Walton Soundfest Cancelled . . . .

June 11, 2009

by Neil Mach © . live music, walton . cancellation, cancelled, festival, walton, walton soundfest

Message from WALTON SOUNDFEST …

MPORTANT INFORMATION:
Please accept our appologies, Walton SoundFest 2009 has had to be cancelled, due to circumstances out of our control. We have been informed that due to licensing restrictions we are no longer able to hold this event…

DATA.SELECT.PARTY at KINGSTON

December 13, 2008

by Neil Mach © . gig guide, gigs, Kingston, London, music, Riverside, rock, staines, sunbury, Surrey, twickenham, walton, West London, whats on . 1 Station Road, 5 Preston Street, 63 London Road, A Life Backwards, A Life Once Lost, ad pontes, adpontes, adpontes-staines, Against Spoken Words, ALL FORGOTTEN, Ambrose Place, Architects, Attack, Audio Effect, Austen Grey, Azriel, Battlements, blackhole, blakfish, Blast Stereos Loud, Bleed From Within, BN1 2HX, Bossk, Bottlenose Dolphins, Brides, Brighton, Bury Tomorrow, Caesura, Capitals, Cardboard Cutouts, Castor Troy, cats and cats and cats, Charlie Costello, chatham street, Colour, Crocus, Cutting Pink With Knives, D-Rail, Dangerfield, Data Select Party, Dead Sea Fuckin, Dead Swans, Death Can Dance, Devil Sold His Soul, Dissolvedin, Ella, Endless Hope, Eta Carinae, Eternal Lord, Evita, exit ten, FalenizzaHorsepower, Fei Comodo, fighting cocks, First Signs of Frost, Flagship, For The Common Wealth, For The Fallen Dreams, Furthest Drive Home, Ghosts On Pegasus Bridge, Go Comeback, Haemostatic Picnic Races, Half Hour Stay, HIGH WYCOMBE, Hit The Beach, house of brothers, HP11 1BN, HP13 6AD, Itch, Jaimison, Jairus, Joey Nightmare, johnny truant, Jonquil, Kingston, kiss kiss bang bang, Lakes, Lashout, Last Nights Recital, Lavotchkin, Legions, Lights and Sounds, Luke Pickett, Manatees, Many Things Untold, Maths, Mirror Mirror, More Than Life, My Emergency, My Turn To Kill, Nato, Not Advised, Omerta, our own devices, Out of Sight, OUTCRYFIRE, Paige, Public Relations Exercise, reading, RG1 7JE, Rinoa, Rolo Tomassi, Run!, Said and Done, Saving Aimee, Scar the Armada, Scrolls, Secondsmile, Shaped By Fate, Shapes, shield your eyes, Showing Off To Thieves, staines, Sylosis, Targets, Thames, The Chase, The Eyes of A Traitor, The Nags Head, The Arusha Accord, The Banner, The Devil In, The Engine Rooms, The Face Bar, The Fair Fight, The Harry Macintosh Project, The Irish Club, The James Cleaver Quintet, The Maplestate, The Shitty Limits, the siegfried sassoon, The Spartans, The Urgency, The Warriors, TheDefeat, This Aint Vegas, This Dying Hour, This Town Needs Guns, Throats, Through and Throughout, Tonight is Goodbye, Treehouse Casino, Trigger the Bloodshed, Truth Tells Lies, TUBELORD, upon, Vanity Kills, Viatrophy, Vipers, War From A Harlots Mouth, WE ARE THE OCEAN, WE HAVE A GETAWAY, When All Else Fails, Wild Stallions, Young Guns, your demise, Your Friends Are Architects

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THE FIGHTING COCKS, KINGSTON-on-THAMES

