A new book with over 440 photographs of musicians in Portsmouth during the 1950's and 1960's.

Dave & Mick’s POMPEY POP PIX

Launch is planned for the weekend of 12/13 November: Saturday night at a gig with Danny Raven & the Renegades at Waverley Bowling Club Southsea. You’ll need a ticket to get in but there will be Pix and Licks all night long! On Sunday lunchtime I’ll also be taking copies to the (free) gig with my band Reet Petite & Gone at the RMA Eastney (opposite the Cellars/RM Barracks)

On the following Friday there will be a bit of a ‘do’ at Blackwell’s University Bookshop (Cambridge Road) as well from around 3.30pm

Otherwise you can get the book at Blackwells, the City Museum shop (Museum Road) and the Southsea Gallery in Albert Road (almost opposite the King’s) and that’s probably it, apart from by post via a Paypal we’ll set up on the Website (details to follow)

Mick Cooper (Heaven), Dave Allen (Rosemary) and Nigel Grundy at Blackwell's.

The RRP is £14.95 but at the launch weekend it’ll be £10 for cash (both days).

The publisher says there are exactly 444 colour & B&W pix and I reckon very few local musicians of note from the 50s and 60s are missing. There are stars too including a Nigel Grundy section from the Pier etc and a few more unseen Rod Stewart in Pompey pix. About 70 pix are posters/tickets, there are folk, jazz, skiffle & dance band sections and well over 200 of pop/beat/rock acts. It’s organised in sections, chronologically with a central colour section and each section has a single page of introductory text but it’s mostly just pictures. I hope you’ll like it

For details go to  http://pompeypop.wordpress.com