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Wellalive and Small Fakers are performing Saturday 4th July @ 12.45pm @ Basfest '09 as part of the stage show 'March of the Mods"
Also at Basfest '09 on Sunday 5th July @ 4.35pm The Most (on the Community Stage) and Jimmy James and the Vagabonds @5.45pm. Other acts on both days, Queen tribute, Hugh Cornwell from the Stranglers, even Signature (the Michael Jackson dancers) from Britains Got Talent etc, click on the Basfest flyer for the full programme.
It is also Stanford Festival weekend, on the Saturday 4th July it is the Stanford Music Festival @ The Billet, click on the link below for more info. On the Sunday 5th July the Rising Sun would like to invite scooterists to come and display their scooters at the Pub from midday onwards. Russell will be there armed with FREE BEER VOUCHERS! for those attending on there scooter although it might be best to stick to the one seen as you will be driving!
Stanford Parkas announce dates of this years do's
The events calendar for 2009 has been updated including dates for Parkas events. They are the 18th April start of season Motown & Northern Soul disco with Eddie Paget & Jim Hill DJ'ing (unfortunately the planned short set from new band called Friday Rhodes has had to be cancelled due to the band splitting up), 25th July Wellerman and Mod Life Crisis with Chris Stocks DJ'ing, 9th August fun day and 24th October the end of season do. The ticket price for the 25th July will be £8, it will be 8pm till late to be held at the Crooked Billet, Stanford-Le-Hope. To order tickets call either Alec on 07790758647 or Russell on 07733437093, alternatively you can buy them on a club meeting night.
We are a new scooter club called A12 scooter club based in Colchester, Essex. We are arranging a ride out to Southend on 19th July 2009 and wondered if you would like to join us. We will be leaving Colchester at 10.30am and travelling up through Tiptree, Maldon, South Woodham Ferrers, etc. If you are interested, maybe we could meet at Battlesbridge or Rayleigh and then ride in.
Danielle has very kindly volunteered Kenny to have his pony tail shaven off at our fun day on the 9th August. He will doing it for St.Lukes Hospice where funnily enough Danielle used to work, donations are already being collected plus we will be collecting on the fun day. She is doing a very professional job of collecting the funds, even to the point of encouraging people to fill in a donations form to enable St. Lukes to claim 'Gift Aid' whereby you claim back the tax you would have paid on the amount donated when you first earned it. She is hoping to get somebody from St.Lukes down on the day to be presented with the collection. Please be generous because Kenny has had the pony tail for 25 years so he is a bit attached to it plus it is a good cause.
Some of you may be aware that club member Darren 'Jimmy' Saunders has been learning to play the drums for some time now. You may also be aware that he was looking to form or join a band as the drummer. Well he is excited to report he has joined the Feb21's, you can check them out by clicking the bands logo to be taken to their myspace band site. They already have some catchy original numbers written by lead singer Gary Kent which you can listen to on their site.
Here is some before and after pics of club member Josie Fields first scooter. After picking up a 1982 Vespa PX125 for the bargain price of £500 she decided the scooter needed a make over. The original blue paint of the scooter frame had been poorly painted over in white and the black paint on the headset and panels had started to chip off. So choosing the old scooterists favourite colour, matt black she sent about repainting the scooter herself! Enlisting the help of her boyfriend Craig Mann they started by rubbing down the scooter. Craig and his brother Carl partly dismantled it ready for Josie to prime and spray the matt black colour on. After the matt black and gold which was used on the wheels, hubs and forks had been applied it was reassembled by the brothers. Some gold tape was used for detailing which picks up nicely the gold on the wheels etc. Josie was kindly given the primer, gold paint and gold tape by Rob Mann after raiding his garage which only left the matt black to buy, a snip at £12! Josie dad Alan Field had already bought some unusual but cool looking mirror finish indicator lenses that were fitted replacing the standard amber lenses. A chequered backrest/rack that she bought cheap off Russell finished the scooter off nicely. The whole project was completed in day and Josie is now rightly very proud of her new look scooter.
It's a wrap - Alan Field's panels in Scootering...NOW FOR SALE!