19TH DECEMBER 2008

2009 ADPONTES-STAINES GIG GUIDE

December 12, 2008

by Neil Mach © . Aldershot, Arts Centre, ascot, Berkshire, Blogroll, brentford, camberley, Firestation, Folk, gig guide, gigs, Guildford, Hayes, jazz, Kingston, London, metal, middlesex, music, Music Festival, prog rock, punk, Putney, reading, Riverside, rock, shepperton, show, Slough, soul, spelthorne, staines, sunbury, Surrey, twickenham, walton, West London, whats on, Windsor, woking . !daft!, 1 Station Road, 5 Preston Street, 63 London Road, 80, A Life Backwards, A Life Once Lost, abakus, abstract genius, ACROMA, adebisi shank, Against Spoken Words, agent elf, ALL FORGOTTEN, Ambrose Place, Amy Can Fly, Anna Karina, Architects, Attack, attika state, Audio Effect, AUDIO VISUAL DISCO, Austen Grey, Azriel, BAISE MOI, Battlements, bernie woods, BILLY REBEL, BLACK IRIS, blackhole, blakfish, Blast Stereos Loud, Bleed From Within, blue fuses, BN1 2HX, BOOTYWINE, Bossk, Bottlenose Dolphins, BOYS KILL KIDS, Brides, BRIGADE, Brighton, Brock and the Badgers, BROKEN FAITH, Bury Tomorrow, Caesura, CALIGULA, Camille OSullivan, Capitals, Cardboard Cutouts, CARNIVALE, Castor Troy, cats and cats and cats, CHAOS DAYS, Charlie Costello, chatham street, Chris Dowling, Colour, COUNTER CREW, COVERT, Credo, CRIMSON SKY, Crocus, CUTE IN NEON PINK, Cutting Pink With Knives, CYPHER, D-Rail, Dangerfield, DANNY FONTAINE AND THE HORNS OF FURY, DANNY ROULETTE, Data Select Party, DAVE HOUSE, Dead Sea Fuckin, Dead Swans, Death Can Dance, demure, dengue fever, Devil Sold His Soul, DIRTY No 9, DISCORD, DISSOLVED IN, Dissolvedin, DISTORTIA, divine chaos, Doin' Time, DON RAMOS PLAYERS, DUPLEX GAGE, Ed Hudson Band, Ella, ELLICA, Endless Hope, ERIC CHIPTUNE, esoterica, Eta Carinae, Eternal Lord, Evita, exit ten, FALCO LOMBARDI, FalenizzaHorsepower, Fei Comodo, Firewater, First Signs of Frost, Flagship, FLUID LINES, For The Common Wealth, For The Fallen Dreams, forest fires, Foulplay, fourmustgetbeers, FROM GRACE, fullertons, Furthest Drive Home, GALLOWS HUMOR, GEHENNA VII VII VII, Ghosts On Pegasus Bridge, gin panic, GLASS ARTERY, Go Comeback, GODSIZED, Haemostatic Picnic Races, HAKEN, Half Hour Stay, HENRY HOMESWEET, her enemy, HIGH WYCOMBE, Hit The Beach, house of brothers, HP11 1BN, HP13 6AD, IAREN, into the woods, Itch, Jackie Lynton Band, Jaimison, Jairus, jesus knives, Joey Nightmare, johnny truant, Jonquil, Keane, kevin tuffy, kid champion, KIDS WITH CANNONS, kindred spirit, kiss kiss bang bang, Klezma Villanova, kovak, Lakes, land of cain, Lashout, Last Nights Recital, lau, Lavotchkin, leaf hound, Legions, Lights and Sounds, LIITLE ALASKAN WORKSHOP, loaded dice, loki, LOOK IM A GHOST, LOOSE ENDS, Loudmouse, Luke Pickett, MACHINE, MAJOR NAISE, Manatees, Mangrove, Many Things Untold, marner brown, Maths, MELA ROSA, Micky Kemp, Mirror Mirror, MISFITS IN AUDIO, MONKEY LOVE JUICE, More Than Life, My Emergency, My Turn To Kill, Nato, netherworld, nixa, no made sense, NOREDLOED, Not Advised, oceans upon us, Omerta, ONLY UNTIL, our own devices, Out of Sight, outcry collective, OUTCRYFIRE, over and out, overthrow, Paige, Pendragon, pig iron, PIXEL PARTY, prezence, Public Relations Exercise, purge, QUARTERBLIND, reading, RG1 7JE, rigid sky, Rinoa, riptide romance, RITUAL ABUSE, Rolo Tomassi, rosenbridge, rough justice, Run!, SA, SABERPULSE, Said and Done, Saving Aimee, Scar the Armada, Scrolls, Secondsmile, SET YOUR GOALS, SHADOWS ARMY, Shaped By Fate, Shapes, shield your eyes, Showing Off To Thieves, SILENT ETERNITY, sniper, SOLSTICE, STATE OF THE ENEMY, stay away from paris, Stay Away From Paris with Sniper, Steam Rollers, Sylosis, T J Johnson, Targets, Tell It To the Marines, The Chase, The Eyes of A Traitor, The Nags Head, THE ARCHAIC DECADENCE, The Arusha Accord, THE AUTEUR, The Banner, THE BLOWUPS, The Devil In, The Engine Rooms, THE EXCUSES, The Face Bar, The Fair Fight, The Harry Macintosh Project, the heal, The Irish Club, The James Cleaver Quintet, The Maplestate, the motion picture, THE OMEN, The Shitty Limits, the siegfried sassoon, THE SKETCH, The Spartans, The Urgency, The Warriors, TheDefeat, This Aint Vegas, This Dying Hour, This Town Needs Guns, Throats, Through and Throughout, tinyfish, Tonight is Goodbye, toniks, Touchstone, Treehouse Casino, Trigger the Bloodshed, Truth Tells Lies, TUBELORD, TWO FINGER SALUTE, Undercovers, Vanity Kills, Viatrophy, Vipers, waking the witch, War From A Harlots Mouth, WE ARE THE OCEAN, WE HAVE A GETAWAY, WEYWARD CHILE, When All Else Fails, Wild Stallions, You Me At Six, Young Guns, your demise, Your Friends Are Architects, zangyrus, zen arcade, ZERO TRILBY

