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Just going through my Camden Crawl (showcase of tomorrow's talent) to see if it had something better to offer than Jack Penate.


These were quite fun, sort of a monkees mett the inspirals via camberwick green

Bricolage - Bayonets

and their myspace http://www.myspace.com/bricolagetheband


Quite liking these too

Blood Red Shoes - It's Getting Boring by the Sea

http://www.myspace.com/bloodredshoes


Aaah and this ones nice in a singer-song writery type way

Emmy the Great - The Easter Parade

and myspace http://www.myspace.com/emmythegreat


Passable

The Whip - Trash

and obligatory http://www.myspace.com/thewhipmanchester

Jah -


there's a great compilation out there called In Fine Style, which collects a load of the Original Rockers 12" stuff from the seventies. It's out on the Pressure Sounds label. You might already have some of these tracks already, but there is some of the greatest dub I've ever heard on this album (apart from the King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown LP, of course!).


By the way, did you hear that the Manchester-based Blood and Fire dub and roots re-issue label has closed down?

King Tubby Meets The Rockers Uptown is indeed one of the best dub albums ever.

I have God knows how many dub/reggae records but I hadn't heard that Blood & Fire had closed down which is a terrible shame as they have been re-releasing a lot of the great classic albums and reggae compilations since their inception. By the way wasn't Mick Hucknall of Simply Red (urg!) a major shareholder/owner of the company? Hopefully Trojan or Pressure Sounds can step in there with the re-release of some of those great back catalogues.

Yup - Blood and Fire were indeed backed by Mick Hucknall. It's weird, Mr Simply Red has great taste in music, which only makes it all the more weird why his own stuff was so ... pants.


http://observer.guardian.co.uk/omm/story/0,,1304486,00.html

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