A bloody cold this week has left Merv a little worse for wear, but no doubt he will be up and at it pretty soon.

We're in the process of putting some new cover tunes together as well as some new Tunes from our guitarist Mark. Songs from Wheatus, Guns and Roses are in the pipeline as well as some more songs by The Rolling Stones and Tom Petty.

Both Steve and Pete are working hard at these soon to be familiar songs.

Mark? hey he has them under his fingers already!!

In the meantime check out one of Merv's guitars. A Gibson 335 Cherry Dot.

A sheer thing of beauty, .. unlike Merv.

Let's Get It On

And so it was that we started to look at some new tunes.

T. Rex my god who'd of thought it, but hey, it seems to work and folk do know it, and love to dance to it. With Mark on main vocal, it sounds good so in it goes.

Aerosmith, haha that's more like it, and a quick run through of "Sweet Emotion" brings us right up to speed. Bring it on.

Next week hmm let's put some more Stones into the set.

4th June 2012

Booked for the Jubilee Celebrations at the village of Sambrook.


 The first time we had used the full PA in what seemed an age. But no problems it all went together well and in no time we had carried out a sound check.

With a good three hours of music we were well equipped and away we went.

About 8.30pm we cranked it up and had the local villagers dancing along to the music.


Hits from Thin Lizzy, AC/DC, Queen, The Eagles and many many more, had a full hall up, dancing and singing along.






As loud as ever our ears could stand the revellers loved every minute  of it,  no one seemed to care and kept crying out for more, until around 11.30 when the order of the day at that time was "just one more" and this was it.

And then it was over, and time for a Rock n Roll cup of tea to finish off. Thank god for Typoo!!

Until the next time.

xx

Newport Carnival 2012

2nd June

We rolled up at around 11am not knowing what to expect.

What we found was a nice covered stage area and a nice PA system once more provided by the excellent Stage Services. A good job well done by the guys.

From about 1am we began playing, but from there it was stop start all afternoon, playing between the other acts including fire eaters and balancing acts that were performing in the main ring.

A great shame the weather didn't hold out it was cold and threatened rain all morning. And so it was that as the time approached 3.30pm the crowds started to disperse and by 4pm it was all over for another year.

Well done the guys who form the Carnival committee see you in 2013.

A Few Newfest 2012 Pictures

Newfest 2012

Newfest 2012 has been and gone, but what a fantastic day it had turned out to be. There were approximately 3000 people basking in fabulous hot sunshine. It was a glorious day. 

We came on stage around 2.15pm and played our well rehearsed set which lasted a little longer than we had anticipated, but we were ready for that having rehearsed a couple of extra songs "just in case".

It was simply the best organised one day festival that we have played to date. Everything went to plan and was like a well tuned and oiled machine.

Congratulations to Lawrence Gale and all of his team, and a quick mention for Stage Services who supplied all of the PA and the sound engineer.

Here's hoping that they make this into an annual event.

Having been chosen to play the NewFest 2012, we are busy preparing a new set list, which is to include the Black Country Communion song "Smokestack Woman" and a few other new additions.

Great times are to be had.