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…

The Admiral Drake 09/07/10

COMING SOON!!

The Colonial Bar 25/06/10

What with Jock off filming School of Rock II: Revenge of the Picks; we had to kindly ask our dearest friend Chaz to stand in for him! What with the height difference and different beardage we figured people would notice the difference, but what the hell!!

We blasted into action with Paranoid! What a way to start the gig. We rocked, but perhaps too hard! It was absolutely boiling!!! The sweat poured off us like a rapist in a police line up!

Andy’s brains were flying around in his helmet trying to break free. He’s just learnt “Hate to say I told you so” and was holding back sneezing for fear of losing it all out his nose... You see, sneezing is the easiest way for a drummer to forget stuff, so we get quite worried when ours learns new material and then starts snuffling!

We wrapped up the first set quite nicely with people giving the usual head bobs, foot tapping and moo moo’s jiggling all about!!

After the short break, we kicked off again with our punk numbers and proceeded to blast through them like Beanz through a mixed grill kebab! We stormed the place moving onto our dancing numbers. People were boogying on down to “I like to boogie” and “crazy little thing called love”

Now literally losing weight from sweating in the unbearable heat, we thought that surely the crowd would have had enough by the time we reached our final number....we were wrong...

We pulled “Born to Be wild” off with our usual style and flare and loved every minute of it, as did the crowd.

We finished and joined the crowd for a quick dance before legging it outside to cool down. It was just aswell. Andy’s turbo kicked in and we needed to cool him down before he spontaneously combusted.

After we packed up, we said thanks to Margret and made our way home. We left the drum-kit there as Andy was playing with the Late Slack Harry. RIP Guys, you were good......but we’re better!

Big thanks go to Margret, we love that place and hope we can always come back to play! Thanks for letting us play! Thanks to Wayne for playing with the sound. You’ll get there one day son, there’s something there just keep working at it.

The Salty Dog 19/06/10

Well what can we say...we came, we rocked and we conquered!

Our lead singer Beanz aka Slipper-Clutch-Daisy had gone up early with the Legend Andy to take full opportunity of the free food on offer while our Jock the Rock had gone to pick up Harley at his girl gui..Scout camp in Wickham!

Jock the Rock wasted no time in making the journey to Little Mo’s house in the Olympic Skoda where they were met by their chubby compadré of rock to complete the rest of the quest to the Salty Dog Saloon.

Once there, they unloaded their instruments of fury and gauged the location with much caution....we’d been told it was a bit like Beirut on a Friday night. Nevertheless, the three unlikely warriors of rock entered the Saloon like three camp cowboys from a Clint Eastwood Spin off under budget cinematic flop where they found the Legend tucking into his triple burger with chips and a bowl of Chilli. Sensing food and suddenly undertaken by an insatiable animal-like appetite, Beanz and Harley instinctively made their way to the kitchen where they found Stu preparing their feast. He sedated the pair of animals with the promise of more triple burgers, chilli and a huge bowl of chips. Harley went and ordered a drink, while Beanz supervised Stu to make sure food was actually on its way.... Satisfied with our gourmet food, we were ready to grab this pub by its goolies and give it a damned good thrashing! Cheers Stu for your amazing cooking, your chilli rocks! 

We enjoyed music from a newly formed band of locals known only as Parallel Ground. These unlikely warriors of rock had managed to recruit Jack Black as their drummer. Needless to say, our own JB Stunt double was most impressed. Don’t worry Jock, there’s only one bearded rock god in this county and it’s definitely you baby!! These guys rocked the hell out of the pub so much that we had to pull up some reserve ass kickery to rock the khasbar even more!

We kicked off with the usual numbers... Paranoid went down a storm. Thanks to Elsa for her assistance with backing vocals. There’s definitely something there... we’re not quite sure what but keep at it and you’ll make it someday!

The pub got a damned good rockin for a couple of hours and loved it. We were definitely a hit. Thanks to Mo and her pals for making an appearance and also Di (the Bride!). Always nice to see a friendly face! Harley was able to play the guitar with no hands after you gave him a kiss on the cheek goodbye!! What a guy...

Andy and his ancient waterpistol of awesomeness went down a treat and cooled us down with a much needed soaking! Damn it was hot!

We finished the gig off with some free bird action where Harley was forced into playing another 5 minute guitar solo. The poor guitarist’s chubby fingers have third degree burns all over their bad-selves!! The legend had to fasten his hat on extra tight to stop his brains from falling out and Beanz just took his shirt off!! ....maybe that’s why the pub emptied so fast... Jock the Rock kicked ass with his Beard... He’s like Sampson, if he ever shaves it off, his powers will fade!

At the end of it all, we felt that we had done our job. We came and we rocked! Without a doubt! Stu was happy and that’s all that mattered really.

Thanks for the opportunity mate, we loved it. Keep that pub rockin and watch this space!

The Chase Inn 08/05/10

COMING SOON!!

Colonial Bar 01/05/10

COMING SOON!!