ROCK NIGHT WITH WEIRD BOYFRIEND AND REDHEAD
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About this event
WEIRD BOYFRIEND
Formed in 2018, the band’s name came from the description given of the Lead Singer. Recorded 6 tracks at Woodworm Studios, Oxford in 2019 (famed for its close ties to Fairport Convention). From this recording, the track ‘Live Now’ was played on BBC Introducing CWR. Other recent radio plays include Pure Beat Radio, Paula Frost on Way Out Radio, Shakey’s Sessions on CCR and Frome Radio with Chris Watson (4 minutes into the show).
The band is based in the UK (Warwickshire) and has recently played live at the Hook Norton Crossroads Festival. The band are gigging soon at the Acoustic Lounge (14th May), The Spice of Life in Soho (4th of June) and again at the Hook Norton Music at the Crossroads Festival on the 2nd July.
Influences are wide and varied - from Bowie, Dylan, Led Zeppelin, The The, Pre-Fab Sprout, Fleetwood Mac, Talk Talk, Steely Dan, Doobie Brothers, and Jamiroquai, Jimi Hendrix, Jerry Garcia, Alan Holdsworth, Frank Zappa - and the list goes on!
The band's music and the atmosphere created has been compared to the Doors and also as having the crispness of the Fine Young Cannibals and a little Dire Straits guitar… To a mix of Gang of Youths/Gaslight Anthem and Knopfler.
Previously the band was called ‘The Deserters’ and gigged from the 80's onwards in the UK and in France. Venues included the now mythical Greyhound in London, the Rock Garden, The Embassy Club, the Greenpeace Festival, the Half-Moon, the historic Mean Fiddler… Across the Channel: The Opera Night, Elisée Montmartre, Cithea, the mythical Gibus Club, Mimi La Sardine and the Rock Store, Mas de Grille (Montpellier). The band has also played festivals including the Fête de l'Humanité, the Carmaux Festival and more recently the Hook Norton Beer Festival. Early recordings include 2 tracks on 'Class of 81' (as Exeros) produced by Bram Tchaikovsky (the Motors) and 3 tracks produced by Bob Lamb (UB40, Duran Duran). Single: 'To the Town' and the auto produced ‘PathyMontgomeryPathy’ The Deserters album (with Bob Lamb on final mixes). Later the band changed its name to ‘Pull’ and then to ‘Snoopy’s Ghost’ (based on the shadow of a large Snoopy dog sticker left on the singer’s first ever folk guitar, then to plain ‘Ghost’:- under this name, they recorded an album called ‘3 + 4/5’ in Lavérune (North of Montpellier in the South of France).
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REDHEAD
Formed in 2013 by frontman Ellis to bring Classic Rock n Roll to all around, we set out not only to play the music but to perform it to make live music fun and entertaining (how it is meant to be!).
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Doors 8pm
Tickets £6 advance + booking fee | £10 OTD
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16+ (under 18s must be accompanied by a responsible adult 25+)
COVID related cancellations on advance tickets will be fully refunded if requested BEFORE the event
