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ALL IN GOOD TIME® STYLE/MUSIC/CULTURE ISSUE 2

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IN ASSOCIATION WITH FREE MAGAZINE SPRING/SUMMER 2013 ALL IN GOOD TIME® STYLE/MUSIC/CULTURE IN ASSOCIATION WITH SPRING/SUMMER 2013

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EDITORIAL SPECIAL THANKS Del Junction & Mark Baxter Ace Café for use of the premises for the shoot – an original and inspiring venue packed full of popular PHOTOGRAPHY culture and relevant history Annie Ward, John Cole & Craig Coleran Mark Baxter for his continued support DESIGN ATOM RETRO.com for the kind donation of clothing from their Phil Dias & Rafael Rizzolo @ Karma Creative Madcap collection – as worn by Billy, Daisy, Darron and Joel www.karma-creative.co.uk Lee Osborne for design elements on pages 10-11 MODELS Daisy Bowes Billy Sullivan Tom Deacon for fi lming the shoot Terry Rawlings And of course a massive thanks to all those involved in the Rich Wilson shoot and the magazine – without which there would be no John Hellier Darron J Connett stories to tell…and no pages to turn Joel Rogers

Inspiring people in diffi cult times Our collaboration with and gritty circumstances is not a Boy Terry Rawlings - music WELCOME conscious decision; rather it’s by the journalist, writer and all round very drive, ambition and passion to It’s been a full and productive dapper gent - has been an create something that adds texture twelve months since the inaugural interesting journey. Never short of to the world we live in. We all do issue of “All in Good Time” and here a tale or two – Terry’s passion for it in some shape or form – often at Delicious Junction Towers we’ve the 60’s culture has led us to create without realising we bring colour been busy at it, as they say! a damn fi ne square toe lace-up in and verve to our communities. vibrant corded suedes. All in good time magazine issue one Everyone loves a good shoe, exceeded our modest expectations is in the detail and we live by someone once said to me and that’s and we raise a glass and thank that motto in all we do - boots and defi nitely been the case over the everyone who took the time to read shoes are our passion and we hope past year – we’ve encountered it and inspire us to make another one. they bring a fl ash of style and colour some interesting and creative to your world. Enjoy the read and characters along the way such as We’ve even gone to the trouble of keep the faith. writers, singers, an arts-and-crafts making a short - behind the scenes designer, a true musical legend and - fi lmed at The Ace Café London; a comedian to mention just a few; of the photo shoot which will be the following pages will help tell available on line by the time this their stories. issue has gone to print.

2 CONTENTS 4. INTRODUCING DAISY Del Junction meets up with a 16. RICH WILSON fresh face - Daisy Bowes - shares Original, charming and seriously a milkshake with her and chats funny; Del talks with the modern about her passion for the 60’s face of comedy. style. 23. GARY CROWLEY 18. NICHOLSON Top gent and with 3 new delicious 6. BILLY SULLIVAN AND WALCOT colours of his desert boot about to Another chance to catch up with Del has a coffee and chat with the be released we catch up with Gary The Spitfi res front man – we talk inspiration and creator behind and see what’s on his playlist. about his recent visit to Black N&W – the hand made craft Barn studios. business. 24. TERRY SHAUGHNESSY 8. THE RAWLINGS 19. JOHN HELLIER Del Junction fi nds out more about PROJECT Interesting insight into the world his band The Universal, his very A Delicious collaboration with of Mod afi cionado and dedicated fi rst gig and what infl uences Terry the famous music journalist and follower of the . draws on. writer Terry Rawlings. 22. 26. THE LAST OF 14. Ocean Colour Scene lead singer THE TROUBADOURS Two-Tone legend Neville Staple talks openly with Delicious Highlights of a very good year catches up with Del and chats Junction competition winner for the band in 2012 and looking about his love of touring and our Russell Frampton. ahead to what’s in store for 2013. loafers!

ALL IN GOOD TIME 2 • SPRING/SUMMER 2013 3 INTRODUCING DAISY... IT’S ALWAYS REFRESHING TO SEE THE YOUNGER ELEMENT COMING THROUGH IN THE MODERNIST WORLD. ONE THAT CAUGHT THE EYE OF DEL WAS DAISY BOWES, GIRLFRIEND OF SINGER/ BILLY SULLIVAN OF THE SPITFIRES. WE CAUGHT UP WITH DAISY AT THE RECENT PHOTO SHOOT FOR THIS VERY MAGAZINE…. DJ: Where does the fascination with 60’s and up and coming styles. There are dress fashion for you come from? for success (yes there has been a post on The Spitfi res) fashion is a big part of my life DB: I suppose the obsession is from my and I suppose the website did start out just female icons who are all from the 60’s era. as a hobby I love doing. I’m thrilled it has People such as Jane Birkin, Jean Shrimpton, received the amount of attention it has and Edie Sedgwick and of course Mary Quant. being a very ambitious person I would like They all have style that oozes confi dence and to think that now ‘Daisy Do’s’ does have a it’s clear in what they wear they know what following it could go further in the future to they like and dislike. I do prefer the sharper bigger things, but you never know. cuts of clothing, I like to feel smart and to match everything down to a ‘T’ and I think DJ: Do you have a favourite style among these women are perfect examples of that. Delicious Junction shoes?

DJ: We often see you at gigs around town, DB: The rudeboy loafers are a classic, which who are your favourite bands at the minute? I love! Some of the styles certainly are not for the faint hearted but that’s defi nitely not a DB: The Spitfi res of course! To be honest bad thing! If you’ve got the bollocks to wear nothing new has really grabbed my attention them then good on ya! Dare to be different in the last few months. Everything dies out as they say people fi rst judge you on your before it’s begun which is a shame. Music shoes so why not make it a loud one! from decades ago seems to hold my attention for longer anyway so I think I’ll just stick to DJ: How do friends your age feel about your what I know for now. I’m quite into the new 60s/Mod look? Jake Bugg single but we will have to see how long that lasts for. DB: Most people I socialise with dress in the same way as me but then again they are DJ: I hear you have launched your own not my age! Most of my peers have their fashion website tell us more? own style just as I do and I accept there’s as they accept mine. Don’t get me wrong I DB: I have indeed! It’s all new to me but get a fair few comments about some of my it’s very exciting I have to say! ‘Daisy Do’s’ outfi t choices but who doesn’t? I like that basically showcases the general public’s take I surprise people with what I wear it gives on different fashion styles. me a sense of achievement! I always say the most important thing about fashion is feeling Not only do I have pictures of the general comfortable and confi dent in what you wear public but I also include fashion hotspots, and I always do. ‘happening retailers’, some of my own looks

ALL IN GOOD TIME 2 • SPRING/SUMMER 2013 5 THE BILLY SULLIVAN MOD WE AT DELICIOUS JUNCTION TOWERS RATED UP AND COMING BILLY SO MUCH, THAT COUP WE PUT HIM ON THE FRONT COVER OF ‘ALL IN GOOD TIME - ISSUE ONE’.

