Upcoming events

• Friday, September 3 – Sunday, September 5 7:00 pm – 12:00 pm
• WEYFEST MUSIC FESTIVAL
• The Rural Life Centre GU10 2DL : Reeds Road, Tilford, Farnham, Surrey, UK (MAP)
• WEYFEST, the increasingly popular music festival, returns in style this year with some big name bands boasting many huge hits between them.
  
  Held in the wonderful 10 acre surroundings of The Rural Life Centre with it's usual attractions of exhibits of rural life through the ages, arboretum and working light railway, the festival will remain in keeping with the family friendly environment and there will be an extensive children's entertainment area with activities throughout the event.
  
  And what a weekend it promises to be. To say we are pleased with the line-up this year would be a massive understatement; one of the most rewarding aspects of feedback received after Weyfest 08 is the genuine enthusiasm for the hitherto unknown bands that you've enjoyed, and we know you will discover many more gems this year. And as for established artists? Well, they don't come much bigger than our headline band, the mighty JETHRO TULL. Tull, with over 60 million album sales to date, marked their 40th anniversary in 2008 with another massive, sold out world tour. Weyfest looks like being one of only a few Tull gigs this year and we are truly honoured to be able to bring this legendary British rock giant to tiny Tilford. Tull will play a full concert set on Saturday evening.
  
  
  There are still many artists to be confirmed, but just a peek at the confirmed line-up so far should be more than enough to have you rushing to the online box office.
  JETHRO TULL * THE BEAT * OSIBISA * SPACE RITUAL * ERROL LINTON'S BLUES VIBE * FYREFLY * LEATHERAT * MUNGO JERRY * JACKIE LYNTON BAND * OTWAY & BARRETT * BLODWYN PIG * RODNEY BRANNIGAN * INTRAVERSE * RORY McLEOD (tbc) * FREE AT LAST * ROBIN BIBI BAND * OTIS B. DRIFTWOOD * BLIMUS * DUMPSTER POP * TAINTED GRACE * FLYING TIGERS * MORNING BRIDE * KINDRED SPIRIT * LEVIATHON * THE COLOURS * THE FANCY TOYS * TRUE DECEIVERS * 4 PLAY * SOLID JUICE BAND * MANY MORE TO COME.....
  
  
  
  
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Previous events

• Friday, August 13 8:00 pm
• THE STAR - Guildford
• THE STAR: 2 Quarry Street, Guildford GU1 3TY (MAP)

• Thursday, July 22 8:00 pm
• RAISING SAND play Staines
• BAR NICHE: 169 High Street, TW18 4PA, Staines United Kingdom (MAP)
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• Friday, July 2 – Saturday, July 3 8:00 pm – 2:00 am
• RAISING SAND in BATH!!
• THE GREEN PARK TAVERN: Lower Bristol Road, Oldfield Park, Bath BA2 9ES (MAP)
• The Green Park Tavern Present:
  Student-central, girl-friendly heaven in a local. Slightly out of town but right on track if you live in the Oldfield Park student area, this pub was voted best bar by the local newspaper, and it’s certainly got some competition for that. But with its new extension for late night dancing, something bizarre called Kiss Salsa, martial arts classes and various DJs and acts, this place has pretty much got everything. Drinks promos, and it’s open late on weekends. LIVE MUSIC! Cocktails are more than a little ropey but why go home when you can kip on the sofas here?
  
  
  
  DARKHORSE
  http://www.myspace.com/darkhorseengland
  
  AGGRESSOR
  http://www.myspace.com/aggressor2000
  
  RAISING SAND
  http://www.myspace.com/raisingsand
  
  FROM RUIN
  http://www.myspace.com/fromruinukband
  
  + BBQ from 7pm!
  
  Friday 2nd July 2010
  At The Green Park Tavern
  Lower Bristol Rd, Bath.
  T: 01225400050
  http://www.myspace.com/thegreenparktavern
  http://www.facebook.com/thegreenparktavern
  
  Doors: 8pm - 2am | £5 + FREE SHOT on entry!
  
