently played with heroes The Sonics, and have Shindig! hero Brian Auger playing organ on track ‘Flesh And Proud’ from new album Violent Years (Go Down). Hear a preview of that album by listening to The Cramps-inspired boogie of ‘Jungle Woman’ and marvel at their brilliant ’80s-style rock. Now onto THE METEOPATHICS (www.myspace.com/meteopathics), who may reside next to The Garda Lake, but this genteel environment has not sedated them. Yes, garage gets everywhere in this country, and the trio here are very much keen on the lo-fi messiness encapsulated by the Back From The Grave and Teenage Shutdown compilation series. Expect great music from them as they grow. THE PRETTY FACE (www.myspace.com/ theprettyface) hail from the suburbs of Milan, and the five-piece are indebted to the Italian mod scene for inspiration. Sounding like a psychedelic/garage/mod amalgamation, I hear The Morlocks, The Chesterfield Kings, The Remains, The Chocolate Watchband, The Who, and The Yardbirds mashed into one delicious stew. The self-titled debut album came out on Area Pirata last year, fact fans. As we head to the finishing line, I still see room for a couple more mentions of the more established bands you may yet to have heard of. THE RIPPERS (www.myspace.com/therippersinaction) are a monumental foursome from Sardinia. Slashing rhythmic guitars and headacheinducing primitive bass are the order of the day, with ’50s stalwarts like Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry thrown into the mix alongside ’60s Nederbeat acts such as Q65 and The Outsiders. With a visually arresting image on the go as well, it’s no surprise they have developed a slavish following. 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