Issue 014 OCTOBER 2014
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October is the last month of any chance of not wearing jumpers, in my mind (not that I wear jumpers in my mind... anyway... you get what I mean). Summer’s gone and now all we have to look forward to is the depressing slide towards Christmas. Hooray. Girls get irrationally excited at this time of year about Christmas and to be honest, I have no idea why. Christmas is only good in that small period where most people aren’t working. It’s called enforced laziness. But then again, even that part of Christmas is spent getting stressed with relations, being forced to work on Boxing Day and (in what I do day to day) that horrible bit inbetween Christmas and New Year when there’s nothing to do apart from sit there and wait for some TOTAL CRISIS to occur. Uch. Anyway, that’s all to look forward to! In the meantime, why don’t you spend the time at a Tuesday Club gig? We’ve got lots - go check out the middle pages of this fantastic e-tome as I can’t remember the actual dates... which is a bad thing as I’m supposed to be at them. Anyway.... we’re supporting TOYAH next month! Yeah... Toyah.... stick that in your bendy iphone 6 calendar and... attend it. Right, that’s my 150ish words done. I’m off
J-Rod. Guitarist Stage Left, and typo (and the case of the pestering until he gets off his arse and does something productive).
M A G (NIFICENT)
7 - OCTOber
. . . Wha t The Tuesday C lu b are s t ic k ing in t heir eardrums !
Andreas Vanderbraindrain: Girl Band - Lawman http://youtu.be/nqxe3NZKYL0 The Minx: Free - All Right Now: http://youtu.be/ny7vW6dgnUY Wasabi Penis: Therapy? - Plague Bell http://youtu.be/MUlZTq0EQc8 J-Rod: The Sea and Cake - Coconut http://youtube.com/watch?v=EY55SDAocL8 Rogerio Marauder: BB King - When It All Comes Down http://youtube.com/watch?v=eg2tHlpkWJ4 The Beautiful Wolf: Siouxsie and the Banshees - Pull to bits http://youtu.be/Z6wJH-BnycE Tittybar Telski: Big Country - In a Big Country http://youtu.be/Sk5SkiBna24 Thanks to: Design @8ecreative, Tiggy Pop, James Eagles. Editor: Reggie Mental. Photography: Neil Stephenson, Jord, AVBD, The Eye, Sarah Martin Words: Denise Parsons, The Minx, Faye Don’tlikeitupum, Stuart Pidboy, Don Tellumpike, Don T. Panic, Sister Dolly, AVBD, Beautiful Wolf, J-Rodz
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Contents Cover star:
The Tuesday Club
Magnificent 7
2-3
What’s going on in our musical world
Paper Dress
4-5
It’s all the rage!
New EP, New Tour & Launch Party! 6-7 The low down on an exciting time ahead
Da Minx 8 The Chanteuse Speaks!
Barfly... with TB Telski!
9
The man behind the myth!
(Club) Foot tappers
10-11
AVBD, J-Rod and The Beautiful Wolf trawl their record collections. Plus this months ‘lost artist’ is The Marine Girls
Who’s In the Club
12-13
The Legendary Spizzenergi!
The Parson’s Knows
14-18
Denise, gives us all the news from Trestle Arts base, St.Albans and it’s environs.
