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Worcester Music Festival 2018

What a great weekend we had at the WMF. The Socialable Beer Company on Friday was a great show, in a fantastic venue.
We Closed the festival playing into the early house of MONDAY MORNING (that’s how we roll!!!!) see the review in the gallery below.

DEYA

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We’ve been looking for a gig at this amazing local brewery for a while now, their tap room is open and a special event and we are very happy to provide some music. Fantastic beers, and amazing street food, and supporting local business. Get your pint of Steady Rolling Man, whole we play Stead Rolling Man!

Tall Ships
Gloucester

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Friday night in the heart of Gloucester, right by the Docks, come and see your favourite blues rock hero’s! Also try the sea food, Tall Ships is famous for it!

Welcome Back Delta
Exchange, Bristol

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Our Cheltenham brother’s in Rock, Welcome Back Delta decided to call it a day and go out in a blaze of glory with 2 gigs to draw things to a close. We where invited to play the Bristol leg, at Exchange.
Exchange is a great venue and we had a blast with the Delta boys and I,The Lion.

Upcoming Gigs!!!

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Two upcoming gigs for you to come and party at!
First Smokey Joe’s for a Friday night of retro fun! https://www.facebook.com/events/253791645390334/?ti=icl
And Harley-Davidson Cheltenham have asked us back to play their Open Day BBQ- if you like BLUES BBQ AND BIKES then Sunday July 1st is the day for you.
https://www.facebook.com/events/141688476704174/?ti=icl

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Dogsperados !

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Unfortunatly Lewis Hamilton was unable to play on Friday due to illness, but the show still went on, with Hard Stairs, yours truly and I,The Lion stepping in at the last moment. We had a featured artist, in the shape of our Canine Compadre, Colin! That’s to those who looked after him while we where on stage, he was very popular with The Frog regulars!
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Hard Stairs killed it as ever!

The Lewis Hamilton Band- Frog and Fiddle 25th May.

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We are proud to support one of the hardest working and hardest rocking blues artists in the UK, Lewis Hamilton. AND you get blues legends, the 2 headed Behemoth- Hard Stairs!

Lou-Lou’s Vintage Fair - Steam, Swindon

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A rare duo gig at Lou-Lou’s Vintage Fair with the impressive backdrop of STEAM, Swindon’s steam railway museum. As ever fantastic vintage clothes and we had a great time providing the music, including the debut of our new song Lady Luck!

Good Friday, Welcome Back Delta!

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We didn’t just have a Good Friday, we had an Excellent Friday at The Frog & Fiddle along with Welcome Back Delta who organised a fantastic all day line up of bands.
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Iron Road, Evesham. Band Slam 2018

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Our debut at this great rock Venue (fantastic place, great staff, awesome burgers!) We took part on this year Band Slam. This first round we where up against the formidable Voodoo Stone and One band blues band Tone Tanner. In an gnats chuff voting situation which saw judges arguing over their favourite acts.....WE WON!!!!!!
We will be back for the 2nd round later in the summer, in the mean time, in a next few weeks The Strays go head to head with Solid Gone... but who will win? There’s only one way to find out......FIGHT!!!!
Want to check out the whole evening? From the comfort of your own home? Here’s the link to the live stream. Our set starts about 30mins in.

https://www.facebook.com/theironroad/videos/1573899439374355/?notif_id=1521933107084585¬if_t=live_video_explicit

Cheltenham Town Hall.

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Today we forfilled an ambition to play Cheltenham’s iconic Town Hall. We where invited to play by Lou-Lou’s Vintage Fair, and did a special acoustic set (our first with Karolina) We chucked a cajon, a cigar box guitar and some filthy harmonica into the mix along side Blake’s Honey and Robbie’s Marilyn. The road sounded great and we loved the cheers and the excellent dancing that went on! We hope to be back very soon to play again.

Iron Road, 25th March

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LET BATTLE COMMENCE! We fight it out with Voodoo Stone and Tone Tanner in the Band Slam 2018 at The Iron Road Evesham. It’s a Sunday, it will be finished by 10, because We all LOVE to rock, but ITS A SCHOOL NIGHT!

Hardperados? DesperHardos?

