I'm still alive...Just...

So, apologies for the lack of updates and interesting little anecdotes, I've been on holiday, and whilst I remember very little of the entire week, I've been told it was good. And I survived, so that's a bonus.

I managed to catch the SHARKS/CROWNS/OUR TIME DOWN HERE matinee show yesterday, well worth it. They were all fantastic. Not a bad way to kick off your bank holiday weekend and wrap up a rather messy week off. Back to work for me today though, and we've got another special bank holiday treat for you in the form of WEIRDSVILLE ROUND TWO!

Live, we have The Eviltones -


"The Eviltones deliver prime garage stomp with masterful surf-punk guitar, red raw vocals and a big bad hammerhead rhythm section pounding out the brutal and bloody backbeat to a concrete jungle call. 
Worshipping and invoking the restless, haunted ancestry that runs from the delta blues through 60’s garage into punk rock; The Eviltones devilishly distil the myths and spectres from the dark side of rock’n’roll history into high-octane, prime slices of furious death-dance burn-out boogie.
The stage show is a super-charged molotov cocktail of spit, sweat and abandon. Short, sharp shocks to the head are delivered in a formidable and furious fashion as The Eviltones struggle to remain human in the grip of some voodoo freak-show fever. Possessed, obsessed and the best dressed mess of the blues this side of the grave; shit your pants to the super-spooky sounds of The Eviltones."

And The Zipheads: 

       "Formed as Rock'n'Roll covers band The Runaway Boys in early 2005, cousins Ray and Tom learnt to play together from the age of 13   through a shared love of Punk, later being turned on to Rockabilly and Psychobilly.

In 2008 they wrote and recorded 6 songs for their debut EP (see bandcamp link below).

Joined by Drummer Will from St Albans based Ska-Punk band Kiss My Brass, all the flavours mixed together into what we now know as the archetypal Ziphead sound.

Playing a mix of classic Rockabilly, Country, Ska, Swing, Surf, Psychobilly and Reggae, the boys have played alongside Punk heavyweights Discharge and Peter and the Test Tube Babies, Psychobilly legends Guana Batz, King Kurt, Vince Ray and the Boneshakers and Demented Are Go! as well as Two-Tone heroes The Beat, Neville Staples and The Selecter.

Good punchy, catchy songs played fast and passionately"

Not bad right? As last time, it's free from 8pm-1am, there'll be movies and other such visually stimulating entertainments as well as some classics from the You Got Taste jukebox and a few other treats. It's definitely not something you want to miss.

For the rest of this month, you lucky people have:

Sunday 8th - The Litfuses/Gallows Humour/Pins and Puppets/Communion.
Monday 9th - Sick Interest/The Horny Skulls/The Beast Within.
Wednesday 11th - Glass City Vice/Pacific/Kid Capola.
Thursday 12th - Spore Breather/The Red and The Black/Hundred
Friday 13th - THE LAGAN! FREE ENTRY!
Saturday 14th - Here & Now, Redbus Noface.
Sunday 15th - Gentlemen's Club
Thursday 19th - Spraynard - Banquet Records - tickets
Friday 20th - Motorkill - Motorhead Tribute Band! FREE ENTRY!
Sunday 22nd - Seregon, Bangover, Desolator, Death Head.

Sounds good right? Don't forget we've got Outside the Box comedy every Monday night, except this week (Monday 9th) what with it being a bank holiday and all!

UPCOMING BANQUET SHOWS.

I'm feeling nice today, so I'll make your lives a little bit easier. Our lovely friends over @ Banquet Records have got a habit of putting some pretty awesome shows on here and then we get a load of phone calls asking if we have tickets and then it all gets complicated.

SO, the long and short of it is, no. We don't sell tickets for shows in the bar unless we state otherwise. All tickets for Banquet shows can be bought directly from them and to make your life easier, all you have to do is click on the show that you want to go to. I told you, I'm feeling nice. Don't expect this every week.

Sunday 4th March - Crazy Arm/ Apologies, I Have None/ Great Cynics.

Monday 19th March - Ceremony

Saturday 24th March - Los Mendozas Farewell Gig!

