In the club issue 33 august 2017

‘IN THE CLUB’, IS THE OFFICIAL TUESDAY CLUB

INTERACTIVE MAGAZINE - BROUGHT TO YOU IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE PERFECT POP CO-OP

WHO & YOUZ ARMY!

Dear Tuesday Clubbers and Pop Pickers!

Welcome to the late summer/autumn edition of In the Club Magazine. It’s been another hectic year at the Perfect Pop CoOp. A year of consolidation for the Tuesday club and the year of Reverse Family, not mention all of the other projects we have on the go, not least a new SueySide Packed single!

Starting with the TCs - We haven’t gigged loads this year but when we have it’s been more Milton Keynes and Northampton which has made for a good chance to get to a new crowd - Big thanks Blair, Phil Chamberlain, Johnny from the mental breakdowns and our old ‘oppo’ Loz for helping with these. In fact we’ve only played ‘Snalbans’ twice , both at the Farmers Boy (including our forthcoming date on 5 October that is!). We’ve also made our debut at the fab Alice’s wicked Tea party in Dorset (thanks for the invite Shaun) where we were on a hugely eclectic and talented bill of underground acts - check out Healthy Junkies, She Made Me Do It (our old pals), Dr. Strange and The Wattingers who particularly caught our eye. Most importantly of all however apart from a final tweak to a couple of the mixes, we have at last finished album 3! It is current going under the working title of ‘Art is magic’ and WILL be released in 2018 around Spring - hopefully they’ll be more news in the Xmas mag, along with a couple of very exciting festival dates. Before we move onto Reverse Family, just wanted to thank the huge talents of Stephen Manuel and Lee Scriven for the brilliant live pictures recently. Ok so now onto something fairly new to the mag, although we have been carrying adverts for it in the last couple. I am of course talking about the ‘Monster’ that

is Reverse Family’s 365 songs, which are finally due to start their release on October 2nd. As some of you will be aware during 2015 I embarked on a mammoth DIY ‘test/venture/project’ whatever you want to call it, to write and record a song a day, as my way of dealing with and making sense of life in-light a lot of personal turmoil, not least the untimely passing of ‘Super’ Terry. Cockell. I won’t say anymore now as there is an appraisal later in the mag for which I am grateful to the very talented duo of Roger Payne and Pete Ringmaster for their insights - I asked both independently to try and put my concept into words as the act of writing and recording had blown my mind! Thank you both for putting it way better than I ever could! Also to the mighty Steve Honest, who has taken on the task of mixing and mastering the whole darn thing for me. Steve is the only other person in the world to date to hear the whole thing (poor bugger!), let’s hope he’s not the last.

Finally, a huge thanks to my collaborators thus far, Dave, Minx, John, Rog, Martin W and Matt 88 and also The Tuesday Club (particularly Blair!) who have put up with my being side tracked for at least half of the year! That of course doesn’t cover nearly everyone who has supported us and who’s encouragement is truly inspirational and humbling we thank you all.

See you soon we hope, The Tuesday Club Forever. AVBD xx

Thanks to: Design @andy8ecreative Content: John Viney, Vive Le Rock, Denise Parsons, Roger Payne, David Newbold, Stephen Manuel, Lee Scriven, Chas Evershed, The Eye, Tracy and Sean, Brad Wigglesworth, Pete Ringmaster, Rogue Sector

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Tuesday Club live Summer 2017

Thanks to Tracy Morgan, Chas Evershed, Lee Scriven and Stephen Manuel for the pics and video clips. Also to Johnny, Loz, Shaun, Ros and Blair for the bookings

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LIVE AT ALICE’S WICKED TEA PARTY

ROGUE 1

ROGUE SECTOR INTERVIEW

Describing their sound as ‘pop meets Stockhausen’, Rogue Sector are an electronic band from Harpenden. Petra Gilbert (Hubcap Moon) interrogated band members Paul Freegard and Andrew Trussler at their Black Factory studio to find out what makes them tick and how they ended up making a single with the Velvet Underground’s Nico.

Firstly, where's your singer?

Paul: Ellie Jones? Unfortunately, whirlwind that she is, she fell off a haystack in Berlin and has cracked a bone in her back.

Andrew: She’s currently in hospital, strapped up in a body brace. The good news is the doctor’s think she’ll make a full recovery. I’m not surprised, she’s made of steel! Get well soon Ellie.

How did you all meet?

Andrew: I’d been on nodding terms with Paul for a while. We frequented the same gentlemen’s club and I liked his smile. But what got my attention was when I finally heard some of his tracks. Something about the sounds and beats that Paul was putting together really grabbed me and I thought, here’s a guy who knows about Throbbing Gristle and Cabaret Voltaire, at last there’s someone in Harpenden I can talk to!

Paul: So the next time I was in the local boozer, Andrew sidled up and we ended up talking for hours about our favourite bands and the joy of sound. Two blokes living in Harpenden with similar musical interests, hopes and dreams. What are the chances? I asked him if he wanted to do some music with me. In the beginning, we were just having fun in the studio, trying out ideas and then it caught alight.

Andrew: But we needed a singer, so we set about trying to find the right person for the job. Then our buddy Pete Jones (Department S) put a post up on Facebook advertising for a vocalist on our behalf.

Paul: His daughter Ellie responded saying, ‘Dad, you know I’m a singer! Why didn’t you ask me? I want the job!’

Andrew: So we got her into the studio pretty damn quick and threw some songs at her. She was brilliant! She’s got a world class voice that’s full of personality and she’s a real grafter. It took just three sessions to get the vocals down on ten tracks. She’s great fun to be around too, a lot of energy and enthusiasm.

Paul: Pete Jones has given us a lot of help and support.

Andrew: He has, he’s a real gem.

Describe your working relationship. Who does what?

Andrew: I see us as a mismatch made in heaven. I’m uptight, Paul’s laidback. I’m a bit of a div, he’s cool. And one of us has a beard.

Paul: But we can never remember which one!

“We needed a singer, so we set about trying to find the right person for the job. Then our buddy Pete Jones (Department S) put a post up on Facebook advertising for a vocalist on our behalf. His daughter Ellie responded saying, ...Dad, you know I’m a singer! Why didn’t you ask me? I want the job!”

