New sister website for Smartphone users!

We’ve always said that we value your feedback and endeavour to act upon it and this update is no exception!

Those of you that have been with us from the beginning would know that our website has evolved many times over the past two years. We have tried new things, rewritten and deleted hundreds of elements, and needless to say, we are proud of it! After being awarded four accolades in recognition of style, functionality and pioneering ideas that make it stand out from other band websites; we are fast approaching 10000 visits and are even predicted in the Google search bar when you start typing. The evolution of our website is a direct result of constant feedback that we receive through it, and of course, the people that matter the most, our followers….. THIS MEANS YOU!

In recent months however, a new obstacle has been bothering us and we have finally managed to launch a solution. (We think!)

It appears that the days of sitting at your PC or Laptop for hours catching up on status updates and emails after a hard days graft is diminishing due to the ever growing popularity of smart phones. We couldn’t get our heads around the fact that we have a website packed full of information, and yet people were complaining that they had missed a gig, or are continuously asking when the next one is scheduled. Only after watching several people trying to navigate their way around our site with their Apple or Android devices, did we realize just how incompatible our site was with mobile internet technology! So many links, in such small text and accidentally navigating to pages when you are pinching & zooming was annoying to watch let alone perform!

So, there we have it, the website we were so proud of, in simple terms, was pants for mobile internet users! For this we apologise and now hope we have found a solution for these people to keep up to date.

After hours of research, our initial thoughts were to create an “app”, but as we are a mere local pub covers band with little over 300 followers, this wasn’t a very cost effective solution. We’re under no illusions that thousands of people wouldn’t have downloaded it from Appstore or the Android Market whether it was free or not! We’re not rock stars ya know! Another reason we decided against this was because our site is really only informational and doesn’t do anything. Short of creating a game where you can shoot us off stage with rotten vegetables, it wouldn’t have been interactive. Apps also modify settings in your phone, sometimes with horrible consequences and we didn’t want the responsibility of that either…… so….. What do we do in this situation?

Well, just for the followers who use their mobile internet more these days whilst their desktops collect dust, we have created a sister website designed specifically for viewing on smart phones!

We’ve stripped out all of the unnecessary stuff and designed and built a website containing just the basics, based on the statistics of page hits on the main site. Less is more as Andy keeps reminding the band and due to having basic functionality, we were able to increase the text and button sizes to enable touch screen users a more friendly experience. (We Hope)

It is however, in its “Beta” or “testing” stage and thus far has only been tested on HTC using Android. We would appreciate feedback from anyone using other operating systems such as Apple or Blackberry so that we may address any issues……

Hours of research and coding was spent on this project and we hope that you mobile net surfers will be happier knowing that all your Kneeslider updates can be accessed in the palm of your hand!

Quite simply (and even technophobes can do this), all you have to do is click on the link below, or visit www.kneeslider.net and click on the “Mobile Beta” button, or type the following into your web browser: http://www.mobile.kneeslider.net.

Once loaded, simply add to your “favourites” or “bookmarks” and Bobs your aunty if he’s a transvestite!

Now you’ll never miss a status update or gig update so we could well be interacting soon! (We’ve got something to put in you!)

This project does not replace the main Kneeslider website as it is by far the better one to browse on a proper computer!

Once again, thanks for your continued support and we hope to see you soon!

All the best,

Da Boyz’

PS – Remember that incentive we ran whereas if you get us a gig, we’ll each buy you a drink? Well it’s still running so Bookmark the new site on your Smartphone and show all the landlords!

New Gig Poster Competition Ended

We would like to congratulate brother & sister Joshua (10) & Samantha (8) Jones from Somerset for winning the new 2011 gig poster competition! Voucher on it's way!


Thank you to all fourteen entrants for your efforts and interest!

Josh & Sams design:

Happy Birthday Andy!

We'd like to wish a very Happy Birthday to our very own drummer, Mr Andy "The Legend" Smith! Here's hoping you have a great day on the eve of a New Year. Double whammie reason to get pissed and have a good time xxx

The Chase - 24/07/10

Well...the Chase... What can we say!?

They had it large and they loved it!

We arrived though hesitant with great concern for our faithful singer. What with suffering a terrible bout of Chlamydia, he was dog rough!!! But worst of all, he was suffering with a cold too and had trouble singing. We all thought he’d collapse and explode after the first song but how wrong we were... Mummy’s little soldier stuck it out with an intravenous Lemsip drip and smoking some Halls Soothers. He’s the man!! Anyone else would have cancelled but he was there giving it the Beanz...literally!!