THE 2009 ADPONTES-STAINES GIG GUIDE

WE ARE NOW preparing our 2009 AD PONTES STAINES LIVE MUSIC GIG GUIDE and Jan, Feb and March 2009 are already up!

If you are a band, frequent a venue, or you are a friend/fan of an artist or just know of a forthcoming hot gig in your area, then why not let us know so we can ADD YOUR GIG for FREE in our whats on guide.

ADDING YOUR GIG IS FREE, FREE, FREE, FREE, FREE

There are no hidden charges – we just want to support live music in our area and help YOU to succeed!

We cover the STAINES and SPELTHORNE area – but anywhere that is within about 30 minutes easy travelling time from STAINES…. we will ADD FREE to our guide.

We are currently averaging 780 HITS A DAY on our main site…so that’s an amazing 22,000 hits per month…. can you miss out on that kind of coverage and potential for success?

We are ALWAYS LOOKING FOR NEW BANDS & ARTISTS to cover in our STAINES magazine- so if you would like us to arrange a FREE photoshoot and/or story for publicity for your band YOU ONLY HAVE TO ASK….. LET US KNOW.

If we don’t know that you are out there, then how can we help you get where you want to be?

5 Things- This Week in Staines

December 9, 2008

by Neil Mach © . gigs, middlesex, music, Riverside, rock, staines, Surrey, walton, Windsor . adpontes, adpontes-staines, ascot, Beethoven, bitterruin, Blink 182, blues, british sea power, Dallas Ayres, Dallas Meteors, fairport convention, Fiona Apple, Fionn Regan, Flamenco, Foulplay, four day hombre, frank turner, grapevine, guillemots, hob, hobgoblin, hope of the states, Jeff Buckley, Jimmy Eat world, john betjeman, Johnny Cash, Kate Bush, kindred spirit, los campesinos! arcade fire, maximo park, middlesex, moscow flyer, Mozart, narration, neil young, old ticket hall, Paco De Lucia, patrick wolf, Queen, Radiohead, red lion, Regina Spektor, REM, rubys, runnymede, Sal Salgado, sigur ros, staines, Tegan and Sara, the frames, The Mighty Boosh, The Talking Heads, Tori Amos, tw17, tw18, van morrison, walton, weezer, Windsor

Foulplay Unveils New Axeman – in Egham

Foulplay at Staines

Foulplay Dec 13 2008 9:00P The Red Lion Egham,

The boys are back in town, but this time there’s something a little different about them; something in the form of new lead axeman, Sal Salgado.

