Man cannot live on punk rock alone, nor can he subsist solely on a diet of the heaviest of heavy metal, and so sometimes it’s nice to be able to pop outside of your scene hardened bubble and get down with your bad self. Which is why I’ve been shuffling around the office for the last couple of hours, pretending I can dance, while the uplifting Northern Soul flavoured soundscape of D/triot’s Charles Bradley jamming with Issac Hayes , the O’Jays and Arche Bell and the Drells has been pumping out at full volume. Brothers, these dudes will make you think you’re cooler than Richard Shaft and sisters they’ll imbue you with the spirit of Foxy Brown, because Soul Sound System puts the funk back in funky and just makes you want strut down the street like you own the world. Soultastic… Tim Cundle
There used to be an artist’s collective in Rotherhithe (SE London) called Crunchy Frog. Housed in an old river-side warehouse. Happy, stoned and drunken days. But some excellent art got made.
I found the warehouse at 99 Rotherhithe St around 1974 It was called Archer’s Wharf I rented it from the GLC … it was full of rats and no toilet but I thought it was amazing .. thus Cruchy Frog Studios was born, we had a theatre, a paint and trace studio and a place for bands to practice including The Sex Pistols in fact I jammed with them a few times. I left a few years later and now help run Shaftesbury Fringe in Dorset.. it’s great to see it lasted all that time when it became Waterside… so there we have it .. I wuz the original Crunchy Frog !