Music
Skins by Gavin Watson
Fri, 19/10/2007 - 11:42amIn the early 1980s, teenager Gavin Watson began to take photographs of his mates, the Wycombe Skins. His thousands of shots candidly document a subculture which is often misunderstood by the mainstream. A collection of these images, Skins by Gavin Watson, was first published in 1994. This autumn, a totally updated version with dozens of previously unpublished photographs has been published. Gavin Watson and his publishers, Independent Music Press, have kindly agreed to let us share a selection of these images with you.
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Videocast: The Small Faces green plaque unveiled in Carnaby St
Thu, 06/09/2007 - 7:06pmTuesday 4th September 2007. The unveiling of a green plaque in honour of The Small Faces and their first manager, Don Arden. Marian Buckley talks to Val Weedon, who used to work with the 'boys' and was the driving force in getting the plaque put up and Donna Lambert, from Shaftesbury plc who run Carnaby. Lastly, we see the plaque unveiled by Kenney Jones. (9'14")
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Videocast: Interview with Kenney Jones of The Small Faces
Wed, 05/09/2007 - 3:04pmMarian Buckley talks with Kenney Jones in Carnaby St on the day that a green plaque is unveiled to commemorate The Small Faces' and their manager, Don Arden. (9'29")
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Small Faces and Don Arden plaque unveiled on Carnaby Street
Tue, 04/09/2007 - 7:31pmOn Tuesday September 4th at 2pm, crowds cheered on Carnaby Street as Kenney Jones unveiled a green plaque on the site of the Small Faces' and Don Arden's original offices.
The event was the culmination of over a year's of lobbying and negotiation with Westminster Council and English Heritage, who oversee the allocation of brown (for fictional characters), green (people who are still alive) and blue (deceased) plaques.
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Paul Weller : The Solo Years Photographs by Lawrence Watson
Mon, 09/07/2007 - 10:20amJust outside Birmingham, in a gallery nestled into the heart of Fort Dunlop, lies a piece of Weller heaven open until September 22nd.
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The Look book turns into a regular club night @ Lost Society
Tue, 26/06/2007 - 1:30pmHow can you turn a book about adventures in rock and pop fashion into a stomping south London club night? Author Paul Gorman has pulled off this stroke of minor genius and is about to stage his second Look club night at Lost Society in Clapham on Thursday July 5. The mighty Kevin Rowland DJ-ed at The Look's debut night on June 7 and now Gorman has announced that next Thursday Glen Matlock will be manning the decks alongside designer/musician Keanan Duffty.
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Paul Weller's Fred Perry shirt
Mon, 31/07/2006 - 1:55pm
At last, Fred Perry has finally decided to create a limited edition shirt with a man truly worthy of the laurel, Mr Paul Weller.
Recently, the British brand which was launched by tennis star Fred Perry in 1952 has solicited polo shirt designs from stylist Judy Blame, designer Peter Jensen and illustrator Alistair McKimm - not one of these geezers is as qualified or suited to creating their own FP polo shirt as Weller.
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Wasted 2006
Sun, 07/05/2006 - 9:54pm
Everyone is banging on about punk being 30 years old and that's no bad thing if it gives marketing bods a reason to publish a brilliant book like John Robb's Oral History of Punk Rock (Ebury Press) which begins "Punk changed everything. Not just our trousers" and goes on to give first-hand accounts of the fashion, passion and fury of a movement which lives on today.
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