The legendary forgotten sessions of The Brighton Port Authority, a.k.a. The BPA, were finally uncovered.

The Brighton Port Authority were an outfit who built a huge word-of-mouth reputation on England’s south coast from the early 1970s onwards before disbanding in the mid-‘90s. From what can be pieced together, they were a loose-limbed jamming unit, originally known as the Brighton Phonographic Association. At its core were local musicians: chairman of the BPA, Norman Cook, and his studio partner, Simon Thornton, who gathered various singers and session men around them, built the ramshackle BPA studio, and would occasionally throw multi-day warehouse parties from which their semi-legendary reputation stems.

Stay tuned for the long overdue release of the tapes in early 2009.