BOY LE MONTI Saturday, Dec 8th, 2007
PRESS RELEASE: BOY LE MONTI
Saturday, December 8th, 2007 EVERSHOT village hall 8PM £6 on door
THE SIDEKICKS Saturday, Oct 27th, 2007
PRESS RELEASE: THE SIDEKICKS
Saturday October 27th 2007 EVERSHOT village hall
Doors open 8.00pm BAR £6 on door
Always versions, never copies. SG ‘We’re not too hung up on trying to sound like the records, we stick close to the plot, but we want to make the music come alive, so if we lose it occasionally that’s us finding what we’re looking for… if you know what I mean.’
The line-up, fronted by West Dorset’s Sean Geraghty, features local music scene notables: Tom Hughes the Hammond Organ maestro from Weymouth’s psychedelic Rockers GOTHIC CHICKEN Dan Anderson a lead guitarist of sublime ability and frontman of Somerset’s R’n’B Legends MOTEL 6, Andy Hancock The top-drawer drums of Soul big-band DT8, and the rock-solid bass end of Laurie Higgins, who has sessioned and appeared with anyone worth playing with North of Portland Bill.
(Check out their website for music pictures film-clips and guest-book comments at http://www.blogger.com/www.thesidekicks.co.uk)
Sean Geraghty
BEN WATERS Friday, Oct 5th, 2007
PRESS RELEASE: BEN WATERS
Friday October 5th 2007 EVERSHOT village hall
Doors open 8.00pm BAR £10 on door
One of the UK's finest pianists, and humorous performers, Ben Waters takes time off from his big band project, to make a welcome return to smaller venues. This is the man who barely in his early 20's played with the likes of Mick Jagger; Pete Townsend; Shakin' Stevens and the late Florida blues harp legend Rock Bottom! Ben mixes Boogie woogie, blues with a Dr John style New Orleans feel, and some good old time rock & roll. Come early cos Ben packs them in!
Karen
Friday October 5th 2007 EVERSHOT village hall
Doors open 8.00pm BAR £10 on door
One of the UK's finest pianists, and humorous performers, Ben Waters takes time off from his big band project, to make a welcome return to smaller venues. This is the man who barely in his early 20's played with the likes of Mick Jagger; Pete Townsend; Shakin' Stevens and the late Florida blues harp legend Rock Bottom! Ben mixes Boogie woogie, blues with a Dr John style New Orleans feel, and some good old time rock & roll. Come early cos Ben packs them in!
Karen
BAND BASH Friday, 28th Sep, 2007
PRESS RELEASE: BAND BASH
Friday 28th September 2007 EVERSHOT village hall
Doors open 8.00pm BAR £6 £3.00 + £5.00 on door
Following the success of The Evershot Battle of The Bands earlier this year, the bands have formed a treaty and aim to give us their all on Friday 28th of September. Evershot is proud to welcome back some familiar and some new young faces. These original up and coming bands promise a night of inspired rock music and adrenalin packed performance. The line up includes
The Free Radicals, a 3-piece from Beaminster 6th form, dynamic and rocking guitar solos and kicking drum beats. Astronauts and Parachutes, this years winners of The Evershot Battle of The Bands, who recently performed at West Bays ‘Inside Out Dorset’ event and return to us with their indie based rock sounds. Breaking Point, a
IAN STEWARTS ROCKET 88 Saturday, July 21, 2007
PRESS RELEASE: IAN STEWARTS ROCKET 88 Saturday, July 21, 2007 EVERSHOT village hall
Doors open 8.00pm BAR £10 on door
As a tribute to the enormously talented pianist, the late Ian Stewart (Stu), the legendary Rocket 88 have got back together this year following a request from Stu's home town of Pittenweem in Fife to appear at a special 25th Anniversary Festival to commemorate Stu's life.
Stu died at the age of 47 in december 1985. He was a founder member of the Rolling Stones and can be heard with his distinctive boogie woogie style on many early Stones recordings. It was Charlie Watts and Stu's shared love of big band boogie, blues and jazz which prompted the formation of Rocket 88. This eight piece band, four horns and four rhythm, worked extensively during the 80's and into the 90's appearing at many festivals, clubs and on radio and tv, representing Britain at the Montreux Festival.
On the piano the band now has the well known blues artist Ben Waters who was a friend of and greatly inspired by Stu at the start of his career. In addition to Ben the line-up is:-
Willie Garnet & Olaf Vas, Saxophones
John Picard & Mike hugh, Trombones
Roger Smith, Bass/ vocals
Jimmy Roche, Guitar
Sam Kelly, Drums (replacing Charlie Watts)
Other than Ben and Sam this is the original band.
