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Hey there! I am Lauren Marie and I love all things 40′s and 50′s. I grew up listening to Big Band and the beginnings of Rock N’ Roll, watching black and white television shows, listening to the “latest” radio programs and I haven’t felt the need to look any further. There seems to be a simplicity about this time period that I am drawn to, that seems to have disappeared into a fast paced and technology inundated world in which most people today live. Though not new to the art and culture of pin-up, I am new to the idea of being in front of the camera. I love it! I could spend every second of my day posing and making eyes to the camera. I do believe this is a start of a beautiful relationship!

My photographer is the amazing and beautiful Iman Woods, who’s goal in life is to make every woman forget her own “flaws” and show them how beautiful they are in every way. It isn’t just photography. It is therapy that I don’t think any psychiatrist could touch.

I wrote earlier this year about one of my favorite movies “Cry Baby”. So I was more than happy excited that Lauren of “French Made London” http://www.frenchmade.co.uk/ told Rockabilly-Online about the Cry Baby inspired, rockabilly style bridal photo shoot that took place at Ace café London. I hope you enjoy the story and pictures as much as I do!

Kat Forsyth photography

I cannot even count how many times I have watched ‘Cry Baby’ as a teenager. What attracted me the most were its rebellious characters who managed to break their subculture taboos. On this 50’s inspired styled photo shoot, I wanted to recreate that spirit by not only including moody type tattooed models but also an unconventional bridal colour scheme. It’s now such an honour to present to you how this cast turned my vision into these bright, eye pleasing creations, brilliantly captured by Kat Forsyth photography and Piece of cake films at the iconic Ace Café in North London.

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I am a pin up/ retro and alternative model based in Germany but travel internationally… I am most keen on vintage ‘pin-up’ modelling and anything related to vintage glamour and burlesque, But I am open to any work offered. I am always enthusiastic about any work I take on and love taking on new projects….

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/eliza.dotlille

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Mississippi Queen is a rockabilly band from Croatia which is almost 25 years on the scene. Till now they recorded four albums, and new one will be finished at the end of the year for their home label  Rhythm Bomb Records. Members are: Don Karlos(voc/acustic), Jurica  Stelma(double bass), Gvozden Sopp(guitar) and Kruno Krapec(drums).

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Hoorn Rock ‘n’ Roll, a famed rock and roll party in the centre of the city of Hoorn, The Netherlands. I heard a lot of great things about this party, but i never went, though i had planned to go last year. To my disappointment i missed the party, and with that the Teddy Boy singer Yann the CorrupTED! So when I was asked to go, and one of the organizers  who also writes here one this site, asked me too, I didn’t have a choice So i got a ride and went there.

Poster from the event

I went with some friends, and we first went to the Spunyboys, of course.  The first set was as energetic and powerful as every time i see them! He had a great arsenal of songs, including songs from Gene Vincent and Eddie Cochran. He even played the great Sandy Ford’s song Oh What A Shame. ‘Especially for Rocky’, Remi(the singer) said, Sandy Ford being from the Teddy Boy band The Flying Saucers. Near the end of the first set we went for a stroll to see which band to go next. On the way I came by a lot of friends from all over the country  We just walked from bar to bar and saw Gotta Go, The Rechords (good band!) and the 2-tones, before walking into El Rio Trio. Always good, the quartet from Amsterdam! Bopper had his new pinstriped bass and wasn’t scared to show it off.  And although the bar was small (all bars were), they played the roof from the joint again!

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Dallas pinup, Catalina, has been modeling for five years and has been featured in several publications from calendars (Girls of Gore-horror pinup) to websites (Vicious Vixens.) She is also lead female singer in Aristoscat, a band some have called “…like Elvis. On roller-skates. On fire.” Catalina is a proponent of local music and movies and has helped out filmmakers, Justin Powers (“Pot Zombies”) and Remy St Paul (“Prey for Me.”) She is available for promotions, music videos, and, of course, good ol’ fashioned photoshoots.

Photographer:
Paul Aquilar of Pablo Stephen Photography

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Our next interviewee is Dustin Brown of Mr. Right and the Leftovers. Rockabilly on the Route is just a few short weeks away, so blast those motors and get ready to rock!

Tell us about yourself?

I been involved with music for about 15 years, started playing the guitar and then moved to the drums. I played drums in many bands over the years. I started to write songs for the last band I was playing drums with (Rusty Curtians). Members of that band moved to Massachusetts and thats when I decided to start Mr. Right and the Leftovers with Lou Gomes (Bassist) where I now play guitar and sing.