He has gone on to play some prestigious DJ: Name you favourite DJ shoes at gigs and record in celebrated studios, present so seems to be going the right way. We grabbed a few words with this busy young BS: Rude boy loafers are my favourite. man at our photo shoot session Classic style and great stage wear.

DJ: I hear The Spitfi res have had a change DJ: So, what are you hoping for in 2013? of line up recently, tell us more… BS: We are hoping for the new single to BS: Matt and Sam joined the band in mid achieve the success we believe it should do September. Both very talented musicians and hopefully create a path taking us to and it just clicked from the moment we bigger and better things! starting rehearsals. There’s now a mutual DJ: How do friend’s your age feel about feeling of passion and an urge to get to your 60s/Mod look? wherever we want to go. BS: My friends all understand my interests DJ: A little bird (and we don’t mean Daisy!) and tastes even if its not for them. But I tells us you have recently recorded in a tend to be surrounded by like minded very famous studio, where and how was people. Living somewhere like Watford that? you sort of expect to be isolated and BS: We had an opportunity to record at laughed at but it’s my taste and I don’t care! Black Barn studios (owned by ). Amen to that Brother Sullivan! It was a fantastic experience and we all learnt so much from it, which I think shows in the result - Our new single ‘Spark to Start/Sirens’ out November 12th.

6 ALL IN GOOD TIME 2 • SPRING/SUMMER 2013 D UPLE I was totally

“ mad about

all things Sixties as a kid – it “ was the imagery… THE RAWLINGS PROJECT FROM A VERY EARLY AGE, THE LIFE OF THE MODERNIST AND 1960s POP CULTURE FASCINATED THE SOUTH LONDONER.

Terry became gravely ill in 2007 with on Charley Records. Nobody at all was Following that, I had the confi dence to a rare form of cancer and many friends into the Small Faces – not even when they start doing a book about Brian Jones, and family then rallied to put on two re-formed (looking nothing like the Small which still keeps me busy even today! Paul benefi t charity nights to raise funds for his Faces) without and not doing made the initial calls to publishers for me, daughters. Thankfully Terry survived and he much business. This is incredible when you which got my foot in the door, and it went continues to work on future projects. look at their profi le now. on from there - I’ve got Paul to thank for that. Del spoke to Terry recently at a local wine Anyway, Tony and I would literally search bar…. out pictures of the band (which was nigh DJ: Does it still engage you in the way it on impossible at that time) for our fanzine. fi rst did in the early days? DJ: Why writing? How did you get into the We took it really seriously, and managed industry? three issues. TR: Well, yes and no. The days of good advances are long gone (unless you’re Will TR: I never had any ambition to go Now, I was friends with Paul Weller in Self or that bird that writes housewife into writing; I never had any ambition. those days, and he was a massive Who and porn), and also there are a lot of people I was expelled from school without any Kinks man (he even had one of those Dave writing books as a hobby who will take qualifi cations apart from an ‘O’ Level in Art, Davies’ pointy hat things made!) He really a two grand advance because they have but my English teacher (bless her) marked liked the fanzine and would come up to another job. It costs the publishers sod me on my own writing ability so I ended Sire to get it. all; the writer gets up with an English ‘O’ Level in my absence. some beer money Years later, when I was working at Sire Incidentally, it was James Honeyman-Scott to write about some records, me and my mate Tony Lorden (the of The Pretenders (who was signed to obscure outfi t grumpy mod in Department S of ‘Is Vic Sire) who introduced fi rst me to Ronnie from the Shetland There’ fame) - put together a Small Faces Lane… but I digress. Paul got massively Isles; it’ll sell a few fanzine on the offi ce photocopier. This was into the Small Faces, and he asked me to do hundred copies and imaginatively titled ‘Sha-la-la-la-lee’. a proper, professionally printed magazine everyone’s happy! version of the fanzine that he could sell on Penny-pinching Now, you wouldn’t believe it, but back merchandise stall. It was called ‘All publishers and in 1978-79 the Small Faces were a The Yesterdays’, and I hit the jackpot with part-time writers completely forgotten band. There was a photo library that had the most fantastic have lowered the nothing available - no product and no pictures of the Small Faces that I’d never profi le - apart from a cheap release seen before –or since!

