Dropped in at the Wheel for openers and listened in to some excellent revivalist 2Tone tunes, the club had a healthy crowd and grooves who all seemed to be moonstomping to some cool eighties ska from the names of the period: The Beat, The Specials, Madness etc. I dont often get on the grid early enough to get to hear this session so it was cool to make it and hear some of the stomping ska that informed much of my early youth before I delved a little deeper. Seemed the room had a few mod stylists in too, even if they were kind of on the short side. Musically the DJs at the Wheel are still capable of delivering some cool sets and although I wasnt there for very long I greatly enjoyed the half a dozen or so tracks I heard, took me back a few years and got me into the groove for an evening of virtual clubbing.
I had to leave the Wheel early to catch Kimberley Sixpence's set at the AAi, a regular Tuesday night gig for the Soul Mods crew. As I arrived Kim was playing some original skaand the contrast between this original Caribean styled ska and the revivalist eighties stuff I had just been listening too was very interesting. A small crowd present at first but as the evening progressed we had more and more punters arrive, I have noticed this trend over the past few weeks that clubbers are arriving that little bit later maybe the sumer sunshine is encouraging them away from their keyboards. Anyway the mod stalwarts were in attendance and Josie had brought her cat, cue lots of Mrs Slocombe jokes I'm guilty too, it didnt look too mod though, atabby cat when surely it should have been 2Tone black and white?
Kim was playing some awesome tunes, and the dance floor was filling as we continued half way thru the set and the floor was full, the AAi might be a small venue but its still quite an achievement in these low turnout times. Kim's set was well into its strife now with plenty of stand out tracks, she resisted the urge to play Graz's mod classic, Graz it seems has bigger issues - something to do with cat food? Sean made an appearance in chat as we envied his real life social life, that didnt last long as some cruel people yelled their jockney gestures, I cant imagine where they came from. The music was stomping, the chat was rolling and we were having a fine time ... then real life dragged me off with 30 minutes to go, so while Albion kept stomping I was out in the cold dealing with stuff. I hate stuff, it comes in many forms and most of them are a pain in the @rse!. Stuff has left me scarred for life.
Roll on Thursday and another cool night at Soul Mods, just need to find something to chill me on Wednesday if I can make it onto the grid.
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