I too have a copy full of spelling mistakes.

I'm assuming the 'new' version will just correct any errors (such as spelling years properly!) rather than include any extra content?

Blimey!

A bit extreme.

Surely just stopping dancing would be enough? Or maybe the jazz dancers should have gone up to the DJ and used the classic line "have you got anything we can dance to?"

I wonder if I can return my copy? The format and typos are awful. Paragraphs have no space between them, years is consistently spelt as "yeahrs", apostrophes don't exist............

Good book, a wealth of information, lots of stuff I didn't know about and some choice interviews with the scene's luminaries past and present (including the great Baz Fe Jazz, Hugh Albert - easy Weeg and Gillesy P - "the mods, Eddie Pillar, hijacked the acid jazz scene......... I am proud of my soul, casual roots").

Snowboy tells it like it is, and there is some reading between the lines accusations/gripes/sour grapes from interviewees. The structure of the book is a short history of the scene and then 2/3 of the book full of interviews, separated by region. Good stuff but I would have preferred a much longer history/narrative.

As the publishers are sorting out the typos (ever heard of proof readers?!), highly recommended.

I hope Paul Murphy was interviewed.

There'll be a gaping hole otherwise.

BTW - it's Hugh Albert - did they misspell his name too?

ive been saying you dont need apostrophes for yhears.

It was Herb Alpert.

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it's Chaser publications innit?
that's what the mag was like for 15 yhears.

good to see some things don't change...

Lengthy interview with The Murphster and some nice photographs - a dapper chap in his youth. Nothing controversial but I don't want to spoil the book for you and others by listing what Murphy talks about! Also interviews with Mark Webster, Robert Elms, Kevin Beadle, Joe Davis, Colin Curtis, Bob Jones, Eddie Pillar, Russ Dewbury and many others.

Are we sure that these are printing errors or just Snowboy's Southend / Esturine accent / vocabulary???

so am I right in thinking it's not actually available yet ... ?
really looking forward to reading this ...
are there photos too ... ?

Bobby "I invented the 80's jazz revival" Elms?



He spent most of the time then propping up the bar at the WAG rather than digging the music.

WTF has Robert Elms got to do with any of this? He claims to have been involved in every musical movement this country has ever seen.

Brief history of what happened....

1) Paul Murphy & Colin Curtis

2) Kids in sheepskin coats armed with parents money.

3) Bag Boys (street record dealers) find and influence. Sell to option 2 - some grow in stature - others stagnate

4) Some great years / clubs / nights out / weekenders thrive as people jump on the "It's hip to listen/dance/go to Jazz clubs".

5) Scene starts to thin out (expected).

6) Current day

Maybe Snowboy should have got you to do the "foreward".

Took me 5 minutes to write that...ha ha ha.

Was speaking to Hugh about this book....We did have a good laugh that day! I wont comment on what was said.

They have opened up recently to a touch of broken in there as long as it's not too much of a 4/4 house type thang.

I'm there Sunday week so may take down a bit just to see, then again I might not