Isle of Wight Rock - A Music Anthology by Vic King, Mike Plumbley and Pete Turner (Isle of Wight Rock Archives, 180 A4 pages inc. 4 colour £12.99)
"The Bible and Yellow Pages of Isle of Wight Pop." - Alan Clayson, "The only place where you will find a picture of Robyn Hitchcock's dad - Record Collector. Sorry sold out.
Panic Coma Magazine Purveyors of rock, punk, film, poetry critique to make Auntie blush. Pete Short and his trusty box brownie are ever present at Island rock gigs. Now defunct, unless you know otherwise. Luke Short is in Australia, working on websites
Solent Records and Bandit A&R Newsletter John Waterman's association with Island music began in the 1960s. His Solent Records continues to spotlight a diverse range of Island artists. Visit his web site for information on singer songwriter Catherine Cameron Martin, new age artist Gila Antara, new age musician Volker Kaczinsky and long standing Island jazz combo The Unity Stompers.
John's Bandit A&R Newsletter is a 'Monthly music biz newsletter profiling 20 record labels, managements, publishers etc which are currently in the market for new talent, every month.'
Solent Records
Bandit A&R Newsletter
See also our 1970s archive entry Stormtrooper and the Sid Vicious Connection
Dansette "A compilation of youthful ramblings and, quite frankly, stylish observations. It doesn't matter who you are or to which youth sub-culture you aspire to, you are you and that's cool and all that matters. Conceived on a lazy, sunny afternoon in early summer (that's the fanzine, not me), Dansette is a mixture of all that's cool and all that's not and everything in between."
So says Helen Barrell of Dansette where the humour pervades this mix of Kula Shaker, Ocean Colour Scene, unsigned bands etc and acknowledges the pyschedelic sixties of the Small Faces, Beatles, Kinks et al. She asks "How many of San Francisco's Flower Children of the early 1960s would have thought that their chilled out life of free love, drug-taking and daisies would've influenced a whole generation's music style 30 years later?"
Dansette costs £1.50. Available from Helen Barrell, 9 Belvedere Street, Ryde, Isle of Wight, PO33 2JW.
Slide Magazine Issue One - November 1996, £2.00 + postage to Steve Brook, 2 Pelham Road, Cowes, Isle of Wight.
Front cover is a full colour picture of Robyn Hitchcock at Compton during his extraordinary Bus Gig with an account inside by Slide Editor Steve Brook plus On The Road with the Wayward Sons, Great Lost Moments in Isle of Wight Rock History - Cas Caswell meets Miles Davis, On The Rock - Toni Malo/SG album reviewed. Isle of Wight Rock Book Quiz (the last place to win a copy of Isle of Wight Rock). Editor Steve Brook says Issue two is at the printers. Watch this space.
Nights In Wight Satin - Brian Hinton. Released to coincide with an abortive twentieth anniversary of the Afton Festival this council funded publication was five years ahead of its time. A great collection of photographs, press clippings and interviews concerning the three Island festivals.
Message to Love - Brian Hinton. (Castle Communications) A companion to the Message To Love video and soundtrack album. Essentially an update of Nights in Wight Satin with less pictures than the original. The book ends with a review of the extraordinary 'Tribute to Jimi' concert performed by Robyn Hitchcock at Yarmouth Railway Station on January 26th, 1975.
Both Sides Now - Brian Hinton. The first biography of Joni Mitchell. Island author tackles the weighty subject of Joni Mitchell without a lifebelt or any assistance from the Mitchell camp. Brian Hinton is working on a biography of Van Morrison. Brave chap. He's finished it and he's still a brave chap.