Damien A Passmore & The Loveable Fraudsters: General Info
Member Since
12/31/2005
Band Members
Damien A Passmore- vocals, guitars, mandolin, and I'm learning the lap steel and I've bought an accordian. So I think I'll learn that, too
Jamie "Violent Jam" Painter - bass
Steve Goodall - Drums
Paul Cardno - Lead Guitar
Kris Atkins - Guitar, Mandolin, Harmonica
Influences
Hayseed Dixie, Garth Brooks, Tenacious D, Weird Al Yankovic, the Rutles, Johnny Cash, Spinal Tap, the Folksmen, the New Main Street Singers, Mitch & Mickie, the Gourds, the Eagles, Steve Earle, Gin Blossoms, Mental as Anything, Bruce Springsteen, the Monkees, Brad Paisley, Billy Joel, William Shatner, the Beatles, man the list goes on and on.
Sounds Like
"Damien A Passmore, whose bag is singing tongue-in-cheek country songs with a touch of controversy. As always his lyrics inspire hearty laughs of disbelief. His medley of 80s tunes, and an encore of Bon Jovi's Living On A Prayer is musical entertainment at its most alarmingly entertaining. Appalachia has Hayseed Dixie, Berkshire has Damien A Passmore. He puts the 'ass' in 'pure class'." - bbc.co.uk
Failed film-maker, retired pro-wrestler and full-time geek, Damien A Passmore grew up in a musical family & started singing at an early age. At the turn of the century he felt confident enough on the guitar to start perfoming at a local open mic night, leading to larger gigs, and finally original material - country tunes with tongue practically stapled to the cheek, songs of large-handed "women", weddings with only one surname and Cajun menage-a-trois' - as well as country arrangments of non-country material.
After a long period of searching and practicing, and following a revolving door of musicians, the band finally came into place in early 2008. Damien's songs now sound like the did in his head, and the current line-up of Jamie (the short one), Steve (the quiet one), Paul (the really good one) and Kris (the versatile one) is as good a band as you will ever hear in this sub-genre!
The BBC have called it "...musical entertainment at its most alrmingly entertaining...". A member of another band called it "Like a funny version of Garth Brooks". Damien calls it "having fun with the medium I love while wearing plaid and kicking musical ass"
Whatever it is, we're really enjoying it and making sure our audiences enjoy it too! We look forward to seeing you soon, and can assure you that the best is yet to come!
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hey guys cant wait for 2moz will be a good night!!
by the way if u pick up this weeks maidenhead advertiser!! page 44 theres an article with us in and our gig with u at the bear is listed on the same page!! go check it out!! tony
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Editor & Journalist for Country Music Christian Lamitschka An der Pfingstweide 28 61118 Bad Vilbel Germany Phone: ++49 6101 544613 Mobil: ++49 171 6903352 Ch.Lamitschka@t-online.de Info@CountryMusic-Magazin.de www.MySpace.com/ChristianLamitschka
Today I like to inform you, that you can read and watch interviews with your favorit country stars in Enlgish, German and French at http://www.CountryHome.de/Interviews .
Warm regards
Christian
Editor & Journalist for Country Music Christian Lamitschka An der Pfingstweide 28 61118 Bad Vilbel Germany Phone: ++49 6101 544613 Mobil: ++49 171 6903352 Ch.Lamitschka@t-online.de Info@CountryMusic-Magazin.de www.MySpace.com/ChristianLamitschka
Details of more events can be found on www.readingfringefestival.com. They include one off special events from Oxfam Records, Old Orleans and The Global Cafe and Fringe themed versions of the towns host of regular music nights like Bohemian Showcase at Deja Vue and Wicked Boy Promotes at the Face Bar. Look out especially for the Accesible to the Max DJ night at the Global Cafe which is run by COMET, an organization run by and for adults with learning difficulties
Theres only 7 days till the print deadline for the Reading Fringe Festival programmes which will be distributed to the 20,000 early arrivals at the Reading Festival Campsite and also industry and media types staying in the towns hotels with nothing to do until the main festival starts. So, if you are running an event between 21st and 27th August please consider adding it to the the Fringe roster. Together the events will have more impact.
NME needs 3 weeks notice so send details of any late August gigs in Reading now at http://microsites.nme.com/php/gigguide to avoid disappointment. Then let us know.
Hey.. Cool page. There is a new acoustic open mic night happening every other Sunday at the artsbar in Wokingham if you fancy coming along to jam out a few tunes. The opening night is 26th July. Rach H
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I know that many artists from North America don't have their music videos uploaded to German video websites. The most popular websites are MyVideo.de and ClipFish.de. That means your European audience does not have the chance to find them.
I understand that most of you don't speak German and are not able to upload videos because of the language barrier. If you would like me to upload your videos to the German video websites, please let me know.
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Christian
Editor & Journalist for Country Music Christian Lamitschka An der Pfingstweide 28 61118 Bad Vilbel Germany Phone: ++49 6101 544613 Mobil: ++49 171 6903352 Ch.Lamitschka@t-online.de Info@CountryMusic-Magazin.de
CountryHome Forum have more than 5,000 members. Each news you submit to CountryHome Forum will released to my weekly Newsletter with more than 50,000 readers.
Please submit your artist news and events to CountryHome Forum to help your artists to get well known better in Europe. If you do not have the time to submit your artist news and events by yourself, please send it me to: Ch.Lamitschka@t-online.de and I will submit them by myself to CountryHome Forum.
I know that many artists from North America don't have their music videos uploaded to German video websites. The most popular websites are MyVideo.de and ClipFish.de. That means your European audience does not have the chance to find them.
I understand that most of you don't speak German and are not able to upload videos because of the language barrier. If you would like me to upload your videos to the German video websites, please let me know.
Thanks
Christian
Editor & Journalist for Country Music Christian Lamitschka An der Pfingstweide 28 61118 Bad Vilbel Germany Phone: ++49 6101 544613 Mobil: ++49 171 6903352 Ch.Lamitschka@t-online.de Info@CountryMusic-Magazin.de
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Thanks for the add, Damien! Hope all is well in sunny Berkshire.These days of doom and gloom, we need all the good music we can get. Glad to see you're out there bringing joy to lots of cowpokes. Tell the old bohos I was asking for them when you see them.
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