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Our next interviewee should be one already familar to our readers. As part of the all-female Austin powerhouse “Danger*Cakes” Tina Marie Bartolucci combines 50′s pin-up curves with the ethereal energy of a 60′s flower child. The girls are third billed on the festival, so I took some time to play catch-up with her.

Tina, you’ve been playing sax with Danger*Cakes since the bands first year. How would you describe the experience of playing with such a fast rising band?

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My name is Laurel Fatal and I am a pinup and alternative model from Israel.
My “day job” is doing hair and makeup, and teaching makeup, and of curse i specialize in pinup looks and photoshoots.
In israel i also enjoy performing burlesque and organizing burlesque shows and rockabilly parties and try and spread this sub-culture here

I’ve been modeling as a hobby for years and really enjoy pinup style and support this type of photoshoots as women empowerment and love the pinup concept because it accepts all women shapes and celebrates curves.
I am vegan, own a french bulldog and share my life with my handsome boyfriend Or.

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My name is Delilah Jean and I’m from Los Angeles, California. I’ve always felt like I was an old soul and have a love for anything to do with the 40s and 50s. I recently got into pin-up after a friend told me I should join a contest with her. From there, my whole world changed and I’ve met some amazing people along the way who keep encouraging me. I never thought I’d see myself posing in front of a camera, but it has taught me to have confidence in myself and, in turn, I like to inspire other girls to have the same confidence in themselves. I love the style and I can’t wait to see what the future holds.

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Part 2 – Boppin’ Neorockabilly Style

There was more vinyl in there! A LP by the Boppin’ Gliesers called Gotta Have My Way.  Because the front had planets, stars and rocket ships on them, I strangely enough immediately thought about the neorockabilly band The Space Cadets. The four men, Flying jimmy on lead vocal and double bass, Crazy Eddie Strings on Lead Guitar, Gaybeul on drums, were on the front as well as the back of the LP. I know Crazy Eddie Strings from his other band, the Revival/Teddy Boy influenced Spunyboys. So this looked promising.

The Boppin’ Gliesers (Crazy Eddie Strings, Flying jimmy and Gaybeul)

Enough talk, let’s listen! When I putted the needle on the LP, I was awake immediately! The First song, One Night Woman, was a fast rockin’ song with a lot of bass and voice. And they don’t lose their tempo there. The third song I would put in the category “Bopper”, it’s a very fast foot stamping song! And of course the song Boppin Gliesers, to let you know it’s not the time to sleep, but to bop!

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Part 1 – If your lonely,  rock-a-bop your socks off!

The whole package from Crazy Records

When I came home I found two packages on my doormat. One contained a CD from The Royal Hounds, which I wrote about earlier.  The second package contained some vinyl and some cds. When I took a look, I saw that they container some various subgenres of rockabilly, like Neo rockabilly, Rock and Roll, swing and of course regular rockabilly.

Al Willis & the New Swingsters

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TO BENEFIT THE NEW MEXICO ROUTE 66MUSEUM

Vive le Rock Productions and La Loca Magazine present Rockabilly on the Route 2013, June 7-9 in Tucumcari, N.M., nestled along historic Route 66. For its inaugural year, Rockabilly On the Route is pleased to announce the Queen of Rockabilly herself, Wanda Jackson, along with Southern California’s The Chop Tops, as headliners for the Saturday night concert event. The festival is also a benefit for The New Mexico Route 66 Museum, which is opening this summer in
Tucumcari.

Wanda Jackson, who began her illustrious career in the 1950s as one of the first women of rockabilly, is known  for her unique vocals in songs such as “Funnel of Love,” “Fujiyama Mama,” and “Let’s Have A Party.” She was an early sweetheart to the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll Elvis Presley, who mentored her and whose ring she wears
around her neck to this day. Jackson has also been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Rockabilly Hall of Fame and received two Grammy Award nominations for her work.

Formed in 1995, The Chop Tops hail from Santa Cruz, Calif. They blend rockabilly music with punk, surf and psychobilly to create their own special sound, which they’ve coined “Revved-Up Rockabilly.” The band performs their signature sound at more than 200 shows every year, including the infamous Viva Las Vegas Rockabilly Weekender in Nevada.