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Friday we got to play with one of our favourite bands at one of our favourite venues. And what happens when you chuck both these bands on stage and a Little Red... the results are below.
Also we are both reunited next Friday to play Little Red’s Peaky Blinders Birthday!

Smokey Joe’s 2018

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Almost a year to the day we are back at Smokey Joe’s, on of our favourite venues, to play live and loud in our home town.
And what’s more, we are joined my double headed blues behemoth Hard Stairs.
£4 on the Door, and boozy shakes to boot!

A Great Start to the year!

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Double gig Saturday, first off, we where invited to take part the 26th world wide WOSP event to raise money for children’s hospital care.

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Then we took a trip up the M5 to Birmingham, to play The Actress & Bishop. Great to meet some new bands, The Raiders, and The White Noise are names you need to look out for.

2018!!!!!!

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New year- New City!! We head to Birmingham for our first gig of 2018. Home of Black Sabbath, Judas Preist and Joanne Shaw Taylor, it’s also Blake old stomping ground and we are looking forward to playing for new punters and meeting new bands! Bostin’!!!!!

The Desperados EP

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It’s HERE!!!!!!!!!
EP Release day!
Listen on-
AppleMusic- https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/the-desperados-ep/1315092329
Spotify https://open.spotify.com/album/4jf66cnKiBlyAkCU53UyKd?si=QfpTtnGLRU-LaGUnzlfk7A

(Currently we are on another Desperados profile, but it’s defo us!! Our team are getting it sorted!)

You can buy and download it from iTunes,
Or we can mail you a CD by using PayPal for £6 (inc p&p) by using
PayPal.me/TheDesperadosUK

Or just come to a gig and buy a CD for £5 in person and have a chat with us too!!!

This a really exciting day for us and it’s taken lots of peoples hard work and patents to make it happen. People of note, Louisa, Nat and Scott, Dan Browne for all his drumming and advice early on, Greg Wilson-Copp for our recording and video, and to everyone who turns out to hear us play!
Thanks to you all!

EP Review

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Thanks to Rock Chic fir this great review of our EP
https://rockchicme.blogspot.co.uk/2017/11/the-desperados-desperados.html

Sunday Roast with Tom and Nat!

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Hear chat and live tracks on the Sunday Roast
https://t.co/3DFXqCnWya

Radio Winchcombe Sunday - 7PM!

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Ahead of the release of our EP next month, get the chance to listen to some tracks, and hear us chat to Tom and the team and maybe even play a couple of live tunes!

Sneaky Peak of our offical video for our website followers!

EP Session 2!

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We popped back to SoundShack Studios to see Greg, and to do vocals and BV’s for our EP. Check out our Instagram ( TheDesperadosUK) to see Blake and Robbie’s BV’s on Salt, Tequila & Lime.
The EP should be mixed very soon, and we are already planning a launch event with our great friends Harley-Davidson in Cheltenham. More news soon!

Smokey Joe’s: Ride for Steve

We love Smokey Joe’s and we love a good cause so when we where asked to play for the charity Ride For Steve, (literal) along side The Strays we knew we would have a great night for a good cause. Throwing caution to the wind we played possibly our most crazy set ever. Thanks to the audience for they participation, and for impromptu cameos from Louisa Gaylard of the Hawthornes and Estelle from The Strays. We raised £200, and had a blast! What better way to spend your Friday night!

EP recording...

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Monday see us head to SoundShack Studios to record our first EP. We are happy to be in the capable hands of Mr Greg Wilson-Copp, also trumpet player in The Hawthornes. Hoping we can finally get to caputure our sound for posterity and for you to own and listen to in you home, Car or where ever you happen to be in this mad mad mad world.

The Bayshill 4th October 2017

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There’s always something special about playing your local, and Wednesday saw us back at The Bayshill. That’s to Phil for inviting us back.

Blood & Honey 5th Birthday

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Happy Birthday to the officially Tattoo Artists of The Desperados, Blood & Honey Tattoo Co.
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We where honoured to be asked to play in the studio along side Cupcake Diaz and The Felt Tip Pens. Easily the coolest gig we have played!
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The Times They Are a-Changing!

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Some of you will have noticed a new face on some of our pictures, and our drum throne recently. Karolina has been dep-ing for us for a while, and we are happy to announce she is now a full time Desperado!






