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THE STRANGLERS BANNED FIRST GIG ANNOUNCED

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Hi all,

Rick here from recently formed tribute 'The StranglersBanned'

We are a Kent based Stranglers tribute act, formed in the Autumn of 2010 after myself (vocals, rhythm guitar) and Jezza (keys) left the well known ska band The Skatonics and fancied trying something different. We nabbed Grahame (bass) from a list of 'mates who are bloody brilliant at playing bass' and Steve (drums) was recruited after placing an ad on the KentGigs website...luckily he was a massive Stranglers fan and knew all the songs right from day one! The final piece of the jigsaw was Pete (lead guitar) another massive fan and veteran of the tribute scene (Blurb, Kaiser Thiefs).

We have a full set list including all the obvious ones plus stuff like Tank, Nuclear Device, Dagenham Dave, London Lady, Who Wants the World, Five Minutes, and if we can persuade Pete to play it we may even drop in European Female lol!!!

Anyway, to cut a long story short we are playing our first gig on Saturday 7th May at the Beacon Court Tavern, Gillingham, Kent. Google or Facebook it and you can get all the details. We're just putting the finishing touches to our website as we speak, and have recently recorded a 4 track demo (No More Heroes, Peaches, Duchess, Golden Brown). So plenty more details to come but for now a) remember the name The StranglersBanned and b) get that date in your diaries!


I'll post the web address as soon as we've sorted the glitches. Cheers all, Rick
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That's great news. Best of luck to you. I will look out for you.
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cheers - and BTW there's some pics from a recent photoshoot here: http://www.pbase.com/mikrwilson/new_band
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Thanks for the info. Will see what I am working then.
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Brilliant, thats very local for me !!!!!!

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I wish you all well with your tribute band.
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Wait a minute, there's 5 of you - Who is JE?? :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Come down to Mr Kyps in Poole - Great Venue for intimate gigs.
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great I will check it out
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Any chance of playing somehwere in Rainham on 13th or 14th July?
A few of us will be down in the Garden of England for The Open that week. ;-)
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I'll see what I can do Freddie! there's a nice venue in rainham called The Oasthouse, I'll give them a ring. Ps website should be live by next week so I'll post the link asap.
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Seriously, all these feckin' cover bands on here should be taking notes- we're always
listing on the forum what songs we'd love to hear live, what hasn't been played for ages,
what's never been done live etc- you'ze could base yer set-lists around all our lists and
guarantee a sell-out next/every time you'ze play!
Oh, and don't forget to take on board the fact that we like our Raven and Toiler
outros to be really long, there's got to be a segue between MSD and EF and you can
never go far wrong with a couple of strippers on stage too.
Preferably female, of course. :wink:
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Alias wrote:Seriously, all these feckin' cover bands on here should be taking notes- we're always
listing on the forum what songs we'd love to hear live, what hasn't been played for ages,
what's never been done live etc- you'ze could base yer set-lists around all our lists and
guarantee a sell-out next/every time you'ze play!
Oh, and don't forget to take on board the fact that we like our Raven and Toiler
outros to be really long, there's got to be a segue between MSD and EF and you can
never go far wrong with a couple of strippers on stage too.
Preferably female, of course. :wink:
Anything else while you're at it Alias??

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