Andrew: We get on well though. At the moment the MO is, I’m the songwriter and I’ll set up the basic track and then Paul comes in, deconstructs everything and rebuilds it. And then we goad each other on to reduce everything down to the bare bones. That’s a real tenet for us, to put things across as minimally and directly as possible.

Paul: We can’t stand over-egged arrangements. We like to keep things simple and to the point.

Andrew: But then, anyone could do what we do, couldn’t they? It’s just pushing buttons. I mean, it’s not music is it? I’ve always appreciated an austere approach to making music, though I despise austerity as a political ideology: all those expensively-educated bastards with their sense of entitlement, telling us we’re all in this together.

On October 13, you release your debut single, Spare The Words, which is a collaboration with the Velvet Underground's former chanteuse, Nico. How did this come about?

Andrew: Some years ago I was listening to Nico’s Marble Index album and on this bonus track, Nibelungen, she’s singing unaccompanied. In the middle of the song there was this line, ‘will you spare the words for me to hear,’ and it struck me that maybe I could write a new song around this phrase and create a kind of beyond-the-grave duet with her. At the same time, I didn’t want it to be an empty feat of novelty, the song had to stand up on its own two legs. For this reason the lyrics took ages, but finally it emerged as a song about love lost and the passing of time. It was the first song Paul and I worked on together and he got it straight away.

Paul: Hopefully, all the Nico fans out there will like what we’ve done and won’t lynch us or come and steal our hubcaps!

Andrew: Or bust our kneecaps. Actually, we’re both big fans of her music. I’ve always appreciated how she reinvented herself so completely, throwing aside her career as a fashion model to become a highly original songwriter and performer. Even in the Velvets, she was there to look pretty in a safari suit and occasionally tap a tambourine. But she found her own unique style and stubbornly stuck to her guns. Frozen Warnings is my favourite track of hers (and one of my favourite songs of all time). She was one of those few artists who get more extreme throughout their career rather than more conservative. Scott Walker is another one.

The video for Spare The Words features never-before-seen footage of Nico. How did you get hold of this material?

Paul: That’s thanks to the incredible generosity of Eric Random.

Tell me more about Eric Random.

Andrew: He’s an experimental musician from Manchester. I’ve been a fan of his for years. He’s produced a number of strange and fascinating albums. Many years ago he was in a band called the Tiller Boys, but he’s also worked with Cabaret Voltaire and was in Nico’s band, The Faction, when she was living in Manchester in the eighties. He’s a really sound guy too. We’d become friendly on social media, and so when it came to making the video for Spare The Words, I asked him if he had any film or video footage of her that we might be able to use. To our great surprise, he let us have a VHS of a gig she and the Faction did in Switzerland.

Paul: We dropped shots of Nico into the video at random just to see what would happen and there was this spinetingling moment when she appeared to be lip-synching to the track, so we knew we were on to something.

Andrew: Eric also offered us a gold tooth of Nico’s that she’d once given him to look after. I said no thanks, you’re alright.

Paul: And you’re kicking yourself now, aren’t you?

Andrew: Yeah, I didn’t think it through, did I? Damn my rags!

Has Eric Random seen the finished video for Spare The Words?

Andrew: Yes, and he really liked it too – which was a big relief!

Paul: Spare The Words was a catalyst for us. Mark Lee at Nub Music heard it and signed us on the spot. Pete Jones from Department S heard it and asked us to remix their old hit, Is Vic There, which they loved, and then said we could remix any track we liked from their new album, When All Is Said And All Is Done.

Andrew: So we chose Age of Control. That’s the remix I’m really proud of. It’s dark and ominous. We removed the Orwellian quotes that were in the original song, replacing them with samples of Julian Assange, Ed Snowden and journalist Chris Hedges. And Paul gave the track such muscle; it’s like a Sherman tank driving through a herd of corporate journalists! You know, the Times, the Guardian and the BBC etc – all those cheerleaders for neoliberalism and illegal invasions.

So what's next for Rogue Sector?

Paul: We’re working hard on our debut album, The Ministry Of Love. It’s due for release in March/April 2018. Ten tracks in total and we’re about halfway through, so the omens are good.

What can we expect from this album?

Andrew: Songs of love and amputation.

Paul: Well, the title track is finished and it sounds like the end of the world! Andrew plays distorted slide bass that sounds like a hellfire missile coming down.

Andrew: And Ellie sounds great on that. Very sultry.

Paul: There’s another track, When I Think Of You, which is about those moments when you’re so angry with someone that cars combust, buildings blow and the heads on Easter Island roll.

Andrew: There’s an homage to one of my favourite Sci-Fi films, The Incredible Shrinking Man.

Paul: The one we’re working on now is called Now It’s Dark.

Andrew: That’s a saucy one! A slow and sinuous celebration of the witching hour.

Paul: We also want to play live, so we’re trying to figure out the best way of doing that. Watch this space!

Anything else you'd like to say?

Andrew: What’s done is done, and what hasn’t happened probably won’t, with a bit of luck.

Paul: Bob’s your uncle and Fanny’s your aunt.

Spare The Words by Rogue Sector Ft. Nico is released as a digital single on 13 October 2017 and will be available on all digital platforms. The video for the song is released on the same day and will premiere on music-news.com. Is Vic There? / Age of Control remixes are currently available on all digital platforms.

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HOTNEWS!!!!!!!!

Department S will be releasing a new album on Westworld recordings on October 20th. It’s called ‘45 Revolutions’ and is all the Department S singles from 1981-2017. Available in CD/Digital formats and subsequently on yellow vinyl.

“Something about the sounds and beats that Paul was putting together really grabbed me and I thought, here’s a guy who knows about Throbbing Gristle and Cabaret Voltaire, at last there’s someone in Harpenden I can talk to!”

DERMOT AND THE DILEMMA OF

THE 365!

Dear Reversers! Dermot Illogical here... before I let you read the synopsis of my toil from not one but two exhaustive writing talents (Those of Mr. Roger Payne and Pete Ringmaster) I will simply try and explain what is about to happen over the next twelve months with the release of this opus!

Ok first off I have a BIG problem with what I’ve done...The problem/my problem with writing 365 songs and wanting to release them into existence, is how the hell do I get this enormous bugger out so that people can hear it and maybe even get involved with purchasing any of it?!

