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Official DVD and Book, FISHING: The Bob Nudd Collection

Improve your catch rate with four times world coarse angling champion, Bob Nudd plus ‘101 Golden Rules of Fishing’ Book

Feeder, Pole and Stillwater Fishing

Feeder Fishing

Whether on Stillwater or fast flowing rivers, one of the most successful ways of catching fish is through the Feeder method. With his extensive knowledge of rigs, knots, baits and feeders Bob’s advice will ensure you keep your net full every time you take to the waters edge.

Pole Fishing

Fishing on the pole is one of the most effective techniques of catching fish particularly in cold windy conditions where accuracy is vital. From baiting to feeding and striking Bob’s instruction will help you get the most out of your fishing throughout the year.

Stillwater Fishing

Stillwaters are the perfect destination for action packed sessions. There are many species to target and a variety of techniques at your disposal. Whether float fishing off the top or with the waggle on the drop, Bob Nudd provides a wealth of information allowing you to tackle Stillwater’s with confidence.

101 Golden Rules of Fishing

Another fishing book? Not quite. Although ‘101 Golden Rules of Fishing’ delivers enough to satisfy beginners and experienced fish smiths alike, it also dwells on the less tangible aspects of angling – luck, ghosts, catching a monster, the angler’s perfect car, how to blank (catch nothing), how to deal with an angry bailiff, fishing somewhere that’s never been fished before and preparing to make your last ever cast…as if you ever could! Angling isn’t a hobby, a sport, a science or a skill, it isn’t even an art. It’s a mystery and one that takes a lifetime to unravel. ‘101 Golden Rules of Fishing’ is the perfect companion for that journey. Illustrated throughout with delightful and original artwork this charming little book will appeal to anglers of all ages.

Official DVD and Book, FOOTBALL

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The complete story of the Beautiful Game plus the No1 Best Seller PELE ‘THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY’’

A History of Football

This DVD captures all the drama, passion and excitement that only The Beautiful Game can evoke. Coming into the 20th century, Preston North End were the finest team in the country but it is Chelsea and Manchester United that are dominating the game today. In the intervening years we have seen a galaxy of stars, thrilling games and controversy. We pay tribute to Herbert Chapman''s sensational Huddersfield and Arsenal sides of the thirties; explore the era of Finney and Matthews; relive England''s World Cup victory of 1966; rejoice in the skills of the fantastic Brazilian side of 1970 and chart the rise of Liverpool in the 70s and 80s.

... the 1998 World Cup and England gain revenge on Argentina with a 1-0 victory in the 2002 tournament. Roman Abramovich’s Chelsea won consecutive Premiership trophies in 2004/5 and 2005/6 and Liverpool’s incredible victory over AC Milan in the 2005 Champion''s League final is the stuff of legend. Featuring rare archive footage, exclusive interviews and all the most memorable moments, this is the remarkable story of our national game.

Pele ‘The Autobiography’, The Number 1 Bestseller

Even people who don''t know football know Pelé. The best of a generation of Brazilian players universally acknowledged as the most accomplished and attractive group of footballers ever to play the game, he won the World Cup three times and is Brazil''s all-time record goal scorer.

But how did this man - a sportsman, a mere footballer like many others - become a global icon? Was it just by being the best at what he did or do people respond to some other quality? The world''s greatest footballer now gives us the full story of his incredible life and career. Told with his characteristic grace and modesty, but covering all aspects of his playing days and subsequent careers as politician, international sporting ambassador and cultural icon, PELE: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY is an essential volume for all sports fans and anyone who admires true rarity of spirit.

Official DVD and Book, TRAINS: Steaming Around Britain

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Features incredible action from both archive and preserved steam plus a fabulous book on the Flying Scotsman

STEAMING AROUND BRITAIN

This special collector’s DVD depicts the history of steam across England and Scotland. Packed with stunning footage of preserved steam as well as unseen archive material from the days when the sights and sounds of steam locomotives were commonplace, this programme is a wonderful viewing experience for all lovers of British Steam.

FLYING SCOTSMAN

‘The extraordinary STORY of the world''s most famous train’ Think of the Golden Age of Steam and one locomotive leaps to mind above all others: the Flying Scotsman. Nigel Gresley''s elegant masterpiece broke the world speed record in 1934 and enthralled millions with her beauty and power. Now, Andrew Roden tells the remarkable story of this magnificent locomotive, from her glory days between the wars to her rollercoaster life as a preserved engine. He has talked to those who have owned her, worked on her and cheered from the trackside as she thundered past, and has discovered extraordinary stories of a railway icon.