facebook.com/thisisthetuesdayclub @thetuesdayclub1 AVBD - @Vnderbraindrain The Minx - @TCTheMinx R. Marauder - @YTDS Dave Worm - @Roddamiser J-Rod - @JRod_TC www.youtube.com/thisisthetuesdayclub thisisthetuesdayclub.co.uk info@thisisthetuesdayclub.co.uk pinterest.com/thetuesdayclub thetuesdayclub.tmstor.es
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‘My Consciousness’ EP LAUNCH PAPER DRESS SATURDAY 18 OCTOBER Join our facebook event here! facebook.com/events/542980405831584/
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DAMinx It’s not always easy to know who you are talking to at Tuesday Club gig. Looking for the cowbell
ComparetheMinki.com ... Don’t get minxed up! Monday (Monday) Minx most like to make mischief, particularly with people wear disgust shoes. On holiday in August Minx throw away whole basket of disgust flip found outside fellow hotelier bedroom. A small smile at small defeat for stupid shoe. Am not shame at hatred for such jelly stupid hurt toe flatness. Have no place in world (unless for camping shower, which as Minx do not do tents and portaloos, is then pointless). This Monday am walking around huge shopping centre of Westfield and most perturbed to find whole shop devoted to Croc. How this happen? World has lost senses. Tempted to send minions with placards to boycott shop, prevent sales. Security man see me ‘case the joint’ and ask what doing. Should have learned from KGB training that pacing outside shop frowning, taking photo and writing notes on phone look suspicious. Abandon plan. Tuesday (Tuesday) Is club of Tuesday of course. Wednesday (Wednesday) Minion in trouble. Again. He say he in doghouse but how can be in doghouse when Kalashnikov and Perestroika live there. They not be happy live with lowly minion. And I not pay for new doghouse for man. Is stupid. Builder Minion explain that is English term. Pah I knew this. (Ok did not know this but will not admit to minions. Is not good idea for them to get above station). Thursday (Thursday) Halloween approaching, which mean children pester Minx house. Is only time of year they brave enough to do. Decide to set trap in garden. Builder Minion tell me is call a booby trap.! For children?! Really? Minx get arrested for be paedo! Boobies in garden. Surely is man trap? Once again minion explain is term of slang. Once again Minx have to nod head and pretend knew. Think need go more English class. Friday (Friday) Halloween. Minx in no mood for scare children now. Bad taste
in mouth. Instead watch Boris Karloff film, Nosferatu and Dracula. Realise Minx miss homeland and holiday castle in Transylvania. Вздох Have special dungeon where keep all treasures, include diamond encrust cowbell, present from secret admirer. Is sheik of some country with lot desert, who have gold 6 wheel Mercedes G Wagon. Is very fast and very stupid, as is car. Have accept many gift but refuse make with sheik. He have beard. Minx do not do beard (unless look like Tolstoy or BE Tolstoy, though he be bit smelly now) Saturday (Saturday) Is weekend and time for Minx secret English language class. Remind Minx of strange English sit com from seventies that repeat on Blukabluka TV channel. Is call Mind Your Language with very silly people. Is like this class. Of course I am like Danielle, sexy chick in class who everyone try flirty with. Глупые мальчики Learn lots new words for to baffle (hah) minions with language prowess. No more wool pulled over eyes. воскресенье (Sunday) Is day of rest. But not for Minx. Or for Builder Minion. Have decide to punish both minion. Builder Minion punish by making actual man doghouse for minion one. That teach him lesson. He can sleep in garden and eat with dog wolves. This he not like as he like to sleep at bottom of bed of Minx. Have good mind to make him wear dog collar too but think he like it too much so is not punishment. However we pass church and minion point out man in dog collar. I look but he vicar! What mean? Now very confuse. Book more lessons for English when get home.
barfly with TBTELSKI By Jordan Thomas
I
started playing the drums at the age of 12 because I was labelled as ‘thick’ in school, Nigel Marvin (who is one of the world’s top zooligists) was in my class* and was also labelled thick... shows what they knew about dyslexia back then. Anyway, we were sent into the school orchestra; I was given timpani and he was given the cowbell. It was the only thing I got an a-grade at in... beating drums.
So, I decided that I wanted a drum kit, so I embellezed the tuck shop (As you do... Ed.) by selling blackjacks at two for a penny - when they should have been four for a penny - I embezzled each 1/2 p and bought myself a premier drum kit for fifty quid, which works out to be 10,000 1 /2 penny coins. The school never found out... I was sixteen. As luck would have it, the second band I was in (Moonstone), got signed by Polydor. It was the early 80s and we were in with the rock scene and obviously thought we were going to make it big. We toured Europe but our record company decided that the singer (John Payne) was worth more to them than the band and we got shelved in favour of his solo career. I had spent two years of my life doing that, so I was pretty livid. To keep earning money from music and to avoid getting a proper job, I undertook some session
work. I worked with such people as Tina Marie and Galxay for roughly fifty quid a session, which wasn’t much when you broke it all down. After that, I got a bit disullusioned with the whole thing so caved and got a proper job and kept my hand in by drumming in covers bands. I also used to reherse on own alot and try to learn new stuff inbetween playing in bands. I used to try to learn as many things as possible and it was a habit of mine to spend every Sunday, all afternoon, drumming. However, one day, I saw an ad in Lemon rock. A band was advertising for a replacement drummer and that band was The Scratch. Rumour had it that they had a mad singer but were all nice guys. Andy (AKA AVBD these days) sent me a CD of their songs and spent some time taking all the songs apart and scoring each one. I’m a very competative person so I really wanted that gig and I wanted to make sure that I got it. Also, Andy and I realised we had a lot of friends in common, which really cemented the deal. We realised we could work very well together and even if the Tuesday Club hadn’t happened, we’d have done something together after the Scratch came to its natural end.
