We..re fed up with XFactor Xmas No 1..s and the credit crunch so for Christmas 2008 we..ve launched a Facebook campaign for the alternative Christmas No 1!!!
When you get the chance could you go into Facebook and look under groups and .. Christmas is a pain in the arse -an alternative Xmas song !.. you will find it.
Then join it and send it to all your friends and ask them to do the same!!!
Oh...and they can download it from anywhere iTunes, MySpace etc. The first week of December would be fab!
Cheers
The Accelerators
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The band started out in 1989 when founder members Taffy, Hammer and Nigel played a few numbers at a house party.
Ten ..songs.. were performed to a largely enthusiastic bunch who were probably twice as drunk as the band !!! Hammer managed to fall over during one of the songs but this was lost on the audience and made little difference to the musical ..flavour.. of the song !
After about a year, Nigel the original drummer, sold his kit. This was a surprising move as the boys had another gig approaching! Into the breach step Sean ..the Hitman.. Pocock !
Taffy, Hammer and Hitman went on to perform numerous gigs as a 3 piece at parties etc until 1996.
In 1996 Ian Housley joined on lead guitar forced the band to [literally !!!] hit new heights. Backing vocals became mandatory as did starting and stopping songs at the same time!!!!
In late 2001 Paul Hatton also joined the band as it became increasingly difficult for founder member Taffy to be in the country when gigs were booked.
Over the last 17 years the band has played numerous gigs throughout the South-West and as far a field as Holland. In addition they won the 1996 Radio Five Live Christmas song competition with ..Christmas is a pain in the Arse... This song was also featured on the Johnnie Walker Drive Time show in December 2002 and on top TV soap Emmerdale on their Xmas day show in 2003.
The band have received airplay on numerous radio stations up and down the country.
They remain the only band to have a song played on BBC with the word ..arse.. in the title.
Never let it end !!!!!!!!
www.theaccelerators.co.uk
