HVN JBXMAS
December 3rd is the date of our Christmas party and the last ever HVN JBX at Ginglik.
We are kicking off early doors at 7pm with Jeff Barrett (Heavenly) and Geoff Travis (Rough Trade) playing back to back Soul music.
At 11pm, we have live music from the mindblowing TOY, followed by our guests Schizodelic Sound.
Danny and Carl (Heavenly Jukebox) are in the mix too.
Saturday, December 3rd
Ginglik
1 Shepherds Bush Green
London W12 8PH
Doors: 7pm-3am
Free entry before 9pm
Guest list £5 all night (RSVP carl@heavenlyrecordings.com), otherwise £8
http://www.ginglik.co.uk/?page_id=1164
https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=173863816037945
Try before you buy! Listen and download these 2 TOY tracks for free:TOY singlehere
HVN233 — TOY ‘Left Myself Behind’ & ‘Clock Chime’ by heavenlyrecordings
TOY on facebook
Heavenly Recordings on facebook
HVN JBX / October Edition with Pete Fowler (Seahawks)
The Heavenly Jukebox will be fully loaded with credits for this months HVN JBX at Ginglik London on Saturday. Our special guest this month is able seaman and monsterist — Pete Fowler. Donning his Seahawks sailors hat we’ll be setting sail for the heart of the sun (or as close as we can get before 3am), ocean trippin to a soundtrack of balearic disco, yacht rock, synthbop and the mighty Supermax!
Send us your names for guestlist danny@heavenlyrecordings.com x
Pete Fowler’s new solo exhibition
The rather excellent Pete ‘Monsterism’ Fowler has just announced details of his first solo show in quite a while to open in conjunction with the new Silas store up in Islington.
Pete says ‘I’ve recently rediscovered painting landscapes, not that they aren’t present in so many of my work but this time I’ve turned the spotlight directly on the landscape. In particular, the Cornish coastline. Silas UK were kind enough to offer me some space on the walls of their London shop after seeing some of the pieces so I’ve turned them into a show. Along with a little something I bought from a car boot sale and have ‘modified’. That’s a bit of a surprise for the night, but just a small one’
This will be the official re opening of the shop on 8 Shillingford St, N1. www.silasuk.com
The show starts on the 29th September at Silas U.K
HVN JBX JULY with MANKIND | JAMES MATHE …
HVN JBX 16th JULY with MANKIND plus live guests:
JAMES MATHE | JASMINE RODGERS | JACK JOSEPH
Every 3rd Saturday of the month the Heavenly Jukebox (Heavenly Recordings) present HVN JBX @ Ginglik in Shepherds Bush. A cracking subterranean venue underneath Shepherds Bush Green which packs a superb P.A.
We invite down some of the best DJ’s around, the djs that we want to hear playing at our party & in turn know you would love too, from Don Lett’s, Sean Rowley, Wrongtom, Richard Norris, Justin Robertson to Allez Allez, Schizodelic Sound System & the Southern Hospitality crew to name a few.
& in a similar vein we love to do the same with our live music, from when the venue doors open we invite guests down whose music we’ve been digging in the Heavenly office and can’t wait to see live.
We offer a £5 guest list all night (9-3am) if you email carl@heavenlyrecordings.com beforehand.
That in a nutshell is HVN JBX! x
HVN JBX JULY by heavenlyrecordings
“What’s this? A super spangly dynamite disco brimming with rock ‘n’ roll, psychedelic soul, disco, hip hop, reggae, house and techno in west London? Trust that tip top collective The Heavenly Jukebox, whose DJs boast the most bulging record sacks this side of Notting Hill. — don’t miss!“
Time Out
email: carl@heavenlyrecordings with any guest list requests
HVN JBX JULY:
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D J s:
M a n k i n d
Mankind are a collaboration of two producer / Dj’s from the underground music scene that have joined forces to bring to life the music they love.
Featuring productions on Late night Audio recordings, Redux and Third Strike — expect detroit boogie, disco and esoteric electronic soul from this seasoned and mysterious DJ duo.
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L i v e :
J a m e s M a t h e
The creative force behind the band Barbarossa, James is a unique and soulful songwriter who we like very much. It’s been ages since we have put him on live so we’re excited he could join us at HVN JBX.
www.myspace.com/jamesmathe
J a s m i n e R o d g e r s
Support comes from young vocalist, songwriter, guitarist and ukelele player Jasmine Rogers.
www.myspace.com/jasminerodgers
+ J a c k J o s e p h
www.myspace.com/jackjosephmusic
and of course . .