ALL IN GOOD TIME 2 • SPRING/SUMMER 2013 9 bar, and made it hard to write for a living. DJ: Please list in no particular order your I try to infl uence my girls with certain That and the games generation of kids who three best dressed people from any walk books, fi lms and music so maybe there is don’t read books nowadays - you see them of life and describe why you have chosen something in it. on the underground playing games on their them? phones. When I was younger I never left DJ: Will you grow old gracefully or the house without a book. TR: Jerry Lewis (actor) was impossibly disgracefully!?! cool in the late Fifties and early Sixties DJ: Please describe what got you into the (obviously not in the fi lms – unless you TR: I’ve already done it! I’ve left a trail of Modernist movement in the fi rst place and count Buddy Love). If you see pictures disgraceful behaviour that reaches back how has that affected your life? of him out and about in California at that four decades. time - wearing impeccable suits; mafi a gold DJ: Are you into seeing the bands that have TR: I was totally mad about all things pinkie ring; constant cigarette and the reformed recently, or is it all about digging Sixties as a kid –it was the imagery. When sharpest shoes - you’ll realise how spot- the new breed for you? my brother was buying ‘Ziggy Stardust’ on he is. There’s a book of photographs and dyeing his hair orange, I was buying taken by Sammy Davis Jnr with Jerry Lewis TR: I’m out of the loop as regards new Monkees and Partridge Family on the cover –check it out; it’s a study in bands – I just don’t hear or see any. My from the church jumble sale. My nan even ultimate cool. mate Bernie (Rhythm Factory) asked me made me one of those Monkees bright to put on some new bands and it was like red cavalry shirts, and knitted me a green always looks great, and pulling teeth trying to get new bands to get bobble hat with eight pearl buttons (which he’s come a long way from those Adidas it together. A lot of my old mates have been makes me even with Paul Weller with his jackets and trainers he wore when he fi rst in bands for years, and they put these new Dave Davies hat). I’d buy Archie comics came down to London. He always makes guys to shame. The ones that are making and anything that featured pictures of the effort, and has done more to make an effort (The Lost Boys, The Spitfi res, Sixties bands, like the girl’s music annual young people aware of decent clothing Last of the Troubadours) have got an uphill ‘Boyfriend’ which were always on second- than anyone else in years. struggle ahead, but I hope they realise hand book stalls. I eventually got into they’ve got to put the work in to be taken more serious bands, and progressed to The Brian Jones always looked fantastic, even seriously. Who’s album, which had when he was completely out of it -the coolest-dressed Stone every time. A really the iconic black and white booklet with DJ: Shoes are a vital part of the modernist original dresser, and a true innovator from great pictures by Michael Cooper. That’s wardrobe – What is your preferred style of head to toe. when I bought the parka from Club Row in shoe and why does it mean so much to you? Shoreditch. It wasn’t so much becoming a DJ: Mod has been described as lifestyle, a (EG Brogue, Loafer Desert Boot etc.…?) mod; it was like buying a coat that wrapped code by which to live your life. Agree with up all the things I loved about the Sixties in TR: It’s a wonder I never got trench-foot that and if so why? one big blanket. I still loved the pop aspect, for the amount of Desert Boots that have and never the soul or Stax side of Sixties TR: Not sure I live my life by a ‘mod gone rotten on me in the rain over the music. Let’s be honest - people don’t try to code’, because I don’t really know of one. years! Gary Crowley used to joke to me dress like the Four Tops, Temptations or Mod certainly affects what you wear and that we should have a desert boot named , but we see a lot of Dave Dee, what you listen to, but I don’t know that after us, and now – my god – he has! Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Titch! you could describe it as a code. That said,

10 ALL IN GOOD TIME 2 • SPRING/SUMMER 2013 DJ: Give us your ultimate top 5 tunes and DJ: If we owned a cultural time machine by-and-large they turn out to be horribly express why, in 5 words and under, they do what period would you travel back to and shallow people who are awkward in their it for you? why? own skin. So, to sum that up, I would say that the key is to never take yourself too TR: That’s a very tricky one because the TR: I’d repeatedly return to the days seriously; learn to laugh at yourself; and (as list changes for everyone depending on before I made the worst decisions of my you get older) try to be as nice a person as their mood, and what’s going on in their life - never mind culture! you can be. I can say that because I’ve been lives. However, one that always stays a bleedin’ bastard to a lot of people who DJ: When it comes to advice on life, love, my number one of all time is: didn’t deserve it in the past. music or clothes do you have a motto or 1 ‘My Sweet Lord’ (George Harrison) – saying we could take away with us? As for love, the key is to recognise it when Hare Rama, Krishna Kishna...brilliant! it’s with you. TR: Well, that’s a lot of categories and 2 ‘One for the Road’ (Ronnie Lane) – a I don’t think my advice on any of those With regard to music: I’ve found that you great song; good advice subjects will benefi t anyone. I’ve always can’t bear to listen to the last thing you been very self-depreciating, and that’s a played the night before, fi rst thing the 3 ‘When I’m Dead and Gone’ (McGuiness trait that’s at the other end of the scale to following morning. I guarantee to you that Flint) – the best funeral song people who are egotistical. the mood will have changed! 4 ‘Some Fantastic Place’ (Squeeze) – a tear- So, if I have any advice at all about life, it Clothes: must be co-ordinated – and never jerker every time would be: don’t have an ego; it’s a nasty spots with stripes. characteristic and not an attribute to 5 ‘’ () – be proud of. Believe me, I’ve met some My motto? Gawd Bless Ya! The Voice of gigantic ego-maniacs in my time, and

