Hey !
Another Christmas and New Year upon us, so, another Ballagroove New Year bash at the Bay Port Erin, fancy dress theme is ‘Funky Monkeys’
DJ Hairy Man Baby and DJ Pencil will be playing all kinds of Funk, Soul, Boogaloo, Reggae and Christmas oddities
Starts sometime after 8pm and its FREE, hope you can come along !!, if not ….
Have a crackin’ Christmas, New Year and Winter Solstice !
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Rhysical pheck and trash 5 gig 13 dec bay port erin
Ballagroove and Triskel throw the following in the air –
Rhysical pheck
The trash 5
Dj fionn
Bay port erin
Saturday 13th december
Free entry
Rhysical pheck
Been around since last millenium, slowly growing in number to the current 7 piece (8 on one gong) acoustic band with singing, bazouki, acoustic guitars, acoustic bass, glockenspiels, indian shruti box, melodica, flutes, whistles, trumpet and drums. Music is something akin to laidback experimental acoustic folky pop. We’ll be playing a few tunes from our 2002 lp ‘the little people album’ and lots of tunes from our forthcoming ‘vitamin d album’. We don’t jump around or do anything other than play and sing so we rightly get criticised for being boring to look at !!!!, so bring a book 🙂
If they were a picture it would be of a hammond organ in an allotment
The trash 5
Are the exact opposite of rhysical pheck. Fast garage punk tunes, great to look at even better to jump around to. Currently the 5 are a 4 piece, all electric guitars and thunderous bass and great organ and full live drums. They’ll be playing tracks from their recent album ‘the lucid dreams of dr seed’, about half the songs in the set were originally written by local legend dr seed, they’ll also be playing a load of new songs and possibly a cover at the end of the set to deafen anyone who hasn’t already been deafened !!!
If they were a picture it would be a suede boot on fire
There will also be a dj called fionn playing all kinds of crazy shit
If he was a picture it would be african sunshine refracted through a grimy mancunian pint glass 🙂
It’ll kick off about 8pm and finish at midnight
It is of course free to get in and the bay sell underberg, jägermeister, proper ales and proper cider and peanuts and you have to put your shoe in a basket if you want a nice glass !, their logo is a fox, which is unusual on an island with no foxes (or so they say 🙂
Christ only knows how we are going to fit all the above in the tiny pub that is the bay and still leave some room for punters, so come down and get cosy !!!
Rhysical Pheck – More Gigs and a Live Video to watch
Faster Mie Y’all
Hope everybody is enjoying their spring / summer action
Few bits of news from the Rhysical Pheck camp
First, thanks to all who attended the gig we did with Daevid Allen and His University Of Errors, it was a wonderful night, they were top blokes, Daevid was every bit as eccentric as we’d expect and the rest of the band were spot on, they’ve promised to come back to play and on holiday so they must have enjoyed themselves !, a huge shout out to Tony for organising the gig, Dave / Anglin for doing the sound and Phil Kneen for video’ing the whole thing and everybody else who helped along the way – you can watch a video (or a vido for any Absolutley fans out there) of our set from the link below;
Rhysical Pheck Live at Peel Centenary Centre 23rd May 2008 Video We’re not the most exciting band to watch, no dancing, fire breathing or explosions but its ‘nice to chill out to’ as Tony Wilson would say 🙂
We enjoyed that gig so much, we’ve planned a couple more with our buddies The Trash 5, our music is quiet, they are not ;-), should be good nights, both gigs are free to get in and their will be musical DJ interludes from DJ Fionn, please come along and support these as both venues are hoping to do more nights like these but only if they get good attendance, both pubs do great beers !!!
Click on the pictures above to view the posters, feel free to download the posters and stick em up anywhere appropriate !
All the tracks on the video and at the gigs are new tracks from our forthcoming release ‘The Vitamin D LP’, it was finished and ready for release, but we’ve enjoyed enrolling the help of Jo, Jenni, Pippa, Ben and Simon so much we’re considering re-recording the whole thing so it’ll probably be another five years before we get it released now, “Traa Dy Liooar” as we say round here 🙂
The new Ballagroove compilation “BGK003” is also ready to roll and should be released in the next month (hopefully !), we’re hoping to put together a showcase gig and get as many of the 28 bands that appear on the double CD to play as possible, we’re just trying to find a decent venue that is up for such a thing, will post any updates here soon.
Have fun, only 9 days till the nights start drawing in so get out there and enjoy the sun !
Slaynt Vie
PS Big Congratulations to Jenni and John who got married recently, was the most lovely wedding ever !!!
PPS We recently did an interview with Christy D and Dave Armstrong about Ballagroove and the Manx Music Scene in general – Manx Independent Article