Fear not, Dan is alive and well, just incredibly busy with other projects. We wish him all the best, and of course he will always be a Desperado. So, look out for him on keys and maybe we'll even go full 70s rock and have 2 drummers in the future.


So with Karolina on the drum riser we are looking to record our first EP! #DesperadosAssemble!

FROGFEST 2017 & Harley-Davidson Oxford.

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One of our best weekends for a while, 3 days of free live music courtesy of Olly Royalance and FrogFest. Special mention to Steph who came along as a special treat for her birthday, we hope you had a great time. Thanks to everyone who continues to support us and to all our new friends.

Sunday The DesperadoMobiles headed for Abingd,on, Oxford to play Harley-Davidson's open day. Blake got to play a very beautiful Orange Sparkle Fender Strat belonging to Brand Manager Tim Richards. We also got possibly our favourite picture of all time....
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DOUBLE HEADER WEEKEND!

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The Desperados ride again.
FrogFest 2017- Barn stage 5pm
Harley Davidson, Abingdon from 11am

CAFE RENÉ

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Short notice booking, but we love to rock up and rock out! 11pm start, but take out advice get there early and try the burgers!

NOW OFFICAL VOCALZONE ARTISTS

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Campfire Session

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Deep in the heart of The Cotswold country side we played one of the most unusual venues ever, a converted Cattleshed that is Chedworth Farm Shop. Now, we can never resist a good bit of BBQ to go with out blues, and CFS provided us with some of the best food we have had in years! Thanks to Amy for booking us, and to the crowd who got to enjoy the UK's Ulitimate Party band with Beer and BBQ, just as it should be.

Next week The have the lovely Strays, book for food, but otherwise the event is FREE!

VineStock - Saturday and Sunday 2017

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3 days of amazing and eclectic music at the festival where the outside comes in. The Strays played a fantastic set on Friday.
Saturday saw the amazingly talented Louisa Gaylard doing a rare but very welcome solo set, proving what a fantastic voice she has.
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We took to the pitch at 8pm, and what a great time we had, plently of singing and dancing was great to see. We had Jimbo dep-ing for us, the first of 3 sets he played that night! Check out this video of I Ain't Scared of Dying...

Jimbo continues playing for the rest of the night with Vajazzle Dynamite and Beaver and The Foghorns
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Sunday brought Horsten Longsail, guitar and vocalist for blues Legends Hard Stairs. Blake also set La Chica aside for the night to play a little blues harp.
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VineStock 2017

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We make our return to Vinestock, our first big pub festival of 2016 to play again as part of a great line up over 3 days, where the outside comes indoors with turf under foot and hay bales to sit on. And all for POD.

Amplified- the aftermath.

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We had a great time at The Tavern Stage at Amplified. While other stages had to close due to the downpour, the Tavern crew lashed Amps and parts of drum kits together to make things work! (We had a bin as a kick drum at one point)
The experienced proved that the sprit of The Tav continues long after the actual pub closed. Thanks to everyone who made it a great festival.

AMPLIFIED!!!

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Tavern Stage
Saturday
6pm!
Be there!

Quininton Bulldog & The Frog

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Double gig Saturday, with this amazing charity BBQ, possibly the best view we have had from a stage. Followed by a barn storming set at The Frog!!!

Legfest & Harley-Davidson

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We had a spectacular weekend with gigs Saturday and Sunday, assisted by the awesome Karolina Eastwood taking the Drum Throne. Legfest at The Guildhall in Gloucester got us all fired up for The Harley-Davidson Open Day at their Cheltenham dealership on the Sunday. BBQ, BIKES AND BLUES! Possibly our favourite gig to date!
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(photo credits John Plane and Andy Powell respectively)

The Band That Rocked The Stable!

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Pizza, Pies and Rock n Roll!!!! Blinding set with solos on tables and a great party atmosphere! Really loves playing The Stable and hope to be back soon!

Legfest and Harley-Davidson

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Double-header weekend.
Saturday 7:15 Gloucester Guildhall, we make our debut at Legfest. A great charity fundraising event.
Sunday 2pm. Harley-Davidson Cheltenham have their annual open day. BBQ, Blues and Bikes!