As a member of The Tuesday Club, I’m known as the band diplomat. I help the band work by influcencing without authority (though people think I get what I want by being hard as nails). This band is a family to me and I’ll be with it until I can’t be with it any more, for whatever reason. Finally, even if we didn’t have an awesome string of dates lined up for this autumn and were simply playing local pub gigs every week and nothing else, I would still love playing with them. It’s quite simply.... fun. * It was the same school ... ‘Sir Francis Bacon’ as AVBD incidentally too, but many years later!
B U L C Foot tappers
‘COS the Platters still matter.. .
Dear Club fans, welcome to AVBD and The Beautiful Wolf’s monthly round up of the new, the old, the signed, the unsigned and the inspirational, from our very own musical old curiosity shop, where we pick and podcast 10( ish) tracks that turn us on... with a little help from J-Rod! Here’s a selection of the featured tracks, but you’ll have to listen to find out more :-) This month’s featured track from The Tuesday Club, is ‘Replication & Montage’ From our debut LP See You Next Tuesday still available here on CD and white vinyl! (see opposite) thetcshop.com Toyah - I wanna be Free. From the Album ‘Anthem’ which reached number 2 in the charts in 1981. Don’t forget, (as if you didn’t know)... we’re supporting Toyah at the 02 Islington on 22 November! http://youtu.be/c4s7xqntVaY
Theatre of Hate - Do you believe in the west world - Theatre of Hate were a post-punk band formed in Britain in 1980. Kirk Brandon’s pre-cursor to Spear of Destiny. TOH only managed one single but what a fine one it was in our opinion. This very vinyl copy was recently picked up by AVBD at the Award Winning Empire Records in St.Albans! http://youtu.be/aroc9dT-MYk
Scant Regard - Warm Leatherette A ‘classic’ originally by, The Normal, which has previously also been covered by The Metatrons - My Sympathy Grace Jones. Hailing from This version comes from Scant Hitchin in Regard’s 2nd album. In A Primitive Herts - this State Of Neurotic Irresponsibility. video comes And is a shimmering masterpiece from a performance at in its own Will Crewdson right! We club 85 in april loose track with Will and his bands, he’s in more than us! It will be an 2012 honour to share the bill with him at http://youtu.be/oxIN875g2hA Aces and Eights on October 23rd. Speaking of which here’s Will there, The War Effort - The Building doing this! Trade From The Beautiful Wolfs’ friend ‘Evangeline’s’ 1984 bathroom http://youtu.be/kNlLkgsFOCc Jelly fiends - Laughing From cassette demo.
Watford’s finest who we will be sharing a stage with at The aforementioned Toyah show in November. http://youtu.be/xoEz_1caM6E Innocent Vicars - She’s Here One of AVBD’s fave bands and the ACE Richard Norris’ first! This track was a single way back in 1979. Should’ve made number 1! Sadly no IV album exists, but at least Richard’s current band - The Time & Space Machine have a new album out! http://youtu.be/HLC1SYPfvGM We hope you enjoy this months podcast, don’t forget you can subscribe to them and listen again at:
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This month we delve back into The St.Albans archives with the help of the excellent Art in the dust blogspot and find (Dr.) NICK HAEFFNER contemporay of other TC favourite ‘Snalbans sons’ drummer Gary M Hawkins, Richard Norris and Dan K Brown, the latter two who have both featured ‘In the Club’ recently.
