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Mod: the Elusive British Dream

Jason Holmes | Posted 09.05.2013 | UK
Read More: Dean Chalkley, Social Change, Modernism, Jake Bugg, Subcultures, David Bowie, Mods, Miles Kane, Paul Weller, Carnaby Street, UK Books, UK Culture, UK News
Jason Holmes

'No political or cultural figurehead has ever come up with the phrase "a British dream", so Mod appeals to me politically because it's the closest we've ever come to having an American Dream.' So says Richard Weight, author of Mod: A Very British Style.

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Damon Minchella: A Bass Player With His Finger On the Pulse

Jason Holmes | Posted 25.04.2013 | UK Entertainment
Read More: Damon Minchella, 90s-Britpop, Steve Cradock, Madchester, Mods, Steve White, Ocean Colour Scene, Amy Winehouse, Pete Townshend, Oasis, The Who, Bass Guitar, Richard Ashcroft, Paul Weller, Rock and Roll, Jimmy Page, UK Music, UK Entertainment News
Jason Holmes

Minchella learned the business the hard way - perhaps the best way - on the pub circuit, playing professionally for the first time in 1987, two years before the golden break with Ocean Colour Scene.

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Michael Smiley: Making the Case for More Laughter Than Tears

Jason Holmes | Posted 27.04.2013 | UK Comedy
Read More: Miranda Sawyer, Michael Smiley, Edinburgh Festival, Mods, Stand-Up Comedy, Paul Weller, Frankie Boyle, Belfast, Ireland, UK Comedy News
Jason Holmes

He's a strange brew, at once funny, then turning on a dime, as serious as a prophet. Born in Belfast in 1963, Michael Smiley grew up in a cultural atmosphere which fed his ire, and ultimately, his humour.

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Away from the Mainstream: Meet the Oxbow Lake Band

Jason Holmes | Posted 14.12.2012 | UK Entertainment
Read More: Donald Byrd, Gilles Peterson, The-Jazz-Cafe, Bootsy Collins, Soul, The Style Council, Ronnie-Scotts-Jazz-Club, Bobby Womack, Folk Music, Dexys, Mods, Blues, Belladrum Festival, Eddie Piller, Dingwalls, Latin Music, Inverness, Norman Jay, Jamiroquai, Jazz Fm, Funk, Bob Jones, Kiss FM, Alice Coltrane, Ray Charles, Pharaoh Sanders, UK Entertainment News
Jason Holmes

'We're a gigging band in Scotland,' Andy Clucas tells me. 'We started as an acoustic band back in the winter of 2007, and a lot of people told us we had a Dexys [Midnight Runners] sound, probably because our sound is...eclectic.'

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A Tale of Two Cities: Peckham Rye

Jason Holmes | Posted 05.11.2012 | UK Style
Read More: India, Brigade Road, World War 2, Newburgh Street, Soho, Paisley, Mods, Bespoke, East India Company, Prada, Kashmir, Eddie Piller, Bangalore India, The Raj, Gibraltar, Malta, Acid Jazz Records, Peckham Rye, Carnaby Street, David Gandy, A Tale of Two Cities, UK Style News
Jason Holmes

When Jason Holmes met Martin Brighty, owner of Soho-based gentlemen's outfitter Peckham Rye, he discovered the latest chapter in a tailoring story tha...

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Crombie: Coats Maketh the Man

Jason Holmes | Posted 30.10.2012 | UK Style
Read More: Savile Row, Aberdeen, America, Covert Coats, Greatcoats, Liberty London, American Civil War, Mayfair, Mods, Far East, Vincent Cassel, Barack Obama, Cary Grant, Duke of Windsor, The Beatles, Harrods, Winston Chruchill, Barneys New York, Conduit Street, Japan, Paul Weller, Jfk, Brown Thomas, Crombie, UK Style News
Jason Holmes

Crombie's autumn/winter 2012 collection possesses what you would expect from a company that has dressed the likes of the Duke of Windsor, Winston Churchill, Cary Grant, The Beatles, JFK and Barack Obama: and that is ineffable classic style, but with a modern twist. Jason Holmes met Crombie's head of wholesale Gordon Ritchie to try on the king of coats

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Jasmine Kara, the New Blues Sound

Jason Holmes | Posted 03.06.2012 | UK Entertainment
Read More: Blues Ain?T Nothing but a Good Woman Gone Bad Soho, Stockholm, Chess Records, Terry Callier, Soul, Jason Holmes, Jasmine Kara, Funk, Mods, Blues, Cosmos Records, Marshall Chess, Eddie Piller, London-United Kingdom, Borderline, UK Entertainment News
Jason Holmes

On a March evening in London's West End as a bitter wind swept through emptying streets, a coterie of men and women convened at the Borderline Club in the shadow of Foyles bookshop to pay respect to a burgeoning musical talent from Sweden.

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Me, Paul Weller and the Twins

Trevor Neal | Posted 04.04.2012 | UK Comedy
Read More: The Proclaimers, Trev and Simon, Simon Hickson, 1979, Mods, The Jam, Paul Weller, 1977, Trevor and Simon, UK Entertainment, UK Comedy, UK Celebrity, Trevor Neal, UK Comedy News
Trevor Neal

In the late 80s or early 90s, I did an ambulance workers' benefit in London, with my comedy partner Simon Hickson. Paul Weller was on the same bill. He tapped me on the shoulder and asked "Where's the sound check?" I was speechless and just pointed. We didn't talk about the old times together, in Southampton, in 1979, when we wore the same shirt. But that was okay.

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