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Heaven 17 - Penthouse And Pavement
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Various Artists
Brumbeat: The Story Of The 60s Midlands Sound
(Castle, 2006)
You’ll have had enough Slade, Wizzard, sprouts by mid-next week. The antidote: Noddy’s Nuggets.
Only 100 miles from London and 90 from Liverpool, Birmingham in the ’60s might just as well have been the Galapagos Islands, and the unique evolution of its beat groups is perfectly captured on David Wells’s painstakingly compiled 2-discer. From the raw blues of Spencer Davis’s Dimples to the Tony Hatch-orchestrated, hippy-baiting baroque rock of The Montanas’ Difference Of Opinion, the link is an unpretentious abasement before the goddess of fun. Here we find the earliest incarnations of Steve Gibbons (The Uglys) and Noddy Holder (The ’N Betweens clodhopping You Better Run) but while the manouevres of various Moves and Moody Bluesers provides before-they-were-famous chucks, it’s the batty one-offs (notably, the eye-bugging, marimba-laced yawp of The Exception’s The Eagle Flies On Friday) that stay with you. What was to come in their wake – from Slade’s gumbies-go-Bolan to Duran Duran’s provincial take on New Romantic – was in the same vulgarian spirit. Bostin’, as the vernacular has it.
Danny Eccleston
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 6:00 AM GMT 17/12/2007
Further Listening
Carl Wayne – Songs from the Wood and Beyond: Anthology 1973-2003 (Castle 06)
The Montanas – You’ve Got To Be Loved (Castle, 1997)
Various Artists – Unearthed Merseybeat Vol.2 (Viper, 2004)
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