Surely, unless you are mega rich, highly eccentric or insane or a mix of all three, you’re not going to be able to afford to the have the entire collection of 52 x7 track eps. SO to make it easier I have come up with a solution. With the help of Mark Christopher Lee over at Nub Records, we have devised a series of 4 track samplers, which will be releasing digitally on the 1st of each month. For those who are all of the above (and we pray there are a few of you out there) you will still be able to buy all of the individual tracks through the Reverse Family website on the day of release and also for those of you who need to save up/try before you buy or just want to listen to the whole thing when you have 10 straight hours free, we have at last found a good reason for Spotify!!!!!

Next up are two pieces from the writers mentioned above who I provided a random sampler of 10 tracks from the 365 and a brief outline of why! In advance I thank and love you for your support and your patience!

WEEK 1... OCT 2nd 2017

365... An insight by

Roger Payne

365 days in a year. 365 songs. Each song represents a single day in the life… A unique experience, a mini drama, a vignette, however dramatic or routine, emotionally charged or neutral, all reflecting the trials, pressures, normalities, mundanities anyone might experience in any given 24 hours…

This is a big undertaking to capture the epic undertaking that is life… As Dermot says himself –

“like what a day does, you get what’s next, pretty much whether you like it or not and you deal with it, sometimes well, sometimes not… life in the now”.

These songs were born in an instant; conceived and recorded in bursts of spontaneity, each one an immediate statement of intent. Honest and pure but raw, like a wound, then left as is, untouched by the temptation to correct mistakes, mess with, tweak and fiddle… The thinking being as if to begin overproducing would be betray their roughly hewn from the ether quality and the spirit in which they were recorded…

In this day and age, because of the immediate hands on technology available in music and recording, so much emphasis is placed on crafting, shaping, controlling, cleaning up and polishing the work that any sense of spontaneity or evidence of the initial composition can be eradicated in the process. Through this misguided desire to seek perfection often the “undesirable” mess of accident, glitch, character and, god forbid, human error is wiped clean.

Like many of the Anti – Art DADAists, post war action painters or improvisational poets, by relinquishing full control of their craft, allowing accident and chance to live and breathe through their art and the creative process, a new aesthetic was achieved and new value was given to the finished results. Similarly 365 sets out to embrace these ideals contravening the petty quest for perfection and with the courage of full conviction to the purpose of the project, takes on an appropriate punk ethic to achieve an exciting, vibrant punk sound!

“This was a test, an experiment… an exploration employing a semi-surrealist, stream of consciousness… Let’s call it a bit Jackson Pollocks…”

The decision to start 365 as a “thing” hung, suspended in thought, like a ballerina on points on a razor blade… The narrowest movement, the slightest nudge either way could have been the difference between its existence or not! In this case, prevarication, apprehension and self-consciousness were the enemies of inspiration and, it was the light of inspiration, glowing in an otherwise dark place that motivated Dermot to reach inside himself and create something positive from the black swamp of his personal despair at the time… The death of a great friend and band mate, Terry, going through divorce, dealing with the serious illness of both parents among other traumas took Dermot to the edge…

Instead of retreating, shutting down, dimming the light by degrees, Dermot was shocked into action, turning to his passion for music to address the issues he was experiencing and face his reality.

“…just an average man from St. Albans, (once an ordinary city in England but now haven of the wealthy and bearded!). My style was spontaneous – I approached it how Terry’s death had approached me, by shocking me into action…”

Not so much as hoping for an instant cure but maybe to find some way to begin healing those raw wounds… You could say Dermot created a home-made music for a home-made therapy…

However 365 in not an exercise in self-introspection or indulgence. Amid the elements of despair sits a healthy dose of black humour to ease the pain, along with many a pinch of salt observation to bring a wry smile to the listeners face… 365 is a creative triumph… 365 is wild scream of optimism… 365 is a credit of creativity and example of spirit and hope overcoming the darkness…

Roger Payne Associated Press

Roger Payne

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4 track digital SAMPLER 01 out on OCT 2nd 2017 as part of a set of 12 to collect from NUB RECORDS.

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The next synopsis is from the Ringmaster Review Day

by day with Reverse Family

We all have different outlets for extreme emotions be they bred in grief, frustration, anxiety or romance for example. For many an artistic avenue is the release from such overwhelming trespasses and so it is with Reverse Family who are about to unleash a daunting but we can already assure you irresistible adventure for ears.

The Reverse Family is the solo project of Dermot Illogical, someone probably better known right now as Andreas Vanderbraindrain, the frontman of British outfit The Tuesday Club. Towards the end of last year, he released acclaimed debut album My Songs About Life Mid Crisis, a collection of multi-flavoured lo-fi experimental goodness which continues to hang around in the imagination and passions like an inescapable itch. It was an introduction which commanded attention and breeds real anticipation for the next epic outing with Reverse Family.

Starting in October, Dermot is releasing 365, a project made up of 52 EPs released as one a week for a whole year. Before panicking, shouting impossible, or mistakenly thinking anything that massive has to be more filler than thriller let us declare that with the evidence of the sampler sent by the man our way in our hands, it is going to be an escapade taking ears and imagination on a helter-skelter of honest and emotionally raw but instinctively fun exploration; a journey given greater intimate potency by Dermot’s diary entry of that particular day by the way of ‘sleeve notes’.

The tracks making up the project were all recorded DIY style at home between Jan 1st2015 and Dec 31st 2015 with Dermot playing every instrument and sharing every syllable. Everything heard is as played and recorded; no editing or tampering made with every song bred in heart and spontaneity. It is an organic air and array of textures which grips the imagination as much as the sounds themselves; a fly-on-the-wall like climate baring the same open heart as that of their creator.

The catalyst to the project was the death of Terry, the drummer of The Tuesday Club. His sad passing came just as the band was deservedly stirring bigger and bolder praise carrying spotlights, a time topped by the band supporting Toyah at The 02 Islington and releasing their most successful and critically acclaimed EP to date. It was a world crushing time for the band and especially for Dermot who was also coming to terms with divorce, life dictating and changing illnesses for both parents as well as the constant struggle of being self-employed. It was a time many would have buckled under but Dermot focused all the suffocating turbulence into his music and turned it into a creative quest, one which at times you feel probably completely took over his world but gave him a survival and now the listener a spark for pleasure and thoughtful contemplation.