H e a v e n l y J u k e b o x
Born out of the Heavenly Recordings label 20 years ago, the Heavenly Jukebox allowed a group of different DJs to mix and match musical styles in the same night; a broad selection of tunes – crucial, essential, pop music from the dusty analogue sweet soul sounds to the digital hits of today & tomorrow. If it get’s stamped by the bird then it needs to be heard! The capers continues . .
www.heavenlyjukebox.com
www.heavenlyrecordings.com
HVN JBX June Edition with Sean Rowley’s ‘Cover to Cover’
HVN JBX | JUNE EDITION | COVER TO COVER SPECIAL
with SEAN ROWLEY & residents HEAVENLY JUKEBOX
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E-mail; carl@heavenlyrecordings.com for £5 all night guest list
Doors 9pm — 3am
Admission £5 before 10pm, £8 after
Consider the Summer well and truly wound up & ready to roll. This month we are delighted to have down to HVN JBX our good friend Sean Rowley who will be packing the undiluted quality of his Cover to Cover set with him. We can’t wait!
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COVER TO COVER is the brainchild of two well known music obsessives, Sean Rowley (Guilty Pleasures) and Christian Laing (Buttoned Down Disco). Separately, they have already established themselves as widely respected DJs playing to crowds of thousands on a regular basis. Collectively, they unleash this ace project playing nothing but cover versions, spread across countless musical genres.
& you can listen to Sean’s quality assured weekly radio show ‘The Joy Of Music’ Saturday night / Sunday morning at 1am on Radio Kent and iplayer!
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0038j9t
www.thisiscovertocover.com
www.guiltypleasures.co.uk
HVN JBX | May | Edition
H V N J B X | M A Y | E D I T I O N
L I V E:
L A N I E L A N E
J A C K J O S E P H
D J s : B R O A D E R T H A N B R O A D W A Y
& residents:
H E A V E N L Y | J U K E B O X
GINGLIK
Doors 7pm, £5 entry
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Live music will be from 7pm-10pm so arrive early!
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B R O A D E R T H A N B R O A D W A Y
BTB is a soundsystem, club night and record label celebrating bass culture and all forms of electronica. Taking in reggae, hip hop, disco, electro, house, garage, dancehall, jungle, techno, grime, bmore, funky, old skool, dubstep all served with a smile.
L A N I E L A N E
Adding sass to the smoky, sultry sounds of a bygone era, Sydney songstress Lanie Lane (pronounced “Lannie”) draws on the past and plants it very firmly in the here and now. Imbued with the spirit of Muddy Waters, channeling the class of Doris Day and sparkling with the pizzazz of The Andrews Sisters, Lanie wraps the sounds of a golden age around a voice that is as rich and warm as it is sweet.
www.myspace.com/lanielanemusic
H E A V E N L Y J U K E B O X
Born out of the Heavenly Recordings label 20 years ago, the Heavenly Jukebox allowed a group of different DJs to mix and match musical styles in the same night; a broad selection of tunes – crucial, essential, pop music from the dusty analogue sweet soul sounds to the digital hits of today & tomorrow. If it get’s stamped by the bird then it needs to be heard! The capers continues . .
www.heavenlyjukebox.com
“What’s this? A super spangly dynamite disco brimming with rock ‘n’ roll, psychedelic soul, disco, hip hop, reggae, house and techno in west London? Trust that tip top collective The Heavenly Jukebox, whose DJs boast the most bulging record sacks this side of Notting Hill. — don’t miss!“
Time Out
Post Eliot, Caught By The River @ Port Eliot 2011
This July, Caught By The River are honoured to be asked back for the third year running to the Port Eliot Festival. We’re also dead excited as it’s our best line up by a country mile. The Caught By The River tent will run a morning ‘til last-man-drops events programme over the four days of the festival and – as ever – is positioned in the quarry in front of the boathouse looking out over the glorious Lynher estuary. Each day will effortlessly mix music and talk on nature and rock’n’roll. We hope you’re up for joining us. Here’s a list of highlights.
P.S From Friday, each day will start with the Archive Radio Hour. One hour of classic nature based wireless broadcasting, it promises to be the perfect way to ease the way out of your hangover…
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Thursday
4pm - Heavenly Jukebox and friends
Music down by the river from early evening — bar opens at 4 and off we go.
8pm — James Walbourne
Heavenly troubadour, thuggish Nick Drake look a like, a Pogues wing man — James kicks off the weekend of live music playing tracks from his debut album ‘The Hill’.
