Dean Martin This Time I’m Swingin’ with four bonuses, Miles Davis 1958 Miles, with two, Bo Diddley Road Runner, with two, and The Mar-Keys Last Night!, with two, are out on 180g LPs via Vinyl Lovers on 16 June.
The International Music Summit Ibiza’s annual IMS College Malta (SUMMER CAMP) is on Malta on 7-9 July, focusing on performance, production, promotion and publishing masterclasses, featuring Sven Väth. See www.internationalmusicsummit.com.
Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour’s Live At Pompeii film, from 2016, is in select cinemas on 13 September.
The www.charitybuzz.com auctions in June include signed guitars from (8) Brad Whitford (Aerosmith)/Derek St Holmes (Ted Nugent) (13) Slipknot, King Crimson, Maroon 5, ex-No Doubt’s Gwen Stefani, Foghat, Dr John, Carrie Underwood/Lady Antebellum, U2’s Bono, Gregg Allman, The Doobie Brothers, Guns N’ Roses’ Slash, plus a Clarence Clemons saxophone. Signed guitars are also due from (15) Trisha Yearwood (20) Ed Sheeran, Reba McEntire, Dolly Parton, George Strait, along with one signed by Trisha Yearwood, Garth Brooks, Trace Adkins, Tanya Tucker, and another by Dolly Parton, Blake Shelton, Cam, Jason Aldean, Nick Jonas, Carrie Underwood, Tim McGraw, Kelsea Ballerini, Chris Stapleton, Miranda Lambert, Keith Urban, Kacey Musgraves, Little Big Town (21) and signed guitars from Reba McEntire, Tim McGraw/Faith Hill, Chuck Berry, Soundgarden.
London Grammar play London Kingston Upon Thames Hippodrome on 12 June.
Psychic TV Allegory And Self CD/LP and white vinyl LP are on Sacred Bones on 14 July.
Ace’s June releases include Reggie Young Forever Young and Steve Young Seven Bridges Road.
Will Beeley Gallivantin’ CD, LP, DL, Passing Dream LP, are on Tompkins Square on 30 June.
The free George Harrison I Me Mine: Lyrics And Writings pop-up exhibition is at Elms Lesters Painting Rooms, Flitcroft Street, London, on 16-18 June. See www.i-me-mine-exhibition.com.
Independent US vinyl retailer, Bananas Music, Avenue North, St Petersburg, Florida, marks its 40th year in business with a public bash on 8 July, with food, free beer, giveaways, and local bands playing. See their Facebook page, bananasrecordsstpeteburg.
A Heritage Foundation blue plaque was unveiled on 1 June at the building that housed London’s Flamingo Club in Wardour Street from 1957 to 1967.
Dreadzone play London Chelsea Under The Bridge on 17 November.
Guitar Slim Jr The Story Of My Life, is out via Orleans, featuring Rene Coman (Big Star’s Alex Chilton), Jon Cleary (Bonnie Raitt), Milton Batiste Jr (Professor Longhair).
Karnataka’s Ian Jones’ upcoming Illuminae features Steve Hackett.
The Moody Blues’ Justin Hayward has a Q&A/gig at Los Angeles Grammy Museum on 14 June.
Magma’s Wurdah Ïtah with 25 minutes’ unissued material is out via Seventh.
The Pretty Things play London 229 on 28 July.
Ride have a signing at Oxford Fopp on 20 June.
Journey’s Neal Schon’s solo set, due in 2018, features ex-colleague Narada Michael Walden.
The Roots play London Camden Jazz Café on 2-3 July.
Captain Beyond Lost And Found 1972-73 nine-song red vinyl LP and 10-song CD, including one unissued cut, are out via Cleopatra.
Deftones have out Swerve City IPA beer via San Diego’s Belching Beaver Brewery.
Martin Turner (ex-Wishbone Ash) plays London 100 Club on 14 October.
The Independent Label Market is at London Old Spitalfields Market on 8 July.
Snarky Puppy’s Bill Laurance has a drumming masterclass at the Institute Of Contemporary Music Performance, Kilburn, London, on 14 November.
Soft Machine play London Royal Albert Hall Elgar Room on 29 June.
A Cher musical is due on New York’s Broadway in 2018.
Noise Reduction System: Formative European Electronica, 1974-84 4CD is on Cherry Red on 21 July.
Kasabian play Reading St Laurence’s Church on 15 June.
LIVES
Dana Gillespie
London Chelsea 606 Club
7/5/17
View: up front
Ambassador of risqué blues and Hammer Films starlet, Dana Gillespie, was on feisty form amid the bohemian basement feel of the 606 Club, with songs like Fuck Me, It’s Hot In Here and 24/7 matching the vibe perfectly. At one point, Dana mentioned that she writes each of her band members’ set-lists on escorts’ business cards that she picks up from phone booths and pointed out that one sex worker offering “water sports” would be apt, as Dana was herself a British water-skiing champion for three years! That was just one of her many amusing asides, but it was the stories that she sings in her songs, full of raw emotion, and her love of the craft, that sets her apart as one of the blues’ best exponents.
Her band were as tight as a wound spring and their tributes to the likes of Bessie Smith, along with Dana’s self-penned work, showed why Bowie, Dylan, Donovan and Page made her part of their lives. Dana doesn’t just sing the blues, it’s in her D(a)NA. Agents looking for genuine talent, take note. Mark Mawston
The Filthy Tongues
Kirkcaldy Windsor
19/5/17
View: uninterrupted
The Filthy Tongues made their Kirkcaldy debut, though three of the band had played the venue nearly 30 years ago in Goodbye Mr MacKenzie, supported in both cases by locals, The Twist. The Filthy Tongues opened with slow-builder, Amsterdam, then moved into several tracks from their recent Jacob’s Ladder. Their 75-minute set-list featured all of that outing, plus several classic MacKenzies songs.
Frontman and guitarist Martin Metcalfe, bassist Fin Wilson, drummer Derek Kelly and keyboardist/guitarist David Scobie gave the audience a blistering performance, before ending with The Rattler, then blasting into Bowhead Saint and finishing with Goodwill City. Let’s hope that it’s not another quarter-century before they return to the Forth. Bobby Ross
TOURS
Elles Bailey 24 June-29 August www.ellesbailey.com.
Blackbeard’s Tea Party 14 June-23 September https://www.facebook.com/blackbeardsteaparty.
Brix & The Extricated 3-18 November www.stereoboard.com.
The Bootleg Beatles 5-26 April 2018 www.ticketmaster.co.uk.
Cabbage 27 September-21 October https://en-gb.facebook.com/cabbagelechou/.
Voodoo Six 8-30 September www.voodoo.six.com.
