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Comments Off on Swinging Hatchetts – London Night Club 1968-1978
As the go-to place for all the glamorous folk in London (and further afield) the West End has always had a certain appeal when it comes to a big night out. We’re going to look back a few years now and head up West to Hatchetts Playground & Restaurant...
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1970s, Music •
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Comments Off on Wilson Pickett Eats, Shoots and Leaves (then Gets Arrested)
Whether this happened in the midnight hour we’re not 100% certain but it seems when you combine assorted soul singers with alcohol, lethal weaponry and a hunting trip in upstate New York then occasionally trouble ensues and on this occasion it certainly did...
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1960s, Everyday People, Music •
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Comments Off on Toronto Pop Festival 1969
The Toronto Pop Festival was held on June 21st and 22nd in 1969 at the Varsity Stadium, just a few months before the Woodstock festival. Over the weekend Bands such as Blood Sweat and Tears, Sly and The Family Stone, Dr John, Rotary Connection, Steppenwolf...
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Comments Off on New Shapes in Sound – Vox Adverts
Previously we’ve posted a few adverts for Vox in our The Who (and Others) Sell out feature. This time we’re dedicating a whole page to the company that created guitars with “New shapes in Sound” and manufactured amplifiers to produce...
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1970s, Music, Television, Youth Culture •
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Comments Off on Rock-A-Bye: 1973 Canadian TV Documentary
Back to a time before the Rolling Stones had wrinkles, before Keith Richards started looking like a pirate and a Canadian documentary featuring lots of drugs, lots of police, lots of vinyl and almost inevitably lots of hair. This fascinating piece of social...
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1950s, 1960s, Music, Vinyl •
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Comments Off on More In-car Entertainment
Putting such minor practicalities as potholes, speed humps, going round corners, record storage, changing them whilst on the move and the fact that they only played 45s aside, we think the concept of a dashboard mounted record player seems a sterling idea and...
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Comments Off on Hanging Out at Heathrow Airport
The modern relationship between celebs and the paparazzi is a curiously reciprocal arrangement not unlike signing a pact with Old Nick himself. We have to wonder quite who would want to be a celebrity these days as it is beyond us here at VoEA. We prefer a...
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1990s, DJ mix, Music •
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Comments Off on Boca 45 & DJ Format – The Golden Era
We’re feeling generous so here’s an extra special treat for all you old skool hip-hop headz. Messrs Boca 45 and DJ Format digging out beats old and new that have a certain special something – that Golden Era sound. They’ve put it up on Soundcloud and...
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Comments Off on Radio Student – Keeping it Reel Since 1969
Radio Student is a Slovenian Radio station, and is one of Europe’s oldest non commercial stations starting broadcasting in 1969. The station was started by the students of Ljubljana after a turbulent 1968 in which it was decided that the students needed...
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Comments Off on James Brown – Future Shock Television Show
In the early nineties singer James Brown became the “godfather of soup” when he got funky in a couple of Japanese noodles adverts to the tune of Sex Machine. However there was a time in the seventies when the godfather of soul was producing and...