9pm — Colorama
Carwyn, Luca & Ed’s psilocybin laced Welsh DNA permeates every song on their last 3 album’s so turn up, tune in & drop nowt! ———————————————————–
Friday
11am – records from the Spoonful Soundsystem
1pm — Treecreeper live
Influenced by “Cities, Woods, Sports, Ornithology and Creedence”, Treecreeper are the perfect band to kick off Saturday’s proceedings.
2pm - Caught By The River On Nature
Introducing this summer’s Caught By The River collection, On Nature, with the people behind the website and the book in conversation with John Niven. Followed by readings from the book.
3pm England Revisited
Artist Simon English has worked with the English landscape for four decades. Here, he talks about his inspirational mapping project, England Revisited.
4pm stage closed for soundcheck
5pm The Undersea World of Jonny Trunk
An hour of sub-aqua sounds, Jonny Trunk dredges the depths of his record collection to create a watery rave right next to the boathouse.
6pm Willy Vlautin
Music, readings and stories from the author and musician otherwise known as Richmond Fontaine.
7.30pm — Trevor Moss & Hannah-Lou
’The real thing… like harvest itself coming into bloom.’ ARTROCKER magazine.
This most unassuming young husband and wife song-writing partnership, Trevor Moss and Hannah Lou, are part of the Heavenly family — they’ll break your heart then help you piece it back together.
8.45pm — Caitlin Rose
Caitlin’s heart rending honesty, lyrical prowess and dexterous delivery define her style. Live, she is another experience altogether: witty and deft, The Guardian in the UK recently christened her a “rare and prodigious talent”.
10.15pm — The Rockingbirds
A North London sextet who deal as much in country roll and country rock, The Rockingbirds are now rightly hailed alongside the greats of the alt-country revolution.
11.30pm — Southern Hospitality
Music from the Durty South… til the small hours.
Music between the bands will be provided by Geoff Travis from the legendary Rough Trade label alongside Heavenly Jukebox and Friends By The River
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Saturday
11am — Records from the Spoonful Soundsystem
12pm — Conquering Animal Sound
It says on their site “Sparkling ambience, deep bass and beautiful vocals”. We’d add beguiling songs and your new favourite band.
1pm — A Music Book Reader
An introduction to Caught By The River’s online compendium of the very best rock’n’roll reads. With Richard King (Loops Magazine/Domino Records), Andrew Weatherall and guests.
2pm — Tales From The Typographic Ocean
A discussion on rock’n’roll, the printed word and the counter culture with Rough Trade boss Geoff Travis, legendary PR man Mick Houghton and Andy Childs, former editor of Zigzag magazine. Three influencial figures from pre-punk onwards talk to journalist and broadcaster Emma Warren about the birth of Xerox publishing and fanzine culture’s effect on all aspects of music from Sniffin’ Glue through to Jockey Slut.
3pm — Do It For Mum
Roy Wilkinson reads from his forthcoming biography of British Sea Power. With special guests.
4pm — stage closed for sound check
5pm - Gaggle
“The most exciting, innovative and genuinely imaginative force in music right now” NME. “Gaggle are sure to draw converts to their burgeoning cult” The Guardian
A twenty piece all-female choir? We’ll join their club…
6.30pm — Secret Sisters
Fortified by an airtight familial camaraderie and emboldened with a zeal for country music, Laura and Lydia Rogers formed The Secret Sisters to capture their raw talent in its purest form. Their self-titled debut LP is a guileless, rapturous mixture of roots-ified pop, recorded the same way it would have been in the 1950s. Live, they adhere to the same rules.
8pm — Hannah Peel
At times bewitching, at times laconic, always full of fortitude, Hannah Peel arrives as influenced by the still life gaze of Edward Hopper as the arrangements of Nick Drake, Tom Waits, or the expansive pop of her heroes Sandy Denny, Judee Sill and Joni Mitchell.
11pm — British Sea Power
British Sea Power — the UK’s premier rock’n’roll outdoorsmen – triumphantly return to Cornwall to play the Caught By The River tent at Port Eliot for the second time.
12am — Andrew Weatherall
The man behind Screamadelica and 10,000 lost nights… Our favourite DJ of all time.
Music between the bands comes from The Seahawks.
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Sunday
11am — Jonny Trunk’s Sunday Service
Acid fried religious songs and psychedelic sermons from the man behind the legendary Trunk records.