1987 saw the release on the Bam Caruso label of “The Great Indoors”, the only album by Nick Haeffner. An acclaimed masterpiece of English Psychedelic, this eclectic collection of superb songs and music fairly brims over with ideas and invention. In the press, glowing comparisons were drawn to the likes of Syd Barrett and Kevin Ayers, and while these are worthy comparisons, neither were to serve as straight influences on Nick. Unlike many of today’s psych bands who draw directly from the original psychedlic era, Nick’s influences instead went back to earlier sources; R&B, classical music and jazz - the same influences that inspired and shaped the music of these earlier artists, and it is this common musical heritage, filtered through an gifted talent, that led Haeffner into similarly fertile pastures rather than any direct debt owed to Messrs. Ayers and Barrett. The seeds of “The Great Indoors” were planted in St. Albans back in 1979, in the days when Phil Smee ran Waldo’s, a local indie label that had up to then released singles by Watford Art College punk band The Bears who soon became new wave act The Tea Set, releasing two singles on Waldo’s, each sporting the kind of complex and engaging sleeves that were to become Smee’s abiding passion with Bam Caruso years later. find out more about Nick and his music career here. http://artintodust.blogspot.co.uk/2008/05/nick-haeffner-great-indoors.html
In the club with
Spizzenergi
Spizz
band led by vocalist / guitarist Spizzenergi formed in the late 1970s, an English punk/new wave e every year, subsequent names Spizz (real name Kenneth Spiers). The band changed its nam are notable as the first band to top including Athletico Spizz 80, Spizzoil and The Spizzles. They were perhaps best known for their the newly created UK Indie Chart early in 1980. However, they its release, it was included in Mojo single “Where’s Captain Kirk?” More than two decades after nks to Wiki for the intro) magazine’s list of the best punk rock singles of all time. (Tha b. When did you 1. Hi Spizz, and welcome to In the Clu first get into music?
Who can say? Is it listening to the radio? Elder brother’s records? Or the first purchases which although cute - not cool? First record that caught my ear was Space Oddity - Bowie 1969.
ian/ performer?
2.What made you want to be a music
Wanted to be an actor but seeing Bowie on TOTP doing Starman.. but impossible to emulate that... until the Clash July 1977.
so, what do you 5. Do you play any instruments, if Guitar, Mick play and what/ who inspired you?
Ronson
ught up on/ 6. What types of music were you bro at all? around and did they your influences
My eldest brother Richard liked Soul & Tamla Motown & Rock, My next brother Alan: Hendrix. en for the rest 7. If you had to pick one song to list would it be and of your of your time on Earth, what why?
That’s a tough one cos it depends on your mood but when I am asked for my top 10 d records Moonage Daydream is usually No. 1. an tar gui a ght bou o wh te ma a d ha I , Yes you believe in he was into similar music... 1975 started 8.What is your pre-gig ritual, and do after show parties? writing lyrics - age 15. to sort out many ve ha I gig a ore bef ll We t firs the s 4. What wa album you bought, how gs like set lists and put on various thin old we’re you, and what gadgets so I just get on with it.As for after year was it? attending them e lov I ties par w sho er aft ck Ro per The 1st pro we have not had one yet but s) nd ba her (ot ggy Zi s wa um Alb cos I don’t need a reason to party LOL. Stardust... but you will actually have to ) and why?I 9.What is/ are your favourite lyric(s pay me cash for that k it will have to Mega City 3... Because thin answer (classical a when I am really old I can come down music LP) big staircase like Frank Sinatra and do a
what inspired 3.Do you write your own lyrics, if so, at age were you? you to start writing, and roughly wh
swing/night club version. 10. What style(s) of music do you play and why? I
play with passion - I can’t do half measures... has to have guitar & a bit of mania! 11. What are your influences?
Usual suspects: Bowie, Eno, Roxy, Steve Harley, Alice Cooper, Kraftwerk 12. If you had to pick out of all the music-based film gems, which one is your favourite?
Koyanisqatsi
13. What helps you get into the creative zone? frequencies
& anger
14. If you had to sum up your life in just one song, what would you pick and why? My
Death
15. What top 3 things bring back your best/ worst/ favourite memories?
Scoring a goal at the old Wembley Stadium, the same place a week after I saw my eldest brother alive. (all 3 in one) 16. What do you think you’d be doing if you weren’t do the music thing?
Graphic Designer
17. Who encouraged you to play?
No-one
18. Who’s your favourite lyricist/ poet?
Bowie, Eno, Roxy, Steve Harley, Alice Cooper, Kraftwerk 19. How many albums do you have under your belt so far?