Also in the series:-

Grand Prix

Heroes of WW11

Rugby

Boxing

Golf

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Sir Michael Parkinson is pleased to announce an exciting and innovative joint venture with Warner Bros. Records / Reprise Records that includes a series of Parkinson compilation albums and the development of his own official website - www.michaelparkinson.tv. Alongside his multi-award winning career as a broadcaster he is renowned as one of the music industry''s most influential figures. Sir Michael Parkinson''s series of album releases commences with the November 3rd release of ''My Life in Music'', a compilation of the music that has provided the soundtrack to his life, remembers the extraordinary people he''s met and celebrates the styles of music and performers he is most passionate about.

...will be released on Reprise Records, the label founded by the man Parkinson calls his "greatest entertainer", the legendary Frank Sinatra, as well as home to one of his favourite contemporary artists Michael Bublé. The album''s 40 tracks, hand picked by Parkinson, feature the crème de la crème of jazz and classical songs from some of the most respected artists in the business, including Bublé, Nat King Cole, Paul Simon, Elton John and of course Frank Sinatra. The Sinatra tracks are a particular coup as they are very rarely licensed to be used in compilations.

The highly anticipated album also coincides with the timely development of Sir Michael Parkinson''s first official website, www.michaelparkinson.tv. Parkinson''s official website represents a central point of information for Parkinson''s views and reviews, a source of classic radio shows and interviews, and a consumer and digital platform that distributes product including albums, books and more. In addition, the website will also support Parkinson''s favourite charitable organisations and become the digital home for his award winning restaurant The Royal Oak.

..."Visitors to the site will be able to access my weekly blog where I''ll give them my latest news, tell them about the films I''ve seen, the books I''m reading, the television I love and loathe, my thoughts about the stories making the news and a few observations about sport! There''ll be a web store where you can buy the autobiography and CD, a comprehensive archive of highlights from the Parkinson TV show and lots more."

In the weeks following the site''s official launch which was on Monday September 29th, Michael''s favourite interviews from his Parkinson ITV series will be added to the site, and the Classic Interviews section of the site will become a comprehensive archive of the top highlights from Sir Michael''s TV days. On the day of the official launch, www.michaelparkinson.tv will also feature online interviews with Nelson Mandela and Rory Bremner. The Mandela interview was originally filmed for BBC Sport Relief and was broadcast on BBC television in 2002. This is the first time the interview will be shown online.

The Rory Bremner interview puts Parkinson himself in the hot seat and is currently being shown on RadioTimes.co.uk, and will be shown on Sir Michael''s official site when the latter is launched from Monday 29th September. The official website will also include competitions and giveaways enabling visitors to the site to win signed copies of the new album, autobiography and a special i-Pod christened ''The Parky ''Pod'' that will include 40 pre-loaded songs especially selected by Sir Michael himself. Sir Michael Parkinson has also issued his first autobiography on October 2nd. Entitled ''Parky, My Autobiography'', published Hodder & Stoughton.

Sir Michael Parkinson - The Official Website www.michaelparkinson.tv

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Ireland''s First Lady of Country music, Susan McCann returns with a collection of 40 of the finest story songs and sing-along songs on her latest album, "Once Upon A Time". The compilation of songs is beautifully performed by Susan''s powerful and soothing vocals. The album includes classics such as "Tears on my Pillow", "Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head" and "Lovin You". Her first single on Spin Records, "Santa and the Kids", was a big success in. but it was her second release "Big Tom is still the King", which took her to No. 1 in the Irish Pop Charts in May 1977; the song remained in the Top 20 for 11 weeks and is a mainstay of Irish pop history. Susan is currently touring the UK and is playing in a Town or City near you.

Sean Wilson presents over 50 new songs and new recordings on a double CD titled "A Road That Never Ends". Sean covers some classic tracks with his unique, vocal style bringing them to life. Having previously recorded 26 albums and ten videos Sean has now signed a deal with a new London based record company H&H Music. His catalogue will now include six double CDs (all the previous recordings recompiled in CD format), and a double CD "Irish Country Gentleman", alongside his new double cd - A ROAD THAT NEVER ENDS. This is a collection that should be in every traditional Irish music lover''s collection.