As the tracks we have reveal there is no ‘woe is me’ self-pity fuelling the adventure. Yes, it scratches his open wounds at times and is not always sharing smiles but every moment is an open insight and reflection on his feelings across the evolving year of those challenges and the life around Dermot in St. Albans with plenty of knowing black humour involved along the way.

The first track swiftly grabbing years was Future son – The Twa Twa’s, day 8 of the creative pilgrimage. Instantly it reminds of My Songs About Life Mid Crisis with its post punk twang and Dirk Wears White Soxera Adam and The Ants like character. A gorgeous hook lurks within the angular clamour, Dermot’s vocal delivery a swinging flirtation matching the similar allure of bass. The structurally organic design of

Future son - The Twa Twa's (day 8)

This house is empty (day 10)

I stand alone (day 13)

MP3 (day 310)

Faded colours (day 336)

In my head (day 337)

bad cartoon(day 343)

Do it just for me (day 344)

I built a new contraption (day 356)

Breathy graffiti (day 365)

the track alone is a web of lust clasping shenanigans, the song in its whole a psyche infesting treat.

Some tracks have an even rawer sound and temptation than others, This house is empty (day 10) one which borders abrasive in sound but within its causticity is an instinctive funkiness which has the body bouncing and appetite eagerly exploring words and emotion. There is a sense of despair and also hope carrying new beginnings felt with the track, a conflict most of us are no strangers too at some point and can grab with nodding recognition.

The clutch of songs within the sampler show the great array of styles embraced by the Reverse Family sound, the outstanding I stand alone (day 13) a post punk natured infestation managing to sound like a mix of Fire Engines, Swell Maps and unsurprisingly The Tuesday Club with Dermot’s distinctive tones yet is unique in every pore while MP3 (day 310)is a junction box of sonic wires casting a Devo meets Pere Ubu scented discord over the imagination.

The darker, grungier Faded colours (day 336) offers melancholy at its most magnetic, In my head (day 337) sharing a sonically and emotionally haunting incursion on the senses as pained as it is corrosively elegant, and both songs continue the broadening maze of flavours and emotional tempestuousness within the sampler alone. Like many tracks, each is also a relatively brief encounter; fleeting moments in an unsettled and often unsettling day though Bad cartoon (day 343) stays a little longer with its melodically jangling and evocatively persuasive as Bowie-esque toning draws the listener with seductive ease into its own personal melancholy.

The punk ‘n’ roll of Do it just for me (day 344) hits the spot just as easily, its tenacious canter a gentle cacophony of guitar, rhythms, and voice while I built a new contraption (day 356) shares a broad grin in its post punk/art rock pop. The pair relish in the addictive prowess Dermot constantly finds in his minimalistic but oh so potent grooves and hooks, though he saves maybe the most addictive for Breathy graffiti (day 365), its electronic poking the kind of inescapable nagging lust was bred for.

So that gives a hint of what is in store for us once 365 begins revealing its heart in a few weeks. It would be a little unrealistic to expect every one of the songs within the 52 EPs, each suggested to contain seven tracks, will hit the lofty heights of those on the sampler but do expect each to be the most honest and spontaneously shared temptations sure to intrigue and captivate like nothing else around today.

We for one just cannot wait!

The first of the 365 EPs will be released digitally from 2nd October 2017 via Perfect Pop Co-Op one a week through to the first week of October 2018 and samplers via Nub Country Records 1 per month for a year. For more information keep an eye on:

reversefamily.co.uk facebook.com/reversefamily twitter.com/reverse_family

Pete RingMaster 26/08/2017

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In the club

This month we offer a big thanks to a regular contributor to the magazine, sometimes known as ‘Roger the Ranter’, but today we welcome him as Roger Payne front man with ‘Harpenden Country Punk explosion’ - Hubcap Moon!

1) OK firstly, we are sitting in the cyber pub doing this interview, and it’s our round. What do you want to drink? Rog: If it’s a warm evening or at a gig, a decent, strong, continental lager. If it’s a damp and dark wintery eve, then whichever the best, strongest guest bitter is on. (‘Tiz only the women in me band that drink whiskey…)

2) What was the last thing you heard/watched that was so good you had to tell someone about it? Rog: My household has only just started watching Game of Thrones – Season 1on box set and I now understand why it became such a phenomenon. For a telly / film addict like me it’s just an astonishing undertaking. Epic adventure, with all the scheming political intrigue worthy of any dark Shakespeare plot. Technically and visually stunning and I absolutely love the gratuitous violence and sex! On a serious note, it does throw up the eternal question that continues to baffle me but why do the aristocracy and/or powers that be, more so today, spend all their fucking time quibbling and fighting and scratching each other’s eyes out to rule and command everything. Just what is their problem? Just go down the fucking pub and let everyone get on with it you knobs!

3) What four items would you put in a time capsule? Rog: Some form of digitised recording with as much music of all kinds, from all genres and time periods as possible and a device to play it back

once discovered. Instructions to build your own micro brewery. Copies of all my family photos with explanations as to who everyone is. Donald Trump’s head. As a warning to future generations!

4) In terms of new bands starting out, is the internet a help or hindrance?

Rog: If you are asking specifically for bands “Starting out” the internet is an absolute god send. However, like all technology, its usefulness depends on how smart and astute the people using it are. It certainly worked for St. Albans based Enter Shikari… However! Now it has become a global, mass democratised media, it does mean that any new band is just one of hundreds of thousands shouting into the ether, so you still have to rely on old fashioned methods of demo recordings and playing live gigs to show what you’re all about and prove you can do it. The internet is just another tool any creative artist, musician, whatever has at their disposal but it can only do so much in itself.

5) If football is the current 'rock &'roll (in terms of Superstar status), what do you think could or should be next big thing?

