Gaz Mayall DJ's and hosts London's longest running one-nighter Gaz's
Rockin Blues. He occasionally plays live with his ska band The
Trojans. He first began Gaz's Rockin' Blues in July 1980 after a few
guest appearances at the Two-Tone club, Oxford Street in 1979.
The eldest son of Blues legend John Mayall, Gaz was raised on a musical
diet of R&B and was dragged around every beat, pop & rock festival
and venues throughout the sixties as a child. First becoming a lifelong
fan of reggae as a kid on the football terraces in the skin head era circa
1968-72.
Gaz began collecting records aged 17, bluk buying cheap reggae and ska
collections down street markets such as Portbello road and Brick Lane
at a time when it seemed no one wanted them.
Also a great fan of boogie woogie, Rock&Roll, traditional Irish music,
funk and world music, Gaz, heavily influenced by a family friend Radio
One DJ and blues musician Alexis Korner, pursued his love of music in
earnest and now has a world famous collection of predominantly black dance
music ranging from the first tribal drum beats to the latest drum &
bass.
For the last nineteen years Gaz has been running his own record label
Gaz's Rockin' Records producing ska acts and artistes around the world.
Gaz's Rockin' Blues is London's longest running one-nighter club. It
was founded on 2 July 1980 had been held at Gossip's on Dean street for
14 and half years until it moved to its current venue St Moritz on Wardour
Street in 1995.
The club generally promotes live bands each week.
Address:
St Moritz - Downstairs
159 Wardour street, Soho, London W1F 8WL
Every Thursday 10pm-3:30am
Admission £7 (£5 before 11pm)
....FRIZZ RECORDS is proud to announce our fourth LP release...
LEILA ADU has been described as 'A Nina Simone for the Noughties', and her two acclaimed albums infuse a broadly 'art-rock' approach with elements of torch song, speakeasy blues, avant garde jazz, gamelan, post-rock textures, and a David Lynch style dreamlike b-movie melodrama. As her website has it, exploring the "dissonant edges of familiar forms", but with that kind of 'dissonance' that they once accused Thelonious Monk or Debussy of, the kind that soon betrays it's own compelling melodic and harmonic logic to the attentive listener...
'Dark Joan', Leila's third album as a solo artist, was recorded in Chicago with the legendary Steve Albini (PJ Harvey, Joanna Newsome, Nirvana, Pixies), and Albini's genius has been to strip her sound back to it's essence, and hold it's most distinctive qualities up to the light. It doesn't hurt that this is by far Leila's most powerful set of songs to date, and if anything we are lead even deeper into her world by the pictures painted with just piano (or in some cases harpsichord or a grime-encrusted electric piano) and that voice...
Capable of anything from delicate heartbreaking purity to a fearsome dramatic power, her powers are seemingly limitless, yet unlike most other singers of her calibre, never does she resort to melodrama or show-boating, or any kind of pastiche, instead she employs her resources fully in the expression of her distinctive musical vision and the deep well-spring of her imagination. Nothing ever sounds as though it could have not been sung...
I am teaming up with Bowel Cancer UK to raise funds and awareness about Bowel Cancer in young people. by putting on an event at Ministry of Sound, London.
Headliners include Funkagenda, Danny Rampling to name but a few! Full line up is on my page.
If you dream of playing @ MoS and think you can sell 50 tickets to our event, please private message me for all details
Tickets on sale through through TICKETWEB 1st December 2009
TO CELEBRATE MUSICAL FEVER'S INAUGRAL YEAR, WE ARE PUTTING TOGETHER A VINTAGE STYLE REVUE FOR YOUR ENTERTAINMNET PLEASURE
DOORS 8pm - 3am - FOR TICKETS CONTACT musical_fever@live.co.uk
OWEN GRAY - ORIGINAL JAMAICAN FOUNDATION ARTIST from 1959 will be singing LIVE, backed by one of the UK's TOP SKA/REGGAE bands - GOLDMASTER ALLSTARS - as well as the hits, he'll be singing more of the connoisseur rocksteady selections [sir collins etc.] that have been causing a real buzz in recent years - more info to follow...
