Modesty Blaise Compilation CD

I happened to stumble across this... a compilation CD, to be released this July, entitled 'Modesty Blaise vol. 1: Cheesy Pop for the Connoisseur'

No indication of how it relates to Modesty Blaise -- possibly just that the music is from that era, and/or that the 'cheesy' refers to the 1966 movie! Too bad the graphic isn't of Modesty (is that Twiggy?)


From the CD information:
Killer Mod/freak beat pounding compilation with 14 dance floor tracks from the ’60s. Includes Chris Farlowe's Air Travel, VIPs Straight Down To The Bottom, Eyes of Blue's Don't ask me to Mend Your Broken Heart, Plastic Penny's Your Way To Feel Me Go and many more hundred dollar tracks...

The first seven tracks of this super ‘60s comp are Mod and R&B movers and the remaining seven are out and out freak beat pounders.

1. Erma Franklin - I Don’t Want No Mamas Boy
2. Dusty Wilson - Can’t Do Without You
3. Varetta Dillard - That’s Why I Cry
4. Larry Trider - Carbon Copy
5. Malcolm Hayes - Searchin’ For My Baby
6. Esnew Reader - Undivided Love
7. Azie Mortimer - Put Yourself In My Place
8. Chris Farlowe - Air Travel (Special Version)
9. Eyes Of Blue - Don’t Ask Me to Mend Your Broken Heart
10. VIP’s - Straight Down To The Bottom
11. Howard Carpendale - Du Hast Mich
12. Trubadurzy - Osiewcsyna I Pejsas
13. Snappers – Upside Down Inside Out
14. Plastic Penny – Your Way To Tell me go

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'Ladykillers' Titan Reprint

There's a nice review of the latest Titan reprint, The Ladykillers, at blogcritics.org. And hopefully more to follow, as it hits the bookstore shelves...
Still no word on what the 'extra' material is, so if you've got a copy, please let me know!

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Modesty Blaise Spa

You've read the books, the comics, watched the films, listened to the music... now you can spend a day being rejuvenated at the Modesty Blaise spa. (If you're in Perth, Australia, that is.) Modesty Blaise Face and Body seems like an appropriate name for a place offering beauty treatments, given that in the first novel, one of Tarrant's impressions of Modesty was that "her skin held a soft, matt tan that would have made a fortune for any man who could get it into a bottle."

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Spy Music Collection

Synchronicity is a strange thing...
the day after I posted the piece Dalida's 'Modesty Blaise' song, The Purple Zombie DJ posted a downloadable CD of spy-themed music... which includes the Dalida track!
You can download the whole CD from his blog (it's zipped as a .rar file; if you need a rar extractor, a good free one is 7zip.)
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Titan Reprints: Death in Slow Motion

Titan's next reprint, Death in Slow Motion, is now listed and can be pre-ordered. Continuing with the Neville Colvin illustrated strips, it is scheduled for October 2009 release. Below is the cover graphic:
Details can be found at Amazon and other booksellers.
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