1pm — Ghosts of Gone Birds
Last year, documentary maker and Caught By The River contributor Ceri Levy brought the Bird Effect to Port Eliot. This summer, he hosts a discussion on endangered and extinct species as part of an art and activism exhibition put together with BirdLife International. With Mark Cocker, Stephen Moss, Rob Lambert, Errol Fuller and Harriet Mead.
3.30pm — Words Under Water – four anglers swap tales of the ones that got away and some of the ones that didn’t… conversation and readings from Chris Yates, Charles Rangeley-Wilson, Jon Berry and John Andrews.
5.30pm — Gravenhurst
Gravenhurst is a vehicle for Bristol based singer-songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist Nick Talbot. Talbot characterises Gravenhurst as a world created by sound and language, ever-changing and conjured from disparate ingredients. Noticeable influences are the melodic noise of My Bloody Valentine, the lush vocal harmonies of Simon and Garfunkel, and a diverse range of guitarists including Bert Jansch and Richard Thompson. This show will be showcase material from his forthcoming fifth album, due later in the year on Warp.
7pm — Sea of Bees
Songs For The Ravens, the debut album by Julie Ann Baenziger (aka Sea of Bees) was released earlier in the year to massive critical acclaim. It’s stoned soul music, beautiful, heartfelt and destined to be in your end of year lists.
Music on the day from Caught By The River DJs.
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www.caughtbytheriver.net @ Port Eliot
Accent ‘84’ — The casual approach to being in a band
The early 80’s, west London …
Accent were a Jam style band practicing away in west London, loving punk, enjoying the post punk bands around at the time and getting into soul, through Jam single’s b-sides and bits of Electro and Disco. Saturday was spent at the game, not much glamour at the football back then but tons of passion and a smattering of fashion — Pringle jumpers, Tachinni, Fila tracksuits, Lacoste t’s and deerstalker hats, dessert boots, kickers are all around.
The singer, Brian Rydell and myself (it was our band) saw an angle, we were getting into the clobber and saw a parallel with mod, it was all about being smart and dressing better than the next person, with a constant hunt for new labels.
We new Garry Bushell (then at Sounds) had championed the 2nd wave of Mod bands — Chords, Purple Hearts and we were pretty sure we could get him interested. We produced a fanzine about ourselves and casuals called ‘In The Crowd’ and we started giving them out, Bushell was hooked immediately, he reviewed a gig then put us on the cover, much to the disgust of the average music paper reader of the time.
On a roll, we needed a Svengali Mclaren type figure with a clothes shop, West London’s only one choice was Stuarts on the Uxbridge Rd. So we talked the owner into becoming our manager, although this just meant he gave us free clothes, that was all that was required really.
We were gigging round West London, Fulham Greyhound, upstairs at the Kings Head & we created the Casual Beat club where the crowd was more punky rabble than casual, but a few were passing by, most casuals were soul boys at the time.
Chelsea had just been promoted from the old 2nd division in ’84 & they were having a party at the ground before the last home game to celebrate, so we chanced it — ‘there’s no harm in popping in to see Ken Bates’ (chairman at the time). We walked in to the offices which were at the entrance back then, no security!, opened the door & there’s Kens secretary and Ken, handed him a fanzine said can we play, he said yes sort it with my secretary, all within 5 mins. Can you believe that? as if you could ever a soul inside the offices like that now.
The following Saturday we’re setting our equipment up on the pitch in
front of the then main (east ) stand, ground starts to fill up, prob about 15 –20,000 in at this point (about 2pm). We run through 5 songs to a good response , polite round of applause and no abuse! Pat Nevin the only indie footballer of the day wrote about us, some major labels invited us in for demos, our hype was better than the sound of the band, we released a indie single and faded away, that was that.
At least we can always say we started at stadiums and worked our way down.
Mick Habeshaw Robinson
Check out Mick’s radio show — Pelirocco Platters on www.radiorevrb.com
Golden Sun Movement ‘ON’
Golden Sun Movement: ON
Acid House Art & 21st Century Psychedelia
Wed 20th April – Thurs 8th May 2011
Private view: Thursday 21st April 2011
Three of the UK’s most influential graphic artists, members of an ever morphing collective named Golden Sun Movement, exhibit a collection of hypnotically striking works at Idea Generation Gallery from 20th April 2011.
