Rock'n'RollSoul

03/06/2019

I made this a while ago - with a few of my old Rock'n'|RollSoul favourites and some other stuff too!

Listen to Strange Brew by robonaut2

24/05/2018

A small selection of the punters who made Rock'n'RollSoul the dimly recalled institution it is. Please tag, comment and share. Did you know we're coming back for one night only on 9 June? Most pictures by Richard Butler.

27/04/2018

Don't know about you, but this is the look I might go for on Saturday 8 June for Simon's party.

25/04/2018

Have you still got your old ROCK'N'ROLLSOUL badges? Do you own a serviceable pair of dancing trousers? Reckon you can still cut some passable rug?

We can’t guarantee that the guy pictured below will be back again (in fact, we’re fairly sure he won’t), and nor do we think that you’ll be sharing frug space with Bill Nighy or Matthew from Kings of Leon this time around. It’s doubtful that Rich from Soulsavers will be there, recalling the difficulty of DJing for the Stones or that Belle & Sebastian’s Chris Geddes will be fretting about whether his band’s music is “age appropriate” (it is, it is!).

We doubt that the Actionettes will be showing us how to throw shapes, girl-group-style; that Leila Moss, Ed Harcourt and their Heavenly Records all-star band the W***e Dogs will be doing another secret set; or that The Charlatans’ Tim Burgess will turn up (he’s never turned up).

You definitely won’t see pictures of yourself on the ace projections that characterised our later years; nor can you expect to see Paul Weller bassist Andy Lewis talking shop with king of the mods Eddie Piller. The Style Council’s cappuccino kid Paolo Hewitt probably won’t be there either, playing Graham Parker and talking about Spurs, and it’s unlikely that Edgar Jones will pop down from Liverpool with his Joneses, mainly as he’s got a regular DJ slot up there most Saturdays.

I’d love to see Casper the clothes shop guy dominating the dancefloor again but we’ve lost touch, and there won’t be sets from Stars in Their Eyes winner Emma Wilkinson as Dusty Springfield or Colbert, Tooting Bec's Black Elvis. Our own cardboard Elvis has left the building, too (he was last seen being paraded down Great Portland Street by thieving Presley Ultras; we weren’t going to argue with them).

Instead, we’re taking things right back to the time in 2001 when Gary Barrell, Nat Cramp and the Horse first stepped into the Albany, Great Portland Street and said “Smells a bit, but we’ll give it a go!” Of our other many guests and residents, Emma Sunley says she'll be there with her dainty box of thriftstore soul. There may yet, though, be surprises.

Together we will be mixing up the same heady cocktail of soul that rocks and rock with soul that led to at least five years of sold-out revels at the Albany and our little night being chosen as the Londonist’s 2nd best club in London (the winner was Erol Alkan's Trash). And we’re doing it just for you* - on Saturday 9 June. Let us know if you can make it, and we’ll scribble your name on some sort of guestlist.

Tell everybody you know,

Gary, Nat and Martin x

* Actually, that’s not strictly true. It’s for our friend Simon’s birthday, but he doesn’t want to make a fuss.

22/02/2013

For the avoidance of any lingering doubt, there will NOT be a RocknRollSoul night at the Market House tonight or at any time in the foreseeable future. Like The Smiths, we're on an indefinite hiatus, but never say never. PS/ Thank you all for your enthusiasm, loyalty and occasional £3s from November 2001 to January 2012.

05/02/2013

Boo! Reg Presley has died. Despite having had this for ages, I played it out for the first time last Friday night at Rock'n'RollSoul, during mine and Gary's rather freeform two hours between 12 and 2.

This video is dedicated to my friend psychegirl. The Troggs are an English rock band from the 1960s that had a number of hits in Britain and the USA. Their m...

24/01/2013

See you tomorrow night!

Rock'n'RollSoul at the Market House, Friday at 8:00pm
Market House. Brixton. in London, United Kingdom, 443 Coldharbour Lane, SW9 8LN London, United Kingdom

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgIbp8TBLRk

Otis Clay - She's About A Mover (1968)

11/12/2012

Stone the crows. Is this the Market House, full to bursting for Rock'n'RollSoul with fab guests from Kitchener Road? I believe it is. There'll be more scenes like this in 2013, folks. And - whisper it! - surprise LIVE bands.

03/12/2012

Of course, whether you're into this will depend on your tolerance for middle aged bearded men wearing satin jackets and baseball jackets, but to my ears the Beach Boys have never sounded better than on this 1980 concert film, shown on BBC4 at the weekend.

A setlist featuring Good Vibrations, California Girls, I Get Around, Surfin' USA and more.

02/11/2012

Great piece on Acid Jazz from today's Guardian. Eddie is taking some stick in the Comments below but respect to him, Dean and all the Acid Jazzers past and present: running an indie label for 25 years, opening people's ears to so much quality old stuff, getting Terry Callier back in the studio, and being behind so many great club nights and venues is an inspirational achievement.

Tom Horan on the label that brought mod classics back to the dance floor, signed Jamiroquai and rediscovered Terry Callier