As former guitarist Pete Downes takes a leave of absence to accompany a manned flight to Mars for the next ten years, Sal steps in to fill Pete’s shoes, and boy does he do it with aplomb!

Larger than life, with a mop of permed hair, a steely Teutonic accent and a staggering array of gut-busting guitar licks (not to mention a fine pair of leather trousers), Sal was born of Dravidian and Iberian heritage and raised by wolves in the forests of Eastern Europe. There, he learned to howl at the full moon and eat rabbits before moving to the city and studying music, taking only a few months to overcome his habit of raiding the neighbourhood bins at night.

Sal has a passing resemblance to Phil Lynott of Thin Lizzie fame, but there the similarity ends. Sal sings like Barbara Streisand, plays like Slash and dresses like Liberace. He’s a man with a colourful past, and a technicolour future; and combined with Foulplay, he’s simply unstoppable!

Sal joined The Foulplay just weeks ago and has been feverishly learning the set with the guys in the studio. Now, the four are ready to unleash themselves on their unsuspecting fans, and they intend to do it on Saturday 13th December at The Red Lion in Egham. The moon will be full, and Sal may let out the occasional blood-curdling howl. But the music will be powerful and the moment memorable.

Links

http://www.myspace.com/foulplayuk

Don’t miss it – it’ll be historic!

But if you do, check them at:

Dec 19 2008 9:00P The Jolly Farmer Staines

Dec 20 2008 9:00P Ye Olde Swan Burnham

Sensational Theatrical Artistic Duo- in Staines

Bitter Ruin Staines

Bitter Ruin

Dec 12 2008 8:30P The Hobgoblin Staines £3

Bitter Ruin are an explosive, theatrical acoustic duo with grasping lyrics filthy with energy and anger. Renowned for their intense and dramatic live performances, their audiences are mesmerized by Georgia’s vicious, complex vocals and are left desperate to hear more of Ben’s brutal vocal attack and cutting, jagged acoustic guitar.

A relatively new act on the scene, they have been performing together for only 18 months, have released their first EP featuring such inspiring tracks as ‘Trust’ and ‘Chewing Gum’, and as soon set to release their new album at the end of October.

Georgia and Ben are from opposite ends of the UK. Their influences are similarly from opposite musical counties. While Ben draws his serene and engrossing tone from Jeff Buckley, Georgia punches quirky outbursts tainted by Regina Spektor and Kate Bush. However the duo has obviously adjusted their ear drums to gorge on each others inspirations and have skillfully combined their crowning credentials to hatch an addictively juiced sound and frenzied drama.

Links

http://www.myspace.com/bitterruin

A Galaxy of Dancefloor Funk & Soul

Dallas Meteors - Old Ticket Hall, Windsor

Dec 12 2008 9:00 THE DALLAS METEORS old ticket hall WINDSOR

The Dallas Meteors owe their name to their beautifully soulful and powerful lead singer Dallas Ayres. Their music is a collection of deep funky grooves from the archives of rare US funk spiced with their own deep funk and soul compositions. The band use valve amps and classic instruments to produce a vintage dance floor set full of great vocals, ringing funky wah guitar, hook-laden hypnotic bass, and subtly smokin’ drums

Links:

http://www.myspace.com/thedallasmeteors

Fab Five Flying Indie/Folk in Staines

Moscow Flyer at Staines

Moscow Flyer Dec 9 2008 8:00P Boileroom Guildford

Tcatch them at Staines on 12th at The Hob

Indie / Alternative / Folk

Moscow Flyer was formed in October 2007 by five boys and a girl all fed up with the mundane routine of modern life, and all with a shared need to make music. Based in Farnham, an embarrassingly conservative town on the Surrey/Hampshire border – a place where rock stars go to die and pensioners go to shop, with countless pubs but little in the way of live entertainment – Moscow Flyer is on a mission. It doesn’t know what it is yet but when it finds out you’ll be the first to know. Moscow Flyer likes drinking and poetry and sweat and volume and shouting about things being crap and making lists and getting lost just trying to live and hoping to god that it may one day get to leave this town for good. In the meantime it meets once a week with a myriad of instruments (and a vast record collection) to write new songs and, slightly less often, play them to other people.

