Keep It Together! Deviants and Pink Fairies's Blurbs
About me: Rich Deakin - Born in Leicester, 1965. After leaving school became a full-time wastrel and occasional disc jockey. By the mid-90s seriously needed to get shit together and completed a Masters thesis on the British underground press. Regular contributor to Shindig magazine.
Keep It Together! : Cosmic Boogie with the Deviants and Pink Fairies - the biography of legendary 1960s and 70s British underground bands - The Deviants and Pink Fairies.
THE LADBROKE GROOVE (edit)
by Mick Farren and Andy Colquhoun
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Abridged version of Mick Farren's introduction to Keep It Together! put to music, and recorded at Andy Colquhoun's Cyber Music Studios, Los Angeles, March 2007.
KEEP IT TOGETHER!
This is the remarkable story of London's anti social communal bands of the 1960s and 1970s, from the perspective of two of its most crucial exponents.
Fuelled by amphetamine psychosis and the music of Bob Dylan and the Fugs, The Deviants and Pink Fairies were bands of the people playing for free from flatbed trucks, and alternatively on bills alongside the likes of Led Zeppelin.
Keep it Together! tells of the musical and social movements key in shaping a London that had been swinging but was rapidly moving away from psychedelia into far more brutish territory. It is a tale that includes the Edgar Broughton Band, the Pretty Things, Tomorrow, Hawkwind, and a host of other influential bands and dodgy geezers, with many exclusive interviews and photographs.
ISBN-10: 190048661X ISBN-13: 978-1900486613
BINDING PAPERBACK PRICE £13.99
Extent biography & autobiography: film, television, music, theatre ;rock & pop music; London, Greater London; c 1960 to c 1970; c 1970 to c 1980; c 1980 to 1990
Publication winter 2007/2008
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Who I'd like to meet: Charlie; Child of the Sky; Nothing Man; Bun; Sparrows; Jamie; Papa-oo-Mao-Mao; Slum Lord; Blind Joe McTurk; Sidney B. Goode; Last Man; Billy the Monster; The People; Black George; Mona; Charlie (again!); The Ravens; The Horsemen; Mary; Junior Narco Rangers; The Snake; Heavenly Man; Wargirl; Thor; Teenage Rebel; Uncle Harry; A Bunch of Sweeties; Marilyn; The Pigs of Uranus; Kings of Oblivion; City Kids; Chambermaid; Street Urchin, White Girls on Amphetamine etc. P.S. I Wish I Was A Girl as well
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Check out 'A Testimonial to Boss Goodman: Portobello Shuffle : A Tribute to the Deviants and Pink Fairies for sound clips from Mick Farren and the Deviants featuring former Motorhead drummer Philthy 'Animal' Taylor;past and present members of the Damned - Rat Scabies and Brian James, and Captain Sensible and Monty Oxymoron; Wilko Johnson Band; John Perry, Adrian Shaw and Rod Goodway; Pink FA featuring Nik Turner and Terry Ollis; Clark Hutchinson; Darryl Read;John Sinclair and His Ladbroke Grove Blues Scholars (AKA George Butler and Slim Tim Slide) and Felix Dennis. Further clips from Jello Biafra and the Pink Finks themselves plus a couple more surprises maybe!
Thankyou for adding Sonic World Festival, 4/5th September 2009. Tickets are available from www.sonicworldfestival.co.uk and www.myspace.com/harveybainbridgemusic as well as our own myspace site. £30 for the whole weekend, indoor toilets, free showers, free camping, bars, bar meals and restaurant, indoor venue.
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