Want More Beach Party's ?

Please support us at our coming events to enable more beach party’s to be possible. Obviously the beach party’s are free but the PA system etc do take some upkeep. For this months shows please see front page or the header on this page.

Our events are only £4.00 and promise great value for money so come along and get involved, we would love to see you all.

 

 

 

KEV (ex 45s)

Following a bit of a band split, meaning kevs on his own at the mo (drummer and bass player wanted. Apply here),kev took to the stage (beach) with all the confidence of a bloke who knows his songs are good enough on their own. playing them with a quiet guitar and his striking vocals, he brought out a strange pathos in 'Ska boy' and others that isn’t as noticeable in the full line up versions. The lyrics stood out and showed that he has a fine way of painting the period of the late 80s early 90s of Thatcher/Tory Blyth and Tyne land.

looking forward to a new line up..and more solo performances as laid back as this.

 

 

 

 

 

 

RED LETTER SUITS

funky slithery bass through the Ska monkey sound system was sliced by the jagged geetar from Angie and machine gun snare rolls as red letter suits ,the hardest gigging bands around at the mo took a night off being professional for the beach party and let rip, having tried to drink the beach party dry under the impression they gig was cancelled due to a genny failure!!

3 hours of extra booze brought out a wilder side to the band and they blasted through 'sunshine hurt your eyes' to finish a raking gig. Don’t miss these..they are on a roll at the moment!.

 

 

 

Duridge Beach party Saturday 5th August 2006

What I love about summer is the beach party’s. This latest gathering was at Duridge bay beach, Northumberland, and was arranged by the 'Tent Rock' lads. Kicking off a little later than expected, but still got going for around 7pm and considering the last band finished at 4.00am (as far as I remember) we had a good run. A beach party would not be the same without a slight disaster to remember it by, normally it is the fact it poured of rain all night or the tents all blew away or maybe even the police turning up to put an end to it all. Non of these were the case though, the weather was perfect and no complaints from neighbours, but one of the generators did decide to go on strike. This was rectified later by super generator man who turned up with a spare one and refused the fat lady a chance to sing. The show continued and 6 bands played in all. I finally left site at 12 noon sunday leaving the die hards still sitting round the singing bush listening to the last of the party music and one defient camper still asleep in a lone tent. we really need to have more of these events.

ENGINE

Back in the late 50s,rover brought from the states a v8 engine to fit into its portly and cumbersome cars, at the same time a stout rocker called Bill Haley helped out the genteel rock and roll revolution in GB.

6 decades on and while the v8 has powered progressively sleeker and more aggressive cars, and grown in size and power, rock and roll has changed beyond recognition into a beast of a thing with many heads, some of the beasts breeding and putting out babies that should be thrown back into the cess pool, the odd one crawling back and savaging the luckless midwife till they have a proper listen and have to admit "bugger me that is a real rock band, its just hardly recognisable doctor"

ENGINE is such a beast..motorhead sorted out the slits and spawned this growling monster.. get in at the birth..who knows how long this will survive!!

  

EL BISTRO

Possibly the thinnest band currently on the circuit of north east gigs at the mo, EL BISTRO can punch well above their weight when belting out pop punk/Indy songs that they specialise in.between shouting abuse at each other in a fine rock and roll tradition( is there any brothers in here?) they show maturity on stage way beyond the 6 month or so they have been together...they must have formed at around 12 years old i guess!

looking like a juvenile New York Dolls, but with smiles, and having tried to emulate them in the drinking stakes prior to going on (a three hour delay didn’t help..generator broke down),the band still fired through a set of great pop tunes with shouting harmonies and grating bass...keep it up..you could be contenders!!