The Deadbeat Club: London’s wildest new late night rock and roll dance party!

The first edition ever of The Deadbeat Club had place in the Shacklewell Arms in London on the 11th of January. 

After a successful launch night, The Deadbeat Club returns with its wild monthly party on Friday the 8th of February 2019 from 11pm - 3am following long-standing legendary garage punk night Garageland and entry is free.

Come get cranked up and dance this mess around to the vinyl only sounds of London’s most eclectic underground rock’n’roll DJs in The Shack’s back room Dance Hall. Expect 4 hours of non-stop filthy rock’n’roll, wild beat, punk, KBD, no-wave, new wave, sleazy rhythm and blues, soul, boogaloo, 60s garage, psychedelic pop, primitive surf, fuzzy psych and more!!

DJs:

Pablo Colorado

“Hello there! I'm Pablo, a Rock'n'Roll DJ who regularly spins his extensive collection of original 45 r.p.m. records to packed dance floors in wild crazy parties far and wide. My sets are a mix of 50's rock'n'roll, garagepunk, R&B, surf-punk, wild instrumentals and other bizarre oddities. After spinning vinyl at some of the sweatiest nights throughout Spain at clubs including Nebula, Fellini and Magazine, it's time to conquer London's nightlife with sets at Weirdsville, The Lexington, Garageland and now The Deadbeat Club!! 

See you at The next Deadbeat Club on the 8th of February, following Garageland, and monthly on the second Friday of each month!

GET READY FOR A NON - STOP - WILD - PARTY !!” 

Pablo's Top 3: 

Lee Castle & The Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra - The Big Bad Train

King Richard & The Knights - I don't need you

The Swinging Machine - Do you have to ask

Eric Baconstrip

Eric Baconstrip is a lover of wild primitive 50’s, 60’s and 70’s punk vinyl. When he is not scouring record shops and flea markets for 45 gems we can find him banging drums for his band King Salami & The Cumberland 3, and his past credits include drumming with legendary bands The Nipple Erectors, The Parkinsons, UK Subs and a dozen more plus running The Corn Rocket Club in North London throughout the late 90’s to the early 2000’s.

“I travel a lot with my band so I never miss a chance to go to the flea markets and record shops when in different cities where I find lots of cool records. I was djing regularly at my own club, The Corn Rocket Club, plus the Funtastic Dracula Festival and at the Dirty Water Club. 

I spin wild 50's and 60's rock and roll, with a touch of Exotica, and I’ve got a soft spot for the cool and weird”.

Eric's Top 3: 

Chubby Checker - Gypsy The Astro Notes - Monkey Workout Matt Lucas -

Ooby Dooby

Hey Paula

This is me! No more cursive letters between quotation marks. The only thing I'd like to say is that I manage this humble blog. And you don't know how much I'd like to update it more often if I had more time and a better connection to internet in this old laptop... 

See you in the next Deadbeat Club! This is my today's Top 3: 

Icky Renrut - Jack Rabbit

Tim Tam & The Turn Ons - Opelia

Pat Wayne & The Beachcombers - Is it love?

When Francis Xavier turned into a penguin

"Francis Xavier was a Navarrese was a co-founder of the Society of Jesus.[...]. He also was the first Christian missionary to venture into Japan, Borneo, the Maluku Islands, and other areas".

A painting of Saint Francis Xavier, 
held in the Kobe City Museum

Couldn't get too much information as all the websites are in Japanese. But seems that someone added 2 dots to Francisco Javier's beard and turned it upside down. 

And a fabolous piece of artwork came out.

Extracted from Twitter

A Lux Interior Christmas Tape Compilation

Copy and paste from WFMU's Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban!

"Super giant thanks to Kristian Hoffman for sharing this on his Facebook Page. It's a picture of a tape Lux made with some amazing Christmas Music. A song or two from the Black Christmas tape, but much more swell tunes to sink your teeth in to.  Even an atheist would love it...".

An excellent 50s Christmas songs compilation by Lux Interior himself. He had such a good taste!

Gene Vincent singt im Star-Club

Reproduction of an original Star Club publicity card.

Bought it in Harajuku Jack's in Tokyo.

7" Thee Braindrops - Lorraine (Family Spree Recordings, 2018)

Ok. I'll copy and translate from Spanish: 

"Thee Braindrops are a Spanish based garage-rock and roll band formed in 2017. They are the Japanese frontman Bunny Shima (voice and percussion), Big Pablo (bass and chorus), Carlos (guitar) and Pablo (drums).

They play energetic and direct tunes influenced by 1960s, the most garage songs of The Woggles and de rawness of Billy Childish throughout the darkest and fuzz loaded side of The Fuzztones".

And I would add: Thee Braindrops play pure primitive garage-punk!!! This is their debut EP. Four songs that make me think about garage revival bands from 1980s. 

They are fans of Fuzztones ("Braindrops" was the title of an album recorded by this band!) also The Morlocks and The Masonics as we can hear on their shows. 

This is just an idea of what you hear in this EP. Garage rockers from around the world will love it!

Sexy and colorful comic-art cover by Mik Baro.