Graham Day & The Gaolers are:
Graham Day: Vocals, Guitar, Organ, Sitar and Trumpet (with great difficulty).
Dan Elektro: Drum kit, backing vocals.
Buzz Hagstrom: Bass guitar, backing vocals.
Johnny Barker: Bass, backing vocals.
Please note, we don't have two bass players, it's just that Buzz played on the first album and the first two tours. Johnny played on the latest album and the third tour. Buzz was back on tour with us in Spain, and Johnny will rejoin us for the next tour in May.
Neil Fromow from the Len Price 3 played drums with us on Sitar Spangled banner, and Bruce Brand played drums for us at the Purple weekend last December.
All we need now is a stand-in singer and guitarist....!
Sounds Like
NME review 25/07/07 of "Get off my track"
While Billy Childish has long been acknowledged as a pioneer of analogue ingenuity, fellow Medway trailblazer Graham Day - formerly of garage gods The Prisoners - remains criminally off the cultural radar. The first release by his new band The Gaolers, "Get off my Track" is so freakbeat crazed it will have Russell Brand and his child-scaring hair running back to Hogwarts, and all is delivered with a paint-stripping intensity which makes The White Stripes sound like The Feeling. Someone get this man out of the Cult Hero clink and in the charts fast. Legends have been made of less
UNCUT review "Triple Distilled" 4-stars
Billy Childish is evidently not the only man of Kent who tends the garage rock blooming in England's garden. Graham Day, founder member of the Prisoners and Childish associate has formed a terrific transatlantic partnership with Dan Elektro (from Georgia's the Woggles). These 13 lean mean combustible slices of irrefutable trash tackle timeless topics - self-assertion, chasing girls and drinking whiskey. Crossing new sonic frontiers may not be a priority but with a result this invigorating who really cares?
Graham Day is a founder member of: The Prisoners, The Prime Movers, Planet and The SolarFlares.
He has also played drums with Billy Childish in Thee Mighty Caesars and Bass in The Buff Medways.
He also appeared in the Gift Horses alongside Martin Blunt and Jon Brookes before they formed The Charlatans.
He has produced The Discords, Les Terribles and a fantastic album by Jarvis Humby which should have been released three years ago, but for some reason the label don't want to release it. Graham also produced the new album by the Len Price 3, but the label (same one as Jarvis Humby) didn't like it, so they re-recorded it.
Buzz Hagstrom and Dan Elektro are the driving backbone behind Atlanta Georgia's magnificent The Woggles.
They have been joined by Johnny Barker on Bass for the last album and tour. Johnny has been in the Daggermen and Buff Medways.
DISCOGRAPHY:
"Get off my track", b/w "The man who came back" (7" vinyl single) Les Disques Volfoni (2007).
"Soundtrack to the daily grind" (CD/Vinyl album) Damaged Goods 2007.
"Travelled and Unravelled" (7"vinyl e.p) Damaged Goods 2008.
"Triple Distilled" (CD/Vinyl album) Damaged Goods 2008. "Begging you" (7" vinyl single) Damaged Goods 2008.
Thanks for this great Berlin show which ended just an hour ago! It was not only a bloody good concert but also a lovely kick in the balls of the Evian world! Cheers Joost