Just a quick note before the main post below from Chris Gibbs, he’s currently drumming up donations for a 24hr DJ set he’s doing with his partner in crime Brad McNamara on the 12th April, raising money for the Alzheimer's Society.
They’ve already smashed their target (at the time of writing almost doubled it!). If you’d like to chip in, then head on over to here.
Lance Le Gault* – Cannikin Clink
Label: Polydor – 2058-068
Format: Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, Single
Country: UK
Released: 1970
Genre: Pop, Stage & Screen
This piece was written by Chris Gibbs and originally featured in issue 1 of DIG – copies of the magazine can be purchased here.
Each March the bootsale season starts again in full swing. I used to relish it in my younger days. But, as I’ve gotten older and my collection has grown, the bootsales are becoming more of a chore, maybe because every year a new batch of dealers and collectors infiltrate the once bountiful fields of West London and Buckinghamshire. BUT, I still find some great things that even the hardest digger wouldn’t look twice at. Here is one such gem.
Lance Le Gault or Colonel Decker from the A-Team to you.
Yep, he made a few tunes and even albums back in the 60’s and 70’s. This little UK only 45 is taken from the Hair rip-off, Catch My Soul stage play album. Not much to report there, except the single has a blistering part 2 on the B side that is omitted from the album version. Part 2 of Cannikin Clink starts with a massive B-boy break complete with stabs, loops and James Brownesque grunts from Colonel Decker himself. The rest of the track is good too. Certainly a good playout groove in the right circles. So, it seems that I will forever be damned to get up at a ridiculous hour on the weekends, just in case more gems like this surface... and they often do. Happy diggin’.