Kent's 25th Anniversary - Friday, 19 OCTOBER 2007

Kent Records, 25th Anniversary at The Forum, featuring: Maxine Brown, The Flirtations, Tommy Hunt, Mary Love and Winfield Parker plus original 6ts DJs Ian Clark, Mick Smith & Ady Croasdell

Friday October 19th
The Forum, 9-17 Highgate Road, Kentish Town, London

HOW TO GET YOUR TICKETS

SEE IMPORTANT POSTAL STRIKE INFO

They are £22 each; state either Upstairs (with unreserved seating) or Downstairs (standing and dancing).

Credit card bookings to Bus Stop 020 8453 1311 office hours.

Buy via PayPal to ady.croasdell@btinternet.com £23 each ticket by this method to cover PayPal's charges. Make sure a usable return address is included in the order.

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It was 1982, the mod revival was in full swing, disaffected Northern Soul fans were turning away from pop stompers and second rate disco and Ace Records had just acquired the Kent & Modern 60s soul catalogues. Ady Croasdell and Randy Cozens’ 6TS Rhythm & Soul Society was entertaining packed crowds at London’s legendary 100 Club and discerning soul fans demanded records inspired by the original 60s soul ethos.

Who would save them? Would it be a bird, would it be a plane or would it be Harboro Horace? You guessed it, the bird and plane were unavailable so HH knocked together “For Dancers Only” 16 tracks of pure 60s black soul beat. It caught the zeitgeist or hit the groove (depending on your school attendance record), sold by the carrier bag full and kept Horace out of the pubs for hours at a time while he worked on the imaginatively titled “For Dancers Also” sequel. We then had “Footstompers”, “Floorshakers”, “Right Back Where We Started From”, “Club Soul” and “Brainstormers”; solo LPs from Jackie Wilson, Maxine Brown, Chuck Jackson, The Impressions and Tommy Hunt. Just short of 100 slabs of 12” vinyl in all. Then it was the silver discs of “Dave Godin’s Deep Soul Treasures”, “Okeh; A Northern Soul Obsession”, “Rare Collectible & Soulful”, “Northern Soul’s Classiest Rareties”, “Mod Jazz”, “New Breed R&B”, and big selling solo items from James Carr, Irma Thomas, Dyke & The Blazers, Doris Duke and Eddie & Ernie. Not forgetting the good old fashioned 7” vinyl Town and City singles.

So 25 years later we reckon we’re owed a BIG party and we’ve arranged an authentic 60s soul revue in London Town about half a mile from where we started. The fabulous talents of Maxine, Tommy, Mary Love (who kicked off our first ever CD), The Flirtations aka The Gypsies and Baltimore’s own Winfield Parker will entertain and amaze you, with a top live big soul band playing their hearts out behind. It’s an incredible old venue, similar to the Apollo where these shows used to happen. Original 6TS DJ and Kent cover artist Ian Clark is coming out of retirement especially for this night and along with Mick Smith and Ady C, we’ll dance through to the early hours. Maybe Harboro Horace will turn up too!

Ref: Ace Records Website

POSTAL STRIKE

Due to the uncertainty caused by the post strike Ace Records and myself will be putting any tickets bought and not received yet on the door at the Forum. They will either be on the door of the Box Office where people are paying on the night, or we'll have a separate table in the foyer which we'll tell you about on the night. Either way queue to the right of the building unless told differently.

There will be tickets on sale on the night we are holding back a few hundred for that purpose (the venue holds 2,000+). Be early to make sure you get a ticket if you are planning attending this way.

Ace Records still has tickets, £22 each; state either Upstairs (with unreserved seating) or Downstairs (standing and dancing). Credit card only bookings now (due to the strike) to Bus Stop 020 8453 1311 office hours. There are no additional booking fees.

OR

PayPal to ady.croasdell@btinternet.com £23 each ticket by this method to cover PayPal's charges. Again state upstairs or downstairs.

IN ADDITION the following outlets have tickets for sale at cost price at the stated hours.

The Jazz Cafe, Parkway Camden Town 12 - 6pm Mon to Sat, closed between 2-3 for lunch

Hammersmith Apollo - Box Office is open 4 - 7pm on Show Days Only (Please call in advance).

The Forum - Box Office is open 12 - 6pm on Saturdays only

In addition an independent ticket agency near Oxford Circus has tickets, they will charge a fee but not as much as seetickets, to be sure ring them first for details. -

Stargreen Ticket Agency
Open 10.15am-6pm Mon - Sat
20-21 Argyll St, Oxford Circus, W1F 7TT
0207 734 8932.

Take the Tube to Oxford Circus (Bakerloo or Central Line, Zone 1). Leave the station by Exit 8, which brings you directly out on the east side of Argyll Street. Stargreen Box Office is on the other side of the street, between Warehouse and Laura Ashley.