music, DJing, football, lufc, writing, mods & Ready Steady Go!
My tastes...60s beat, r&b, garage, psych, bubblegum, surf, rare soul/northern soul, funk, latin, hammond, mod jazz, old skool hip hop, sunshine pop, power pop, jangle pop, twee pop, alt country, indie etc, etc...Bands...Small Faces, Stone Roses, Teenage Fanclub, Curtis Mayfield, Big Star, Byrds, Primal Scream, Left Banke, The La's, The Action, De La Soul, Nazz, Charlatans, The Creation, Dexys Midnight Runners, Paul Weller, The Remains, Saint Etienne, Love, Impressions, Rolling Stones, Happy Mondays, A Tribe Called Quest, Beach Boys, Sly & the Family Stone, Belle & Sebastian, Marvin Gaye... Ready Steady Go!
..TV? What's that??? Prefer the radio meself. Any Norman Jay show, Down in the Grooves on BBC Radio Leeds, Mod Radio UK on t'internet, Craig Charles Funk Show, BBC Radio 6
Sweet Soul Music by Peter Guralnick; The Northern Soul Top 500 by Kev Roberts; The Sharper Word by Paolo Hewitt; The Stone Roses and the Resurrection of Pop by John Robb; Mod A Very British Phenomenon by Terry Rawlings; Rolling with the Stones by Bill Wyman; The In Crowd by Ritson & Russell; Look! Listen! Vibrate! Smile! by Domenic Priore; Revolution in the Head by Ian MacDonald
Alex Chilton, Aretha Franklin, Brian Jones, Curt Boettcher, Arthur Lee, Keith Moon, Dusty Springfield, Gene Clark, Sly Stone, Phil Spector, Gram Parsons, James Brown, John Lennon, Serge Gainsbourg, Jonathan Richman, Curtis Mayfield, Brian Wilson, Lee Hazlewood, Otis Redding, Ronnie Lane, Dennis Wilson, Ian Brown, Paul Weller, Richard Ashcroft, Noel Gallagher, Billy Bremner...