THE BATTLE OF THE ONE MAN BANDS LINES EM UP...
Traditional Woody's One Man Band will be wrangling, not mingling for glory!
Brighton legend Vic Ellis - will he be the ultimate Minstrel?
D-66 (Hoarse Records) will be playing one man dirty as hell punk n blues
One man bandit Dennis Hopper Choppers makes the ground shake as he brings the night to a close
Put your hand tambourine and knee cymbals together for
THE BATTLE OF THE ONE MAN BANDS
WEDNESDAY 21ST MAY 2008 AS PART OF THE BRIGHTON FRINGE FESTIVAL
UPSTAIRS AT THE PRINCE ALBERT
Going head to head, mouth kazoo to foot mounted drum, the maracas are out - all is (war)fare - in this tongue and bloody cheeky battle
Calling to arms ukuleles,banjos,and hand bells, watch as two traditional walkabout one man bands campaign for victory. Who'll take a drumming?
Still wanting more. Hell yeah!
Be blown away by the frontline assault provided by Hoarse Records
Hoarse Records is a new London Based label specialising in man punk'd up blues. The project started as a move to push underground one man bands though, and now with the "Sound of hullabaloo ringing in it's ears" Battle of the One Man Bands brings D-66 into the affray. There's gonna be TroubL.
Check out www.myspace.com/d66isd77
"With incessant bass drum and snare (courtesy of a tamborine around the heel and stomp on a baking tray),grizzled looking, sounding and - presumably -smelling like a one-man-blooze-show , [D-66] starts off like the white stripes , if jack got bored with carrying meg and decided to replace her with his shoes. with his tom waits growl [D-66] delivers rasping blues good enough to make you question wether it realy is a spent force,before pummeling into frenzied psychobilly"
ART ROCKER MAGAZINE
What more i hear you war cry...
The end is in sight as the infamous Dennis Hopper Choppers brings the night to its victorious conclusion .
A one-man-band, simultaneously playing guitar, bass drum, high hat, organ bass pedals, vox-organ and a 1969 Fender Dual Showman amplifier originally designed for Dick Dale which he said is ‘probably the loudest thing I’d ever heard.’ This coming from a man who played bass in the Silverjets and Menlo Park.
"DHC's edge-of-country country may promise an easy-ride and moonshine-redemption, but, like his silver-screen namesake's motorcycle at the end of Easy Rider, Chop will leave you in a flaming wreck with a mouthful of blood and grit on the side of the road to nowhere".
www.myspace.com/dennishopperchoppers
Come and have a go if you think you're bard enough...
Bring in your own home made instruments and you will have a chance of winning an amazing prize courtesy of Badland Guitars.
Margarine tub drums, yougurt shakers, bottle cap tambourines, cardboard box guitars.
Don't retreat. Noize makers wanted on the night.