4 official
20. Who are your top 5 favourite musicians?
Mick Ronson, Brian Eno, Mick Jones, Clive Langer, Glen Matlock. Where can we find The Fixx on t’internet?
spizzenergi.com facebook.com/spizz.energi
The
s n o s r a P Knows
By Denise Parsons – Music Promoter – ‘The Live Music Project’ Trestle Arts Base, St.Albans
THIS MONTH’S TOP 4 BANDS/ARTISTS! Hello, Hello, Testing 1.. 2 ..Testing 1.. 2.. Ok you are listening then!! (Just checking!) I’ve been doing a lot of that lately, what with radio stuff & introducing live music here there & everywhere. Well here we are in October then and what a great month it’s going to be what with The Tuesday Club EP release which will be all over this mag so I’ll try not and repeat it, but I am very excited! & have you seen the gig list? Lots of local gigs, enough even to keep me satisfied. So in the world of local music I kinda like the colder months to come as gig audiences go up which is good news for The Live Music Project at Trestle Arts Base as we have got some seriously super line ups to take us up to (dare I say It?) Christmas (yes I did dare) and I wouldn’t want you to miss out! Some local music news which I think is quite exciting is that young rock band Treelo are to feature in a new short film made by Michelle Becker of Pink Soul Pictures. The script has been written by Angela Clarke (Confessions of a Fashionista) & will feature music from Treelo. I won’t give the plot away but it sounds really good! So keep an eye out for ‘Drift The Film’. I love it that Michelle is collaborating with
other local artists to make this film & asked me to recommend a band. Looking forward to seeing the end result! So here’s what The Parsons Knows likes this month!
1.
Noel Cowley
I may have mentioned Noel before but as he played for The Live Music Project at the end of August I thought I’d say it again! Check this guy out! Gorgeous songs delivered with heart & humour and storytelling that engaged the audience from the 1st chord! He’s just that kind of performer who makes you listen as indeed the project audience did very quietly & then clapped & cheered loudly. As a promoter this makes me happy as I knew the
audience were really listening! He also travelled all the way from East London just to play my gig. Gold Star, Noel!
facebook.com/noelcowleymusic?fref=ts soundcloud.com/noelcowley
2.
Minnie Birch
I highly recommend you check her out! I can only describe her performances as mesmerizing, emotional & just beautiful! She holds the audience in the palm of her hand with such charm. Minnie is a very talented & hardworking singer songwriter from Hemel Hempstead with a hectic gigging schedule. She also recently guested on Monday Music Lab with Radio Verulam’s Alex McKay & you can listen to the show again here
soundcloud.com/rvmusiclab/mml28 facebook.com/minniebirch?fref=ts
Monday Music Lab with Alex McKay 3.
Ok so not a band but a local radio show that you really should check out on Radio Verulam. Monday nights at 10 –12 pm. A bit late I know but you can always listen again on:
radioverulam.com or on soundcloud. soundcloud.com/rvmusiclab Alex plays a real mix
of non-mainstream music including a lot of local artists like Minnie Birch, Garry Smith, Maida Vales & April Blue to name just a few! With said guests staying throughout the whole show so you can really get a feel for the artists themselves as well as their music. I like that! I am hoping that Radio Verulam will see that this type of show needs to be on at a more accessible time! #Watch this space!
4.
Silverspace
Not had the pleasure of a live performance yet but they are booked for The Live Music Project in January 15,
so all that will change, but I do know they have a madly enthusiastic & talented drummer that goes by the name of Bongolious! They are a high energy band and describe themselves like this ‘Psychedellic Hymnotic Trance Rock band, Guided by Ancient Groove changing Timelords of the Spiritualish Kind!’ Silverspace is a place, in the right conditions it exists, it is unfathomably beautifull, lit only by the full moon, a place for peacefull inquisitive souls to gather, befriend, forget, dream, wish...... and dance. Sounds interesting huh?!!
facebook.com/SilverSpace2014/timeline This months quote:
‘Create your own visual style… let it be unique for yourself & yet identifiable for others’ – Orson Wells Thank you & goodnight. X
@denisejparsons @RVparsonsknows facebook.com/theparsonsknows?ref=hl
Trestle Arts Base, Russet Drive, St.Albans, AL4 OJQ, 01727 850950 e: production@trestle.org.uk, www.trestle.org.uk @trestletheatre