  ***** SUPPORT LIVE ALTERNATIVE MUSIC IN BATH!!! *****
  
  
• £5 and FREE SHOT on entry

• Thursday, June 17 8:00 pm
• THE KING BILLY
• THE KING BILLY: 2 Commercial Street, NN1 1PJ, Northampton, Midlands (MAP)
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  "Bikes, Beer, 'n' Birds"
  
  The King Billy pub is a well established Rock and Biker pub; it has the feel of an old traditional pub, with wooden floors and barrels as tables. The atmosphere is warm and welcoming; the locals are a bit strange but harmless enough. The pub offers an extensive food menu and food is served lunchtimes & evenings The King Billy is also known for its quality choice of real ales; choose from 7 in the winter months and 10 real ales in the summer. The real ales are conditioned to CaskMaster clear quality and guest ales change weekly. Live music is an integral part of the soul of the Billy; we offer original Rock, Metal and Punk on a Thursday, and Rock and Metal cover bands on Fridays and Saturdays. We have a brilliant smoking area. big double doors open out onto a heated veranda area with bar stools and tables, from here you dont loose the atmosphere of the pub and can still see the live bands. there is also an outside pool table so you can still smoke and play pool. Horray. There is a large, paved Beer Garden behind the pub, and we have a number of Nationally recognised Bike events in our calendar, as well as music festivals and Charity Events. NEW LOOK THURSDAYS ............we love original bands and will continue hosting original band nights that are open to new up and coming original bands.
  

• Thursday, May 20 8:00 pm
• RAISING SAND @ THE GAFF
• THE GAFF: 382 Holloway Road, N7 6PN, LONDON, ENGLAND (MAP)
• Come down and enjoy the awesome band lineup and special drink promotions.
  
  
  

• Saturday, May 15 8:00 pm
• THE BITTER END GIG
• THE BITTER END: 15 High Street, RM1 1JU, Romford, Essex, ENGLAND (MAP)
• This historic, and famous live music venue is right in the heart of thriving Romford, Essex. Recently refurbished, and with a new install pro PA system, the layout of the venue lends itself excellently to live performance. The flexible staging area at the very front of the venue will easily cover 6 piece bands, and the front of house mix .. is directly to the stage front. Interestingly, the layout allows a couple of raised seating areas, in good view of the stage, as well as the traditional floor standing area to the stage front. The venue also has a large rear seating/standing area, which affords views via a large projector screen for gig goers who may not want to spend the night ‘in the pit’.
  
  Line up for the evening includes:
  • Raising Sand - http://www.raisingsandmusic.com
  • Minerva Falls - http://www.myspace.com/minervafalls
  • The Noxious Toyz - http://www.myspace.com/thenoxioustoyz
  

• Saturday, April 24 7:00 pm
• HELP FOR HEROES Charity Gig
• The BEACON COURT Tavern: 128 Canterbury St, ME7 5TP, Gillingham, Kent, UK (MAP)
• HELP FOR HEROES - All day charity gig! Live bands all day from 1pm plus a prized raffle to be won. Bands confirmed so far: 3pm THINGS THAT BLINK , 5pm RAISING SAND , 7pm DAMAGE CASE , 9pm THE CLINTSTONES. This is the 4th in a series of gigs for HELP FOR HEROES and so far we have raised about £4000. Entry is by donation so please give what ever you can afford!!
  
  
  
  HERE AT THE BEACON COURT WE SPECIALIZE IN BRINGING YOU THE BEST MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT THERE IS TO OFFER. WITH A WIDE RANGE OF BAND RANGING FROM TRIBUTES TO GOOD OLD HOMEGROWN TALENT THE BEACON COURT CAN GARENTEES A GREAT NIGHT OUT IN AN EXCELLENT VENUE...
  
  
  
  
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• Sunday, April 11 7:00 pm
• RAISING SAND and SHADOWKEEP - Free Gig
• Staines Town Hall: Market Square, Staines, TW18 4RH, London, UK (MAP)
• Surrey based Anglo American Metal titans Shadowkeep play The Town Hall, Market Square, Staines, Surrey TW1 84 on Sunday 11 April. The band have sold over 100 000 albums throughout Europe and have toured with such rock legends as Motorhead, Judas Priest and Ronnie James Dio. Shadowkeep fuse the classic UK influences of Iron Maiden and Diamond Head with the uncompromising onslaught and technical prowess of US bands such as Annihilator and Iced Earth. Their critically acclaimed album The Hourglass effect is in stores now. Support on the night comes from female fronted Cobham hard rockers Raising Sand. The band have received rave reviews for their debut album All Out War from the national rock press including a full score review from Classic Rock Magazine. The video for the single Dirty Weekend can be seen at the band’s website www.raisingsandmusic.com More details at www.phoenixmusicpromotions.co.uk or telephone 01784 464 822
  
  
  
  An evening of Power Metal and Hard Rock, Shadowkeep, Raising Sand, What lies Beneath.
  