ALL IN GOOD TIME 2 • SPRING/SUMMER 2013 11

ORIGINAL RUDE

BOYDEL JUNCTION CATCHES UP FOR A CHAT WITH LEGEND NEVILLE STAPLE

DJ: Who were your musical heroes artists and bands, especially . growing up? Being back on the road again now is really NS: Desmond Dekker was one of my just a continuation of what I have been favourites when I was growing up. doing for many years. I have never stopped performing even during breaks from The DJ: What was is like being up on stage in gigs and I love it all just as much. two-tone days? To us it looked like being in With The Specials, we recently played at the the eye of a storm… ‘Alternative Olympic Closing Ceremony’ at Hyde Park in London for the UK’s Best NS: Being on stage during the Two-Tone of British event. It was immense to see the days felt just right at a time when I needed crowd going wild and singing along to all it. It was all an adrenalin rush and pace. our tracks. In fact the tours we have done Especially for me, coming off the street and over the last few years have all been to huge staying out of trouble. It helped me to focus packed venues, with so many rudies, skins on something I loved. and mods coming together like they are one DJ: What was the highlight of those days big family. Not like the days of old when and what are you enjoying about being back there was animosity and fi ghting between on the road with the band? many of them. It’s great to see such respect for each other through music. NS: The highlight of those days was defi nitely reaching number 1 in the charts I have my own Neville Staple Band and we and getting to meet so many other great have toured for many years and were still going strong, with a massive fan base. I have business and pleasure. What I love about the DJ: Will you grow old gracefully or also been involved with helping and working loafer style is you can wear them with suits disgracefully! with many other bands both in the UK and or jeans and they look great with either. the US, like Rancid, Public Disordent, Planet NS: I will grow old gracefully enjoying what Smashers, The Talks (new track due out My missus Christine favours your black and I do, which is being on stage entertaining this Autumn), (The Comet Returns white ‘Rude Boy Special’ shoes and wears fans. Although I have done the ‘wild thing’ – released this month); and more a new them with her little rude girl skirts as well and been a bit disgraceful in my younger collaboration with Leee John (Imagination) as jeans. I think she looks great in them days (when I could get away with it) but I’m and others, on a new version of Junior although being the same shoe size, I have older and wiser now so I behave myself..! Murvin’s Police and Thieves (due for general to watch that she don’t decide to nick my Well most of the time (Nudge, nudge) release this Winter). oxbloods to wear! She loves them too. DJ: Give us your ultimate top 5 tunes and DJ: You always put in a serious amount of DJ: Please describe what got you into the express in 5 words or under, why they do it work on-stage, do you work out or are you Two-tone movement in the fi rst place and for you? naturally fi t? how has that affected your life? NS: Pressure Drop: An all-time favourite NS: I have always been naturally fi t and NS: It was who got me into Pick It Up: Keeps you skanking loved 30 plus years of being vigorous and the Two-Tone movement, fi rst as a roadie and later as a member of the band. He took physical on stage. However, since a serious Stop That Train: Recently added to my set car crash nearly 2 years ago, which caused me on board after liking the way I toasted a series of heavy duty medical issues, I have lyrics over the tracks. It affected my life big Monkey Man: One of my signature tracks had to slow right down on stage and leave time and I even wrote a book ‘Original Rude out the Monkey acrobatics!! Boy – From Borstal to the Specials’ which Message to you Rudy: Well-known and catalogues my life with the band and prior. timeless classic DJ: Thanks for endorsing our Rude Boy loafer, what caught your eye about them? DJ: Please list in no particular order your DJ: When it comes to advice on life, love three best-dressed people from any walk of music or clothes do you have a motto or NS: When I saw your recent collection of life and describe why you have chosen them saying we could take away with us? footwear, the Rude Boy oxblood loafers jumped out at me. I used to wear shoes like NS: To be honest I can’t think of anyone off NS: Live life to the full, love your music and that all the time as well as the Dessert Boots, hand however, I believe everyone has their grab every opportunity to do what you love Monkey Boots and brogues that I still wear. I own style. However I reckon the / mod doing – like I did! And for artists – never am now wearing the Rude Boy Oxblood (my scene in particular, has probably been the forget who put you where you are! favourite) on stage and the black ones for best and smartest styles ever.

ALL IN GOOD TIME 2 • SPRING/SUMMER 2013 15 RICH WILSON THE MODERN FACE OF COMEDY

Born in 1972 in Bromley, Richie is the proud father of two boys, Keanu, 20, a dancer at Pineapple and The North London Dance Studio and Bailey, 15, an aspiring drummer.

Mr Wilson has loved comedy ever since his older next-door neighbour gave him a cassette of Eddie Murphy’s ‘Delirious’. “It was the most mind-blowing thing I’d ever heard. His comedy aspirations lay dormant until he got a job as a barman at a comedy club in , South London, called Up The Creek.

In October of 2004, Rich took his fi rst steps onto the stage and into the limelight. He is a regular at all the major comedy clubs up and down the country and has become a fi rm favourite entertaining troops across the world as part of the armed forces entertainment service.

With subject matters ranging from being a young father, to observational material on the absurdities of life in general, comedian Rich has rapidly become one of the most in demand comedians in the country. Plus with an exceptional ability to think on his feet, Rich has proved to be a top compere able to tame even the toughest of crowds with his likable, charming manner. like winning the World Cup. Anything else Stone Roses were magnifi cent this year that comes along, like TV etc… is a bonus. but the energy you get from seeing a new band having there fi rst taste of success is DJ: Please describe what got you into the incredible! I saw Miles Kane last year and Modernist movement in the fi rst place and for the fi rst time in years I felt eighteen how has that affected your life? again and wanted to start a band. You don’t get that feeling when you see one of the old RW: I saw my fi rst mods when I was seven breed going through their greatest hits. or eight. I didn’t know that’s what they were. It was just a group of teenagers in DJ: Shoes are a vital part of the modernist parkas dancing outside a shop on Carnaby wardrobe – What is your preferred style of Street. I’d always had my eye on modernism shoe and why does it mean so much to you? but it wasn’t until I started going to a (EG Brogue, Loafer Desert Boot etc.…?) mod club in 2003 that I became a mod myself. Steve, who’s club it was, was also a RW: I don’t like slip on shoes with a suit. hairdresser so he sorted my barnet as well. A good brogue for me makes it look like Happy days you mean business. Desert boots for when you’re off duty. They are the epitome of DJ: Please list in no particular order your smart casual. three best dressed people from any walk of life and describe why you have chosen them DJ: Give us your ultimate top 5 tunes and express why in 5 words and under, they do RW: Actor and comedian Michael Smiley it for you. has been the biggest infl uence on me. He always looks well turned out. Even when RW: This is the hardest question of all! I’ll he’s cycling! give it a go.

