Happy Christmas Everyone! I hope everyone is enjoying the day This is the last update, and anyone who sent me a note is featured below, so please be generous with those favourites and comments!

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A Very Merry Christmas...God Bless Us, Every One!

Jaz

If you'd like to be featured for Christmas, send me a note or a message here between now and December 23rd and i'll choose something sweet from your gallery. If you want a certain work featured, just let me know what it is.

Also, a few years ago I started a club that i no longer have time to run, so i'm looking for someone to hand it over to.

Take a butcher's



the idea was to use the photo of this robot



to create your own images.

here are some i did a couple of years ago to get the club started







If you'd be interested just send me a note!

I would also like to apologise for not being able to answer all my messages, it's become rather hopeless but i appreciate every single favourite and comment. Everyone has been so kind.

I Love You All!

Jazzy x

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Tom Robinson has posted a review of the Generator/Northeast Beat Unsigned gig in his blog.

Tom is on the left.
Mr. Robinson has a lot of kind things to say about each one of the bands that were playing, and it is well worth a read! I'm quite grateful to Tom for using my photos as well.

If you haven't seen it before, one of the funniest videos on youtube is the one where Hitler finds out Michael Jackson has died
and if you like that there are more, in which hitler finds out the end to harry potter and that santa claus doesn't really exist!

The funniest photo i've seen in ages has to be
DEATH GOES TO HAPPY JOY LAND

by
i nearly died laughing looking at it the first time, and i still smile every time i see it.

My sub runs out in a few days, and i won't be renewing it.
Many thanks to everyone who has given me favourites, features, comments and love. i'm sorry i can't respond to everyone as there are not enough hours in the day, but if you want to get in touch to ask a question, or have me look at something please leave me a note or email and i will answer when i can.

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and several other sites by the name Jazzy Lemon.

I love you all!

Jazzy x

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Recently I had said Indie is the new Mod, and someone asked what Mod was. I wondered how many other people might not have heard of the mods, and thought this was something everyone who is interested in music should know.



In the late 50s and early 60s in Britain saw the emergence of two counter-culture movements. The Mods and The Rockers.

The Mods were known for their smart fashion (think Fred Perry polo shirts and Fishtail parkas), cropped hair, use of amphetamines and customised Vespa or Lambretta scooters. True mods listened to ska, bluebeat and British R&B, as well as soul and American Motown music.

The Who became the epitome of mod culture which was described by their manager as "clean living under difficult circumstances". The first and possibly only film to document mod culture properly is a very short one of The Who playing a fevered, active gig at the Twisted Wheel in Manchester whilst overdressed for the heat in black sweaters and smart shoes which included a pan of all the scooters parked outside the club.

Rockers usually wore leather jackets, used haircreme to quiff their hair, drove motorbikes, and listened to rock 'n' roll. There were several clashes between the mods and the rockers on the brighton seafront in the 60s







These riots were dramatised in the 1979 film Quadrophenia.






Here's the trailer from quadrophenia [link]
and a clip that highlighted the seafront riots in brighton [link]

The release of Quadrophenia sparked the mod revival in the late 70s.
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Here's a wikipedia article on mod culture [link]





Enjoy! Love Jazzy x

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Hey Hey Scenesters! let me introduce you to....Kevin the Teenager!!!!!



One night i came in from a gig at about 3 am, and was watching the most hilarious sketch about a teenager who kept avoiding washing the car, and i just couldn't stop laughing! The ones i found on youtube are both incomplete (each one missing DIFFERENT parts! but here's Kevin the Teenager avoiding washing the car...

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Well that was so funny that it inspired me to find out more.... so i looked him up on Wikipedia....

Kevin Patterson is a character created and played by the British comedian, Harry Enfield




Character Evolution

Kevin first appeared in the "Little Brother" sketches of Harry Enfield's Television Programme as an annoyingly energetic boy who constantly vexed his older brother with his irritating catchphrases and habit of bursting into his room when he was with a girl.

In the first episode of Harry Enfield and Chums (the new name for the show), Kevin, now sans his older brother, reached his thirteenth birthday. The sketch showed his parents watching in horror as Kevin lost his sense of dress, courtesy and posture as the clock struck midnight on the day of his thirteenth birthday, thus becoming Kevin the Teenager, one of the most memorable of Harry Enfield's comic creations.

Personality

Wearing a baseball cap the wrong way round and with his red hair flopping over his face, Kevin is rude to his despairing parents, frequently shouting "I hate you, I wish I'd never been born!" at them, and insisting that everything is "so unfair!". In one sketch, when his father asks him to wash his car, Kevin ends up taking the entire day to complete the task due to his inability to get out of bed before noon and an apparent allergy to work, and in another sketch, though wide awake, he made the most primitive of attempts at tidying his room when required to do so. The character is also heavily dictated by peer pressure, and was seen in various other sketches trying to sound like Ali G, or people in Oasis.



His best friend is another teenaged boy named Perry (played by the actress Kathy Burke, and based on an early character Burke portrayed on various Channel 4 shows). They starred in a 2000 feature film, Kevin & Perry Go Large.

The sketches suggest that teenage boys are always very polite to all parents except their own. Kevin and Perry heap immense amounts of abuse on their own respective parents (though Perry shouts at his down the phone rather than face to face) yet are very polite to each other's parents. In one sketch, Kevin's plans to host a party go wrong and ends with the house being trashed. Despite his frequent declarations of hatred towards his parents, Kevin ends up crying whilst his long-suffering mother gives him a much needed hug.

Aside from playing video games, Kevin's one aim in life is to lose his virginity, or at least to prove that he has a girlfriend. From boasting about the (imagined) joys of sex to placing the nozzle of a vacuum cleaner to his neck to look as though he has received a love bite, he is determined to prove that he has "done it". He eventually does lose his virginity in one sketch during a drunken party. The following morning, he wakes up transformed into a nice, polite and helpful young man, but his mother later realises this side of the story was a dream. Unless Kevin's loss of his virginity was part of the dream too, the plot of Kevin & Perry Go Large would have been a massive continuity error, as one aspect of the film is for Kevin and Perry to lose their virginity.

Reception

Due to Kevin and the other characters in Harry Enfield and Chums' getting positive feedback and statements of the truth behind the writers' observations, the term "Kevin the Teenager" (often shortened to simply a "Kevin"), has entered British vernacular to describe any adolescent who is bad-tempered or rebellious ("He's a right Kevin!"). It can even be applied to female adolescents, although in the wake of the more recent Little Britain or The Catherine Tate Show, an uncontrollable female adolescent is more likely to be referred to as "a Vicky Pollard" or "a Lauren Cooper". It is also interesting to note that in the channel 4 series Skins he plays father to a teenager that seems like a modern reflection of Kevin the Teenager.

Kevin's Parents

Kevin's father has been played by three different actors. He was originally played by Duncan Preston but the most famous version is probably Stephen Moore. In Kevin & Perry Go Large, Kevin's father was played by James Fleet (who had previously appeared in a sketch as one of Kevin's teachers). Kevin's mother has been played by two actresses, the most common being Louisa Rix, who played his mother from Harry Enfield and Chums to Kevin & Perry Go Large. Caroline Quentin played his mother in Harry Enfield's Television Programme, before Kevin was a teenager.


I've also found a show that compiled the best episodes!
Kevin the Teenager's Guide To Being a Teenager!

part 1 [link]
part 2 [link]
part 3 [link]
part 4 [link]


ENJOY!

Love Jazzy x

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