Moscow Flyer takes influences from everyone, everywhere and everything… folk music, indie music, rock music, pop music. Films. The classics. Tea. Biscuits. Beer. Nature. Wildlife. Theatre. Cars. Medicine. Cakes. The internet. So please, come along next time Moscow Flyer is in your town. Watch with intent and applaud with gratitude. Simple creatures Moscow Flyer may be, but ones intent on creating noises that will get inside your head and leave you wanting more.

Links:

http://www.myspace.com/moscowflyermusic

5.

Top Local Folk Duo- at Walton-on-Thames

Kindred Spirit (duo) Walton

Kindred Spirit

Dec 12th Walton-On-Thames, Ruby’s, 29 Bridge Street, 8.30pm

Folk Rock / Progressive / Psychedelic

Kindred Spirit are renowned for their stunning takes on some classic tracks and will take your breath away with an incredible version of Bob Dylans, All Along The Watchtower. The stunning nature of the treatment of these tracks is due to the hauntingly beautiful and deeply emotional voice of Elaine enhanced by the extraordinary flute playing of Annie Parker in combination with the phenomenal violin playing of Gavin Jones.

Singer / songwriter / guitarist, Elaine Samuels began singing in folk clubs at the age of just 14 and is known on the folk / acoustic circuit as a powerful solo performer, having performed at folk clubs and festivals the length of the country and having been featured on radio and television a number of times.

Elaine with Gavin, Annie, Mike and Alan play as the completely live, electrifying band, Kindred Spirit; featuring Elaine’s beautiful vocals, powerful songs and guitar playing, Annie’s brilliant flute and sax playing plus lovely harmony vocals, Gavin or Sim’s incredible violin playing, Mike’s driving bass guitar playing and Alan’s expert drumming.

Links:

http://www.myspace.com/kindredspiritukband

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5 Things -Next Week in Staines

October 16, 2008

by Neil Mach © . gigs, jazz, music, punk, Riverside, rock, staines, walton, Windsor . ad pontes, adpontes, adpontes-staines, BB King, big jim sullivan, California, duncan mckenzie, duncanmckenzieuk, Gypsy Kings, hob, hobgoblin, James Taylor, Jonah Matranga, Lonnie Johnson, Martin Taylor, mike piggott, Muddy waters, neil mach, OKeh Classic Jazz All Stars, old ticket hall, purge, riverhouse barn, Running Bear, Samuel Barber, San Francisoc Staines, st hildas, staines, Supertramp, the hollers, thehollersband, Tommy Emmanuel, walton, White Eagle, Windsor

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Holler at the Hollers at Staines

The Hollers at Staines

Oct 23 2008 8:00P Hobgoblin Staines The Hollers

The Hollers

The Hollers are made up of one Beauty and four Beasts, a girl singing, 3 Guitars and a Drum Kit, all playing at the same time…

You have got to LOVE them !

Also catch The Hollers at

Nov 20 2008 8:00P Hobgoblin W/ Purge (18+) Staines

Dec 20 2008 8:00P St Hildas Staines

Links:

http://www.myspace.com/thehollersband

Get classy Jazz sounds – Staines Riverside

Duncan McKenzie and Mike Piggott

Oct 23 2008 9:00P Riverside Club, Duncan McKenzie and Mike Piggot Staines

Duncan McKenzie

Singer songwriter, guitarist (acoustic fingerstyle, 12 string, highstrung, nylon, electric, plus 1932 National steel fingerpickin and bottleneck) and piano. Album “NEW LIFE”, all original tracks by DM, featuring Mike Piggott,violin (Bert Jansch, Ralph McTell,Pentangle etc etc)John Bentley double bass (Squeeze) -”DUNCANS ALBUM NEW LIFE IS A MAJOR CONTRIBUTION TO THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT”- (Duncan’s friend ) “I AGREE” -( Duncan’s other friend) Chill out Ambient instrumental album Just finished. Duncan and John Bentley, are “MIND YOUR HEAD” The album is called Don’t worry. Duncan plays major festivals and theatres worldwide including Blues,Celtic,Latin and guitar festivals and has also worked for some years with guitar legend and friend BIG JIM SULLIVAN.