Musician Neil Hannon from The Divine Baby Earl and the Trinidads-Backslop. DJ: Why the funny man? Why not a doctor Comedy is someone else that always looks Always gets me up dancing. or a painter and decorator? good. Even when he’s off duty. Paul Weller-Bullrush. The ultimate song of RW: I’ve done all manner of jobs. You name Actor and icon Steve McQueen always hope. it. I’ve done it. It really has been a case of looked good too. He wore great suits in butcher, baker, candlestick maker. Thomas Crown and no one looks better in a The Four Tops - Reach Out. Levi Stubbs Harrington. meant every word. Being a comedian is the best job in the world. DJ: Mod has been described as lifestyle, a The Small Faces - Tin Soldier. The most code by which to live your life. Agree with perfect three minutes. DJ: Describe your fi rst break into comedy? that and if so why? The Hives - Two Timing Touch And Broken RW: I was a bar man in a comedy club RW: Yes I’d agree with that. Pete Meaden’s Bones. Balls out rock n roll. called Up The Creek in Greenwich, South quote “clean living under diffi cult DJ: If we owned a cultural time machine East London, and became friends with a circumstances” is more relevant now than what period would you travel back to and comedian called Silky who had his own it’s ever been. Also, making an effort with why? comedy rooms and he gave me my fi rst gigs. your appearance shows respect for yourself, Eight years later and I’m still going strong. your partner and everyone around you. RW: I’d go back to 1967.Good clothes, DJ: Do you take yourself seriously – or fi nd Mod is a great code to live by. It’s all about good music. I’d also go back to just before it easy to laugh at yourself? making an effort no matter how skint you Crocs were invented and have a word in the are or how crap you feel. dudes ear. He should be banged up! RW: The worst thing anybody in the world can do is take themselves too seriously. I DJ: Will you grow old gracefully or DJ: When it comes to advice on life, love, fi nd it very easy to laugh at myself. disgracefully !?! music or clothes do you have a motto or saying we could take away with us? I’m a fat mod! What’s not to laugh at? RW: Defi nitely disgracefully. It’s better to burn out than to fade away. I couldn’t agree RW: I have a motto of sorts. Use your DJ: What’s next on the agenda? TV maybe? more Mr Young. infl uences, dont be them. You can be infl uenced by people but try and hang DJ: Are you into seeing the bands that have RW: I’m currently working on my fi rst one on to your own identity. Also. comedian reformed recently, or is it all about digging man show which I’ll be touring around next Nick Doody said “ we don’t need ten the new breed for you? year so keep your eyes peeled for that. commandments, we just need one. Don’t be I’ve also just got my fi rst bookings for The RW: If a bands good then it doesn’t matter a dick.” I reckon that covers all bases. Comedy Store in London, which is, for me, if they’re old or new. I’ve heard that The

ALL IN GOOD TIME 2 • SPRING/SUMMER 2013 17 NICHOLSON AND WALCOT THE HAND MADE from my mum ( hence the company name, NIcholson being my maiden name & Walcot CRAFT BUSINESS the lovely South London square I was born and brought up in)

DJ: N&W are well known for their amazing scarves mainly, how did that start?

LB: Making bespoke scarves started with my husband not being able to fi nd one exactly as he wanted in 2006. We did a few of those fi rst, he kept being asked where he got them from and demand grew. N&W was then born in 2007 starting with men’s scarves and has grown steadily introducing pocket squares, ladies & kids along with bags & homewares.

DJ: Go on, everybody loves a ‘name drop’ who you worked with? Name some of your more famous clients

LB: If I must ha! - Paul Weller, , Kevin Rowland, Suggs, Paolo Hewitt and Gary Crowley (you might have heard of the last two?) Nicholson and Walcot, began in 2007. Owned by Louise Baxter, the company is DJ: How has it been collaborating with proud of its South London heritage and that’s Delicious Junction? is refl ected in its name – made up from the components of a maiden name and the street LB: Working with DJ has been very of happy early years. A demand for quality enjoyable, especially with all the music / Life is for accessories was the inspiration to begin band /mutual connections, it also gives making the scarves for which N&W are well another branch to N&W and exposes our living and it’s

known for. These now sell all over the World name to a different audience. on-line and in shops in the UK – with well a short ride.

DJ: What are the plans for 2013 for N&W? “ known customers from the world of music and fi lm, including - Suggs, Martin Freeman, LB: Our plans are to continue building on Savour and Paul Weller and Kevin Rowland – among the fantastic relationships we have with those waiting for the new styles each season. “ existing individuals & companies that we make the most You can fi nd out more at… currently work with and look to gain a little www.nicholsonandwalcot.co.uk more exposure slowly and surely. out of every

DJ: So, Lou - have you always loved sewing? We pride ourselves on quality & customer service, catering for all and we see this as the minute… LB: I have always been into crafts, especially main ethos of N&W sewing from a very young age, learning

18 ALL IN GOOD TIME 2 • SPRING/SUMMER 2013 JOHN HELLIER AUTHENTIC, PASSIONATE AND DEDICATED FOLLOWER OF THE SMALL FACES The sight of Essex Boy John Hellier, with his distinctive hairstyle, is a familiar one DEL POPPED DOWN TO to anyone who has attended Mod related events over the past twenty odd years. CANVEY ISLAND TO SPEAK John, in fact, was very much part of the TO MR HELLIER RECENTLY Mod scene in the mid to late 1960s, attending all the legendary clubs that we TO ASK THE FOLLOWING have heard of today, the likes of The Scene and The Marquee among them. Always QUESTIONS OVER A PINT a massive lover of music, he also played drums for various bands, including a short OF WHELKS…. stint with the well-known ‘Johns Children’.

