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Olney Jazz Club at the Carlton Club
Olney Jazz Club hosted Duncan Galloway (vocals and sax, Pasadena Roof Orchestra) as their special guest last month, with Dave Priseman (trumpet, Emelda May), John Watson (drums, Pasadena Roof Orchestra), piano (Alan Haughton) and bass.
Duncan has sung at the Albert Hall London, Berlin Philharmonie and the Amabassadors Theatre in Pasadena California, and has led a band at Buckingham Palace for the Royal Christmas Party, where the queen was present. The Crooner.... Duncan’s unique and charismatic presentation has won the hearts old and young alike. Duncan’s a great jazz entertainer and he had our feet tapping and heads nodding.
The next gig: [TICKETS SOLD OUT]
Tuesday July 2nd. Olney Jazz Club’s Summer Spectacular featuring ......... Sugar Ray’s Lucky Strikes.
Sugar Ray’s Lucky Strikes - a great eight-piece jump-jive, jazz-dance, vintage swing band featuring a three man horn section!
Sugar Ray Ford, the UK’s King of the Swingers, is back on the throne with his hot new band. This stonking 8 piece will
rock you all night long, as
they perform two killer sets of
swing, rhythm, blues and the
very best in vintage dance
tunes. This will be a great
night 40’s & 50’s style! -
Dear Kids Page Editor
Can I offer some feedback for the Teen Scene and Kids Corner pages, my kids have just read this and they suggested some ways to make it a little more relevant to the target audience:
The dates of birth for teens alive today will be between 1994-2000.
If we then assume that for 99% of these, the average age they would even begin to purchase music would be 10 years old plus. That means that a 19 year old today didn’t start purchasing music until 2004, for a 13 year old this rises to 2010. Therefore the current logo of a cassette in your magazine is rather outdated and that most teens will never have played a cassette or perhaps even seen one given that they were fazed out in the 1990s. A picture of an MP3 player would perhaps be more up to date.
Kids Corner:
Petrol Head Pete is obviously trying to appeal to today’s youth by using ‘street’ language, but in stark contrast though “Petrol Head Pete’s” image is rather removed from either ‘Urban Street’ or ‘Petrol Head’
Instead of a Little Green classic soft top Noddy Car, perhaps Pete could be driving a sensibly modi ed, interesting high performance vehicle, perhaps a Nissan Skyline GTR, BMW M3, Mitsubishi EVO or similar.
Instead of red driving mittens and scarf, with stripy blue knit, complete with face paint, perhaps sportswear and designer labels? HF
Dear HF
Thank you kindly for your feedback. At Phonebox Magazine we appreciate feed back from our readers and I have taken your points onboard.
Hopefully I will be able to clarify a few things about both these pages. The teen scene page’ design and it’s ‘retro’ banner was requested by the writer of the page, who is in her mid-teens.
The retro look is in at the moment, especially with in the ‘Hipster
scene’.
Pete the mascot of Kids Corner, is not actually known as Motor Head
Pete, as he changes his name every month to suit his current hobby.
It’s sort of a running joke and he has announced himself by many names such as Pistol Pete (cowboy), Space Junkie Pete (astronaut), Power House Pete (super hero), and Hush Puppy Pete (A time when he just generally liked dogs.)
Thanks to your feedback. I now understand that if someone were to start reading the kids page it may look to be a little confused. So from now on I will occasionally reintroduce Pete’s motives and purpose, so that the joke is not lost on new, young readers.
I am delighted in saying that since I have revamped the Kids Page we have received a great increase in competition entries and the readership of the page has grown. I am also very pleased to have received your feedback, and I hope this has helped to shed some light on the elements you have noticed. Kindest Regards, Kids Page Editor (Len)
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