H & H Music are proud to announce the release of Berni Flint’s first album for over twenty years. His record of 12 straight wins on Opportunity Knocks in 1977 made him a household name and he has continued a successful performing career ever since. Produced by Houghton Weaver’s guitarist and arranger, Jeff Hill, this 2 CD set is steeped in the classic American song-writing tradition but with a sound that Berni has made entirely his own. One CD is of acoustic ballads and another of good time medleys, all performed in Berni’s inimitable style. A reminder of the great songwriting & performance talents that made cowboy music famous throughout the world.

CD1 is by Moe Bandy.  Released originally over twenty years ago as 20 songs of the American cowboy, this atmospheric album is re-released on H&H Music.  Produced by Ray Baker, in Nashville. Now combined with 20 songs from the golden age of the westerns this 2CD set can honestly claim to be the “Ultimate Cowboy Collection”

TO BE FREE: THE NINA SIMONE STORY

Deluxe 3xCD+DVD Box Set

51 TRACKS SPANNING 1957-93, FROM BETHLEHEM, COLPIX, PHILIPS, RCA, PM, CTI, AND ELEKTRA RECORD LABELS – INCLUDES 24 LIVE TRACKS AND 8 PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED TRACKS – PLUS 23-MINUTE DVD DOCUMENTARY WITH UNSEEN PERFORMANCES & RARE FOOTAGE

Truly one of of the greatest African-American female vocalists of the 20th century Nina Simone (1933-2003) holds a special position of honor for the fearless role she played as an uncompromising ambas-sador of cultural pride at the height of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements from the late 1950s to the 1970s.

Under-pinning her status as one of the outspoken voices of that tumultuous period in history was Nina Simone’s fascinating and wide-ranging musical taste.  Her palette ranged from the 1920s blues and jazz of Duke Ellington and Miles Davis, to the standard songbook of Irving Berlin and the Gershwins, from traditional American balladry and the poetry of Langston Hughes, to the folk and folk rock of Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Randy Newman, Richie Havens, Sandy Denny, Jimmy Webb (and many others).  Her song choices further spanned the repertoire of the Beatles, the Byrds, the Bee Gees, and Hair, to Olatunji and the exciting new strains of Afro-pop and World Music before the genre even had a name – and much more.

All these musical roots and branches of Nina Simone’s life are explored in depth on TO BE FREE: THE NINA SIMONE STORY, a deluxe new four-disc (three CDs + DVD) box set that is the most comprehensive and wide-ranging collection of Nina Simone’s music ever compiled.  Containing 51 audio tracks – eight of them previously unreleased – covering her recording years from 1957 to 1993 for the Bethlehem, Colpix, Philips, RCA (for whom she cut nine LPs that are considered the pinnacle of her output), CTI, and Elektra record labels, plus another nine performances on the 23-minute documentary DVD –  the box set will be available on October 27th through SONY BMG.

The Sony BMG archives are the source for all eight previously unreleased tracks, all from Nina’s recordings for the Colpix and RCA labels, spanning 1963-73: “When Malindy Sings/Swing Low Sweet Chariot” (live at the Newport Jazz Festival, 1963); “Ain’t Got No-I Got Life” (alternate version of her cover hit of the Hair song, from the 1968 ’Nuff Said! sessions); Leonard Cohen’s “Suzanne” and Richie Havens’ “No Opportunity Necessary, No Experience Needed” (both live at New York’s Philharmonic Hall, October 1969); “Tanywey” (a newly discovered original, from the 1971 Here Comes The Sun LP sessions); Gilbert Becaud’s (via the Everly Brothers) “Let It Be Me” (live at the Fort Dix military base, 1971); and “Nina” (a free-form jam) and Olatunji’s “Zungo” (both live at New York’s Philharmonic Hall, July 1973).

