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Arthur Kay first appeared in 1979 as did his his 7” Single “Ska Wars/ Warska” on the Folkestone Red Admiral Records Label, an enterprise he had partially financed due to the appathy of the music industry to his compositions and the personal need of a writer to write with a purpose.
Arthur Kay writes…
“It all started for me in the spring of 1962. Their was Lenny and me on a street corner in London. It was one of those nights that you never forget. Every one was doing the twist to Chubby Checker,Sam Cooke and Gary US Bonds. I felt really sharp in my blue Prince of Wales check Italian suit and pointed toe shoes. As the night closed in we moved on to a cinema showing ‘Twist Around the Clock’. It was on this night I first heard Dion sing ‘The Wanderer’ and found three things in life I always wanted. An anthem, an ambition and Dion as my mentor.
By 1965 I had become a fully fledged South London mod with a Lambretta scooter, the full bit. I had one thing that set me apart from all the other faces, A Hofner violin beatle bass guitar. I had just joined my first proper band called the ‘Next Collection’. We were a typical mod band playing a mix of Tamla, Stax soul and a few originals. One of our first gigs was the Ram Jam Club in Brixton the week after Jimi Hendrix. A few weeks later I was at a club on my manor in Streatham when I first heard Prince Buster and the sound of ska.
Arthur Kay writes…
“It all started for me in the spring of 1962. Their was Lenny and me on a street corner in London. It was one of those nights that you never forget. Every one was doing the twist to Chubby Checker,Sam Cooke and Gary US Bonds. I felt really sharp in my blue Prince of Wales check Italian suit and pointed toe shoes. As the night closed in we moved on to a cinema showing ‘Twist Around the Clock’. It was on this night I first heard Dion sing ‘The Wanderer’ and found three things in life I always wanted. An anthem, an ambition and Dion as my mentor.
By 1965 I had become a fully fledged South London mod with a Lambretta scooter, the full bit. I had one thing that set me apart from all the other faces, A Hofner violin beatle bass guitar. I had just joined my first proper band called the ‘Next Collection’. We were a typical mod band playing a mix of Tamla, Stax soul and a few originals. One of our first gigs was the Ram Jam Club in Brixton the week after Jimi Hendrix. A few weeks later I was at a club on my manor in Streatham when I first heard Prince Buster and the sound of ska.
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