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Barb Jungr is promising a remarkable collection of songs from her new album My Marquee, a celebration of the great Marquee Club, a place where so many bands and performers performed on their way to greatness.

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00:00 OK.

00:01 Good morning, my name is Phil Hewitt,

00:03 Group Arts Editor at Sussex Newspapers.

00:06 Always fantastic to speak to Barb Junger.

00:08 And you are heading to the Minerva Theatre with a really special album,

00:13 which you'll be drawing on on February the 3rd, isn't it?

00:16 Minerva Theatre, Chichester.

00:18 The album is My Marquis, and this celebrates a really special era,

00:23 a special collection of songs.

00:25 What's the story behind My Marquis?

00:28 Well, the Marquis Club in London was a kind of central focus for a lot of bands

00:34 that were starting out in the late 50s, 60s, 70s.

00:38 And a lot of those bands then became huge in the world,

00:42 like Led Zeppelin and the Rolling Stones.

00:45 And I thought, wouldn't it be great to do a collection of some of the songs

00:49 that came out of that period and that were played at that one place

00:54 in this extremely fertile time in the history of British popular music.

01:00 So we took a bunch of songs,

01:02 which included Immigrant's song by Led Zeppelin and some Yardbirds songs,

01:07 which includes Shape of Things and Oh, and Heartful of Soul,

01:13 which is just a beautiful song.

01:16 And we rearranged them, obviously, as is my want.

01:19 And we put an album together and now we've started to tour it.

01:24 And I was a bit slow doing all of that because, of course,

01:27 I was here in Sompton with my mother who died before Christmas.

01:32 And and so now I'm back in the world.

01:35 You can concentrate on the album.

01:37 But what a fantastic collection of artists that you had that you could draw on.

01:41 Let's mention The Who as well, Substitute.

01:43 Fantastic song. Substitute.

01:45 What a great song.

01:47 What a song exposing the brilliance and the hard laser-like vision

01:54 of the British working class at that point in time.

01:57 And has that changed?

01:59 And that's what's so interesting about these songs, is that they have meaning now

02:05 that perhaps they didn't have then, but they definitely have that.

02:08 That you come, you go, oh.

02:10 And you being you, you would never sing a song that didn't actually say something,

02:14 would you? But these are fantastic songs in that respect.

02:17 They are fantastic songs in that respect.

02:19 I love them to pieces. And Survivors too.

02:23 Survivors. And I've got a great band.

02:25 I've got Jenny Carr on piano and she's worked with me over 20 years now.

02:29 Jonathan Lee on drums and Dudley Phillips on bass.

02:32 I mean, these are these are the top musicians in the country.

02:36 You know, they're fantastic.

02:37 Who they haven't played with.

02:39 So this is kind of the start of promoting the album.

02:42 You're looking to play the Rope Tackle in Shoreham later in the summer

02:45 and presumably other places too?

02:47 Yes, I'm pretty sure we'll bring it to Brighton and Hastings and other places

02:52 along the coast. And I'd like to play in Worthing, actually,

02:55 because I've never played in Worthing ever in my entire life.

02:58 Something you've got to correct, isn't it?

03:00 Yeah. So, you know, let's see what's let's see what can happen.

03:04 Fantastic. Good luck with all that.

03:06 Lovely to speak to you as always.

03:08 Thank you.

03:09 Lovely to speak to you too.

03:10 Thank you.

03:10 Bye.

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Barb Jungr celebrates the Marquee Club classics

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