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For anyone that wants to escape the Draconian laws in Ireland on Good Friday this year..........
One of the greatest rock'n'roll bands "THE SONICS" have just been confirmed to play Le Beat Bespoke 4 in London over the Easter weekend. This is the first time ever outside their native USA for an exclusive European show.
THE SONICS live @ the Forum, 9-17 Highgate Road, Kentish Town, London, NW5 1JY
Friday ‘Official Sonics after show party free with weekend or Friday night ticket’ Venue for the weekend except THE SONICS gig. Its *£8 entry to the BRAINWASHED! & POW WOW otherwise!
9 Super Live acts from all over the World, Allnighters with 3 dancefloors & International DJ line-up,
Guest club nights, Go Go Dancers, Record fair/ Huge retro market, Eye candy visuals & rock n roll mayhem!
Weekend ticket £47 all events including SONICS show @ the FORUM (All events includes Sat daytime/Record fair)
Friday £25 (*£8 if you just want to go to the BRAINWASHED! + POW WOW **********!)
Saturday night £12
Sunday night £12
Sat daytime £6 Inc record fair admission
THE ORIGINAL PUNK ROCK BAND. Back in the mid-1960s, the legendary Sonics took rock'n'roll by the scruff of the neck and thrashed it to within an inch of its sorry life, leaving a legacy of some of the most savage, visceral recordings ever made.
Dirty fuzzed up guitars twisting old blues licks. Songs about cars, girls and of course psychedelics set to some wacked out garage sound. Three minutes of snappy pop punk to set those feet a tapping, those girls a running and those snakes writhing on the wallpaper. Distortion...hip but not hippy The Sonics. There was none dirtier or majestic than The Sonics. This band had it all, fuzzed up guitars, great riffs, screaming vocals akin to Little Richard. This band rocked from 1964-67 giving us classics such as The Witch, Strychnine (later covered by The Cramps), Boss Hog, Psycho and Louie Louie. "IF our records sound distorted, its because they are...they were always overdriven. My Brother Larry ... he was disconnecting the speakers and poking a hole in them with an icepick. That's how we ended up sounding like a train crash." Sonics bassist. Essential super fuzz. A tough new sound blending rock 'n' roll, singers like James Brown and the Yardbirds and early Stones.
The Sonics rode the wave of Pacific North-West American garage rock in the early and mid-1960s, pioneered by The Kingsmen and The Wailers (not to be confused with Bob Marley's reggae band). Other (less successful) members of the scene were The Drastics, The Regents and Paul Revere & The Raiders. These guys together are credited with starting up the Seattle music scene that has had more successes since - the grunge scene in the 1980s and 1990s including Nirvana, Mudhoney and Alice In Chains, for example.
Check http://podgroup.typepad.com/lebeatbespoke4/ for more info.
One of the greatest rock'n'roll bands "THE SONICS" have just been confirmed to play Le Beat Bespoke 4 in London over the Easter weekend. This is the first time ever outside their native USA for an exclusive European show.
THE SONICS live @ the Forum, 9-17 Highgate Road, Kentish Town, London, NW5 1JY
Friday ‘Official Sonics after show party free with weekend or Friday night ticket’ Venue for the weekend except THE SONICS gig. Its *£8 entry to the BRAINWASHED! & POW WOW otherwise!
9 Super Live acts from all over the World, Allnighters with 3 dancefloors & International DJ line-up,
Guest club nights, Go Go Dancers, Record fair/ Huge retro market, Eye candy visuals & rock n roll mayhem!
Weekend ticket £47 all events including SONICS show @ the FORUM (All events includes Sat daytime/Record fair)
Friday £25 (*£8 if you just want to go to the BRAINWASHED! + POW WOW **********!)
Saturday night £12
Sunday night £12
Sat daytime £6 Inc record fair admission
THE ORIGINAL PUNK ROCK BAND. Back in the mid-1960s, the legendary Sonics took rock'n'roll by the scruff of the neck and thrashed it to within an inch of its sorry life, leaving a legacy of some of the most savage, visceral recordings ever made.
Dirty fuzzed up guitars twisting old blues licks. Songs about cars, girls and of course psychedelics set to some wacked out garage sound. Three minutes of snappy pop punk to set those feet a tapping, those girls a running and those snakes writhing on the wallpaper. Distortion...hip but not hippy The Sonics. There was none dirtier or majestic than The Sonics. This band had it all, fuzzed up guitars, great riffs, screaming vocals akin to Little Richard. This band rocked from 1964-67 giving us classics such as The Witch, Strychnine (later covered by The Cramps), Boss Hog, Psycho and Louie Louie. "IF our records sound distorted, its because they are...they were always overdriven. My Brother Larry ... he was disconnecting the speakers and poking a hole in them with an icepick. That's how we ended up sounding like a train crash." Sonics bassist. Essential super fuzz. A tough new sound blending rock 'n' roll, singers like James Brown and the Yardbirds and early Stones.
The Sonics rode the wave of Pacific North-West American garage rock in the early and mid-1960s, pioneered by The Kingsmen and The Wailers (not to be confused with Bob Marley's reggae band). Other (less successful) members of the scene were The Drastics, The Regents and Paul Revere & The Raiders. These guys together are credited with starting up the Seattle music scene that has had more successes since - the grunge scene in the 1980s and 1990s including Nirvana, Mudhoney and Alice In Chains, for example.
Check http://podgroup.typepad.com/lebeatbespoke4/ for more info.