“I Loves You, Porgy” (recorded for Bethlehem, 1957, from Porgy & Bess; Nina’s first single and first chart record, inspired by Billie Holiday’s version);

“My Baby Just Cares For Me” (Bethlehem, 1957; Nina’s version of the Tin Pan Alley chestnut was revived in 1985 for a Chanel perfume tv spot, jumped onto the UK chart as a #5 smash, and inspired George Michael’s 1999 version);

“Nobody Knows You When You’re Down And Out” (Colpix, 1959; the Bessie Smith Depression-era classic of 1929, issued as a rare non-LP single by Nina three decades later);

“Trouble In Mind” (Colpix, June 1960; live at the Newport Jazz Festival, also a classic 1920s blues, associated with Chippie Hill and Louis Armstrong);

“I Put A Spell On You” (Philips, 1965; the Screamin’ Jay Hawkins rock staple, Nina’s first UK chart single, which enabled her to tour there and in Europe, the market that eventually eclipsed her commercial popularity in the U.S.);

“Feeling Good” (Philips, 1965; from the Anthony Newley-Leslie Bricusse musical The Roar Of The Greasepaint, The Smell Of The Crowd, with a message of freedom that resonated with Nina; revived for a Volkswagen commercial in 1994 that spurred it onto the UK chart, then the six-minute Verve Remixed version in 2002, and on Sony Music TV’s Sex & The City double-CD of 2004);

“Ain’t Got No-I Got Life” (1968, from Hair; previously unreleased alternate version, with improvised, altered lyrics, different than her studio version with over-dubbed ‘live’ applause, which exploded her career in the UK as a #2 hit);

“Do What You Gotta Do” (RCA, 1968; chosen as the B-side of “Ain’t Got No” in the UK, where it hit #7, a lesser-known Jimmy Webb song that inspired a rare non-Jobete cover by the Four Tops the following year);

“To Love Somebody” (RCA, 1968; one of several Bee Gees songs recorded by Nina, did not chart as a U.S. single, but was chosen as the follow-up to “Ain’t Got No” in the UK, where it hit #5);

“Revolution” (PM, April 1969; live in Germany, full-length concert recording of the song whose “Part 1” RCA studio version was an R&B chart hit the same month, Nina’s first original compo-si-tion to chart, with lyrics by her organist and music director Weldon Irvine); and finally,

“To Be Young, Gifted And Black” (RCA, 1969).

It was on stage that Simone‘s special magic shined – in fact, it was a live performance demo that led to her first record deal at age 24, with Syd Nathan’s jazz label Bethlehem.  Even her 1957 debut LP, a studio date with bassist Jimmy Bond and drummer Albert “Tootie” Heath, was given the live-sounding title Jazz As Played In An Exclusive Side Street Club (though it was also known as Little Girl Blue).  Three standards from that album, Duke Ellington’s “Mood Indigo,” “I Loves You, Porgy,” and “My Baby Just Cares For Me,” provide the opening trifecta of TO BE FREE.

24 live performances comprise nearly half of TO BE FREE’s 51 tracks, includ-ing a couple that were studio tracks with overdubbed applause, an all-too common practice back in the day: 1959’s “Wild Is the Wind,” and a ‘70s cover of Tina Turner’s “Funkier Than A Mosquito’s Tweeter.”

TO BE FREE is the ultimate Nine Simone release. Aside form the 3 discs & dvd, it comes complete with previously unseen photography from Simone‘s family archives, photos from the personal collection of Nina Simone historian Sylvia Hampton as well as meticulously researched track-by-track annotations written by David Nathan.

SHOREDITCH, OCTOBER 2ND & 3RD 2008

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Concrete and Glass, a two-day celebration of cutting edge music and contemporary art based across more than 30 venues in the East End’s cultural core, Shoreditch, are pleased to announce the addition of world-renowned musicians Ludovico Einaudi and Kimmo Pohjonen to their incredibly expansive musical bill. Best-selling Italian contemporary classical composer and pianist, Ludovico Einaudi is one of Classical Music’s biggest success stories of the past 20 years.  With phenomenal CDs sales, several international awards for his film scores – which include the score for Shane Meadows’ ‘This Is England’ - and a string of sold out shows at major concert halls world-wide, Ludovico Einaudi’s music is based around sublimely simple melodic beauty that can’t fail to capture the listener’s attention. Presented by Serious Productions and supported on the night by the Owl Project and Alog, this is a rare and golden opportunity to catch one of Classical music’s giants performing in the intimate surrounds of Cargo on Thursday 2nd October.

