05 Sep IG LInks
Joe Scholes "The Life I Know" (Official Video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WdrAR_GhQ8 ...
29 Jun VIDEOS
SongBook Vol. II The Videos to Songbook Vol. https://vimeo.com/562497748/19ef12f22b https://youtu.be/cTh0MyZkqGk https://vimeo.com/319566067/6634ed5d5d https://youtu.be/oMQxkjPn8xs Home version of "Seven", taken from the album "Songbook Vol. II" by Joe Scholes ...
11 Mar You Look So Guilty – The Lyrics
You Look So Guilty (words & music: J. Uerschels) Verse 1 I first saw you on the bus to town Turning around and around and around Sweat on your face on a November day So obvious you hadn’t paid I couldn’t help but talk to you I learned your name was Peggy...
29 Apr Fond Memories From The 1st London International Ska Festival in 1988 – Part 2
An interview with Chris Hunt Whenever „the media“ wanted to talk to us, we didn’t decline their offers. Partly because there was not much opportunity to do so. Where we came from, writers interested in Ska bands were a rare species. Either you took your chance...
15 Apr Fond Memories From The 1st London International Ska Festival in 1988 – Part 1
In many respects I was at the high point of my musical career when the London International Ska Festival took place in December 1988. I was 22 years old, the first album of my band The Braces had just been recorded and would be released...
09 Sep The 7-Step-Program To Becoming Part Of A Legendary Ska Compilation
Did I promise to tell how Mark Brennan from Link Records found out about The Braces in 1988? Then I better deliver. At the end of this text you will know even more. You will have learned the 7 steps that were necessary to get...
25 Aug How The Braces Got Their First Record Deal
“What’s up with the band?” At times (in the late 1980s) I got wary of the same old question when meeting people around my hometown Krefeld. On the tram, at the chips shop or “At The Watch”, the hangout for the local subcultures and bottle...
15 Jul My First Time: What It Was Like To Be In The Studio With The Braces In 1987
Ska music today seems to be all about sound. Even new bands know exactly what effects they want and which equipment to use. They plug their Telecasters into their Twin Reverbs, hook up their Jazz Basses and make no mistakes. Producers like Vic Ruggiero and...
01 Dec Ballerina Valerie: The Lyrics
You can find the details about the Making of "Ballerina Valerie" in another post. This one contains purely the lyrics of the song. Ballerina Valerie verse 1 You wanted to be someone You wanted to make it big Too many dreams to all come true At least now you got a...
27 Nov The Making Of “Ballerina Valerie”
Some songs rule the charts for years after being written in one drunken afternoon I hear, one of the most prominent examples being "In The Summertime" by Mungo Jerry. My songs are different....
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