Influences: White Eagle, Running Bear,Lonnie Johnson, Muddy waters, BB king,Samuel Barber,Big Jim Sullivan,Tommy Emmanuel, Gypsy Kings, Supertramp,James Taylor, Martin Taylor,

Mike Piggott

Mike is a wonderful violinist/guitarist, he began playing professionally as a guitarist with blues/reggae/soul bands in the early 1970s. As a violinist has become known for work in folk, jazz and rock fields. He now appears at jazz festivals and concerts as a guest artist, or with his own quartet. The programme “Grappelli A Celebration”, includes music by violinist Stuff Smith (a big influence) and Joe Venuti. Mike’s CD release “Blues for Stuff and Steph” (1998 DOZ Records) a tribute to two major influences, Stephane Grappelli and Stuff Smith has received enthusiastic reviews

Links:

http://www.myspace.com/duncanmckenzieuk

Jazz – Bix is Good- Walton

OKeh Classic Jazz All Stars at Walton

OKeh Classic Jazz All Stars Sunday 26th October 2008 12.15 – 2.15pm
Riverhouse Barn Arts Centre Walton-on-Thames

This band originally came together as a “pick-up” group at riverhouse. They liked it so much (as did the audience) that they decided to stick together. The band has appeared at several jazz festivals as well as at jazz clubs over the country. A welcome return to the barn.

Tickets:

£7.00

riverhouse boxoffice
Manor Road
Walton-on-Thames
Surrey KT12 2PF

01932 253354 (24 hrs)

Energetic Rock and Blues at Staines

Loudshirts

Oct 23 2008 9:00P The Hobgoblin Staines

Albany Down

Albany Down is an original rock band based near London.
Paul Muir joins the band as front man; Jonny Bescoby is the percussionist with Paul Turley on electric guitar and Billy Dedman on the bass.

The Albany sound is 50% British Indie and 50% West Coast Rock, quite 80′s in places, but with a vintage heartfelt sensitivity and contemporary aggressive energy. Influences include Led Zeppelin, Guns N Roses, The Who and The Rolling

Stones.

Paul Muir (Vocals)
Paul Turley (Guitar)
Jonny Bescoby (Drums)
Billy Dedman (Bass)

Beatles
Led Zeppelin
The Who
Rolling Stones

http://www.myspace.com/albanydownofficial

Punk Acoustic Rockster at Windsor

Jonah Matranga

Oct 26 Windsor, UK – The Old Ticket Hall

Jonah Matranga

The Indie/Acoustic Californian Punk is getting towards the end of his UK tour so catch him now (or travel to San Francisco

to see him on his home turf- your choice.)

http://www.myspace.com/jonahmatranga

5 Things- This Week in Staines

May 12, 2008

by Neil Mach © . camberley, gigs, music, Riverside, staines, stand up comedy, Surrey, theatre, walton . ad pontes, adpontes, Arts, barn, beck theatre, Berks, camberley, cuba, dan atkinson, fourmustgetbeers, havana, Hayes, into the woods, john gordillo, kevin bridges, knoll road, middlesex, Musical, new victoria, noel britten, orchestra, rakatan, Rising Sun, riverhouse, riverhousebarn, riverside youth, riversidearts, rob deering, Slough, staines, stephen sondheim, steve williams, sunbury, Surrey, Thames, theatre, tw18, walton, wind, woking, youth

Travel to ‘Havana’ in Woking

Havana Rakatan - Woking

Havana Rakatan, Woking Theatre Tue May 13-Sat May 17 2008

A dazzling dance spectacular direct from Cuba
Havana Rakatan – Tuesday 13 – Saturday 17 May 2008 New Victoria Theatre, Woking

Direct from a sell-out run last summer in the West End, Havana Rakatan is now bringing all the heat of a Cuban summer to Woking. From the sexy, spontaneous rumba to the slick footwork of the cha-cha-cha, this is a show that’s guaranteed to get head’s nodding and feet-tapping. Featuring one of Cuba’s most popular bands live on stage, this is a captivating and colourful journey through the dance and music of a truly unique country.