Rog: Ah, I thought Baking was the new rock n’ roll! I still think film stars command the same attention as they always did but I can’t envision anything to match the absolute mega status as the old stars. Beatles, Rolling Stones, Bowie, Michael Jackson. Think about it… At one time, Michael Jackson was the most

known individual on the planet!!! What about independent astronauts? Home- made rockets. Instead of blokes down the pub getting pissed, saying let’s make a guerrilla film or form a band, they’re going – Let’s build a rocket and send Dave into orbit for a laugh! (This is not specific to Dave, Hubcap Moon guitarist but, after a few beers you just know he’d be up for it!)

6) 40 years on - What is the relevance of Punk Rock in 2017? Rog: I think the immediate relevance of Punk Rock dissipated sometime mid 1980s when its initial influence had done its work to inspire so many young people to pursue so many different, diverse sorts music that would not have seen the light of day if the old order hadn’t been torn down. I think when the first, post punk, jingly jangly indie band formed and made their own 45 then I think Punk could be proud to say its work was done. BUT! The attitude… And let’s not forget that the attitude and ethos, the driving energy behind the phenomenon, still lives on. Even though I play in a doo-hicky, country rock, folk a billy, bish bash bosh, good time band, I still bring my punk roots to the party (sometimes to the bemusement of the younger members of the band) to create a more colourful, entertaining, in your face approach and style. Country rock with a punk stance is such a magical combination. You only have to go see the Trailer Trash orchestra for evidence of that.

7) If you could be any character in a film, what film and who would it be? Rog: This is possibly theeee most difficult question to answer… It’s taken me ages to think this one through and I’ve cheated by forwarding 2 possibilities. Two British Classics. The Trevor Howard character (Alec Harvey) in “A Brief Encounter”… The exquisite agony, desperation and pain packed into that film is like a bomb! Those poor, hapless and, again, desperate people… Then, the David Niven, Spitfire Pilot character (Peter Carter). In “A Matter of Life and Death”… I mean, really! What’s not to like? Dashing, heroic, brave yet vulnerable and sensitive… Don’t believe me. Shut yourself in a room with a bottle or two of wine and watch! Awesome… Both movies!

8) You are now In The Club, but what club do you actually wish it was? Rog: An outrageously decadent, eclectic fantasy club where the Berlin cabaret meets old school burlesque with sultry New Orleans opulence and the turn of last century Vienna, Parisian bohemia, mixed with Jazz, blues, Kurt Weill-esque music and plenty of Absinthe and Sleaze!

9) Who'd be in your four-piece fantasy band. Guitar, bass, drums and vocals Rog: OK – This is for my “in your face” rock band, not my fantasy Jazz rock outfit (We’d be here all night… Actually, all of Snarky Puppy – sorted.)

Drums – Paul Cook (Sex Pistols) I’ve seen him play live twice in various line ups and he is still one of the most concise, solid, unstoppable forces of drumming. I know there are thousands of top technical, cool, excellent drummers out there but there’s something about Cook’s playing that is just so appropriate and perfect. Listen to God Save the Queen for proof… But I do have to mention Paul Thompson of Roxy Music because he’s just fucking beyond! Roxy were so lucky

to have him propping them up and holding that noise together, especially in the early, Eno days.

Bass – Lemmy or Dee Dee Ramone. Can’t be doing with fancy bass noodling in this band.

Guitar: Brian James of the Damned! Under rated yet such an unusual style and he covers all areas at the same time and has an ear for an unusual turn or chord, just when required. Oooh Yes, and he plays an SG. Great guitar… Listen to more Brian James kids!

Vocals: Me! Because there’s no way I wouldn’t want to front this outfit. However

I am not worthy so I’d have to choose someone from way back – Eddie Cochran? Little Richard? Shit, can you imagine Little Richard and these guys together… Booking tickets NOW!

10) If you had a time machine and could go back to any year in music, what would it be and why?

Rog: Some place mid 50’s when the white boys had just started stealing all the licks n’ tricks of the black R and B bands, like Ike Turner, The Trenniers, Chuck Berry etc, getting it slightly wrong and coming up with what we all commonly know as “Rock n’ Roll”. Gotta be one of the best cultural mistakes ever made… Then I’d step sideways and go and find all the obscure folk formulating the Rock a Billy sound… How exciting must that have been then?

11) What question haven’t we asked you that you wish we had?

Rog: All good. This was such a well-considered bunch of questions, I don’t think there’s anything to add.

12) Where's the best place to find you on the internet?

Rog: It would have to be the HUBCAP MOON facebook page facebook.com/hubcapmoon

BIG thanks Roger for your excellent and well considered answers (flatterer :-))

HUBCAP MOON are a 5 piece band from Harpenden, Hertfordshire who formed sometime across the year of 2011. Armed with mandolins, accordions, guitars and drums, they deliver their own scrapyard collision of infectious, good time, boot stompin', beer swillin', Bluegrass, Cajun, country, rock-a-billy, skiffle-punk, guaranteed to bring a smile to the sullenest of faces and draw out that little touch of trailer trash in your soul.

Initially they set out playing for fun, for themselves and friends down their local pub but over the past couple of years their eventful, atmospheric, humour-filled shows have lured in a wider following and with their gigs making the local press and their songs now being played on St. Albans local Radio Verulum, Hubcap Moon have had to expand their horizons and are now happy to extend their gigging to wherever it takes them… Although taking their main musical influences from familiar Americana country sounds Hubcap Moon also borrow from the British folk tradition, adding another roots element to their unpolished charm; making them more M6 than Route 66. More transport caff than truck stop. More BSA Bantam than Harley Davidson. More Booths Gin soaked than Bourbon Whiskey raddled in their merry musical ways…

Hubcap Moon provide a tonic, a magic potion, a cheeky slug of chrome clear musical Moonshine to take away the blues, touch your heart and make you smile…

Slide show video to demo track – “STOW IT” –https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kH5wZ7q59Q

Sound Cloud link to more songs –https://soundcloud.com/hubcap-moon

HUBCAP MOON are :

Petra Gilbert – Drums

Al Rainbow – Bass guitar

Cath Stainer – Vocals, Accordion & Cajun squeeze box

Dave Stainer – Lead Guitar & Mandolin

Roger Payne - Vocals, Guitar & Mandolin

Tuesday Club expanded See You Next Tuesday The Complete Sessions

In 2013 as a bristling 8 piece - 2 bass, keys, drums, 3 guitars, 2 vocals and a Minx!... The Tuesday Club released ‘See you next Tuesday’ on an unsuspecting world... “Roxy Music played by The Rocky Horror Show”... here for the first time you can grab for your collection - The Complete sessions... featuring the lost tracks and unreleased material... 5 of which have been released on varying eps and singles, 3 of which have never been released... and now due to loss of the original masters - 1 of which was never and will never be finished! Released on Ltd editon of only 50 cds and a digital download. You’d be a definite SYNT not to want this?!

