Next weekend the Brentwood Centre goes back to the 40s, 50s and 60s when it plays host to the Essex Vintage Weekender, and this morning we took a look ahead with a taster from one of the bands taking part. Julie Jive and the Bigshots – who performed live on the Feelgood Saturday last year – is a 5 piece band from Essex who perform swinging, rocking and jiving music from the 1950s, and they’ll be on stage next Friday evening supporting headliner Si Cranstoun. They’re also performing on Saturday, and hopefully will have time before hitting the stage to pop into next week’s show for a chat about what they’ve been up to and what excites them about the 50s.
For a taster of their music click here:
[audio:https://www.phoenixfm.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Julie-Jive-segue-51sec.mp3|titles=Julie Jive segue 51sec]Meanwhile, three decades later, my clues to this week’s song that was acceptable in the 80s – a UK top 40 hit single that you probably hadn’t heard in a while – were that this 1980 top 10 hit has been covered and sampled numerous times, most successfully by German trance duo Marc et Claude; and that perhaps the band was named after the Queen’s favourite pets!*
*Acceptable in the 80s was Everybody’s got to learn sometime by the Korgis