Luke Insect, Leo Zero and Dave Little share a common thread, not only in their roots seated firmly in the psychedelic scenes of the 60s to the present day, but also in the impressive roster of musicians, clubs and brands for which they have produced artwork. Newly created site– specific pieces will sit alongside the artists’ most recognisable commissions which previously existed as some of the most lauded club posters and album artworks. ON and Golden Sun Movement represent the contemporary equivalent of Hapshash and the original UFO spirit.
From the legendary UFO club nights of the 60s, the house music explosion of the 80s and to the 90s Balearic scene, otherworldly sounds have always intertwined with visual art and design. Nowhere is this better exemplified than in the works of Luke Insect, Leo Zero and David Little; including original flyer designs for club night Spectrum, record sleeve artwork for Paul McCartney and other commissions for the likes of Time Out and Red bull to name but a few.
ON will display not only a selection of the artists’ originals and back catalogue works but also bespoke site-specific creations inspired by the converted warehouse space of the Idea Generation gallery. The mixed media creations will be made as a trio and individually. Featuring eye-bending perspectives, shocking colours and a pastiche of styles including Victoriana and Pop Art the show resonates with vivacity.
Even though the days of the UFO club and the performances by Pink Floyd were well before his time Luke Insect found early inspiration in the books and records owned by his father who had grown up amongst the Cambridge beatnik scene. This taste of all things psychedelic set Luke on a path to art school in Newcastle and a career in design at The Leisure Agency in Soho. He then set up on his own company alongside fellow designer Paul Humphrey. Underground design collective INSECT were based in a small office in The Old Truman Brewery, they became the cutting edge designers du jour in the late nineties as the Shoreditch scene exploded. Their client list had a global span and boasted DJ Shadow, Paul McCartney, MTV, Orange and Nike amongst many others. The portfolio of music and youth based work caught the attention of Banksy’s Pictures On Walls collective, leading to a collaboration with Jamie Hewitt (Gorillaz) and 3D (Massive Attack). After ten years of success the duo went their separate ways, Luke set up shop in Brighton, focusing on music designing album sleeves for the likes of The Prodigy, The Human League and Arctic Monkeys/Babyshambles offshoot Mongrel. A random meeting between Luke and producer/musician Richard Norris, the fourth member of Golden Sun Movement, saw Luke join the collective beginning with designs for The Time and Space Machine thus completing the circle and bringing him back to his Psychedelic beginnings.
After escaping the confines of Art College in the 80s Dave Little spent sometime as a freelance designer at Penn Studio in Soho. Realising he needed bigger and better challenges Dave secured the position of head window designer at HMV Oxford Street creating 30ft x 30ft drawing of such icons as Queen, Billy Idol and Prince. Inspired by these large-scale designs Dave began creating album sleeve artwork of his own for one of the UK’s first dance labels; Rhythm King and their artists Bomb The Bass, S-Express and William Orbit. As dance music’s sub-genres flourished Dave began to collaborate on works for leading names such as Paul Oakenfold and Andrew Weatherall, firmly implanting his visuals on the cultural consciousness. Indeed some of Dave’s designs for club flyers promoting The World, Spectrum and Boy’s Own are on permanent record at the V&A. Dave’s commissions became bigger still as he designed ranges for motorcycle wear brand Michiko Koshino, Vodaphone, Reading and V festivals as well as founding the Votan clothing brand through Amplified, and designing t-shirts for uber-cool Australian brand Perks & Mini (PAM).
Straddling both the visual and audio Leo Zero’s output manifests itself as design, music production and remixes. Experiencing all things Acid and Balearic in seminal clubs like Shoom, Spectrum and Boy’s Own in the nineties Leo fast became a non-stop shop for not only original music and remixes but also flyer and sleeve designs for Junior Boys Own, Heavenly Records and Time Out plus many more. Leo became one of a team who set up Faith, a fanzine described by Pete Tong as “the last bastion of Acid House”. Faith was accompanied by compilation records and DJ sets by the founders which continue today. Throwing rock, or more aptly ‘Cosmic Rock’ into the mix Leo formed and art directed a record with Mo Morris and Zeb Jameson known as “Collected Works” by A Mountain Of One, aptly becoming very much a collectors item. In more recent times Leo’s musical output has reached new heights as he remixes artists including Florence and Machine, Paul Weller, Jack Peñate, Everything Everything and Bryan Ferry amongst many others. Additionally Leo has branched into fashion as his graphic designs adorn t-shirts for Stussy and commissions for Red Bull, amongst many others.
Private view and late night opening: Thursday 21st April
To request a spot on the guestlist email rachel@ideageneration.co.uk