Eva Harvey
Doors open 8.00pm BAR £10 on door
As a tribute to the enormously talented pianist, the late Ian Stewart (Stu), the legendary Rocket 88 have got back together this year following a request from Stu's home town of Pittenweem in Fife to appear at a special 25th Anniversary Festival to commemorate Stu's life.
Stu died at the age of 47 in december 1985. He was a founder member of the Rolling Stones and can be heard with his distinctive boogie woogie style on many early Stones recordings. It was Charlie Watts and Stu's shared love of big band boogie, blues and jazz which prompted the formation of Rocket 88. This eight piece band, four horns and four rhythm, worked extensively during the 80's and into the 90's appearing at many festivals, clubs and on radio and tv, representing Britain at the Montreux Festival.
On the piano the band now has the well known blues artist Ben Waters who was a friend of and greatly inspired by Stu at the start of his career. In addition to Ben the line-up is:-
Willie Garnet & Olaf Vas, Saxophones
John Picard & Mike hugh, Trombones
Roger Smith, Bass/ vocals
Jimmy Roche, Guitar
Sam Kelly, Drums (replacing Charlie Watts)
Other than Ben and Sam this is the original band.
Eva Harvey
BARN DANCE Saturday, 14th July , 2007
Saturday 14th July 2007 WOOLCOMBE FARM
BAND-ON.co.uk is proud to present a summer BARN DANCE at Woolcombe Farm, Melbury Bubb. The fun starts from 5pm onwards. There will be live music with the caller from CAPTAIN THUNDERBOLT and additional tunes from THE EMERGENCY DJ’s
There will also be a Hog Roast (which is included in the price of your ticket), a licenced bar and camping.
TICKETS IN ADVANCE 01935 83860
Adults £10 ~ Children £5
This event is a "Fund Raiser" for the Little Acorns
Sarah
ETRAN FINATAWA Saturday, May 26th, 2007
PRESS RELEASE: ArtsReach presents... ETRAN FINATAWA
Saturday May 26th 2007 EVERSHOT Village Hall
Doors open 8.00pm BAR £8.00 on door
Karen and I took some snaps on Saturday night of the Etran Finatawa gig which you can see by clicking here. I also grabbed a quick burst of video on my phone. It was an amazing sell out night, if anyone else took some pictures then please email them in!!
NEWS FLASH
Despite the unexpected cancellation of the Evershot Street fair on Sunday 27th May 2007, the Acorn Inn will still be holding the beer festival. In the pub garden there will be face painting, fancy dress, barbecue and live music from Flaky Jake.
Sarah
ATCHA
PRESS RELEASE
On Saturday 19th May 8.00pm Band-on.co.uk are proud to present ATCHA! ‘Spearheaded by Chris Jagger's charisma and wry wit, ATCHA! presents a highly original mix of rock, growling blues, R&B, country, Cajun and funk. This is your chance to experience ‘ top notch Cajun -flavoured R & B ' as the band takes time out from their international tour to promote the new album ‘Act of Faith'As kings of the British roots scene Chris Jagger's ATCHA! includes multi-instrumentalist Charlie Hart ( ex . Pete Brown, Ronnie Lane 's Slim Chance), drummer Malcolm Mortimore (ex Ian Dury, Frankie Miller) and the talented bassist Paul Emile and guitarist/producer Jim Mortimore.‘very engaging'; ‘if the Faces or Pogues had been from Louisiana they would have sounded like this'; ‘ this Jagger is a sly sharp songwriter'.
SOMETHING BLUE ON STAGE
Another fantastic night in Evershot that even included some 'stage dancing' from a few members of the audience. I think it was Karen who asked if anyone was taking pictures? So I did. On my phone. A massive thank you to Something Blue and the Scuzzbuckets for another classic BAND-ON.co.uk night out!!
BATTLE OF THE BLURRY BANDS
Click here to see them first, don't forget to use your arrow keys to move around.
If anyone took some better ones then please email them in!!
chickenboySOMETHING BLUE
PRESS RELEASE
Peter Hossell lead singer with Something Blue has been singing and living the blues life since the late 60's where he was performing with Screw at the famous free concert for Brian Jones in Hyde Park.
Several bands (Los Dobros, The Dirty Dogs) and 30 years later he woke up to discover that he was in Brazil and immediately set about forming a new band of innocent victims from Sao Paulo.
Supported by the Scuzzbuckets we are lucky to have Something Blue playing one of a few gigs on their first visit to this country.
