A Way Of Life: The Making Quadrophenia

A retrospective documentary looking back 25 years to the making of one of the most significant youth films to emerge in the UK. The documentary tells it as it happened from Franc Roddam's point of view, with contributions from the cast, including Phil Daniels, Mark Wingett and Toyah. It's interesting because it's genuine 'from the horse's mouth' background - find out why John Lydon just missed out on the Jimmy role, how the cast got their 'training' in what the 60s mod scene was all about, who trained them to dance, why Sting couldn't dance (or ride a scooter) and much more.


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Original - This Is England

Re-visiting the original that begins on a cold day in July 1983, with Shaun (Thomas Turgoose), a 12-year-old, getting in a fight at school after someone makes an offensive joke about his father who died in the Falklands War. On his way home, in an unhappy mood, Shaun runs into a group of non-racist skinheads led by Woody...

Episode 4 - This Is England '86

Episode 3 - This Is England '86

Diana

Young mod

So who`s this dapper young geezer? Answer in comments..

Episode 2 - This Is England '86

I Don't Know You Anymore

Episode 1 - This Is England '86

This Is England '86

Starting Tuesday @ 10pm UKtime on Channel4
Director Shane Meadows four-part followup to his Bafta-winning film. The drama serial revisits the same Grimsby gang during the Mexico World Cup.

If I Could Only Be Sure

How Do You Say I Don't Love You Anymore

The Atlantic Story

Andy Peebles tells the story of the Legendary soul music label Atlantic Records.In the 1st episode Johnnie Walker looks at the early days of Atlantic Records and how the company was set up. Atlantic Records was home to some of the greatest R'n'B & soul singers of all time including Otis Redding and Ray Charles and also home to Led Zeppelin.. 

Part 1 0f 13 - 23 Aug - Money Honey

Monday,03:00BST/Tuesday, 11:00JapanTime on BBC 6 Music

24 Aug - Yakety Yak

25 Aug  - Giant Steps

All Episodes- 03:00BritishSummerTime/11:00JapanTime

"We Are the Mods": A Transnational History of a Youth Subculture

"We Are the Mods", by Christine Jacqueline Feldman draws on archival research, oral history interviews, and participant observation, this examination of the adoption and adaptation of Mod style across geographic space also maps its various interpretations over time, from the early 1960s to the present. The book traces the Mod youth culture from its genesis in the dimly lit clubs of Londons Soho, where it began as a way for young people to reconfigure modernity after the chaos of World War II, to its contemporary, country-specific expressions. By examining Mod culture in the United States, Germany, and Japan alongside the United Kingdom, We Are the Mods contrasts the postwar development of Mod in those countries that lost the war with those that won. The book illuminates the cultures fashion, music, iconography, and gender aesthetics, to create a compelling portrait of a transnational subculture.

A must buy!

More @ Sombrero Club 1964

Ska Sessions @ the Sombrero Club, Jamaica

What bag am I in..

Northern Soul by Beatsofmusic on Mixcloud

Ropeman!

More, More, More!

Festival - beach a round 2010

Club PI`s DJ`s will be spinning saturday night 31st at the 2010 music festival BEACH A ROUND.

Where - Starlight Beach Zenibako - 3Chome, Zenibako, Otaru.
When - 31st July & 1st August
Cost - ADV ￥3000　DOOR ￥3500 for 2 days (free for kids until junior high)

MAP.

Insight - Marvin Gaye

A brillant 2 - One hour interviews with the great Marvin Gaye with US dj Paul Gambaccini.

Part 1 - The early years, duetting partnerships and writers and producers he has worked with.
(Available until Wednesday 28th July 2010)

Part 2 - On becoming his own writer and producer.
(Available until Thursday 29th July 2010)

You Can Get It If You Really Want..

Who`s gonna pay?

vintage@goodwood

It`s my life!

(It's my life and I'll do what I want) Don't push me!
(It's my mind and I'll think what I want) It's my life!
(It's my life and I'll do what I want) And I can do what I want!
(It's my mind and I'll think what I want) You can't tell me!
(It's my life and I'll do what I want)

It's festival time

Lovin`' Machine

Happy Music

SoulBoy

1974. Power cuts, strikes and boot-boy aggro on the terraces. Flares, Chopper bikes and beer at fourteen pence a pint. Joe McCain, 17 and restless, is bored with the flatline tedium of a life that seems like it's going nowhere. Enter Jane, moving to the beat of a music that Joe's never heard, a vision of loveliness who opens the door to a whole world of sound, movement and all-nighter dancing at The Wigan Casino - the home of Northern Soul! Swept along on this tide of pulsating dance and lust, Joe finally finds somewhere he belongs and the acceptance and true love he yearns for, he becomes a soulboy!

Soulboy movie website

London Disappeared

Dr. Martens 50.

R.I.P

Malcolm McLaren 1946-2010

The former Sex Pistols manager died in New York this morning after a long battle with cancer.

Stax!!

Wake Up The Nation

Paul weller's new LP.

DeepR'n'BNorthenMod Flavas.

Over at Pierced Hearts they have selected and mixed so far 4 fantastic mixes of quality r'n'b, northern soul and mod faves to listen or download if you so desire...check them out you won't be disappointed. So go and show some love!

Ye Ye!

60's Underground Lost & Found