But it as the chronicler of all things ‘Small Faces’, that he is perhaps best known for DJ: Would you describe yourself as DJ: Please describe what got you into the today. He began the Wapping Wharf fanatical at all costs when it comes to the Modernist movement in the fi rst place and fanzine in 1993, dedicating his spare time Small Faces? If so please provide a glimpse how has that affected your life? to renew and revive interest in the UK’s into the extreme lengths you’ve gone to ultimate Mod band. over the years. JH: Well it goes back to when I was at school in 1963. Back then it was never a He began the Small Faces Conventions JH: Well I’ve loved the Small Faces since conscious thing. Nobody, well certainly in 1996 using The Ruskin Arms in East I fi rst saw a picture of them back in a teen nobody in my circle, said to themself “ I’m Ham as the venue; due to the fact that the magazine back in 1965. The records were gonna be a Mod” you just drifted into it family of original member great but it was the looks and the image as the fashion of the day. The clothes and once ran the pub and the band used it as a that captured me.. I’d buy all the girlie music was what it was all about for me. I rehearsal space in their early days mags of the day, things like Fab 208, would never go fi ghting on the beaches or and Jackie, just for the pictures then I’d anywhere else for that matter for fear of He promoted the sold out be off to to try and buy a messing the clothes up (also I’m a coward!). Memorial gig at The Astoria in 2001 shirt or jacket similar to the ones that Steve Blimey! I used to stand up in an empty which saw the likes of Paul Weller, Noel and Ronnie were photographed wearing. railway carriage for fear of losing the Gallagher and Peter Frampon , along Around early ‘66 I remember seeing Steve crease in my trousers. There’s vanity for with original Small Faces band members and Kenney in the West End. They were you! On the music front where I differed and Ian ‘Mac’ MacLagan, all in the original HMV megastore (the only from mainstream was that I would always pay respects to the ‘Majik Mijit’ Marriott one of its kind, back then) in Oxford Street give priority to the American originals. who died in a house fi re some ten years and just browsing through album sleeves Practically all of the British records of previously. in the basement area. I went into a booth the time, including the early Beatles and John also promoted the Ronnie Lane and made out I was listening to a record. Stones albums, would consist of covers of Memorial concert at London’s Royal I just stood and spied on them for what American R&B and Soul records. As good Albert Hall in 2004. Again the rock and seemed like hours. Off stage and away as they were they weren’t good enough for pop royalty were out in force to play in from the photographers they still looked me so while everybody was digging Twist memory of ‘Plonk’ Lane, with Weller, just as cool. The thing that sticks most in And Shout by I’d be listening Pete Townsend and all my memory from that day was Steve’s to the Isley Brothers version. and so forth. performing Live in front of a packed house. barnet. It was coiffeurred to perfection. With most people Mod was a passing fad It was cut in a beautiful straight line just but it’s stayed with me really all my life In 2009 John co-authored ‘All Too sitting on his shirt collar. He had is usual but in a varying form,. Up to’ 66 it was Beautiful – The Life and Times of Steve curtained parting with back combing from all about tonic mohair and loafers, then it Marriott’ with King of La Scarpa, writer about halfway back. It must have been became Psychedelic and colourful with and Delicious Junction collaborator Paolo lacquered as there was not one hair out of silk neck scarves and velvet pants, Jason Hewitt. place. They were not human beings they King (and his tash) was a hero.. From ‘69 were mini-Gods! Every picture of the band onwards it became very hippy trippy and The Conventions go from strength to was worthy of framing and going on the San Francisco, not Memphis, was where strength, with the 16th annual event in wall. My whole wardrobe, even to this day, it was at, an image these days portrayed 2012 being held 229 The Veune, in the is based on what they would have worn by the likes of the Austin Powers fi lms, heart of London’s West End, and long may and I still get the same buzz from fi nding Swingin’ London and all that. It was all they continue… a “new” pic in 2012 as I did back then. Mod, well it was to me! I’ve gone full circle Although I do own various rarities such really and at the age of 63 I’m back wearing as acetates and test pressings I am not an similar clobber to what I was wearing in ‘67 anorak. My priority has always been the (only bigger sizes!) look!

20 ALL IN GOOD TIME 2 • SPRING/SUMMER 2013 DJ: Please list in no particular order disgracefully. Let’s be fair we’re all only 25 Tin Soldier. The Ultimate Climax your three best-dressed people from any in our heads. walk of life and describe why you have My Girl. The Ultimate Love Song chosen them? DJ: Are you into seeing the bands that have reformed recently, or is it all about digging London Boys.The Ultimate Mod Anthem JH: Diffi cult one for me. My life revolves the new breed for you? .The Ultimate Pop Song around music so if the question was asking about Mods I’d plump for Brian Jones, JH: I’ve tried digging the new breed but Steve Marriott and all circa I always fi nd myself comparing to the 1965-1967 only. During that two-year live bands of my youth and when you’ve DJ: If we owned a cultural time machine period you’ll never fi nd a scruffy pic of witnessed not only the Small Faces but what period would you travel back to any of those. But relating the question the Who, Action, Creation, Stones etc. and why? generally I’d go for the Dandy-ish look of etc. etc it’s hard to get too enthusiastic or Justin de Villeneuve, Lawrence Llewellyn- indeed fi nd anything totally original these JH: The sixties generally was exciting it Bowen and wait for it.... cheap as chips days but hey I’m not knocking it Keep on was also a tumultuous decade that changed himself David Dickenson. Those three keepin’ on I say. the face of the world. Colour was invented! guys are dapper, 24 hours a day I’m sure! and music and clothes, the two most DJ: As we all know shoes are a vital part important things in my young life were DJ: Mod has been described as lifestyle, a of the modernist wardrobe – What is your full of new ideas and vibrant. The period code by which to live your life. Agree with preferred style of shoe and why does it between 1963 and 1968 were for me the that and if so why? mean so much to you? (EG Brogue, Loafer best and if time travel were available that’s Desert Boot etc.…?) where I’d be. JH - Well only to a degree. We are the in crowd, we know that and there are JH: Shoes are everything. I own over DJ: When it comes to advice on life, love, certain codes by which we live but narrow 40 pairs and love ‘em all. If I was pushed music or clothes do you have a motto or mindness is naff. Let’s not pigeon hole too choose I’d have to plump for basket saying we could take away with us? ourselves 100 per cent of the time. Always weave, the ultimate Modernist shoe....well be prepared to open your mind. I was for me anyway. JH: Life is indeed for living and it’s a raving about some to a short ride. Savour and make the most out DJ: Give us your ultimate top 5 tunes and friend recently only to be told “I can’t of every minute...easier said than done express why in 5 words and under, they do listen to that, I’m a Mod” ..Bollocks!! sometimes, I know.. it for you? DJ: Will you grow old gracefully or My favourite saying, ever, is “All I want JH: Diffi cult....and would probably change disgracefully!?! for my birthday...is another birthday!” from day to day. Off the top of my head. JH: I’m already old and have done it Wise words Mr H, wise words… Night Train. The Ultimate Groove.

ALL IN GOOD TIME 2 • SPRING/SUMMER 2013 21 WE SENT ALONG COMPETITION WINNER RUSSELL FRAMPTON, A LONG-TIME OCS FAN, TO INTERVIEW ONE OF HIS HEROES JUST BEFORE A SOLO SHOW ON THE SOUTH COAST.