Andrew
Peter Hossell lead singer with Something Blue has been singing and living the blues life since the late 60's where he was performing with Screw at the famous free concert for Brian Jones in Hyde Park.
Several bands (Los Dobros, The Dirty Dogs) and 30 years later he woke up to discover that he was in Brazil and immediately set about forming a new band of innocent victims from Sao Paulo.
Supported by the Scuzzbuckets we are lucky to have Something Blue playing one of a few gigs on their first visit to this country.
Andrew
WINNERS BATTLE OF THE BANDS 2007
ASTRONAUTS AND PARACHUTES WIN EVERSHOT BATTLE OF THE BANDS
Saturday 21st April Evershot saw the much anticipated return of Battle of the Bands! The six bands played to a packed hall. Our three professional music judges faced an impossible challenge as all the bands were well rehearsed and confident on stage and sounding brilliant thanks to our old friends Richard and Henry from MES sound.
MANTRA back this year with new front girl Sabrina who wowed us with 'Teenage Kicks' - always difficult to play first but the audience made up for it by turning up early and giving plenty of support.
ASTRONAUTS AND PARACHUTES the judges favorites captivated their audience with their well polished and professional set, who generously invited all the bands on stage to enjoy the winning moment.
THE FREE RADICALS played a high-energy set which got the crowd jumping.
TAKE IT AS RED looked like old pros, working the crowd, in true rock 'n' roll style and were very comfortable having played the hall before.
THE MAUVES had the looks and the attitude of any great indie band and certainly got the judges attention. Great to see another girl on stage.
SUCK MY BAND don't let the name fool you, this sophisticated theatrical art-house rock-outfit delivered one of the most original sets led by Liam's incredible gothic vocal talents. Would love to see their next gigs with eccentric costumes.
A great many thanks to Val Crabb, Andrew Dickson and Paul Lashmarfor their thorough and considered judging. And to all the band-on crew.
Come back soon and see more pictures of the event, and the new BATTLE of the BANDS shield which has pride of place in the Village Hall.
If anyone took pictures of the night then please email them to us and we will put them online.
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BATTLE OF THE BANDS 2007
April, 21st, Saturday, Battle Of The Bands, 7.30pm. We already have some early entries for this years battle of the bands, Mantra, our youngest contestants last year, a local band from Beaminster
school , another year older and wiser, we look forward to their winning stage presence and wooing tunes. Also from Beaminster we have Suck my Band, lead singer Liam has a fantastic vocal range well suited to their tongue-in-cheek heavy rock style. Astronauts and Parachutes, this years winners of the Beaminster and Colfox School battle of the Bands, original and well produced music which is a joy to listen too. The Mauves this years runners up at the Beaminster/Colfox competition, very slick and retro, and nice to see a talented girl up there amongst the lads. Our final entryso far is our funky favourite Take it as Red they played excellently last year and Ed really knows how to strut his stuff and drive the audience wild! And last but not least, The Free Radicals!
P.A and professional sound mixing provided by MES sound.
EMAIL BAND-ON.co.uk to request an entry form and it back to us with your entry fee as soon as possible, numbers are limited.
NOT THE BOYS FROM BRAZIL
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April 27th, Friday, The artists formely known as The Boys from Brazil from now on will be known as Something Blue
SPRING EVENTS FOR 2007
PRESS RELEASE
March 24th, Saturday, BAND-ON.co.uk present ORPHEUS, A local Bridport band who fuse a combination of jazz, funk and ethnic rhythms to create smooth, original and danceable music.
April, 21st, Saturday, BATTLE OF THE BANDS. After the success of last year we are searching out new young talent for this annual event. Any band with all members under 30 yrs old may apply. Call Sarah on 01935 83860 for entry details. It promises to be a good night.
April 27th, Friday, THE BOYS FROM BRAZIL... and yes they're coming all the way form Brazil. Remarkable voice, unusual songs and a very shiny guitar. You really need to hear them to believe it.
THE MAN FROM FUNKLE
PRESS RELEASE
On Friday 16 th February Band-on presents a full evening of entertainment, with our ever faithful EMERGENCY DJ's supporting the hottest disco diva cover band in the west. THE MAN FROM FUNKLE are all skilled artistes with years of music industry experience, these Pro Musicians play to top clients all over the world. Gigs range from Top Corporate Parties, Student Union Balls and Private Weddings to Exotic Mansions, Themed Extravaganzas and Glastonbury Festival.
Fun starts at 8.oo pm, bar, £6.00 on the door.
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