CD1: Original Album:

Dolly Dynamite

Ain’t Got No Class

Money Means Nothing

Nanananana

She Splayed My Teeth

New Regime (Slow Swing)

Replication and Montage

All You Do Is Wow

New Glamour

Wish My Slate Was Cleaner

Vinyl As a Manifesto

Oh Daddy Please

Little Miss Attitude

Human inhuman being

New

Glamour Single

A new version of the song from the debut album with a it’s B-side, live fave Old before your time. Available on Gold enhanced CD, with special video and MP3 download!

CD 2:

Previously released Material

True Sex Appeal (Free Xmas single)

These Dogs Bite (B-Side Dolly Dynamite EP)

Old Before Your Time (Original mix)

One Idea and a Lonely Voice (From Forbidden Kiss EP)

New Regime (Punkd) (B-Side Ain’t got no Class)

Previously Unreleased Material

Erotism And Machinery

It Ain’t Changed Me Gordon

Curfew (unfinished Mix)

Zerox

Recorded in 2015 with the legendar y Steve Honest at the controls, this version of Zerox features; The Minx, J-Rod and The Beautiful Wolf and also features a guest appearance on the drums of our friend and ace session man Francesco Lucidi (Who also made a cameo appearance in our Forbidden Kiss video too).

Released at the start of June 2016 by popular demand following our Farmers Boy, appearance where we performed it with Will Crewdson, Adam Ants guitarist.

Other releases currently available from The Tuesday Club

My Consciousness EP

My Consciousness, Harsh tales of ancient news and Something Major. Available on Silver and MP3 download!

EP001

Forbidden Kiss EP

Forbidden Kiss, Cities Alive and One Idea and a lonely voice. Available on Silver and MP3 download! EP002

Lady Gargar EP

Lady Gargar, Scars are Superstars and Resistance makes your heart groan fonder. Available on Silver and MP3 download! EP003

Boo Hoo EP

Boo Hoo, Beat Oven, Greyer Shades Of Grey Available on Silver and MP3 download! EP004

FIND ALL OF THE TCs BACK CATALOGUE AT:

theperfectpopco-op.bandcamp.com

DEBUT SINGLE - OUT NOW

This track is based on a cassette demo from the B-Wolf from the mid 1980s with new lyrics added by Andy.

Back in 1984 Wargames, the postpunk/new wave band B-Wolf was in, called it a day. But The Wolf carried on writing material for a new album for when he found a new band. He had a portastudio, a couple of guitars, a Casio CZ101 keyboard and a drum machine. As he can’t sing he ended up with a lot of instrumental demos. Fast forward 30 years and when clearing the attic he came across a box full of old cassettes and fancied giving them a listen…

He thought it would be an interesting project to revisit these tracks written by his twenty year old self. In some cases he had the original 4 tracks so he used these and added to them and in other cases where he only had a mixed down track he re-recorded everything. At the time he was influenced by the likes of Siouxsie & the Banshees, The Cure, Psychedelic Furs, The Banshees/ Cure offshoot, The Glove, and Magazine.

soundcloud.com/freshnet/sets/noairplay

PLUS introducing GAND... no releases yet but a playlist on Tom Robinson’s Fresh on the net for starters...

THE BLEEED THE DODO

Life is for winners and only winners... 'Dream boy doing well' is about dead winners, dead from life... dead ending... dead bored... dead frustrated... imagine... Johnny the horrifying man from Repetition by David Bowie in a scene from a 1970's Hammer Horror Film... infused with the dark hopeless sarcasm of the queen in snow white... that's what the Bleeed are serving up for you this time dear friends, go on take a bite!

The Silent Scream

Valerie Leon (Queen of Neon) Super Juice

theperfectpopco-op.bandcamp.com/ album/the-silent-scream-ep

Plus to commemorate 40 years since the Ramones debut LP. Here’s a FREE download of our version of their classic track Commando

theperfectpopco-op.bandcamp.com/album/ commando

The Dodo - The Album. Finally released in it’s full digital tragedy... Taking 3 weeks of evenings to produce in the autumn of the late late noughties... unplanned and adrenalised. It sounds more like a the soundtrack to Saint-Saens carnival of the animals transported to a lost autumn somewhere in a darker, richer, swinging 60’s... the 1860’s that is. Harpsichord, strings, bells, and tormented otherwordly backing vocals provide the backdrop to this feast of psychedelic melancholia laid bare to inspire and unhinge in equal measure. From the soaring yet forbidding, puritanical bleak, wailing, death mask procession of ‘Into the Black’, to the 60’s apple blossom infused cold war time bomb - ‘Waiting for the walls to come down. The DIY or DIE Organisation sound like a ghostly ice-cream van stalking the neighbourhoods of the as yet unwritten Tim Burton animation… ‘Gothic Pop Victoriana’. The DODO was born, it grew and ultimately demised, leaving this as it’s epitaph... Into the mists of time and tragedy it fades... the last Thylacine resplendent in a Tin Foil Crown.

Imagine Scrooge hadn’t had his dream and he’d carried on blissfully and corporatly crushing the spirit of his loyal workforce, this is Bob Cratchits revenge. Despite all the hardship Bob’s soul elevated his family to higher consciousness where they dispensed with traditon and used the foil for something alltogether more glam than a turkeys marathon runners blanket. Melancholic yet up lifting Tin Foil Crown is an anthem of Hope and fortitude against the odds!

theperfectpopco-op.bandcamp.com/track/tinfoil-crown

DIAMOND MEADOWS DEBUT EP

Serving up a heady cocktail of synthpop, electro, post punk, disco, funk and acid house, Diamond Meadows are inspired by a love of bands such as Travelogue era Human League, Soft Cell and Cabaret Voltaire

theperfectpopco-op.bandcamp.com/album/ morbid-fascination

SUEYSIDE PACKED

...muffled...intense...breathless...

