It seems my local pubs are featuring more
and more ska and soul music on their music nights. I wonder is this a trend
across the country? Next month a local rugby club is putting on a weekend ska festival
and this weekend one of my locals had a ska weekend. Friday night featured Ska Train, a mobile disco that seems to be
going from strength to strength. They play roughly 50/50 vinyl and CD, mostly
the more well known sounds. They are booked solid for the rest of the year
apparently. (I had attended their gig at my local of locals the previous week).
On Saturday it was live ska from local band The Great Eskape. This one I did
attend, and very good they were. Last night I was there again for a vinyl fest
from My Friend Jack (who is, in fact, Sean). More ska, and plenty of top notch soul too. Today we (Mrs Darce arrived back from her
travels in the early hours) did our normal Bank Holiday thing, i.e. not a lot.
A lie in and then some general pottering in the garden. The soundtrack to this
general pottering (at least some of it) was..more ska! Lauren on BBC 6Music played
about 30 minutes of back to back ska and reggae which she dubbed (ha!) her Skank
Holiday mix. It has certainly been a Skank holiday for me.
I have been rapidly approaching a crisis
of confidence on the boot fair front. After a reasonable start to the season
the last few weeks have been barren – I do get to them early nowadays too, but
quite probably still not early enough. Or are rekkids drying up? Sunday's trawl
restored some confidence, but only some. I bagged this little selection from a
dealer who occasionally puts in an appearance at a boot fair. Boxes and boxes
of singles at 50p with always a fair chance of picking up something worthwhile, accepting
the fact that they may have some condition issues. But hey, they’re only 50p
after all. Now if the private sellers could just oblige by bringing some
records along too everything will be OK again.
In this little haul there are actually
four reggae singles. Here’s one of them.
3 comments:
looks like quite a good haul Darcy.
Not a lot of boot sale in my area, well none to be exact, unfortunately.
a version of the Wynonie Harris, well Hank Penny, song, excellent.
Thanks for that info George, I didn't know and hadn't done any research. I have now. Found the lyrics. Great song.
To think it started out as a country song in 1950. From country to reggae in 25 years.
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