Dean Chalkley's Young Souls movie and photographic exhibition

I was invited to the launch of Dean Chalkley's photographic exhibition last week and really enjoyed it. There were three DJs playing rare Northern Soul records. I got chatting to DJ Jo Wallace who has been playing on the scene since the early 80s. She was really friendly and was spinning discs that she had paid £400 for. I found this out when an arrival to the exhibition asked if she could put her bag behind the decks and nearly pulled the stylus arm across the said record. Jo Sprung like a cat to protect her rare 45.

I attended the launch with a friend of mine, Brian Kotz who used to be in a mod band called 'Back To Zero', they released a single called 'Your Side Of Heaven', in the 1980s. A few people at the launch party knew him.

Dean's Chalkley's short film 'Young Souls' was playing at the exhibition and it is well worth a view. Some of the cast were at the launch. I talked to Sonny Evans who plays the lead in the film. He was really chatty. All the cast are actually friends in real life. Sonny grew up in Southend On Sea and aquired a mods record collection at the age of 15. He now runs The Hush Club at The Queen's Hotel,  in Brighton.

The film was shot on location in Southend On Sea and The Dome in Tufnell Park. The house Sonny parks up at is 133 York Road and the car featured is his own. The cat that crosses Sonny's path in this scene was just a random cat with no previous acting experience.

Check out the film at
https://vimeo.com/26458402

Hear Dean Chalkley chatting about the film and exhibition on The Modcast (podcast) episode 6.
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/modcast-eddie-piller-friends/id409149579

Exclusive limited edition prints from Young Souls will be exhibited at YOUTH CLUB from 21st July – 6th August.

YOUTH CLUB
2.1 Kingly Court (Just off Carnaby St)
London W1B 5PW

OPENING TIMES

MON to FRI - 11AM - 6PM

SAT - 1PM - 6PM

SUN - CLOSED

Head in a bag, on a skip, beneath Cannon Street Station.

I spotted this bag, on my walk into town, after work the other night. I did a double-take and came back the next day to take a photograph of it. I felt a bit like David Hemmings in the movie Blow Up. It turned out to be just screwed up paper.