Finnish accordionist Kimmo Pohjonen will also be bringing his Earth Machine Music project to Concrete and Glass.  Described by Janet Street-Porter as "more fun than tired pop", Kimmo is regarded as one of the most adventurous accordion players in the world whose performances can incorporate electronic effects, samples and loops as he expands and revolutionises accordion playing as we know it. Supported by the Contemporary Music Network and performing at Café 1001 on Friday 3rd October, Earth Machine Music, which was originally performed earlier this year in rural surrounds to rapturous response, brings the sounds and inspiration of the farm to the city with special guest farmers and agricultural machines to be announced.

Concrete and Glass’s art thread is centered on ‘Heart of Glass’, organized in association with the Contemporary Arts Society. A platform for new work by 33 emerging and established artists selected via open submission, Heart of Glass is co-curated by Flora Fairbairn and Paul Hitchman and will be held in the basement of Shoreditch Town Hall until midnight on both the 2nd and 3rd of October.  All works have been submitted in response to the space’s eerie atmosphere and will be judged by a panel that will include acclaimed performer Alison Goldfrapp, Saatchi Gallery Director Philippa Adams, Associate Director of White Cube, Irene Bradbury, Director of The Contemporary Art Society Paul Hobson, Times Art Critic Rachel Campbell-Johnston and artists Gavin Turk and Marc Quinn.  The panel will select the most interesting work on show with the winner securing a space and promotion for a solo show at Concrete and Glass’s 2009 event.

... at Village Underground, Gerry Fox’s ‘Favela Descending’ is another notable exhibition in Concrete and Glass’s extensive art strand. Shot in Mineira, one of Rio’s most notorious Favelas (the Brazilian equivalent of a shanty town) Gerry was accompanied by local ruling gang members with whom he had to negotiate permission to film. A synchronized six-screen film installation that will take viewers on an all-encompassing journey through seldom seen landscapes, Favela Descending explores the visual textures of the surrounds from a hand held camera point of view, with the screens forming a cube, allowing the viewer to see the Favela from all angles creating a truly disorientating and incongruous experience.

Concrete and Glass is a two day celebration of the most original, innovative and exciting artists and musicians around. Tickets are available at £22.50 or £35 now from www.seetickets.com, www.ticketweb.co.uk, www.concreteandglass.co.uk or in person at Rough Trade East.

Art:

A Foundation/ Artprojx / Contemporary Art Society/ Catherine Loewe/ David Blandy and Manasseh Sound System /Flora Fairbairn / Gerry Fox/ / Saatchi Online / Matthew Donaldson presents Tony Gill / Riflemaker Gallery present work by Gavin Turk, Peter Davies, Yoko Ono, Julie Verhoeven, Liliane Lijn, Andrey, Bartenev / From Now To Eternity / Ithaka by Alexandra Hedison / Fresh Air Machine / Make Believe / Measure / Outside In An Exhibition by Jane Watt / Eva Vermandel / Idea Generation / John Griffin / Kinetica / Lee Campbell Projects and Frog Morris / Martin Sexton / Sam Pelly / Stolen Records / The Outcrowd Collective / Valerie Jolly & Tamarin Norwood.

Music:

Thursday 2 October

Aaron Thomas / Anni Rossi / Barringtone  / Bloggers DJ Casper C / Bodies Of Water / Cats In Paris / D*I*R*T*Y Soundsystem / Dead Kids / Errors / Ezra Bang (Hot Machine) / Flashguns / Frightened Rabbit / GoodBooks / Grovesnor / Huw Stephens / Ludovico Einaud / Mathew Sawyer & The Ghost / Mechanical Bride / O’Death / One Little Plane / Owl Project plus Alog / Ox.Eagle.Lion Man / Pilooski / Polly Scattergood / Primary 1 / Skream (Disco Set) / The Big Pink / The Oscillation / The Real Heat / Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs / Twisted Wheel / Wave Machines / Younghearts

Friday 3 October

Apes & Androids / Artefacts for Space Travel /  Casper C / David Devant''s Mr Solo /   David Thomas Broughton /   Eat Your Own Ears Djs / Euros Child /   Fairmont Live / Flipron / Fujiya & Miyagi / Holy Ghost Revival / James Holden / James Yuill / John Kennedy DJ / Kid Harpoon / Kimmo Pohjonen / Kwaing Creasite & HMS Ginafore /    Let’s Wrestle / Liz Green / Luke Abbott /  Lykke Li / Micachu / Oren Marshall / Pens /  Pete and the Pirates /  Port O’Brien / Production Unit / PUSH Club / Redshape / Rozi Plain (full band) / Screaming Tea Party /  Selfish Cunt / Semi Finalists /  Sexbeat DJ’s /  Sky Larkin / SND / Sweet Baboo / Telepathe / The Pictish Trail (full band) / The Real Tuesday Weld /   The Stool Pigeon DJs / Threatmantics / Truckers Of Husk / TV On The Radio / TVO /Vladislav Delay / Wesley Matsell /  Wildbirds and Peacedrums / Zan Pan /

