So there's a couple of tracks there. That's why Joe Jackson is on the list. And for the others, you will just have to do a bit of a rewind. Go have a listen. I invite you, especially to check out that really fun Alene by Jarvis Cocker, the crony melody of a French 1965 tune that's in support of the upcoming French Dispatch, which is going to be released now in a matter of weeks
Mark Francis Rahaman
@MarkR · 2:15
There's a great documentary called Twotone Britain. Have you seen it? I'll post a link to it here. It's very cool. You've probably seen it. But if you haven't, I'll post it here anyway. It goes down on 45 from when I was 13. I have specials on vinyl. The album, the first album. I liked the specials. I loved the beat. The English beat. Yeah. Very cool
Jessica McMillan
@JLMcMillan · 2:22
So I did a post today about it today and then I'll do another once more, so hopefully I do it justice. I'd love to have real fans hearing. I definitely have the specials on vinyl too, but having a 45 man, I'm jealous. I got rid of all my 45 quite a few years ago, and it's one of those things that I really deeply regret, but it's fun to keep collecting. So there's that
Mark Francis Rahaman
@MarkR · 3:33
And I'm from London at the time I grew up in and there was a lot going on with culture and music. And you'll see it in this documentary. I've put the link to it on my early comment above. But it's really worth checking out because it really captures the time. You see, there was many people from it was a weird time because people were from the West Indies and they were listening to the music
Mark Francis Rahaman
@MarkR · 0:42
Alright. So here is a I'm going to share a link to the band my aunts in. And these are these are still members of The Elevators, the band I'll tell you about which my aunt, actually, he became a part of this band, this reggae band. But now they're called the Stanford Hillbillies Street Band. So here's a little video. They're still playing. I like this one. They start playing again
Mark Francis Rahaman
@MarkR · 0:16
Oh, I didn't say that's. My aunt in the red dress, Aunty Nadia playing trumpet. So, yeah, I just sent her over the link to this swell. So they're going to listen in. Maybe she'll comment. You never know
Jessica McMillan
@JLMcMillan · 2:16
It's so good and really just with all of the instruments, I can just get right into it. It feels like it's part of my soul already. And then I completely lost it when I heard the guitar. Absolutely amazing and such a beautiful fusion of influences that I hear too. Just like what you're talking about with the London scene
Mark Francis Rahaman
@MarkR · 4:46
Wow. So it's my pleasure, man. It's my pleasure to reply to you and connect like this. It's so cool. And you love this music. You know, you've got such an indepth knowledge of music sick in so many ways. What I was going to say is I was twelve or 13 when I was buying these singles. It was the 80s. So the rockers were really gone. I mean, that was the 50s, right? In the 60s, maybe
Mark Francis Rahaman
@MarkR · 1:36
But there's a guy called a Carla that's presenting it. He's a rapper from today and also an author and a Shakespeare historian. Yes, he's got a great book out. I've read it's called Natives, Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire. It's about racism, really, and the British Empire and how it's affecting people today and how people are black people or mixed race people growing up in London or England, how they're treated
Mark Francis Rahaman
@MarkR · 1:07
And if I do, I'll let you know. And I don't know what other social medias you have, but I'll try and livestream or do some stories or something around it. But what I wanted to say is, have you watched the documentary yet? The link that I put on my first comment in this stream, if you haven't check it out. It's brilliant. It's absolutely brilliant. Check it out
Jessica McMillan
@JLMcMillan · 3:19
It was a really brief period of time, and then there were these 80 spans that sometimes don't get enough credit. You mentioned Simple Minds. They're amazing. They are absolutely amazing. And it's cool, though, that you got to grow up in a time where the bands that you saw looked like your friends. And I already checked out that book from the friend that you have who's the artist and the writer