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  • Lennie Peters – A Brief Retrospective

    • 1970s, Music, Unexpected Gems • 48906 Views

    For those of us old enough to remember the 1970s, no Saturday night watching the telly was complete without a song from the then ubiquitous Peters & Lee. Whether it was the Des O’Connor show, Seaside Special or the hilarious Mike and Bernie Winters’ show they were there. Week in, week out. From 1973 to 1980 they ruled the roost with their inoffensive brand of unpretentious, wholesome, family-friendly easy-listening folk-pop. They were, if you like, the British response to the American phenomenon that was The Carpenters.  Continue Reading

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  • Unexpected Gems – The Carpenters All i can do

    • 1970s, Music, Unexpected Gems • 12569 Views

    This unexpected gem comes from the Seventies Answer to The White Stripes – Brother and sister easy listening duo The Carpenters. 

    All I can do is a Jazz dance style groover from 1969, apparently Gilles Peterson use to drop it into his set on Sunday Afternoons at Dingwalls. From the Album Ticket to Ride Continue Reading

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  • James Brown – Drunk TV Interview

    • Music, Television • 7454 Views

    Get on the Good foot, take a look at this you tube clip of a drunk James Brown being interviewed on the News.  Continue Reading

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  • My Old New York – Times Square of the Late 1970s

    • 1970s, Architecture • 11173 Views

    Interesting collage of photo’s of New York in the late ’70’s on you tube, pretty cool… Continue Reading

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  • Still Bill – The Bill Withers Film

    • Documentary, Film, Music • 8805 Views

    Having been born the 13th child in a poor black family in the small mining village of Slab Fork, West Virginia and having suffered from childhood asthma and a bad stammer until he was 28, Bill Withers didn’t have the best start in life. But after serving nine years in the US Navy and then going on to make toilets for jumbo jets for a living, when he was well into his thirties he managed to find time to write and record some of the simplest, most beautiful songs to have graced the charts. Continue Reading

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  • East of Underground

    • 1970s, Documentary, Music • 6175 Views

    Championed by Wax Poetics, US Army funk/soul outfit East of underground have gained some following since the aforementioned magazine released an LP of their material… Here is a little documentary from Wax Poetics about the band, to give you a fuller picture of what they were about. Continue Reading

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  • Downbeat Magazine covers

    • 1960s, 1970s, Literature, Magazine • 15532 Views

    Still going today, Downbeat magazine features Jazz, Blues and Rock. Here are some nice scans of various covers from the sixties and seventies. Cover stars include Stevie Wonder, Roland Kirk, Miles Davis, Dr John, John Coltrane and more. Nice! Continue Reading

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  • The Document 4 – Unreleased DJ Andy Smith Mix

    • DJ mix, Music • 16597 Views

    Former Portishead support DJ Andy Smith has uploaded this unreleased mix. It was to be number four in The Document series.

    Andy says “Delivered to Universal records in 2008 to be released as a double pack CD with Document 1 & 4 (to celebrate 10 years since Document 1) but it never came out – I think Universal just wanted to sell the Amy Winehouse CD to every human being on the planet and couldn’t really be arsed about anything else but hey, thats major labels for you! Its been sitting on my harddrive for 3 years so you may as well hear it”

    Take a listen and Browse the tracklisting ,also check out his website DJ Andy Smith for news on his Jam up Twist nights and Compilations. Continue Reading

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  • Rock Urban Myths

    • 1960s, 1970s, Music • 11348 Views

    Did you know that David Bowie invented the game Connect Four? Not really!! that was another false story made up by Journalist Stuart Maconie for his NME Column, But it would be good if it was true- wouldn’t it? Who knows, in years to come it might become the stuff of legend like the Keith Richards story about him replacing his blood supply in a Swiss clinic. This rock urban myth actually came from Keith himself, When interviewed later he said “Someone asked me how I cleaned up, so I said I had my blood completely changed,’I was fucking sick of answering that question, so I gave them a story.” So here are some more Rock urban myths. Continue Reading

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  • Unexpected Gems – Gilbert O’Sullivan – Too Much Attention

    • 1970s, Music, Unexpected Gems • 14387 Views

    Much like finding a tenner you’d forgotten about in a coat pocket we love it when we stumble across great songs by artists we don’t usually listen to. Call it Great Songs by Unlikely Artists or Songs We’re Really Surprised To Be Hearing From These Particular Singers But Never Thought We Would – we’ve settled on Unexpected Gems.Here, in an occasional series we present our Unexpected Gems kicking off with an old favourite from our old buddy Gilbert O’Sullivan doing ‘Too Much Attention’ from the car boot classic LP “Himself”. Go for it Gilbert

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