  

• Friday, April 9 7:30 pm
• with DEEPLY PURPLE
• The Walthamstow Standard: 1 Blackhorse Lane, E14 6DS, London (MAP)
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  DEEPLY PURPLE are the UK's premier Deep Purple tribute band, faithfully recreating the amazing, guitar kerranging, organ rocking, virtuoso live performances that in the early 70's made Deep Purple the most exciting live band on the planet!
  
  Every facet of Deep Purple's music is faithfully reproduced and there's more - our mission is to go beyond the straight reproduction of the songs and tap into the energy and improvisation that made each Deep Purple live performance unique. It doesn't get any better than this!
  
  "Britains Best Deep Purple Tribute" - Classic Rock Magazine
  
  The Standard Music Venue, sometimes referred to simply as 'The Standard' or 'The Royal Standard' is a music venue in Walthamstow, north-east London. The venue, linked to the Tryst bar next door, is on Blackhorse Lane, directly opposite Blackhorse Road underground station. The venue is known for its popular unsigned bands night on Thursdays, as well as hosting tribute acts at weekends. Rock bands such as Blur and The Rolling Stones are said to have played the venue, which has a capacity of several hundred
  
  
  

• Saturday, February 20 9:00 pm
• LIVE AT THE HOPE AND ANCHOR
• HOPE AND ANCHOR: 207 UPPER ST, ISLINGTON, N1, London, UK (MAP)
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  PORCELAIN COINS- Buckley-isms of both a Tim and a Jeff persuasion thru some Idlewildean alt pop.
  
  RAISING SAND- Singer sounds just like Rob Plant but it's a girl, which is nice, and the band are on a tight but loose Led Zep tip with some measure of groove. I'm thinking Grand Funk Railroad via Blue Cheer, an old school heavy blues rock tour de force.
  
  SONNER- Impassioned indie pop sounding a bit like PD Heaton fronting Embrace with a little input from R.E.M. By turn janglesome and surging, and always easy on the ear.
  
  TURNBULL FURY- Motorhead style rockings from Scotland... Heaps of Iggy and the Stooges and an overall punky approach...
  
  
  
  From pub rock to here...
  
  All those back in the day music nostalgia fests consuming T.V-screw yer eyes up and study the grainy film stock......Who is that band on the tiny stage?. F*ck me it's Spandau Ballet! There's Madness! The Damned, Joy Division, U2, Ian Dury, The Stranglers........
  
  The Hope and Anchor. It's 70's pub rock/punk history is very well documented as is it's involvement with Stiff Records and Elvis Costello/Clash manager Jake Riviera so we wont bang on about it at length in this forum. Suffice to say the term legendary is no exageration.
  
  Less is known of it's 80s squat punk era, but a valuable platform for incisive Hardcore combos from The Stupids to Rudimentary Peni was assured.
  
  Unfortunately when recession hit London and gentrification got Islington in it's limp but persuasive grip The Hope and Anchor was sidetracked into wine bar obscurity.
  
  However after a couple of years awaiting licences and good will Bugbear Bookings took the venue back into the frontline of the North London gig circuit in 1996 and has continued to host nights to this day,having previously showcased the likes of The Cooper Temple Clause, Hope of the States, The FutureHeads and Ash.
  
  The esteemed chaps who now give ye ArtRocker also got involved introducing a fine selection of U.S coolsters and Noodlecore beatniks (Tortoise, His Name Is Alive et al) and co-promoting a legendary Jon Spencer Blues Explosion gig with Bugbear.
  
  The esteemed songwriters showcase that is Big Note continues to provide an excellent contrast to Bugbear's punk-funk ethos and at Neon on tuesdays you can check out the best in punk/metal/alternativeness..
  
  With it's low, low ceiling ,drum sound friendly brick back drop and you-can-see-up-the-singer's-nose punk rock vibe The Hope and Anchor is a fantastic gig.
  
  And now rocking a fantastic sound c/o one of the biggest and baddest Pas in Londinium, The Hope and Anchor really is the place to be for the discerning Islington punter.
  
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