Farmaggedon and The Village Fete.

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Busy day on the 15th, Playing Farmaggendon out at Cirencester for a great local charity, retuning to Cheltenham to headline this great event at The Frog and Fiddle!!! WATERFIGHT!!!!!!!

Cheltenham Cocktail Week

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We where very proud to open Cheltenham Cocktail Week with the fantastic Havana Club team. We like our gigs to be educational and slightly Boozy so this fitted the bill. Take a look at the link below for a Facebook live feed provided by The Strays, who enjoyed the Rum very much...

https://www.facebook.com/Forever.Loyal.Since.92/videos/10155286591739715/

The Cavern, Gloucester 6 May 2017

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Cheers to Bean and The Team at The Cavern for a excellent evening. We brought the blues right to the heart of Glosvagas!
Have a look at the video page to see some of our set....

Birthday at The Bayshill

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May 3rd 2017 saw our offical band 3rd Birthday and we where able to share it with the punters of our local, The BayHills.
Thanks to everyone who came and to Phil Hambling for the invitation to play.
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Boston Tea Party

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Fantastic Friday night of music at Boston Tea Party, including Jay Hartley, Louisa Gaylard, Eva Jacobs and Luke Philbrick.
Thanks to everyone who turned out to see us, and thanks to Bill for organising it.
Music, friends and Food, what more do you want?!
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Radio Winchcombe- LIVE

Thanks to Tom, Ed and Nat for having usnon The Sunday Roast. Have a listen/watch with the links below
https://www.facebook.com/TheDesperadosUK/posts/1638047559543994
https://www.facebook.com/events/1887521458152862/?ti=icl

The Strays EP

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Our buddies The Strays released their debut EP and we where honoured to play for the launch party. Robbie and Blake played some righteous rorcus blues, in a stripped down acoustic set. Hear us do some more on Radio Winchcombe 2nd or at Boston Tea Party 21st April
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(photo credit Dan Parker, Louisa Gaylard

Frog and Fiddle

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We headling a Friday night at the Frog and Fiddle, and what a great night it was! Luke Philbrick, Hard Stairs and FlyByFire all played blinding sets, and we had a great time.
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Thanks to everyone who turned out and everyone at The Frog for making it a great gig! - see more pics in the gallery.

Busy Weekend! The Wilson, Cheltenham and The Fleece Bristol.

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We did a stripped down acoustic and cigar box guitar set at The Wilson, as part a great gallery take over event. Thanks to Polly for inviting us.
On Sunday we packed up the cars and headed to the legendary Fleece in Bristol. Have a look at some more photos on the pics page.
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The Fleece - Bristol

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Heading up this great day of music at Bristols legendary rock venue; The Fleece. Get your Sunday brunch on, oh and stick around for your friends The Strays.

Bath Tavern

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Something about The Bath Tavern brings the best out of us! (It may have been the Grapefruit IPA!) We had a great time, cheers to Dan. And thanks to Everyone to turnesnout, and Jon for the excellent photos.

Return to Smokey Joe's

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Thanks to everyone for coming to Smokeys Joe's we had a blast! It was great to see so many people there, and to play our new songs, which went down very well.
Notable props to Lyndon and everyone at Smokey's for looking after us. Greg for his sound expertise and Jon Walklett for the picture above (more pic soon in the gallery)
We will be back at Smokey Joe's later in the year. Our next stop.... The Bath Tavern on Feb 10 for Blake's Birthday show

iTunes

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As a teaser for our album, we've popped this cheeky acoustic track on iTunes- but grab it while you can because once the album is posted it will be gone....forever!

​....maybe....

Gigs, Gigs, Gigs....

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Its been a busy day here at Desperados HQ, Dan has taken down the Christmas tree, and Robbie is finishing the last of the Advocaat, but we have got some gigs lined up for you too!
27th Jan - Smokey Joe's, Cheltenham
24th March - Frog and Fiddle, Cheltenham
25th March -Bath Tavern, Cheltenham
6 May - The Cavern in 'Glosvagas'

Dust of your sombreros and get your tequila based beverages in hand because it's 2017 and we are going crazy!


It's Christmas time...