Box Office: 0870 060 6645

Go into the Enchanted Woods at Sunbury

Into the Woods

Into the Woods- Riverside Arts Centre, Sunbury, 14th – 17th May £8

A Musical by Stephen Sondheim

Riverside Youth Theatre
14th-17th May 2008
Riverside Arts Centre

Into the Woods is an award-winning musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine. It debuted in San Diego at the Old Globe Theatre in 1986, and premiered on Broadway in 1987. Bernadette Peters’ performance as the Witch, and Joanna Gleason’s portrayal of the Baker’s Wife, brought acclaim to the production during its original Broadway run.

Inspired by Bruno Bettelheim’s 1976 book, The Uses of Enchantment, the musical intertwines the plots of several Brothers Grimm fairy tales and follows them further to explore the consequences of the characters’ wishes and quests. The main characters are taken from the stories of Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk, Rapunzel, and Cinderella, tied together by an original story involving a Baker and his wife and their quest to begin a family, and including references to several other well-known tales.

A revival at the Royal Opera House’s Linbury Studio in Covent Garden (with Clive Rowe) had a limited run from June 14 – June 30 2007. This is the second Sondheim musical to be staged by the company, following 2003′s Sweeney Todd.

This performance is brought to you by the Riverside Youth Theatre at Riverside Arts Centre, Sunbury-on-Thames
Wednesday 14th to Saturday 17th May 2008 at 8pm Tickets £8
Box Office: 01932 779686

Riverside Arts Cente
Sunbury-on-Thames
59 Thames Street
Sunbury

links:

http://www.riversidearts.co.uk/

http://www.sondheimguide.com/woods.html

Go to chuckle at Walton- Comedy Night

Rob Deering at Walton

Comedy at Walton, Rob Deering & Co, Riverhouse Barn, Fri 16th May 8PM

Comedy at Riverhouse Barn
Gallery Studio
Manor Road, Walton-on-Thames KT122PF

Box Office 01932 253354

Local lad Rob Deering has been described as one of the leading stand-ups of his generation [Time Out] working since 2000 and a favourite at the Edinburgh Festival since 2003. Rob is famous for his ‘classic rock’ based routine and observational humour seen from a 30′s something perspective.

At the mike:

Rob Deering, Dan Atkinson & Kevin Bridges
Friday 16th May 8pm

also, note your diary for 20th June…

John Gordillo, Noel Britten & Steve Williams
Friday 20th June 8pm

http://www.riverhousebarn.co.uk/

Go to see the Fourmustgetbeers Playing at Slough

The Fourmustgetbeers at Slough

The Fourmustgetbeers- Sat 17 May Rising Sun, Slough 2008

The Fourmusgetbeers are establishing themselves as one of the best bands on the pub scene around the West London area. After a number of personnel changes the line up now consists of, Mitch, vocals/guitar, and Paul bass/vocals, Andy lead guitar, Dave drums, and featuring Oded keyboards. The boys play covers covering four decades, classic rock to punk ,funk and always the unexpected songs that make you go (I know this one! What the hell is it called?) They play for fun and have fun playing, which reflects in their superb live performances.

If you like The Rolling Stones, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Thin Lizzy, Van Halen, Whitesnake, The Clash, The Who, Jimi Hendrix, ACDC, ZZ Top, Ozzy, Black Label Society and lots of BEER you should love this!

http://www.myspace.com/thefourmusgetbeers

Listen to the Sound of Youth

Camberley Youth Orchestra