By skamonic
Don’t forget that we are playing at the Gypsy Hotel this Saturday (February 6th).
As part of our determination to never play with the same line-up more than once, this will be our first gig with three horns – two saxes and the trombone.
Some rapid re-arranging has gone on to produce parts for three horns. Quite a few bands have very simple horn parts, with each often playing the same notes. There’s nothing wrong with this, and it can make for great music.
But – perhaps because of our jazz backgrounds – we like to make things a bit more complicated, so there’s quite a lot of crunchy jazz harmonies when we play.
We also hope to debut a new entry in our ‘bonkers covers’ category. But you’ll have to come to find out what that might be.
The Gypsy Hotel night takes place at Barden’s Boudoir which is 36 – 44 Stoke Newington Road London N16 7XJ.
By skamonic
Don’t forget that we are playing at the Gypsy Hotel this Saturday (February 6th).
As part of our determination to never play with the same line-up more than once, this will be our first gig with three horns – two saxes and the trombone.
Some rapid re-arranging has gone on to produce parts for three horns. Quite a few bands have very simple horn parts, with each often playing the same notes. There’s nothing wrong with this, and it can make for great music.
But – perhaps because of our jazz backgrounds – we like to make things a bit more complicated, so there’s quite a lot of crunchy jazz harmonies when we play.
We also hope to debut a new entry in our ‘bonkers covers’ category. But you’ll have to come to find out what that might be.
The Gypsy Hotel night takes place at Barden’s Boudoir which is 36 – 44 Stoke Newington Road London N16 7XJ.
By skamonic
We are playing at the Last Days of Decadence, 145 Shoreditch High Street, Hackney, London, E1 6JE on February 27th.
You can now buy tickets from Ticketweb at £7.
But you don’t have to wait that long as we are at the Gypsy Hotel on Feb 6th.
By skamonic
We were just ready to announce that we were due to play Buster Bloodvessel’s Skafest in April when they let us know that they have moved the date to August.
Not sure that we can play the new dates, but watch this space.
And it’s sure to be a good event, even if we can’t make it.
By skamonic
We were just ready to announce that we were due to play Buster Bloodvessel’s Skafest in April when they let us know that they have moved the date to August.
Not sure that we can play the new dates, but watch this space.
And it’s sure to be a good event, even if we can’t make it.
By skamonic
We are moving to North London for our next gig.
We will be playing at the Gypsy Hotel on Saturday February 6th.
The Gypsy Hotel night takes place at Barden’s Boudoir which is 36 – 44 Stoke Newington Road
London N16 7XJ.
We played a similar night there a couple of years ago and had a lot of fun.
By skamonic
This is our first post in the new Skamonics blog. Here is where you can expect gig updates; news about the band and its members; and perhaps the odd thought about music.
Our first gig in 2010 is on Friday Jan 8th, and it’s upstairs at the Ritzy in Brixton. We expect to play our first set at about 8:30.
This will be our first gig playing with a slimmed down six person format. We’ll have two horns and a bit more emphasis on vocal numbers.
This isn’t a change in our line-up as we will still do gigs with a full nine piece wall of ska sound, but it’s not always practical or economic to field the full team. We can’t even fit on some stages.
The Evening Standard describes us as a ska collective – which is just about right.
They also say that we will be performing songs from our repertoire.
This is puzzling as it’s a bit obvious. After all it would be quite hard to perform songs that weren’t in our repertoire, and simply by performing them we’d be adding them to our repertoire.
But there will be at least a couple of new numbers, and the return of some that we have rarely played. Both pedants and ordinary people are very welcome.
A good way to start 2010.
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