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On May 26 2013 Hoorn (The Netherlands) shakes to its foundations for the 6^th time in a row; it’s time for Hoorn Rock ’n’ Roll SUNday! From 13.00 hours until late at night there is a lot to do in the city centre and also in the port of Hoorn. The organization of the festival succeeded again to contract the best rockin’ bands from around the world, so it will be a rockin’ time all over the bars!
Some of the bands: The Cheaterslicks (UK), The Spunyboys (FR), The Mean Devils (P), Truly Lover Trio (USA), Ruby Ann (P), The Rechords (AUS) and many, many more!

Rockin’ movie, fifties-market and Elvis
This year you can enjoy the many bands, but also a great rock ‘n’ roll movie at Cinema Oostereiland: Walk the line. Get lost in the fifties and sixties and enjoy the life of Johnny Cash.
Do you have a bad hair day on May 26, don’t be sad! The barber Monsieur Moustache and vintage hairdresser Madame de Pompadour will take good care of you, so you can impress everybody with your new quiff or other hairstyle! Would you like to have a new outfit, then make sure you’ll visit our big fifties market. Besides all kinds of nostalgic things from the rock ‘n’ roll area, you will also find here stylish fifties clothing.

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Flossie Carmichael is Vivacious and Tenacious. Known Internationally, this Texas Tamale has been quite the trailblazer! Coined as the Panther City Pin Up, self described as “Southern Fried and Dixiefied”, Flossie is easily the girl next door and the one your mother warned you about. Since debuting Flossie has been a mover and a shaker amongst the elite in the pin up culture. Product Model for pin up brands such as Dot’s Diner, Haute Mess Threads, Dismantled Fashions, Secrets in Lace, and Vintage Box 1947, just to name a few. Flossie has also been featured on numerous pin up websites and graced the cover of a vast variety of international pin up rags, including the ‘Golden 50th Issue of Ol Skool Rodz’. Flossie was honored to be asked to be on the cover of the recently released album, ‘RockabillyLand’, featuring the single “Hey Flossie”-now available on ITunes. This is just the beginning of the great things in store for all you Flossie fanatics. Keep your eyes on this lil’ firecracker, she is about to explode!
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XOXO
Flossie Carmichael
The Panther City Pin Up

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Tell us about your band, where are you from?
We’re a London band, though Jayson (bass) is a Southend lad and still lives there. He’s a proper rockabilly bass slapper who loves hillbilly music and hammers the s*@t out of his bass. Jonny is one of the best drummers out there, and one of the few that make you want to dance! I’m from Oxford originally, but moved to London many moons ago.

How and when did you start?
I put the band together just over a year ago to capture the wild side of the 50′s beat with raw, raunchy rockabilly that’ll get your feet and hips moving. I wanted this to be a band you can dance to. I had become frustrated with always being the sideman, and although I’ve  really enjoyed playing guitar and writing songs with some great, and  well respected people over the years it was time to pluck up the courage to sing myself and be the front man. I’d been listening to a lot of  Wild Records artists as well as the original 50′s stuff, and that  inspired me to do what I like best which is straight down the middle  rockabilly. There’s some great more hillbilly/country artists, or big  band swing type stuff, or r’n'b etc around, all of which I love, but  rockabilly for me is where it all comes together.

How did your love for rockabilly music start? 
I first picked up a guitar when I was 10 or 11 after hearing AC/DC. I  liked the loud raw guitar and the driving beat. They said they liked  Chuck Berry and I found I liked him too, so after that I started  listening to old blues and r’n'b records including Kings both Albert and B.B, and Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins (who has remained my favorite),  Little Richard, guitar pickers like James Burton, and anyone else who  did things their own way such as Les Paul, Lemmy or Bo Diddley, then learned how to play by listening, copying and playing along.

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Once more I am bringing you the scoop on the upcoming Rockabilly on the Route festival. This time around we’re looking at the events slice of “burlyq!”

Tell us about yourself and how you came to involved with burlesque?

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When I came home I found two packages on my doormat. One contained a CD from The Royal Hounds, which I will review here. The package didn’t contain only the cd, but also a nice letter was in there. I will tell something about the band. The Royal Hounds are from Knoxville, Tennessee, state of the king and base for the roots of rockabilly. Scotty Hinds is the leadsinger and standupbass, accompanied with Scott “Bramble” Billingsley(drums) and Brian Lee(guitar).

The Band

The Albumcover

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My name is Anna. I’m from Norway and I guess I’m not like an average fourteen year old.

I love shooting pictures, at the moment it’s only a hobby and it’s my amateur friends shooting the pictures of me.

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