Taking influence from Viviene Goldman, the dub side of the PIL brain and the other worldliness of Donald Pleasance... The SueySide Packed, lure you in, ply you with hallucinogens and lock you in a dark cupboard in next doors house... the one marked for demolition... and there's a JCB outside with it's engine running

theperfectpopco-op.bandcamp.com/ album/minotaur-heart

https://theperfectpopco-op.bandcamp.com/album/fountain-of-truth

REVERSE FAMILY

DEBUT SINGLE

"This loose and snazzy slinky strut has been leaked as a mooching club floor teaser as to whats to come. Time tunnelling its way from a new wave age to present day, this glam funked schizoid crooner is possessed of the kind of wayward outsider pop dialect that imagines odd popper Gary Wilson doing Adam Ant homages whilst shimmying up to a class of 1980 gathering of Jona Lewie and Robin Scott moonlighting as M types."

losingtoday.com

theperfectpopco-op.bandcamp.com/album/way-it-goes

NEW SINGLE released 29.09.17

Legend of Pierre is the follow up single to ‘Way it Goes’ from the bands new vinyl only LP - My Songs about life Mid Crisis.

Ringmaster Review

VINYL ONLY ALBUM OUT NOW!

MY SONGS ABOUT LIFE MID CRISIS

Ever had that dream where an insect invades the ear and sets up home to mercilessly tease and torment thereon in? If so, a form of similar reality is about to be unleashed as the Reverse Family step forward to announce themselves with a sound which trespasses and festers in the psyche. The difference is that this is set to be the most welcome invasion of ears as it crawls with relish into the imagination.

Reverse Family is the solo project of Dermot Illogical, aided by a fluid band of collaborators from time to time, this debut offering is a lo-fi exploration into an experimental DIY web of sounds and flavours which is hard to pin down but certainly embraces everything from post punk and noise pop to indie and old school punk.

There are so many highlights offered by the Reverse Family songs; each track connecting with an ever eager hunger for punk fuelled, post punk spiced imagination. Plastic Punks epitomises this perfectly, its Fire Engines toned melodic jangle and Spizzenergi devilry sheer temptation again emerging as something specific to Reverse Family.

With a tongue in cheek lining to the lyrical reflection shaping songs which spreads into the music itself, Reverse Family is a beguiling adventure with a nod to the past and a grip on an imagination as fresh as it is, well quite simply a touch loco.

See page 21 for current LP for stockists

Ringmaster Review

"Is a haunting keys wrapped sultry croon"

New single from The Bronsons "Girl from Outer Space" out to download and stream from Amazon, Google Play, iTunes etc.

8th September Retro-themed sci-fi garage rock rhythm and blues.

The song is a retro science fiction number about going out with an alien girl. It was recorded at Unit 2 in London and is the first of two singles to be released over the next few months.

The Bronsons are a cult garage rock rhythm and blues band that died in 1985 and came back from the dead in 2013. Their influences take in the Count Bishops, Lew Lewis, Eddie and the Hot Rods, the Troggs, the Stooges and the Cramps. You can catch them live in Brighton on the 30th September and in west London on the 21st October.

Things said about The Bronsons:

a live show you don't want to miss"

New Music Saturday

"Great fun... garage rock'n'roll... harks back to a golden time of music"

Sonic Bandwagon, Pure 107.8FM

"Pub rock in the style of Dr Feelgood, Nine Below Zero, the great old rhythm and blues bands"

Captain Stax Show

"Cela colle parfaitement à l'idée que je me fais du rock anglais... J'avais déjà été séduite lors de leur concert au Dublin Castle à Londres en janvier 2015... Il est clair que je le suis toujours"

On My Red Lips

PUNKsite.com

"We like you, and our fans do too"

Alex Peach (Swamp Delta and Crazyhead)

"The Bronsons are scary"

Bugbear

Overheard at a festival in Oxfordshire, 2016

Out 8th September on Amazon, Google Play, Spotify, iTunes and most major download and streaming services: “Girl from Outer Space” by The Bronsons, released on the band’s own label, Skin Slip Records.

Much more on the band at www.bronsons.uk

"Awesome...

"The kind of authentic driven garage and pub rock that was an influence on the first wave of English punk bands"

"A great night out... has all the joy and abandon and rockaboogie wigging out you could wish for"

"Absolutely amazing live set - [The Bronsons] ripped it up on stage, did an amazing job"

John Summers on The NerveCast Show

The Parsons Knows

local music

My latest Tips, TOP BANDS, ARTISTS and EVENTS!

By Denise Parsons – Music Promoter –‘The Live Music Project’ Trestle Arts Base, St.Albans and Radio Verulam DJ

THE PARSONS KNOWS STAGE BALSTOCK 2017 THE WHITE LION – SATURDAY

9TH SEPTEMBER

I have been keeping this quiet for a few months & my excitement has been building and building.. but now its out in the world and official.. I am runn ing a stage at this years Balstock Festival and am delighted and honoured to do so. For t he last couple of years I have hosted a stage for the wonderful Folkstock but now The Par sons Knows is unleashed with all my favourite acts. 15 acts – one stage.

For any of you who don't know – Balstock is a fabulous festival in Baldock, Herts. The whole town is taken over with a main stage right in the town centre and various pub stages around town. I have to say – its one of my favourites and runs from Friday 8th to Sund ay 10th September. You can find all sorts of genre's of music and this year burlesque too!! Oh la la... All proceeds to charity as well. The brainchild of the infamous 'G' La Roche (he may get his statue one day)and his band of merry men & glamour girls including Shane Wilson (London Rd Live) & Mike Rees ( photography/sound & all round good egg) this festival keeps on growing every year since its start in 2006.

You really won't want to miss this one balstock.com

Noel Cowley

London-based singersongwriter of heartfelt, uplifting melodic pop music. His songs have been played regularly on BBC Radio over the past year (including BBC Radio 2, BBC London 94.9, Radio Ulster & BBC Introducing In Essex).

The Papersnakes

An acoustic duo from St Albans with a passion for writing and creating original music. With an upbeat funky style these guys have been going from strength to strength with their latest EP 'Red Jeans' just launched.