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To say Happy Christmas to you all, here's a cheeky little Festive Blues song...
​https://soundcloud.com/backtoblack5/sounds-from-thursday-morning

Amplified 2017

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We are very excited to announce our involvement on a very special stage at this new festival. The St Paul's Tavern Stage will showcase the talent nurtured by this legendary venue.
​Keep an eye out for this guy....
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Smokey Joe's - we had a blast!!!

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Thanks to everyone for coming to see us at Smokey Joe's. We had a great time, we raised some money for Olee Morris (it's his picture above) and Purple Heart Wishes, and we had a few Boozy milkshakes too.....
Check out the Photo page for some great pics from Jon Walklett.

​And here's a bit of last nights show, props to Erin for the camera work.

Business cards have arrived

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Just in time for our Smokey Joe's gig on Friday, fresh off the press are our cards. We are really pleased how they turned out, and it will hopefully save us from trying to spell 'Desperados' to people while on stage
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Smokey Joes!!

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Counting down our gig at Smokey Joe's in a couple of weeks time. We have a solo spot from the legendary blues hound Horston Longsail from Hard Stairs. He's sure to have copies of their Album Libertus Caught to sell, and believe us it's great (get the special USB tape edition before they sell out!!!)
You can also sponsor Olee Morris who is doing a Sky dive for Purple Heart Wishes by paying an extra puns on the door, or in the collection boxes around the venue.
So get ready to shake what yo momma gave you, and enjoy some amaazing waffles and Boozy Shakes at Smokey Joe's.

Halloween!!!!

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We had a great night playing our Double Feature with The Strays at The Dick Whittington in Gloucester!!! What a great crowd, with some awesome fancy dress! SUGAR SKULLS REPRESENT!!!
The Strays as ever brought there A-game and stepped into the breach like the troopers they are when we had some technical issues.
Thanks to the staff at The Dick Whittington, and credit to John Plane for pictures and the video below, and check out more pictures on the photo page!

Smokey Joe's

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We are so excited to announce playing at Cheltenham's Smokey Joe's. Boozy Shakes, waffles and Blues, what more do you want? Well, how about a solo set from Blues legend Horsten Longsail of Hard Stairs!
https://www.facebook.com/events/898917786906078/?ti=icl
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Halloween Double Feature with The Strays!

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Got the posters for our spooktacular Halloween show with The Strays! Zombie or Undead - make sure your fancy dress game is strong!

FrogFest 2016

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Last nights Frogfest show was an amazing event!! We had a great time, and thanks to all those who turned out see you, and for all the awesome comments from giggers and artists alike. Don't for get to see Hired Guns later today!
(Credit to the FlyByFire boys for the picture above)

Rockabilly Horror Showdown Double Feature- with The Strays!

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Another day another, another date to announce! This time it's our horror Halloween show with The Strays!!!
Can't wait for this awesome event! Get your sugar skull make up ready!
TheStraysmusic.co.uk
Rockabilly Horror Show

FrogFest 2016

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Amazing line up for FrogFest 2016. Along side us are -
The Vidual, Four Dead Crows, Vajazzle Dynamite, Adam Cross, Meg Hayden, Hired Guns, and the legendary Thrill Collins.
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We are very proud to announce that we will be playing FrogFest 2016, on Saturday 17th Sept, at 4pm on The Barn Stage!

Bank Holiday Double Header!!!!!

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We had a blast this weekend at SwanFest and BathFest!!!! Both festivals had a fantastic line up including Hard Stairs, The Strays and Vajazzle Dymamite.
....and we have plans for some more gigs soon.

Also take a look for our new YouTube channel -

BathFest 2016

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Its a bank holiday Desperados double header, with us playing BathFest 2016 on 28th August.

Swanfest 2016

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Hot on the heals of our VineStock set, we have just been officially announced as being part of the great line up for Swanfest 2016. Dates and times tbc, but we can't wait to play as part of this event with some great bands like HardStairs Vajazzle Dymamite and May & Browne.

VineStock 2016

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We had a great time at VineStock 2016, thanks to all those who came to see us, and hello to the new friends we made. We saw some other amazing bands and artists over the 3 days and hope that Pod raised plenty of money for their cause.

VineStock 2016 is rapidly approching and we can't wait to play.
We are on stage about 6:30 on Saturday so come and see us.

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