KENT NEWS: A unique piece of rock and roll history is coming to Kent in the run up to the re-opening of one of the county’s best-loved attractions.
Dreamland amusement park in Margate is holding a day of events based around a showing of the 1979 scooter movie Quadrophenia.
The Who’s film about mod Jimmy Cooper, played by Phil Daniels, will be shown at the Carlton in Westgate. It is sure to revive memories of 1960s Margate, when the seaside town was the scene of notorious battles between mods and rockers.
Parked outside the cinema all day will be the famous Ronnie Lane mobile recording studio.
The stylish Airstream mobile has been used by a host of bands, and in 1974 The Who used it to record the Quadrophenia album.
The LMS, or Lane Mobile Studio, was founded in 1972, when Ronnie Lane, bass player and songwriter with The Small Faces and The Faces, imported a 1968 Airstream from the USA.
The catalogue of classic recordings created inside LMS is one of the greatest in rock history.
Stars who used the studio include Led Zeppelin, Eric Clapton, the Rolling Stones, Mott The Hoople, Bob Marley, Marc Bolan, David Bowie, Van Morrison, Stevie Wonder, John Lee Hooker and Jeff Beck.
The studio also featured on the cover of Lane’s One For The Road LP.
Jan Leandro, Dreamland’s audience development officer said: “This is the first public event in the lead up to the opening of the Dreamland Heritage Amusement Park in 2012.
"At the heart of the project is the celebration of post-war youth street culture and the recognition of its importance in shaping the history and cultural identity of Dreamland and Margate.”
Aftr seven years of campaigning, the Dreamland Trust was awarded £3.7 million in November by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.
It was part of the Government’s Sea Change scheme to invigorate seaside towns. The plan for Dreamland will include rebuilding the fire-damaged Scenic Railway, plus the installation of historic rides rescued from closed theme parks.
An archive and resource centre will reflect the history of the site, from its beginnings in 1867 until closure in 2006.
Author Paolo Hewitt will be keynote speaker, along with Roger K Burton, at the Easter event. Hewitt is an expert on youth culture and a biographer of Paul Weller, The Small Faces and Oasis. Burton was Quadrophenia’s costume stylist and curator of the Chamber of Pop Culture in London.
They will be discussing the mod movement and its impact on youth culture at the end of the 1pm film showing on Saturday, April 3.
POSTED: 27/02/2010 10:00:00
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