SIR TROPICAL DOWNBEAT aka LIONEL YOUNG - authentic sixties/seventies sound man with a deeply individual and one-away selection. compiler of 'solid gold from the vaults' series, one of the best compilations to ever come out of the TROJAN vaults. aswell as putting the four-part fanzine 'SKA SPECIAL' together, whcih include photo's and memorabilia from his own collection.
The Jim Jones Revue play a special XFM 14+ show at The Barfly in Camden this Monday. The show will be recorded and broadcast on John Kennedy's XFM Xposure radio show throughout November.
BERLIN PRESSURE DROP Berlin's neue Ska/Reggae Reihe alle zwei Monate im Lovelite Am 14.11. mit: LOS PLACEBOS / Reggae-Ska-Dancehall / Bochum http://www.myspace.com/losplacebosska
FREIKARTEN ZU GEWINNEN Es
werden 10 x 2 Free Tix verlost. Schreibt einfach eine Nachricht
unteroben angegebener MySpace Adresse. Wer zuerst kommt, mahlt zu erst.
:)
Je n’sais pas si t’es au courant mais en 2010 c’est la fin du monde !!! Alors profites en vite, sors toi les miches de ton canapé et viens assister à nos messes d’enfer. Une chance ultime de sauver ton âme d’un paradis chiantissime
Join us this November @ THE HOBBY HORSE, for the launch of our new weekly FREE Fridays. LAUNCHING 6TH!!
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Click on the flyer above for more details on our November listings.
Joining us this month are: Artefacts for Space Travel, Islington boys' club, Electricity in Our Homes, The Duloks, Man Flu and Ice, Sea, Dead People to name but a few...
Join us this FRIDAY 6TH NOVEMBER at our new haunt THE HOBBY HORSE, for the launch of our new weekly FREE Fridays. FRIDAY 6TH NOVEMBER. The Hobby Horse, 281 Kingsland Rd, DALSTON. DOORS 6PM. FREE ENTRY. LIVE// ARTEFACTS FOR SPACE TRAVEL http://www.myspace.com/artefactsforspacetravel ISLINGTON BOYS' CLUB http://www.myspace.com/islingtonboysclub DJS// THE STOOL PIGEON JAMES THEAKER (NME RADIO) THE BROTHERS GRIME ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Click on the flyer above for more details on our November listings. Also joining us this month are: Electricity in Our Homes, The Duloks, Man Flu and Ice, Sea, Dead People to name but a few... Cheers! Ed & Dan HTTP://WWW.CLUBTHEMAMMOTH.COM
The Benalmádena Blues Festival - 'Blues at Moonlight':
Now in its third successful year, the festival has been extended to offer Rhythm and Blues, Rock 'n' Roll and Swing fans two nights of non-stop, world-class music and entertainment. Click here for more information on the featured bands, ticket prices and special entrance and accommodation packages: www.benalmadenabluesfestival.com
The Festival dates are Friday 13 and Saturday 14 November - a limited amount of tickets are available so book asap to avoid disappointment!!
BERLIN PRESSURE DROP
Berlin's neue Ska/Reggae Reihe alle zwei Monate im Lovelite
Am 14.11. mit:
LOS PLACEBOS / Reggae-Ska-Dancehall / Bochum
http://www.myspace.com/losplacebosska
RAGGA GAGGA GANG / Ska-Reggae-Pop / Berlin
http://www.myspace.com/raggagaggagang
An den Plattentellern:
DJ BELA Ska-Reggae-Dancehall
DR.JEKYLL Ska-Rocksteady-Reggae
SELECTOR SOULFIRE Reggae-Roots-Dancehall /Vocals from VOODOO MOON
BossK Mr. Reggaexplosion Ska-Reggae Rocksteady
Mehr Infos unter
http://www.myspace.com/berlinpressuredrop
FREIKARTEN ZU GEWINNEN
Es werden 10 x 2 Free Tix verlost. Schreibt einfach eine Nachricht unteroben angegebener MySpace Adresse. Wer zuerst kommt, mahlt zu erst. :)
Vorfreudige Grüße,
das BERLIN PRESSURE DROP Team