There is actually a small piece in Scootering magazine this month on Alan Field's new Michael Caine 'Get Carter' themed panel wraps. Again supplied by local business Creative FX, Bromley in Kent, he is very pleased with them. Maybe if you want to get your scooter in Scootering you should give them a call! Alan also got to meet Michael Caine on location of his latest film 'Is Anybody There?' being filmed on the Old Kent Road. He duly signed the panels for him, pausing to correct the wording from one of his line's in 'Get Carter' from 'big bloke' to 'big man'. Well I guess he should know, at least it makes for a interesting story to tell. According to Alan he was a proper gent….as you would expect. Alan has since sold the Lambretta, the panels are for sale, click on the For Sale page for more info!
Here is some pictures of club member Mike Rider's custom Vespa P200E project Feelin' Blue. It has been totally stripped down, resprayed by 'Ray the Sprayer', re-built by Snapper and airbrushed by Filby. They all done a top job and Mike would not hesitate to recommend them to other scooterists. His aim was to have it completed in time for the Great London Rideout but he was out on it at the Southend Shakedown all be it minus some final trim, indicators and floor runners etc. With the addition of some chrome, the overall look Mike is going for is a typical 80's custom scooter.
On Friday 10th April the legendary Purple Hearts along with Mod Life Crisis as support played the Welcome Club, Stanford-Le-Hope, a Dirty Johns event. A few week before I noticed this Purple Hearts themed Vespa PX scooter for sale on ebay. The panels and toolbox had been 'wrapped' by Creative FX from Bromley in Kent. Sean from Creative FX kindly sent in these pics of the new owner who turned up at the gig on the scooter and got to meet the band and had his panels signed by them. Club member Russell from the club even managed to get in on the historic occasion, that's him on the phone coming out of the Welcome Clubs back door in one of the pics!
Sean at Creative FX also explained that they had wrapped band member Jeff Shadbolts guitar with the 'Frustration' image and made the large band backdrop seen at the Welcome Club gig and sent pics of those too. In fact if you look below the letter P of Purple Hearts of the backdrop you will see a picture of Sean aged 16 on his Vespa 50 scooter back in the day when he used to follow the band at the height of their mod revival heyday. He also sent these pics of their latest panel wraps, if you want to see even more of their work drop by their website at www.fxuk.net/ where you will find their contact details if you want to discuss commisioning them to wrap your panels etc.
Scootering magazine and TESCO have teamed up with Creative FX to offer 2 lucky winners a set of panel wraps, click flyer to enter.
If you have not already tried spotify.com it is a free internet music service, you choose your own music and build playlists on your computer, I really can't recommend it enough, it is so easy to use. Pretty much every type of music is on there, Northern Soul, The Jam, The Who, new releases, well whatever floats your boat really. If you have decent surround speakers rigged to your computer you have an instant stereo with access to more music than you could possibly ever collect and if you did it would cost you a fortune in cd's or mp3 downloads. There is the very occasional advert or there is a premium service without the adverts that you have to pay for. The only other thing to remember is that this a playback only service, you don't actually save the music files to your computer nor can you burn the music to cd, well what do you want for free!
New Ace Cafe style scooter friendly diner opens on A127...
A new diner has opened on the A127 called the 127 Diner which aims to cater for bikers, scooterists and car clubs etc in much the same way as the Ace Cafe in London does. I can see this being a very popular meeting point/ride out for local scooterists. The Stanford Parkas wish them good luck with their new business venture. Club members Kenny & Danielle have already been to check it out. In fact Kenny & Danielle have become good friends with the owners and Kenny has loaned them his American police car, his chopper scooter and a load of US number plates to display so look out for them if you decide to pay a visit. To read more about the diner and for directions click on the 127 Diner banner above for their website.
Currently on the for sale page there is three scooters for sale a 1963 A plate GS 160 Mk 2 in seriously good condition, a restored and uprated to 175cc Lambretta Li125 and a fully restored Vespa Douglas 150. There is also some Lambretta seats, lot's of bolt on Lambretta goodies plus some lights, badges, some sundance grips, a Ford Focus car, tonic suit and a flight jacket. Full details can be found on the for sale page
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