This Sunday, at 9pm, you’re invited to share a listening session with some likeminded souls, wherever you might be. This can be experienced either alone or communally, and you don’t need to leave the comfort of your own home to participate.
This month marks a big anniversary for me – it’s exactly twenty years since the crew I worked so closely with for over five years, as producer, manager and all round collaborator, saw their debut LP, the ‘Killer Album’, released via EMI.
Can you remember what was the first X (or 18) rated film you saw? For people around my age and older this would have been at the cinema, for those a bit younger probably on video, and for those younger still on DVD (no doubt it’ll be via the internet for many people these days). Mine was ‘Cabaret’ in 1972 when I was twelve. I saw it at the Phoenix cinema in Wallasey Village, which had two screens – I’d paid to see whatever was on the other screen, which would have had the old A classification and been deemed suitable for someone of my age, but I wasn’t into it and, by way of trying to salvage my evening, this resulted in a successful attempt to slip into ‘Cabaret’ unnoticed. I knew nothing about the film beforehand, but it would make a lasting impression on me.
In August ‘76 the postman delivered what I originally thought was an LP, but, on closer inspection, discovered to be a 12” single’ - the first I’d ever seen. It included 3 tracks from the Lalo Schifrin album ‘Black Widow’ - on one side ‘Flamingo’ and ‘Quiet Village’, with the other side taken up by what would become a big UK club track, ‘Jaws’ (Schrifin’s discofied adaptation of the theme music from the 1975 blockbuster movie, which provided director Steven Spielberg with his major breakthrough). It was sent to me by the club promotion company M.I.F.
The classic, ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’, the only book written by Harper Lee (also made into a famous movie in 1962 starring Gregory Peck), is a half-century old
Set of 15 bubblegum cards designed by Jack Hemingway for the upcoming Vintage Festival in Goodwood (Aug 13/14/15). Here’s a short YouTube clip with the lowdown on The Warehouse and Roller Disco arenas, which I’ve curated with Jack.
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