Train’ is a personal all time favourite; what SF: Well, went to see the is your favourite OSC track and why? other week - not seen him for years. At any festivals we have played I’ve watched SF: Well its usually one you have just new bands and heard new music. The way written, so at the minute it will be the festivals are now it’s about popular music. song ‘Weekend’ which we will be playing The idea of having to be able to play guitar tonight and that’s on the new album due to perform is nonsense. You have some for release in Feb 2013 of the biggest stars in the world playing Glastonbury now. Born in in 1965, Simon RF: OCS are renowned for being a great Fowler is a founder member of the band live band – do you still get the same rush RF: Mod has been described as a lifestyle, Ocean Colour Scene as well as being a today performing live as you did in the known solo performer. a code by which to live your life. Agree early years? How do you motivate yourself with that and if so why? With OCS he released the 1996 classic to give it 110% for a performance? album ‘ Shoals’ on which were the SF: As long as your happy, live your life SF: Its not been really the same since we and your own lifestyle how you want. hit singles, ‘’, The Day gave up taking drugs before going on We Caught The Train’, ‘You’ve Got It Bad’ stage, so to keep it as a 110% we found RF: Will you grow old gracefully or and ‘The Circle’ this guy called Russell Frampton who is a disgracefully! drug dealer. In early 2012 Simon released his debut SF: As long as I grow old I don’t really solo album under the title of ‘Simon RF: Ha ha ha... Simon that’s your comedy care …ha ha ha ha Fowler’s Merrymouth’ side coming out there RF: Give us your ultimate top 5 tunes and RF: On arriving at the appointed Hotel, I SF: Yes indeed…. express in 5 words or under, why they do fi nd Simon sitting at the bar in a Barbour it for you? jacket, checked fl at cap, and a pair of Paul RF: What’s the latest news on the Weller ‘hand-me- down’ shoes. I grab a ‘Merrymouth’ project and do you enjoy SF: Can I get another beer? pint and get ready for our chat. I present the freedom of exploring other outlets for Simon with a pair of Vandella - Bordo and your craft? RF: When it comes to advice on life, love, La Scarpa - Green/White shoes -courtesy music or clothes do you have a motto or of Pete from Delicious Junction SF: ‘MerryMouth’ have stopped dribbling saying we could take away with us? at the moment. OCS have just recorded RF: Simon how are you? the new album so that was a priority but SF: I go to Pete Goulding.com (road ‘Merrymouth’ will still carry on - we just manager for Simon and OCS drummer SF: Fine. I’ve just come back from the played Mosley Folk Festival and we did Oscar - Pete lets out a laugh) – Well, it’s States where I was doing a lifeguard a couple of really nice festivals for Chris a Christian motto to treat others as you course. Evans. Dan is on duties for OCS again. have them treat yourself It was nice; it was good, really enjoyed RF: I think that was me! RF: Simon thanks very much for that playing different music SF: I’m sorry I thought you used to be the SF: That’s ok its a pleasure. I like the shoes RF: Are you into seeing the bands that guitar man for thanks very much to Delicious Junction have reformed recently, or is it all about RF: Ha ha ha...‘The Day We Caught The digging the new breed for you?

22 ALL IN GOOD TIME 2 • SPRING/SUMMER 2013 GARY CROWLEY’S PLAYLIST DELICIOUS JUNCTION STALWART ‘GC” - HAS A ‘NEW MUSIC SHOW’ ON BBC LONDON RADIO 94.49FM, WHERE HE SHOWCASES UP AND COMING AND UN-SIGNED BANDS.

He also has a weekly show on Amazing Radio The Crowley desert boot is also proving – where again he champions the new breed extremely popular and Delicious Junction are set to launch 3 fab new fl avours: Never standing still, the little rascal is Classic Black, Turquoise Teal and Warm forever digging out new music and giving Red suede. it a chance.

We asked him over a cup of frothy coffee for a list of ten bands he thinks might be making a bigger splash in 2013.

Eyes down for a full house, here we go… Temples Charlie Boyer and The Voyeurs Swim Deep Melt Yourself Down Cheetahs The Tuts Sons Between Guns The Sufi s The Time and Space Machine and The Helmholtz Resonators

We’ll re-visit that list in a years time to see how GC got on.

ALL IN GOOD TIME 2 • SPRING/SUMMER 2013 23 TERRY SHAUGHNESSY THE AREA OF HAS PRODUCED SOME OF THE UK’S FINEST MUSIC OVER THE YEARS AND THAT CONTINUES TODAY WITH THE BAND THE UNIVERSAL.

Del caught up with the bands front man and My fi rst gig as a solo artist was in a place but it was my other Uncles record collection songwriter Terry Shaughnessy over a cuppa called Ormskirk, which is about 7 or 8 miles that I got into more. At a very young age, I’d between gigs with his hard working band from Skelmersdale. I distinctly remember be playing singles from their collection. The playing my last gig as a drummer on a Jam, Style Council, , , DJ: How many years have you been playing Sunday night and then playing my fi rst Stiff Little Fingers, , The Skids, live in a band? acoustic gig on the Wednesday after. I The Specials, Madness…but the things I reckon there was about 20 people there, loved the most were the records, TS: I’ve been playing in live bands since I which wasn’t a bad start. the , the records, was a teenager. I originally started playing the Small Faces records, The Who records in bands as a drummer. I’ve always written DJ: I hear you’ve a new CD coming out soon and a box set of The Beatles singles that they since I can remember and eventually it just – can you give us a taster of what’s to come? had, which I remember because it had been became a natural progression to write used that much that it was held together by in earnest. I performed for a couple of years TS: Yeah, I’m currently working on two sellotape. I naturally started back tracking on my own with an acoustic guitar playing albums in tandem. One which is the new through all the music, linking the bands wherever I could, just to try and hone my album for The Universal and one which is an and the band members, coming across new craft and test my songs out. Then I started album of songs that I’ve written that don’t fi t bands and artists. Finding the more obscure going about recruiting a band. I now have The Universal’s sound. American R&B tunes, discovering Northern a band called The Universal which includes Soul. It’s all of this that got me in to the Piet Koehorst on Guitar, Dave Ormsby on It’s no secret that I wasn’t a fan of the sound Modernist movement regarding the music, Drums and Gary Chambers on Bass. of The Universal’s fi rst album, so the new one will have a much fuller sound and hopefully which for me is the most important part. DJ: How many people attended your fi rst gig be a little bit more psychedelic in places. As a knock effect of being into the music, and where was it? You can be honest with us! DJ: Please describe what got you into the I started seeing images of The Who, Small TS: The fi rst gig I ever did was as a Modernist movement in the fi rst place and Faces and a lot of those mid to late sixties drummer, sitting in with my uncles’ band. how has that affected your life? bands. I loved the look, the hair, the clothes, The band played with two drummers that the attitude. I also loved some of the clothes night! What a racket that must’ve been! If my TS: I’ve always been surrounded by music from the Northern Soul scene and some memory serves me right, it was in a church since I can remember. When I was growing of the clothes that the Suedeheads were hall in Skelmersdale. I think we played a load up my Mum was always playing Small Faces, wearing on the pictures I saw. On top of cover versions, some Motown, some of The Faces, , Otis Redding, and of this, because I’ve always been a mad The Jam, some Stiff Little Fingers, a mad mix The Beatles. I had two Uncles who played in fan of Liverpool Football Club, I became of tunes. I reckon there was probably about bands and another two Uncles who were, and aware of the Casuals, as it was a big thing 50 people or so. I remember having some to this day still are, avid record collectors. with the Liverpool fans because of their great gigs sitting behind my Pearl Export They have rooms and rooms full of vinyl. travels abroad when the team played in the drum kit. I’d hear things like Little Feat, Neil Young, European Cup. It was an amalgamation of all Jackson Browne, and Tom Petty from them these things that got me into the clothes and

