Sleeveface… Your favourite records on your face
Another day, another amazing blog. It’s an entire blog based on people using record sleeves to cover their faces, thereby “extending” the image. And it’s brilliantly called…. Sleeveface.
We’re not sure of the psychology behind this, but it’s a great way to celebrate the art form of the record sleeve.
We’ve curated their photos to show you some of our favourite photos from classic Music Heritage UK acts. Enjoy and don’t forget to explore more on the Sleeveface blog!
Planning application submitted to redevelop the Twisted Wheel Club
An update on the plans to demolish… sorry redevelop… the legendary Twisted Wheel Club.
Manchester Council have posted on their website the planning application by Motel One, a German firm who want to demolish the building which currently houses the Twisted Wheel club in the basement to build a hotel.
Regular readers of the blog/followers of Music Heritage UK will know that we have landed our support to the grassroots campaign to save the venue which was the birthplace of Northern Soul. The club continues to this day with a twice monthly northern soul club night at the venue.
The Council has put the planning application out for comment - now is the time to write in and let them know what a mistake they are making! A decision on the future of the Twisted Wheel and this redevelopment is expected on June 28th.
Together we can help save this historic venue from demolition.
What you need to do now!
1. Add a public comment on the Manchester City Council website
2. Compose a formal “letter of objection” to the case officer.
3. Send a letter of objection to the councillors who will make the final decision. Their emails are below.
cllr.a.kamal@manchester.gov.uk
cllr.a.ahmed@manchester.go.uk
cllr.a.fender@manchester.gov.uk
cllr.b.curly@manchester.gov.uk
cllr.d.ellison@manchester.gov.uk
cllr.h.lyons@manchester.gov.uk
cllr.j.flanagan@manchester.gov.uk
cllr.j.keller@manchester.gov.uk
cllr.m.watson@manchester.gov.uk
cllr.m.loughman@manchester.gov.uk
cllr.n.ali@manchester.gov.uk
cllr.n.siddiqi@manchester.gov.uk
cllr.n.lewis@manchester.gov.uk
cllr.p.andrews@manchester.gov.uk
cllr.shaukat.ali@manchester.gov.uk
If you want to find out more, you can read our interview with the current DJ of the Twisted Wheel Pete Roberts. He tells you all you need to know about why this venue needs to be saved!
Keep up to date with the campaign on our dedicated campaign section on our website. This has links to all our media coverage including an interview on BBC Radio Manchester and a piece we wrote on the club for Manchester’s Chimp magazine.
Record Books - your favourite album as a book
What if our favourite records were books? Regular readers of our blog may remember this series of classic album remained as Penguin classics, but this is taking it a step further and remaining albums in a range of different styles of book.
Artist Christophe Gowans has created these collections and we’ve a few of our favourite Music Heritage UK related albums below. We particularly like the Ian Dury & the Blockheads one.
We’re sure you’ll agree that these are, quite simply, great. You can buy these (and many more) in postcard collections available from his website. See more book covers on his tumblr, Record Books.
Indie Label Music Market 2012
The Independent Label Market is back next week. This time it takes place at Spitalfields Market in London on Saturday 19 May 2012. Expect the creme de la creme of the independent music scene to sell a range of special edition, obscure, forgotten and most of all, independent music.
The event is organised by AIM, the Association of Independent Music. Below are a list of participating labels. See you there!
*Because *Angular *Bella Union *Borstal Beat *Brownswood Recordings *Buzzin’ Fly *Chess Club *Critical *Domino *Double Denim *Fabric *Fat Cat *Fire Records *Fortuna Pop! *Full Time Hobby *Heavenly *House Anxiety Records *How Soon Is Now? *Lanark *Lex Records *Lucky Number *Mais Um Discos *Moshi Moshi *New Music Club *Ninja Tune *O.Genesis *One Little Indian *Phantasy Sound *Proville *R&S *Rocket Girl *Roundtable *Something In Construction *Sonic Cathedral *Soul Jazz *Soundway *Stolen Recordings *Sunday Best *Tangled Talk *Tellin’ Stories *The Sounds Of Sweet Nothing *Transgressive *Tri Angle *Warp *Wichita *XL
Woking loses a piece of The Jam music history
The venue which hosted the first gigs and rehearsals of The Jam is set to become a four story block of flats.
The former Liberal Club in Woking was home to a club frequented by Paul Weller’s father. Through this connection, an extremely young The Jam was able to both rehearse and play at the weekends. The band’s first gig at the club was on New Year’s Eve in 1974 and it truly was the venue that enabled the Jam to find themselves and help them find their sound.
The venue, which was round the corner from Weller’s Stanley Road home, has long gone, a victim of changing social habits and changing drinking habits but the building continued as the offices of a taxi firm. What’s changing now is that the building is to be demolished to make way for flats, meaning that this venue will now be gone forever and a potential piece of music history will no longer be in existence.
However, local housing builders Barratt Homes have decided to pay tribute to the local heroes the Jam with a statue for a new development on Guildford Road, Woking.
Thanks to Music Heritage UK supporter Neil for the heads up on this story. Read it in full on the Get Surrey website.
John Peel archive launches!
The John Peel Centre for Creative Arts will be putting the first 100 records/discs from the late John Peel’s archive online TOMORROW (Tuesday!).
Each week another 100 will be added. This is an absolutely huge undertaking as the collection includes over 65,000 items.
This is great news for music fans though who will be able to visit a virtual museum of the late DJs collection. Unfortunately you won’t be able to listen to/stream the originals, but the collection will, where relevant, include links to Spotify/iTunes to enable people to explore the content musically too.
For more information, please visit the JPCfCA website from tomorrow. We’ll report back over the weekend with our own experiences of the first batch of uploads!
Music Rich List 2012 is out!
The Sunday Times Rich List is out over the weekend and it’s music section has been released early to the press. This lists the top individuals by wealth within the music industry.
The top position goes to music businessman Clive Clader who made over £1bn from the sale of his record label Zomba to BMG in 2002.
Sir Paul McCartney has reversed what happened with his previous wife (the divorce cost him around £25m) and actually increased his wealth through his marriage to freight magnate Nancy Shevell by £150m.
Other people of note on the list include George Harrison’s widow Olivia and son Dani who are sharing £180m, while Ringo is in 13th place with £160m. Mick Jagger and Keith Richards are also on the list, as is Sting, Sir Elton John and Sir Tom Jones.
1 Clive Calder - £1.35bn
2 Sir Cameron Mackintosh - £725m
3 Sir Paul McCartney and Nancy Shevell - £665m
4 Lord Lloyd-Webber - £590m
5 U2 - £514m
6 Simon Fuller - £375m
7 Simon Cowell - £225m
8 Sir Elton John - £220m
9 Michael Flatley - £192m
10= David and Victoria Beckham - £190m
10= Daniel Ek - £190m
10= Sir Mick Jagger - £190m
13= Olivia and Dhani Harrison - £180m
13= Sting - £180m
15 Keith Richards - £175m
16 Jamie Palumbo - £170m
17 Denis and Caroline Desmond - £165m
18 Ringo Starr - £160m
19 Sir Tim Rice - £144m
20 Sir Tom Jones - £140m
