The Soul Survivors Magazine has been invited to attend the Afro Punk festival at “Ally Pally” Alexander Palace in North London N.22 Saturday 24th September 2016. TICKETS : £55, FULL LINE-UP,Grace Jones, Laura Mvula,WORD SOUND POWER feat Akala, B.A.D/Dreadzone & Don Letts SZA, Kwabs, Benjamin Booker, The Noisettes, Loyle Carner, Goldlink, NTS Radio, Soulection, Joe Kay , The Whooligan, Hannah Faith, Eden Hagos, MNEK, Lady Leshurr, GAIKA, Ho99o9, Skinny Girl Diet, Jorja Smith, Purple Ferdinand, Big Joanie, Youth Man, Nova Twins, Vodun, The Connectors Mikel Ameen + much more TBA. For more info afropunkfest.com/london/..Tickets from http://gigst.rs/APLDN16
It’s bank holiday weekend and my dj duties start Thursday 25th August at Jazz Cafe Camden NW1 supporting Loose Ends, Saturday I’m Carry On Camping @ Campsoul in Oxford and Sunday I got a good old fashion ruckus with Pinky Brown for the “Brighton Rock” Beach Party 5, so check these flyers out and try and get to at least one of them..Click image fro ticket info..Chow Fitzroy
Here is the edited digital online version of The Soul Survivors Magazine interview with Alton McClain. Alton McClain is doing her first ever UK date at Brooklyn Bowl in Greenwich London 30th September as part of Expansion Records 30th Anniversary so cast your eyes over this and make it your “Destiny” to see Alton’s debut in the UK.. Click image 1st image for tickets
Are you ready to do the “Bus Stop”, do the ” Double Dutch”, the ” Spanish Hustle” or some ” Fatback ” Backstrokin”? It’s gonna be a “Yum Yum” Gimme Some piece of “Tasty Jam” servings of classic music, so make sure you have ” the “Snake” hip moves whether you’re “Lady Groove” or “Mr Bass Man”… As Bill Curtis “Let The Drums Speak” …. Why ??? Cause at Campsoul 27th & 28th August in Oxford.. It’s gonna be “Party Time” when the Fatback Band ” Put The Funk In You” … Ya dig?!! Here is a little mix of “Fatbackin'” “Put The Funk On You” from The Fatback band ahead of their pending performance at Camp Soul 27th & 28th August. With a great line of DJ’s check this out and get ready to tighten up on your “Backstrokin”!!. Click image to listen to some vintage Fatback “Street Dance” and “Boogie With The Fatback” tunes” !!
Exciting news “For those who like to groove” like Raydio. You can now pre order your personal copy of the forthcoming “Soul Survivors” album on Expansion Records due for release 1st September 2016. This can be done via The Soul Survivors Magazine website shop for £11.99 (£9.99 + £2 postage) including postage total if you are in the UK. The postage charges vary if from Europe and international countries so please check the information provided in the shopping cart. Compiled with universal love like Tom Browne by “Yours Truly” Fitzroy Facey, here below is the review as printed in the current issue 65 of The Soul Survivors Magazine for August & September 2016. These tasty Arthur Conley “Sweet Soul Music” musical treats like Opal Fruits, are made to make your mouth water. Click the image below which takes you directly to pre purchase your copy or copies.
Celebrating the magazine’s 10th anniversary, check out these contemporary underground jazz funk, disco and boogie productions, from some of the well respected artists, interviewed during the publications decade legacy. With more staying power than ‘Ever Ready’ or ‘Duracell’ batteries Fatback Band’s funky ‘Get Your Head Out The Phone’, Leroy Burgess’s ‘Heaven’, and Beggar & Co’s covered Kool & The Gang’s classic ‘Open Sesame’, make their debut on this CD. The absolute album exclusive, is Louise Pollock’s amazing vocal cover of Aquarian Dream’s ‘You’re A Star’. Shalamar collaborate on Steve Silk Hurley, DJ, Skip and Shane D’s disco house remix ‘Don’t Go’. Representing the UK is Yam Who’s ‘bassically” undeniably jazz funky, remix of Incognito feat Carleen Anderson’s ‘Show Me Love’ and The Pasadenas lesser known but exquisite ‘Round & Round’. Worth checking is Soul People’s awesome version of Roy Ayers’s ‘Our Time Is Coming’ and the albums only instrumental Nu Era’s ‘Beta Days’. Dome Record’s Angela Johnson and Eric Roberson contribute to the USA jazz funk fusion elements and wait until you hear some amazing Macedonian jazz fusion soul from Vladimir Cetkar. These alluring tunes were handpicked for you fellow soul survivors so please ‘Grab It’ like The Olympic Runners (Bad Tune!) whilst you can.
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Celebrating 10 years like The Soul Survivors Magazine this summer Margate Soul Festival Weekender had the best weather for the annual celebrations. In conjunct with Mi Soul Radio, Eli Thompson and Mick Bradley has tirelessly made sure they put the soul into Kent’s soulful seaside town pulling out a few stops. With the aid of my longtime fellow Knight Of The Cameo Sound Table, Perivalian neighbour and friend Cleveland Anderson supplying some of the creme de al creme performing artists, Jean Carne, Shirley Jones and CC Pensiton, the weekend was most certainly a festive one. Well done to all who contributed Dj’s, performers and audience participators alike. I had turntable duties at my resident Lighthouse Bar Friday & Saturday and a Sunday night slot in more intimate The Black Cat club. I certainly enjoyed digging in the crates on all three occasions and you can revisit or enjoy what you missed via my Mixcloud posts. here are some Slave “Snap Shot” moments with some of the artist backstage as I was working harder than Dolly Parton’s “9-5” catching up on the goss!! I gotta say a big thanks to Jean Carne who shamelessly plugged The soul Survivors Magazine on stage during her set when she spotted me in the audience. I was beaming like a Cheshire but was also slightly embarrassed, however grateful that Jean did that selfless act during her set. lets see if the subscriptions rise due to that kind of endorsement. I think I’d look at booking ya tickets now before it’s a case of a Jackson’s “Heartbreak Hotel” trying to find accommodation as it goes quicker than Usain Bolt !!
Jean Carn @ The Winter Gardens Saturday evening. Catching up with Kathy Sledge after her great showcase & hanging with the very gifted vocal songstress CC Peniston!!
“Don’t Be A Fool” to miss this one gig of BGT at Jazz Cafe. This will be the first of hopefully many a return to my old stomping ground of dj-ing since 1991 at the Camden home of live music. With a history gong back 35 years Loose Ends has a catalogue of rhythms that have always had just “A Little Spice” of a “Magic Touch” to it. Make sure you reach because “Johnny Broadhead” will be “Watching You” and please “Don’t Worry” it’s guaranteed to be a “Night Of Pleasure” 25th August 2016!