24 ALL IN GOOD TIME 2 • SPRING/SUMMER 2013 the look, I guess not exclusively ‘Mod’ but rooted in it just the same.

I guess it’s affected my life profoundly because I still love all that great music and still use it as the yardstick to measure my own music against and any other music I hear. I have my own understanding of the Mod ethics and I live my life by my understanding of them.

DJ: Please list in no particular order your three best dressed people from any walk of life and describe why you have chosen them?

TS: Steve Marriott – Ultimate true Mod icon

Steve McQueen – Cool as

My mate Nigel Whittingham – always looks the business

DJ: Mod has been described as lifestyle, a code by which to live your life. Agree with that and if so why?

TS: Yeah, I’d agree with that. Like I said earlier, I have an understanding of the Mod ethics and I live my life by that understanding.

DJ: Will you grow old gracefully or (EG Brogue, Loafer Desert Boot etc.…?) DJ: If we owned a cultural time machine disgracefully!?! what period would you travel back to and TS: I’ve recently started getting into why? TS: Ha ha! We’ll have to wait and see! Brogues a lot more, as I’ve started getting into getting suits made. I’ve always been into, I’d guess, not surprisingly, it would have to DJ: Are you into seeing the bands that have and worn Desert Boots but I guess the shoe I be in that golden period of music between reformed recently, or is it all about digging wear most is the Wallabee style Loafer. I just 1965 and 1973/1974. I just think that music the new breed for you? love the way they look with Levi’s. I’m also was in its heyday then and pretty much into my vintage Adidas trainers, especially everything since then has its roots in that TS: Not really into the idea of bands Adidas Italia. Big fan of them. time. It’s because of all the great music from reforming. I personally don’t see the point. that time that people always compare you to I understand that on the bands part it’s a DJ: Give us your ultimate top 5 tunes and another band or artist. You can’t really get great pay day and on the audiences part it’s express why in 5 words and under, they do away from it. a chance to re-live something from the past it for you? or a chance to see a band that you thought DJ: When it comes to advice on life, love, you’d never get to see. It’s fl awed on all TS: Ha ha! This is a tough thing to do...in no music or clothes do you have a motto or fronts for me. The time when the band were particular order of merit – saying we could take away with us? at the height of their powers has long gone and their motivation for performing those Come Together – The Beatles; Perfect TS: I have a saying regarding music, which songs is not what it was when they were at production and execution is that I believe that a musician should be – ‘Musician minus ego plus fi re’. their height, so consequently, the audience, Harvest Moon – Neil Young; Wistful, dream old or new, gets a second hand version. like As for anything else, I’ve got no right to be advising other people on how to live and they Going back to the understanding of Mod Blue Rondo A La Turk – Dave Brubeck; shouldn’t be looking for that. I can only say ethics, I look forwards more than backwards. Genius I’ll always tip my hat to those past pioneers that my own personal understanding of Mod but you’ve got to move forward always. Sweet Secret Peace – Neil Finn; ethics mean that I’m always looking forward, Otherworldly always trying to better myself on every DJ: Shoes are a vital part of the modernist front and always trying to take the look and wardrobe – What is your preferred style of A Change Is Gonna Come – Otis Redding; the mod style and make it original to me. If shoe and why does it mean so much to you? Pure Emotion anyone else agrees with that, then, great…

ALL IN GOOD TIME 2 • SPRING/SUMMER 2013 25 THE LAST OF THE TROUBADORS HIGHLIGHTS OF 2012

So, what can we say about 2012!!! Since recording our fi rst EP with Matt Allchin at Off Licence Recording (Our very own Joe Meek) at the tail end of 2011, then releasing it through Delicious Junction records, it has been non stop!! To summarise, we are humbled by the From the packed out lauch night, with a reaction we have received in the fi rst year fl attering queue round the corner, and a “one as The Last of the Troubadours and would in one out” set up at the door, the shows seem like to give huge thanks to all at Delicious to have come thick and fast!! Junction for the support as well as every single person that has gone out of their way In London, we have pretty much played to come to the shows, buy the EP, be it on everywhere from the Dublin Castle and the i-Tunes or a physical copy and become a part Water Rats, to an amzing night at The 100 of what we are doing. Keep fl ying the fl ag for club and our undoubted gig of the year, for real live music!!! Playhard at The Purple Turtle. The welcome and reaction at each and every show has been Looking forward to 2013, we have the next overwhelming!! EP written and are looking to record in Jan/ Feb, to be released again through Delicious Outside of London, we had and Junction Records, hopefully in March/April. amazing night at the Hare and Hound in The new tracks are sounding shit hot and Birmingham thanks to the beautiful people we can’t wait to get them down and then at Aceface Barbers. take them as far afi eld as we can. We have some cool dates booked in already for 2013, The EP has been well received, with some including a huge event mind blowing endorsements from artists we with the amazing Carleen Anderson, a show admire greatly, ranging from the Legendary in Belfast, as well as a few mouth watering Steve Diggle from the Buzzcocks, that we things up our sleeves!! are excited to be working with in the near future, to Miles Kane, Eugene McGuiness This time next year...... and the great , who’s words have been amazing. Joel, Darron, Luke and Rob

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