Joe Meek Society

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THE JOE MEEK STORY RETURNS TO GLOUCESTER

Rob Bradford, of the Joe Meek Society, will be showcasing music, photos and film clips of Newent music legend Joe Meek at St Michael's Tower, Gloucester on Saturday, August 20, at noon.

Booking is essential and tickets are available at the Tourist Information Centre, in Southgate Street, and from St Michael's Tower, on the Cross, priced at £2.

BYRON ELWELL NEWS

Hi all. Just to let you know that I now have a new page on my web site that is dedicated to the Clavioline.

Kind Regards,

Byron. www.chestnutbankproductions.co.uk

BRITISH LIBARY TO ARCHIVE JOE MEEK SOCIETY WEB SITE

The British Library have invited us to participate in their web archiving programme. They select and archive sites to represent aspects of UK documentary heritage and as a result, they will remain available to researchers in the future. The British Library works closely with leading UK institutions to collect and permanently preserve the UK web, and their archive can be seen at http://www.webarchive.org.uk/.

There are benefits as a website owner in having your publication archived by the British Library such as having a historical record of your website. They aim to develop preservation mechanisms to keep our publication permanently accessible as hardware and software change over time.

JOHN LEYTON

John's August/September newsletter is now up on his website http://www.johnleytonofficial.com

John Leyton with the Silver Disc presented for sales of 1/2 million of 'Johnny Remember Me'. Check out John's site for NEW facts about the Johnny Remember Me sessions.

THE INDUCTEES FOR 2011 ARE:

GEOFF GODDARD	HEINZ

Fan made web site http://www.geoff-goddard.com/	David St John's tribute page http://www.davidstjohn.co.uk/heinz.html

LATEST ISSUE MAILED OUT TO MEMBERS

Features include:

Death Discs Part 2
Jet Harris Obituaries
Joe Meek Artistes on Top Of The Pops
Joe Meek and Merseybeat
The Puppets
Joe Meek Foreign Releases
Farewell Performance

SOUNDS OF THE SIXTIES

The Society recommends a listen to this radio show - broadcast every Saturday morning at 08.05 am on UK BBC Radio 2. Our thanks to Producer Phil Swern and Presenter Brian Matthew and Sounds Of The Sixties in general for playing RGM records on almost a weekly basis and often more than one.

They are helping to keep Joe's name alive and get credit from us for that. They also publicised the Blue Plaque on 2 April as we had asked (but didn't expect them to do).

The new Heritage Foundation plaque unveiled at Newent in April has digital information embedded which enables you to view information via your mobile phone

The mobile site is at http://1091.memorialtags.mobi/ and you can view this on a normal computer web browser or input to your mobile phone.

To view on a mobile by scanning the plaque you need to have the appropriate application on your mobile phone. For example Bee Tagg.

Below is a short list of companies that offer the free code reader:

Open that application on your phone and that automatically opens the camera on your phone. You take a photo of the plaque (the tag is embedded in the centre of the plaque) with the phone and the details are there for you to see (if you have a phone that has access to the web). The photo then states "detecting" - the website http://1091.memorialtags.mobi/ then comes up and you can download all the details there and then.

The Memorial Tags normal website is at http://www.memorialtags.com/ where you can input the tag 1091 if you want to view from a computer.

TOP TRIBUTE BAND THE TRIUMPHS IN PERFORMANCE WITH MIKE READ

Visit their website www.thetriumphs.co.uk for more info and to book the band

DO YOU KNOW THE COMPOSER/SINGER OF THIS DEMO?

Robb Shenton has contacted us:

Please find enclosed an demo-disc of the song "I Love Only You", which was given to me by Joe late in 1966; which he asked me to learn. Joe also said he had a firm offer of a deal for EM1 to exclusively distribute his productions, and that he was now confident of soon receiving the monies owed to him for 'Telstar'. The disc was given to me following a meeting with Joe at Holloway Road, I was accompanied on that visit by a good mate of mine - drummer in a band with me at the time - the late Mickey Cook.

I then went on tour, U.K and Abroad, and because on tour; I didn't get the opportunity to record it as soon as I would have liked, I was hoping to record it sometime in early 1967 - with mutually agreed dates between Joe and myself, but of course Joe and Violet's tragic deaths in February '67 ended that particular project.

It would be interesting to know who the writer of the song was - and if the writer sang on the Demo. There are no other clues other than the Title; "I LOVE ONLY YOU" and the publisher CAMPBELL CONNELLY.

Is there anyone out there who can assist.. I still have the Acetate demo-disc that Joe gave me at his studio's in Holloway Road in late 1966,
[45 years ago - whew].

Listen to the demo and let us know what you think...

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HIT PARADE HEROES

The Hit Parade Heroes Show, starring John Leyton, Jet Harris, Mike
Berry, and The Flames, started touring mid 2010, and, this
stupendous show received numerous standing ovations at every
theatre.

A nationwide tour is being organised for 2011, and, for select venues,
The Shadowers, and Brian ‘Licorice’ Locking, will be ‘Special
Guests’.

For dates, please check the respective websites of John Leyton or Mike Berry.

The Triumphs are a UK based Joe Meek Tribute Band and are available for bookings.

The line-up is as follows:

Ray Liffen, vocals, lead and rhythm guitar. who is a member of the Joe Meek Society,
Trevor Faull, keys, and Instrumentals guru, who just loves Joe’s music,
Rob Murley, bass, formerly with Screaming Lord Sutch’s Savages and Heinz’s backing band,
Rob Bradford, vocals, another member of the Society and also the latter’s Archivist
and finally,
Ken Ledran, drums, who is the Chairrnan of the Society.

The band plays only Joe Meek music. The repertoire covers the whole of Joe’s recording career, starting from when Joe first became a recording engineer at EMI, Pye and Philips’ records, his time at Arundel Gardens and also the period when he founded his own record label, Triumph, by which time he was residing at 304 Holloway Road and then covers his music right through to the period when he became an independent record producer until his death in 1967.

The band is available for gigs. Previous gigs include acting as the support band for the Tornados at the first ever Joe Meek Festival which took place at Newent, Gloucestershire in October 2007.

In its exclusive Joe Meek set, the band also includes a number of excellent tracks which have never been released and which have remained unheard by the general public for the last 40 years.

Visit their website www.thetriumphs.co.uk for more info and to book the band

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