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Meat Eating Orchids – The Yeast Unleashed

August- and it is party-time at The Hobgoblin, Staines with the rock and doobie-roll outfit ‘The Meat Eating Orchids’ providing generously slippery slices of rock n’ roll, dripping with lewd eroticism and citricly sharp off-cut shards of guitar over a glossy and faintly sweaty close harmony groove.

This is the closest thing that hometown Staines ever gets to the swinging sixties ‘Beach Boys’ or bubble-gum era pop like ‘The Cowsills’. They also retain a more modern 90’s indie/alt sound that can be favourably compared with local Hounslow Alt-Popsters ‘The Bluetones’.

Singer Matt Gogarty frots away in his greenhouse to bring forth a cascade of soft sounds from a thriving wellspring of melodious love, while Sam Pickett dutifully adds lushly nostalgic close harmony vocals and lyrical guitar to the earthy mix. Joined to this are the rummaging drum sounds of Christian Jeyes on percussion (much like a child throwing stuff noisily around in the attic) and the reliable bass elements from Stuart Boyde.

As all of you Orchidophiles out there know, the Himalayan terrestrial orchid likes to show off its overly enlarged labellum to all-and-sundry to ensure reproduction. In much the same way, the meat eating orchids of Staines tend to thrust out their unruly and glossily foliaged musical muscle for an approving throng. The leaves and stems of each of their songs seem to intertwine and embrace each other, leaving the audience almost struggling for air and panting for more. Songs like ‘Lonely Leona Lay’ offer polished, dewy sounds whose febrile fronds wrap and warp around the familiar central themes from the group’s very-own “Summertime Forever Rock ‘n Roll” bumper song-book. Before you know where you are, these hothouse flowers have clutched your wind-pipe, grappled with your heart-strings and trapped your writhing body, knocking out the air. You become strongly influenced by their toxic hallucinogens. Warning: These orchids may cause a state of delirium.

If you ever liked the Monkees and The Beatles in their day and have a nostalgic yearning for the golden years of sunny groovy pop then give the Meat Eating Orchids a try …. Rock and Roll is here to stay …Do not stray!

Link:
http://www.myspace.com/themeateatingorchids

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Swashbuckling Pirate Punk- in Staines

Peerless Pirates at Staines

Peerless
Pirates
Feb 26 2009
Hobgoblin
Staines

With Doctor Pop and Meat Eating Orchids

“A Pirate’s Life For Us….”

This happy band of Oxfordshire/Buckinghamshire pirates are coming to Staines this week to spread the news of their good deeds…

Pirate Cleef – Voice, Guitars
Pirate James – Bass, Voice
Pirate Dan – Drums, Voice

These shipmates play honest indie, alt, pop-punk sounds … join in me hearties!

Link:

www.myspace.com/peerlesspirates

With The Meat Eating Orchids…

The Meat Eating Orchids are an English rock band notable for producing a musical hybrid of 60′s pop and a brash alternative rock sound. Formed by founding members Matt Gogarty (Vocals), Sam Pickett (Vocals, Guitar) and Stuart Boyde
(Bass).

“Meat Eating Orchids forgive no one just yet…”
The Band takes their name from a line of the song Heart-Shaped Box by Nirvana. A reminder of a less harmonious past between members. After a long and fruitless search for the right drummer, while writing songs, the band were joined last
minute by friend Christian Jeyes (Drums). After one practice the group went on to record their debut EP Meet The Meat Eating Orchids at Peak Studios with Producer Chris Hamilton in the English countryside…

Receiving an astounding reception among friends and family, the EP circulated wider and all but sold out the initial hundred copies of ‘Meet The Meat Eating Orchids’ EP.This led to a couple of invitations to appear on local radio stations
and an offer to play Surface Festival Unsigned 09. With this the band took their first tentative steps onto the live music scene…

Links:

www.myspace.com/themeateatingorchids

Post Punk Legends – Live at Windsor

Durutti Column at Windsor

The Durutti
Column
Feb 27 2009
Firestation
Windsor

The first band to release a record on the legendary Factory Records, The Durutti Column have become the blue-print for post-punk, and a genuinely iconic musical institution.

In their 30 year’s career they have become one of the most treasured figure-heads of the British alternative scene, led by the charismatic musical virtuoso, Vini Reilly. Their unique sound has been of influence to countless artists over the past few decades from The Red Hot Chili Peppers to Brian Eno, Morrissey and even Gilbert and George.

It is a real honour to have a band of this stature perform at a local venue: The Firestation (just a few stops down the line to Windsor & Eaton Riverside from Staines) and certainly a highlight of their early spring programme.

http://www.myspace.com/thedurutticolumnmcr

FRIDAY 27th FEBRUARY Firestation Windsor
£10 (GA) £9 (Conc) £8 (Mem)

http://www.firestationartscentre.com/

Chertsey Band -Album Release Party- Staines

Seigfried Sassoon at Staines

Siegfried
Sassoon
Mar 01 2009
Hobgoblin
Staines

The Siegfried Sassoon – a heartwarming and very talented local Indie / Pop / Rock band- are showcasing their latest album (album release party) this week at THE HOb STAINES

“Muscle Beach/The Al Gore Rhythm 7″ out 23rd March!”

SO COME ALONG AND SUPPORT THESE CHERTSEY BOYS!!!

Link:

www.myspace.com/thesiegfriedsassoon 4.

Sizzling Salsa, Jazz & Latin – Live in Ascot

Riamba at Ascot

Riamba
Feb 28 2009
Jagz
Ascot

With its flair for performing in a variety of settings and musicians from both world and jazz music backgrounds, Riamba is one of the sought after Salsa bands on the London scene today.

Riamba came together in 1998 with the aim of performing traditional Cuban music in the Son style – the roots of Salsa.

Drawing upon this style as its inspiration, the group set about creating a sound that combines the hot rhythms of Latin America with European harmony and the virtuosity of jazz. A combination that has resulted in a sound that energises
musicians and dancers alike.

Riamba is made up of some of London’s finest musicians who have studied in Europe, Argentina, Columbia and Cuba. Their careers have led them to perform with internationally acclaimed artists in such diverse venues as: Pizza on the Park, The 606 Club, The Royal Festival Hall (London); Blue Note Club (New York); The Sydney Festival (Australia) and The National Theatre (Ghana).

Saturday, 28th February
Show will start at 8.45
Ticket cost: £8.00
Doors open from 7.30pm. £26 for 2 courses and entrance (£30 for 3 courses). Entrance for the bands is £8 but is strictly

limited and on a first come first served basis. Entrance for dining or just the band INCLUDES free entrance to the nightclub

Jagz Ascot

Link:

http://www.riamba.com/index.htm

‘Authentic’ Delta Blues - in Shepperton

Delta Echoes at Shepperton

Delta Echoes
Feb 28 2009
Barley Mow
Shepperton

The Delta Echoes are a talented duo who re-create the country blues of the 1920s and 30s, played on Gibson acoustic and National steel guitars (most of them older than their players!), harmonica and kazoo.

They are: Richard Scruton, of Rich Pickings fame, well-known on the local folk and blues scene and an authentic interpreter of the guitar picking of the great Delta bluesmen, and Stuart Cumberpatch, who has been playing lap style and bottleneck blues on National guitars for most of the last 20 years – ten of them with the legendary Kennet Sheiks. The duo occasionally expands to a sextet with added double bass, mandolin, violin and jug!

Link:

www.deltaechoes.co.uk

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