I am reading the line-up for my local council's summer festival:-
3 p.m. The Dave Badger Set - 1960's jazz rockers. We welcome back Dave to the Festival after a minor operation forced the Set to cancel last year. He is pleased to report that he is now tickety-boo and looking forward to getting the party started.
4 p.m. Heaven Scent - Local Christian girl-band formed of the three Jones sisters. Their grandmother Angela is a former councillor.
4.30 p.m. Hot Bollocks - Blues-rock combo and veterans of the 1970's pub scene. The Bollocks' bass player Nigel Burnage recently celebrated his 35th wedding anniverary by taking his wife Mandy to see Cream at the Royal Albert Hall.
6 p.m. Michelle McManus - Fresh from 2004, Pop Idol winner Michelle sings songs from
her forthcoming album 'Forces Sweetheart', featuring songs celebrating the Second World War.
6.45 p.m. Grant Madden - Phil Collins tribute Grant and his dwarf monkey drummer, Sticks. Grant and Sticks have been together since 1987 and are regular shoppers in the town centre.
3 p.m. The Dave Badger Set - 1960's jazz rockers. We welcome back Dave to the Festival after a minor operation forced the Set to cancel last year. He is pleased to report that he is now tickety-boo and looking forward to getting the party started.
4 p.m. Heaven Scent - Local Christian girl-band formed of the three Jones sisters. Their grandmother Angela is a former councillor.
4.30 p.m. Hot Bollocks - Blues-rock combo and veterans of the 1970's pub scene. The Bollocks' bass player Nigel Burnage recently celebrated his 35th wedding anniverary by taking his wife Mandy to see Cream at the Royal Albert Hall.
6 p.m. Michelle McManus - Fresh from 2004, Pop Idol winner Michelle sings songs from
her forthcoming album 'Forces Sweetheart', featuring songs celebrating the Second World War.
6.45 p.m. Grant Madden - Phil Collins tribute Grant and his dwarf monkey drummer, Sticks. Grant and Sticks have been together since 1987 and are regular shoppers in the town centre.
ENJOY YOURSELVES EVERYONE, AND PLEASE LEAVE QUIETLY.
5 Comments:
My local festival did have a cracking line-up, the best of which had to be Red Mick. Not a 1970's firebrand union man but a tribute to 1980's beer-gogglingly beautiful sex god, Mick Hucknall.
... ah, Hot Bollocks. The first live act I ever saw, at the Lamb & Flag pub, Wimblebury, Staffs., in 1978. Astounding - just pure, balls-to-the-wall, four-to-the-floor blues rock, nothing more, nothing less, and the perfect anecdote to the poncey disco and tuneless so-called punk rock which was prevalent at the time. I saw them again a year later playing during the interval at a Norton Canes Dog Stadium night, but nothing was heard of them again, until now. Thanks for keeping the faith!
Great live band, Betty, and bigger than you think, once supporting John Otway. The Sex Pistols hated them, though (thus Never Mind The Bollocks). But to countless numbers of teenage boys in the mid-seventies, they were OUR Bollocks. And we couldn't get enough of them.
I did of course mean "the perfect antidote" rather than "the perfect anecdote". How big did the Bollocks get?
They should've been massive, but Punk dealt them a painful blow and they briefly split up in early '77. When they reformed that summer, the music business had moved on.
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