Dusty Wagons

Inspired by acts such as Fleetwood Mac, Ryan Adams and Passenger, their songs possess a delicate and charming folk based sound with story driven lyrics. Their latest EP 'Signs' has been getting great attention.

Lets Go Camping

Currently working on their first EP. Indie Pop is as close as they have been able to come to describing their sound, have a listen and decide for yourself. Fanatstic live – don't miss these guys!

The Ben Drake Collective

No strangers to Balstock Festival! One of the hardest working bands on the circuit at the moment. With live music TV appearances and radio galore under their belt. They have been teasing us with the long awaited new album 'Get Busy Living Or Get Busy Dying'. Gorgeous vocals & harmonies with superbly written songs. They never fail to impress!

DIDI

Solo artist with a difference! Non acoustic with an impressive array of pedals & effects DIDI is wowing audiences everywhere. Raw and real, DIDI aka Lauren Deakin Davies, opens up a new chapter in her musical career, with an upbeat punkish style.

Polkabilly Circus

Fronted by Mr Paul Eccentric, poet, author & songwriter this band is Paul’s latest project. Rockabilly crossed with doo wop and a bit of punk attitude thrown in. showmanship all the way.

Westwood Ho

Rootsy upbeat acoustic band with great style and songs.

The Pocket Gods

Cult indie band The Pocket Gods have just released the ground breaking 100x30 album (100 songs all 30 seconds long) which has been called by The Independent as the ultimate musical statement against Spotify and will “change the way songs are written” - The Pocket Gods were recently interviewed on ITV news about the album and even performed a 30 second song live on the show.

Li- Li

Solo singer songwriter with a jazzy lilt. Well crafted songs with story telling lyrics & amazing vocals.

Starseedz

This husband and wife duo sing about life and love. Gorgeous harmonies that take you on a journey through the stars. Heart lifting music that will make you smile.

Phoenix & The Daddy’s

Rising star Phoenix has one of the most incredibly unique voices I have ever come across. This young lady is just back from the USA working with some big industry names. Backed by The Daddy’s its a family affair.

Reverse Family

Songs about a mid life crisis. Reverse Family is the solo project of Dermot Illogical, better known as Andreas Vanderbraindrain, the frontman of British band The Tuesday Club. Aided by a fluid band of collaborators from time to time, the new offering from Dermot is a lo-fi exploration into an experimental DIY web of sounds and flavours which is hard to pin down but certainly embraces everything from post punk and noise pop to indie and old school punk.

Sko Mads

Original ska band from St Albans. New album on the way. Upbeat and infectious. They’re all about dancing and having fun, catch you on our dance floor !

For more info on my stage https://goo.gl/zAVqMq

PLUS all of my other social links! soundcloud.com/denise-parsons-1 facebook.com/theparsonsknows?ref=hl

Rather proud of this line up I have to say.. CUDTF ( see you down the front – bring the sunshine and a smile and bung some money in the pot!)

Run by musicians for musicians...

3Ms Music is a local independent record label set up to put the fun back into making music. Being musicians themselves they understand what artists need. They strive to make top notch albums with new and established artists alike.

The label specialises in vinyl releases which is pretty cool. They have well known acts like The Sharks & Jah Wobble on label & local heavy rockers High Treason as well as signing some up and coming acts like ‘Saints of Sin’.

Introducing Saints of Sin whose new album is about to be released to the world ‘Welcome to The Circus’ is a classic rocking album heavily influenced by the likes of Guns N Roses & Def Leopard.

Here’s what a fan has to say about the 1st time she saw them! Thanks to Jessi Dean for this fab article. Couldn’t have put it better myself!

SAINTS OF SIN - KNOCK KNOCKING ON GUNS ‘N’ ROSES DOOR!

Denise Parsons

As a massive fan of Guns ‘n Roses, saddened by the fact this tour may be their last, my rock ears instantly perked back up as I was played the new video of Saints of Sin’s ‘Wasted Nights’. Perhaps new hope did exist for a band to carry on the torch of rock onward. So, naturally I travelled to see them play their latest gig down in Cambridge, and I was not disappointed. It was immediately clear these guys were of an incredibly high calibre. As they made their entrance to the backdrop of circus ringmaster, they looked and sounded the part sporting top hats, bandanas and mosh-tastic long hair. I was in rock heaven as a reinvigorated version of Guns ‘N Roses, with a fresh twist (and substantially younger) stood before me.

The enthusiastic performance Saints Of Sin put on was one that far outstrips that of any band I have ever seen. Lead singer Rui leapt into the crowd, and was joined by Sparxx (epic rock name I might add) and Sophie who took pride of

place on the bar tables for a Slash worthy riff war, as I tried (and failed) not to break into an energetic air guitar tribute. Their enthusiastic performance far outstrips that of any band I have ever seen, with great crowd engagement including the Rui’s anecdote of a local punter’s mistaken advances on Sparxx, whom he had taken to be a lady due to is long blonde locks. Fittingly, this led them into their cover of Aerosmith’s ‘Dude Looks Like a Lady’.

They drew the night to a close with a tribute to their rock roots performing a top class cover of ‘Sweet Child O’ Mine’ which, although it pains me to say, rivalled and perhaps even outshone that of the mighty Guns n Roses back in their heyday. They picked up the pace with a quality cover of Uptown Funk and then eased into their much anticipated Wasted Nights which got the crowd fist pumping and head banging in appreciation. The band features fantastic harmonies throughout their songs and, like Guns n Roses

offers some slower more melodic tunes such as ’21 Shots’ which went down fantastically with the crowd.

My first task as I touched back down in Ireland, was to play their much anticipated album. No words, the rock demon was brought forth as I moshed/drove back home. My top picks of the album would have to be Wasted Nights, 21 Shots, One Last Time, and in top place – Devil You Need – absolute hits! 3MS Music are on to a winner with Saints Of Sin, if you’re looking for the next band to fill the Guns ‘N Roses shaped hole in your heart then Saints Of Sin are the ones to watch. Get your ill-fitting leather pants and bandanas out,80’s rock is back!

Jessi Dean

Pic features Jessi who wrote the article with SOS

One of the UK’s leading Celtic rock bands comes to St Albans. Fresh from topping the charts in Europe and playing to vast festival audiences.