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Ace Singles Club
30th October 2012
This month we're proud to announce two more releases in the ‘Ace Singles Club’, a series of vinyl 7’s that will be pressed in highly limited quantities and that will only ever be available directly from our site. These fine looking and fine sounding forty fives are manufactured to look like The Real Thing – that’s to say, we’re using the original label designs that these singles would have had, if they had originally been released as singles…
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David Axelrod Remembered
6th February 2017
This one has hit me hard. Only yesterday, whilst hunting for an old royalty statement, I stumbled across my David Axelrod file: faxes, letters, reviews, articles on the ultimate Sherlock Holmes (Brett, of course!), and my ticket to the jaw-dropping 2005 concert at the Royal Festival Hall. It reminded me that I needed to call him, that I needed to tell him how much of a fan the latest Doctor Watson was. He would have loved that.
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Alex Chilton
16th July 2010
Alex Chilton, the Memphis rock iconoclast best known as a member of 1960s pop-soul act the Box Tops and 1970s cult group Big Star, died of apparent heart problems in New Orleans on 18 March. He was 59 years old.
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Poretta Soul Festival 2013
15th May 2013
Midsummer is always a special month for European lovers of Southern Soul. For the past 25 years, in a small, friendly, picturesque ‘spa town’ in Northern Italy called Porretta Terme, Italian music promoter and Otis Redding obsessive Graziano Uliani has been curating and ‘creatively directing’ Porretta Soul, probably the longest running - and almost certainly the best – music festival of its kind anywhere in the world.
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Poretta Soul Festival
23rd July 2013
My Name is Tony Rounce and I am a Porrettaholic…
…Ace’s man on the spot gives you the lowdown on the 2013 edition of the greatest soul music festival in Europe and probably the world.