After setting up our instruments and monitors, we managed to get the right volume and sound that we were after. As we started to play our sound check, our faithful slave Wayne walked in with his Bodyguard Gayvid and promptly proceeded to feck it all up!! Nice one Wayne, but we love you anyway!

We began the first set with style, flare, finesse, unquestionable and unfathomable awesomeness....and that was just Jock!! Scanning the “crowd” we started to wonder if anyone was going to turn up. Sure enough though, the locals started to limp in.

Towards the end of the first set, we were in the middle of rockin the khasbar when Jock started to wave at someone....who the hell is he waving at...we turned to see a ghostly figure of Heidi standing in the doorway with her vertically challenged friend Lisa. Bloody Hell!! It was the first time we’d seen her in ages, we thought Harley had buried her under the patio...which would have been hard as they live in a flat!

The first set finished on a high and we legged it into the garden to get some air and cool down before we started the second set. Whilst enjoying our drinky poo’s, we kept an eye on Beanz in case his lungs fell out. We also noticed the pub getting fuller...the second set was going to be good!

We flew into the second set and kicked arse! Punk numbers were flying out of us here there and everywhere. The crowd loved it and started dancing along to our tunes. We continued into our dancy numbers and lifted the mood even more. We finished the set on Free Bird (a well loved song in this pub). Harley even extended his solo a little longer this time and managed to keep to playing the right notes!! (Remember the rule of the dots...)

When we finished, we still weren’t allowed to leave until we’d given them some more encores. Not too many though as our singer couldn’t really do much more. We finished on a high and left the crowd screaming for more! We really did let them have it. Rock on!

The Spotted Cow - 16/07/10

We came, we saw we conquered again!!

We rocked up to the pub to unload our gear and quickly set about the process of setting it all up! The task was made simpler this time as we didn’t have to mic up all the drums and even more amazing, Harley managed to remember to plug the monitors in the right way this time….although he forgot to actually turn them on and connect them to the amp!! Ooops!

Kicking off with a different first set list was awesome!! I don’t think even we could realise how awesome it would be. Feet were tapping, heads were bobbing and many a person was singing along!

The A32s joined us and gave us some great backing vocals!! They were truly on form!

Our second set exploded into life with punk oozing from every orifice…Meanwhile, Beanz’s orifice was busy exploding and oozing something else!! Love Shack went down a storm, with people dancing to I love to Boogie, Brown Sugar, Freebird, Crazy little thing and more! Andy rocked the Kasbah with his sacred sticks of awesomeness and Jock powdered up his beard and set it to stun!! The crowd loved it!!

During Johnny B Goode however we had a little scare. We started wipe out as per usual and noticed Beanz going into the crowd…nothing unusual there, he loves to dance the truffle shuffle to this one. But then, he carried on walking into the toilet! What!!??! Not now Beanz!!?!! For those of you who know Beanz, this could not have been more worrying for the band as there’s no telling when he’s coming back and we were running out of time fast!! Jock was just about to start singing something into the microphone (which as it turns out would have been a little hard as he didn’t know the words!!) and Harley was about to pull another 5 minute solo out of his a**e to give Beanz a little more time when all of a sudden, the crowd parted like the Red Sea and Beanz came rushing through. This was also strange as there was no food on the stage but yet he was moving quite fast….maybe he was hallucinating again!! In any case, the bearded ginger warrior of rock made it to the microphone in time to sing, but impressively managed to sing the whole verse in 2 seconds and looked with shock and amazement at Harley as he couldn’t remember what to do!! It all ended well though, we finished the song to the sounds of the crowd shouting for more!!

…What could we do?!! It would have been rude not to! We let them have it in the form of Tush, Can’t get enough and God Save the Queen but they still wouldn’t let us go! We had to bite the bullet and pull out Vertigo, a song we haven’t done in ages but Beanz gave it large big style with the help of Darren from Paparazzi! Cheers mate. You rock!

We left the landlord a happy rocked out bunny, packed up our gear and went to offload it. The atmosphere was fantastic, the crowd absolutely brilliant. The Spotted Cow is one pub we’ll always love! We can’t wait for the next one and hope you can’t either.

Keep on rockin…