Friday night and I was
making a journey out into the middle of nowhere (Bagshot – honestly) to see a
local Mod band I’ve been meaning to catch for some time;
LORDlJOHN
who were playing at The
Three Mariners on Bagshot High Street. I’ve
been missing them forever and I wasn’t going to this time.
(Sk7-unisex_HairSalon)
Who were kind enough to
put up the money for the gig - catch them at 7 High Street, Bagshot or on
Me, I can’t cope with
facebook and don't use it – the page for this campaign is dead because I can’t get used to the
format and I don’t even like my own page. It's an age thing.
But SK7 were
celebrating reaching 3000 likes which is a real achievement and as a treat they
put on this show just for us.
They are also on;
www.sk7hairsalon.co.uk and seem very
reasonably priced although after they took one look at my hair they moved on
fairly quickly.
Certainly there were
some very glamorous ladies out to celebrate:
And if anyone tries to
blackmail me with any of their photos I will deny everything. I rarely go out
and how do you know I don’t have a twin brother anyway?
I also think there is
a Tattoo joint connected with SK7, certainly there were some impressive ‘Tats’
on display. For a moment I was daydreaming about having the ‘Trojan Records’
logo done on my chest……...no I think I may have left that a bit late.
Lord John are Paul on lead Vocals (off with a bad throat), Darren vocals, Martin lead Guitar, Steve on Bass and Jeff on drums. The name comes from the famous clothes shop which used to be on Carnaby Street and
which provided the wardrobe for the 1960’s.
Their music ranged
from the classic mod bands of the 60’s, through to The Jam and even a bit of 90’s
Britpop and some classic soul along the way. Do you see why I drove all that
way out into the middle of the country just to see them?
The pub had a clock
that went backwards above the bar – it didn’t work for me. The time flew.
There was a hard and
heavy R ‘n B beat running through the evening which really worked and came up
from the drums and bass. It spiced up ‘Parklife’ for me – I always liked it
anyway.
When I got home I caught
a late night compilation of BBC clips from the 1960’s and Lord John had captured
the urgency of the live performances of bands like the Small Faces and The
Kinks, which is usually missing on their records.
The Jam they can’t do and
that’s no criticism at all; I enjoyed ‘Start’, ‘A Town Called Malice’ and
especially ‘The Butterfly Collector’- the ‘B’ side to ‘Strange Town’. It’s just that The Jam were Punks as well as Mods and that gave it an anger and an
energy you can’t come up with today. I know, I was there and it won’t come
back.
I do like ‘The
Butterfly Collector’ and they did it well. I may get a chance to hear it again
tomorrow if I’m very lucky. Written about Soo Catwoman, it was an attack on the
Art-school punks of 76/77 and was a cry from the suburbs as well as the first
sign that Weller was moving towards ‘The Style Council’ in sound and ideas.
I really liked Booker
T’s ‘Green Onions’ – which I heard a month ago on a real Hammond organ thanks
to ‘The James Taylor Quartet’. Last
night it was all lead guitar which gave the old tune a harder edge, a tougher
feel.
"Put on your red dress baby and your high heeled sneakers too"…….now what does that remind me of?
You know, maybe I could
still get that tattoo……..No I mustn’t.
That was a good night. The band is on lemonrock and the dreaded facebook - you have no excuses now.
A
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