Plus Drowned in Sound, Steve Lamacq, The Stool Pigeon, Wire Magazine, CMN and many more to be announced

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edited, Angus Cargill, Faber and Faber, 2 October 2008, £14.99 HB

Perfect for any music fan, it’s an alternative book of music lists that celebrate popular music in all its eclectic, and sometimes guilty, glory. It’s absolutely brilliant, mixes indie and mainstream, includes contributions from esteemed writers such as Nick Kent, Jon Savage, DBC Pierre, Ali Smith, amongst many others.

From personal blogs to end-of-year critic polls; from the films of Quentin Tarantino to the books of Nick Hornby; music fans have always loved to compile and to indulge, to collect and to hoard. Mixing anecdote, humour, reference and quality anorak behaviour, Hang the DJ is a collection of lists about musical loves and hates, dreams and nightmares. Including contributions from bloggers, journalists, novelists, poets and musicians, it will be the literary equivalent of a great pub jukebox – inspiring, provocative and irresistible – and the perfect gift for all music lovers.

With nothing else like this book out there, the lists it includes range from the magnificently evocative Spit it Out! The Top Ten Stutter Songs (from My Sharona to Peggy Sue) to The Dirty Dozen: Twelve Great Artists Who Are Terrible Influences (from Lou Reed to Lester Bangs) to I Don’t Want to Go to Rehab: Ten Records by People Obviously in a Terrible State that Are Unfortunately Much Better than Anything They Made Once They Cleaned Up (Death of A Ladies Man, Leonard Cohen to Young Americans, David Bowie).

From the mainstream to the alternative – by way of rock, pop, blues, country, soul, folk, jazz and even a little touch of classical - the music covered here is pretty eclectic, so, as Bob Dylan said on his very first Theme Time Radio Hour, ‘We’re like the New England weather – if you don’t like what you’re hearing,stick around, it’ll change in a minute’.

Angus Carghill, the Editor of Hang the DJ (and who is also a senior Faber editor) is available to talk to on Saturday Live about putting together this book, some of the most interesting lists, and why music fans like him are obsessed with  making lists and fascinated with finding obscure facts and new ways of looking at it, and cataloguing the greats. It’s also obviously a great feature which can have music running alongside it!

‘A great gift for music geeks. Formed of each contributor''s themed top 10 bands / records, chapters include the best (and most obscure) Japanese rock bands courtesy of David Peace and Sam Delaney''s great piece on the best music from 1980s teen movies. Other contributors include Ali Smith, Simon Reynolds and DBC Pierre.’ 

Ruth Atkins, Bookseller''s Choice, The Bookseller

The Zombies announce final Odessey & Oracle UK tour

The legendary psychedelic British rock band ''The Zombies'' today announced that they will perform the entirety of their 1968 album ''Odessey & Oracle'' during April 2009 for the very last time in the UK.

The band will play the following four UK concerts - Glasgow ABC (April 21), Bristol Colston Hall (April 23), Manchester Bridgewater Hall (April 24) and London Hammersmith Apollo (April 25).  Tickets for all four concerts go on sale from 9am on Thursday 25th September.  Ticket Hotline: 08700 600 100. Book Online: www.ticketweb.co.uk.

"As their voices soar in the middle of ''Hung Up On A Dream'',

it''s real shivers-down-the-spine stuff......timeless" - The Independent

"You could hardly credit it had taken 40 years to reach this seminal moment,

which deserves to be ranked beside Brian Wilson''s remarkable comeback for its

impeccable artistry and uplifting power" - The Scotsman

After receiving rapturous critical acclaim from performing the 40th Anniversary of ''Odessey & Oracle'' over three sold out concerts at the London Shepherd''s Bush Empire during March 2008, original Zombies members, Colin Blunstone (vocals), Rod Argent (keyboards, vocals), Chris White (bass, vocals) and Hugh Grundy (drums) will get back together again to perform the album that the NME recently described as "British psychedelia with a kaleidoscopic vision that rivals even The Beatles."