Sunday 25th March - Think Big!/ Fine Young Firecrackers/ Home Advantage/ Jimmy Holland

Sunday 1st April - Pianos Become The Teeth/ Brotherhood of the Lake/ The Goodtime Boys

Friday 6th April - Sharks/ Crowns

Thursday 19th April - Spraynard/ Little Ease/ Losing Sleep/ Caves

Saturday 5th May - The Menzingers

Friday 11th May - Cobra Skulls/ Uniforms/ Everything We Left Behind 

Sunday 13th May - Bridge and Tunnel

Friday 3rd August - Big D & the Kids Table

You like? You click, you buy, you turn up (AND BRING YOUR BLOODY I.D), you listen, you drink (or don't drink) and everyone's happy. Eaaaasy.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

LA DISPUTE ARE COMING ON FRIDAY AND I FOR ONE, AM VERY, VERY EXCITED.

Sorry, just had to get that out of my system but that was all 100% fact and that video is actually them. La Dispute are here on Friday night and I am very excited. So excited, in fact that I've forgotten what the actual point of this post was.

In fact, we've got loads of exciting things coming up in the next few months! These are, as follows (and I've even been super efficient and given you links to the bands on the old Facebook and everything so no excuses!):

03/02/12 - The lovely Earthtide and Auger Bane are back with The Red and The Black to treat us to another evening of heavy rock and stoner madness.

04/02/12 - Banquet Records presents: Man Overboard, The Story so Far AND Save Your Breath . They are bloody good to us, no?

07-08/02/12- Kingston Uni Fine Art Expo. Come and see some pretty drawings and stuff for free. Not bad, eh?

09/02/12- Are You Proud? Promotions bring us:Attention Thieves, North Paw, Anavae and Hindsights. I'm pretty impressed with this line up. It's poppy and punky all at the same time. Don't judge me, everyone likes a bit of Thursday night pop-punk now and again. It's a fact.


10/02/12- We've got an evening of Garage Rock lined up for you with Pope, The Past Tense and The Legendary Groovymen. And you will love it.


11/02/12- Q-Tone, Ladybear and Mojo Turtles provide us with some local indie. That'll be nice.


12/02/12- Another cracker from Banquet Records in the form of not one, but TWO matinee shows by the legendary Young Guns. "But that's a Sunday, you say?" I know, crazy right? We sure are. And so are they, and that, my friends is why it'll be amazing.


14/02/12- Valentines Day fucking sucks, right? Most pointless day of the year? Well luckily, Go Team Geek agree and are putting on a lovely Anti-Valentines Night of theatre. 


21/02/12 - Calibers, Pull Peddler and Grievances Aside. What else are you going to do on a Tuesday?


22/02/12- Another one I'm bloody excited for: Crocus, Grappler, Cult Cinema and Chromes. This will be insane, it's a Wednesday and it's a grand total of £5. You'd be stupid not to, seriously. 


24/02/12- Ragweed. And Mayors of Miyazaki and Atlas and Man Survives. This. Just. This. For £3. 


25/02/12- A sad day for Kingston town. Our favourite, Kiwi Wanker is leaving us. And this is our way of saying "FUCK OFF AND DON'T COME BACK, YOU KIWI WANKER." We've got the insanely-talented-at squeezing-in-to-spandex, Spandex Love, the fantastically loud Silent Front, and the dirty, hip hop sounds from The Living Room Presents: Nufurian & Joseph Stylin' with beats by The Surgeon. As you can tell, I'm not even a little bit angry that he's leaving me. There will be tears, and they will be all Bluey's. I guarantee it. But no, seriously. Come and tell him how much you hate him for leaving, how much you're going to miss him or just simply how much you love his little ginger face. 


03/03/12- Weirdsville, the new clubnight. For more details, click here.


04/03/12 - Banquet Records treat us once again to the brilliant, Crazy Arm, Apologies, I Have None and Great Cynics. It's a Sunday and it's going to be a good one so get down eaaarly.


19/03/12- Banquet Records have only bloody booked Ceremony. There are no words to describe how insanely epic this show will be. GET A TICKET AND GET A TICKET NOW.


01/04/12- Banquet Records bring us PIANOS BECOME THE TEETH. That's right. I'm totally up for this one. YEAAAH.


More to come as and when it's announced. Have a good one.