When the Zombies originally performed the 40th Anniversary concert for Odessey & Oracle at Shepherd Bush Empire earlier this year, the concerts were attended by Britain''s rock elite including Paul Weller, Robert Plant, Robyn Hitchcock, Snow Patrol and Garbage.

The Zombies follow their triumphant 40th Anniversary ''Odessey & Oracle'' concerts with 2009 UK Tour

Tickets on sale from Thursday September 25th

Don''t miss The Zombies perform ''Odessey & Oracle'' for the very last time in the UK

Ticket Hotline: 08700 600 100

Book Online: www.ticketweb.co.uk

Tuesday April 21st, Glasgow ABC, 300 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JA, Tickets £22.50, Available from www.ticketweb.co.uk, Doors 7.00pm

Thursday April 23rd, Bristol Colston Hall, 13 Colston Street, Harbourside, Bristol, BS1 5AR, Tickets £24.00, Available from www.ticketweb.co.uk, Doors 7.30pm

Friday April 24th, Manchester Bridgewater Hall, Lower Mosley Street, Manchester, M2 3WS, Tickets £24.00 and £22.00, Available from www.ticketweb.co.uk, Doors 7.30pm

Saturday April 25th, London Hammersmith Apollo, Queen Caroline Street, London, W6 9QH, Tickets £28.50, Available from www.ticketweb.co.uk, Doors 7.00pm

A replica Jet 1 Rover classic car was presented to Jools Holland yesterday (Monday 6 October) by the stars of Discovery Channel’s hit series, Chop Shop.  Mechanic, Bernie Fineman, and maverick designer Leepu Awlia, created the supercar as part of the new series of Chop Shop which returns to Discovery Monday nights at 10.00pm. Unveiled at The Science Museum in West London, the Jet 1 Rover is Jools’ ideal car. He approached master mechanic Bernie and genius designer Leepu during the summer and asked them if they could recreate the illustrious Jet 1 just for him. A huge classic car fan, Jools has dreamed of owning a Jet 1 since he was a young boy.

Jools said: “It is a great honour for me to have this built, I''m thrilled to bits. For me the best thing has been seeing it coming together. Since I was 5 years old I have longed for one of these cars, but it has always been unattainable. But now I have one, just for me, it’s incredible. “It''s beautiful, the shape is amazing! Look at that face; it''s the face of Jet 1 that can be driven,” he added. The replica model was hand crafted by Leepu and his team who grafted together a 50-year-old Rover 80 body shell and chassis, 60-year-old Rover 75 body panels whilst Bernie perfected a 30-year-old Jaguar XJ6 engine and suspension to power the masterpiece. 

Jools took the Jet 1 for a test drive from the museum to the Albert Hall and it ran perfectly. “I just cannot believe that Bernie and Leepu have managed to recreate this for me, the lines are perfect, and the fact it’s all done by hand – no prefabricated parts – makes it a true work of art.” The team of mechanics who worked on the car wanted to add a personal touch for Jools, so the engine has been engraved with piano keys and Jools’ name.

An original Jet 1 is housed at the Science Museum as an example of supreme motoring engineering of the past – the Jet 1 was the first ever gas turbine engine and was originally unveiled on 8 March 1950. It was designed by Spencer King and reached a top speed of 90 mph, but Jools’ version has been modified to reach faster speeds and still maintain its brilliant road handling.

Bernie and Leepu craft cars from sheet metal and reclaimed car parts which are all sourced, fine tuned and altered specifically for each individual motor. They do not use any fibreglass or kit car parts, and Leepu shapes the body work by hand using traditional panel beating methods. They have also presented cars to Martin Kemp and Lawrence Dallaglio, and are currently working on bespoke vehicles for Johnny Vegas and David Ginola.

Chop Shop transmits Mondays at 10pm on Discovery Channel.

Jools Holland’s episodes transmit on Monday 3 and 10 November 2008.

For exclusive previews of the series visit www.discoverychannel.co.ukwww.discoverychannel.co.uk/web/chop-shop-2/

See the original Jet 1 in ''Making the Modern World'' at The Science Museum, London, and from 29 November see a whole host of Japanese cars at the ''Japan Car'' exhibition. The Science Museum is free and entry fees apply to some exhibitions.

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