JONNY - Vocals, Keyboards, Percussion, Guitar
MATT - Djembe, Percussion, Vocals
RICH - Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals
PETCH - Guitar, Guitar and more Guitar
JOE - Trumpet, Keyboards
TONY - Bass Face
JIMMY B - Drums
UNISAX - Special guest sax players extraordinaire!
Influences
Their influences come from all over the musical spectrum - described as "punked up funk", "new new wave", "experimental" and "like nothing live you've ever heard before". They include members spawned from the bowels of Metal and others from the brain of Funk and then the schmorgasboard of fantastic music in between. From Ska to Blues to Gospel to Drum n Bass to Rock to Reggae there's something in the show for YOU!!
Or there might not be and if thats the case then at least there's a bar . . . with beer . . . maybe some friends . . . maybe some peanuts . . . but probably just the beer...
The Side Effects - who are they, where did they come from and where have they gone?
Its story of love and hellfire on a stick... eating Coronas . . . Ouch! Back in the dark ages, the band was forged as a hard Norwegian death trance outfit. After many world tours under the title of NorsKORR the middle ages were over and the band decided to create something new. SPATULA was there next attempt and their cult album "LARD" was an underground success. In a major world event, the first world depression, the album undecidedly failed. It was time for two world wars and a whole load of drinking!!!
A blues band was formed. However, blues failed and around this time the lead guitarist was serving a life sentence in Tazmania (with the devil) for pigeon worrying. A duet from Finland took the place of The Side Effects and ended the careers of many small record labels. In 1963 the band created the first time machine, unfortunately they also managed to create a rip in time itself, propelling them back to 123 or something like that million years BC. The dinosaurs ate half of the existing band members heads and elbows off, so the search went on for the ULTIMATE SUPER GROUP BAND. They travelled back to the night of Jesus' birth and enjoyed a plate of Pigeon, then they discovered that combining two measures of backstreet grog, one length of rope and two reasonably average sized melons would create the first doomsday device. ..............................................THEN . . . God created two overly excited angels to spite the two. Unfortunately the indiscriminate use of breasts lead to the rise of the revolution in Belarus. You want some of that shit? HUH? EH?EH?EH? . . .
They fixed their time machine and blasted off to that time when girlfriends were made of uncles and aunties. Malaria was the biggest form of sweetcorn at the time, which lead to the rise of canabalism in frogs in the amazon. It sounds a little odd but it happened! The crater formed from the band's returning in 2005 was so magmaticalising to the local community of Um-Bongo that they were shipped off to the small town of Smarrogate (the parallel dimension to Harrogate). Over this 4000 year (Bill and Ted style) journey they had learned two things....ish....
1. "If we're gonna form a (decent) band we had better be half X-Man.
2. "If you ever manage to go to the year 1234ad, take a bottle of aspirin" (noting that other pain killers are also available
From these two mighty lessons they discovered that . . .
. . . TWIGLETS WILL RULE THE EARTH!!!
Therefore, make sure you:
A: Are prepared to eat a lot of twiglets
B: Like twiglets
C: PORTHO SMASH!
So
It all looked peachy for the seventeen surving members of the band in 2005 and a half, until, the muppets, Big Bird, Barney, two of the teletubbies and the rest of the cast of Sesame Street formed an alliance. The government of Ukraine then decided that the best course of action was to email the cast of Seseme Street about a doomsday device made from grog, rope and melons that had been found over in the Amazon (the river rather than the website you understand). The device was unleashed, accidently on the small town of boroughsborough, destroying 11 members of the side effects as well as thirteen sheep. The good thing,
A: The doomsday weapon was outdated, 2000 years old and didn't, contrary to expectation bring forth the end of the world.
B: Brought the band back to 6 members of the Side Effects, who were safe at the local store down the road at the time
This hurt Betty . . . A LOT! So, lager rules, worms can drive, bananas are for budgies, partridges eat 5 gold rings for breakfast, Chuck Norris CAN Believe It's Not Butter!, He also counted to infinity . . . TWICE! . . . AND . . . don't ever believe in things that go CLICK!!! They are the ones that will come back to haunt you..........HMMMPH!!! . . . . . . Don't believe the Crabs, the sideways quizlings!!
As for Kris Akabusi, he found that there are three types of fuel to power a car better then petrol, he, however forgot these world saving ideas. Kris, we love you!!!!! YOU RULE!!!!!
Chuck Norris, he went on to meet the kings and queens of thirty different countries, he single-handedly destroyed a universe and beat the record for eating the most macdonalds cheeseburgers. ALL in the same hour!!!!
Bill and Ted fell into Comas and Milo the donkey enjoyed cheap Pina Coladas and Easter eggs that looked like eggs.....funnily enough.
The entire cast of Sesame Street were arrested in mexico and extradited under charges of terrorism. The trial continues and they are all expected to be executed apart from Count Dracula who managed to escape capture by counting in the normal efficient and well pronounced manner, to eight (ah ah ah).
Jesus was cucified. As we all know. The band had nothing to do with this and are not liable for the actions of the Roman empire.
The time machine broke around 11pm on Tuesday and they learned that 3 WAS the magic number!
So they played. And they ask you to enjoy the future as we finally get to the two remaining questions (at least of any note) in the universe - where are The Side Effects now and who is looking after their lard with a spatula? If you know the answer, if you can help, we can rebuild them - make them better that they were before - better, stronger, faster...
Love From The Side Effects x x x
BEER GOOD!!
Hello! Our second single ‘Bill Hicks’ is now available for pre-order on download, 7" and CD, and it's currently #1 on the play. com download pre-order chart.
We are self-managed, self-published, and self-released on our own record label and our debut single "Trauma Town" entered at #9 in the Official UK Indie charts. We're hoping to make this one go even bigger -
WE ARE VERY SAD... WE DON'T HAVE WORDS TO SAY ANYMORE... OUR SINGER AND DOBRO PLAYER ENRICO MICHELETTI IS DEAD. GOODBYE ENRICO KEEP THE BLUES ALIVE WHEREVER YOU ARE!!!!
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Kinkiindie, indie, rock and alternative every Thursday at Mansion/jimmys Harrogate, ALL DRINKS £1.50! Please sign up for free entry at www. kinkiindie. com. Booking bands now - so please let us know if you would like to play!
Starting 6th March 2008, every thursday at Jimmy's in Harrogate, 2 main rooms (One Indie, and one Rock and Metal), and Jimmy's Bar for putting on live bands at the start of the night (if you can recommend any good, local bands who play indie, rock or Metal, drop us a line)
Bands at Zone Wakefield - Friday 25th Jan 2008 - Chewin Druids, Friday 1st Feb - Twelve Hours Tuesday! Bands on from 10pm. Get your £1 admission + Free drink at www.kinkiindie.com
New night at Ziggys York every Saturday – Indie, alternative + 80's pop! Get your free admission offers from Kinkiindie.com
It seems like years since the last Moorfest happened and to be honest I think the weather was very much a factor in whether people enjoyed themselves or not. Some thrived in the mud whilst others wept until their dads could pick them up. Moorfest is still carving an identity for itself and in the three years that it has been established I think I can say that the one thing that most people love about it is the friendly atmosphere, and this gig is a good opportunity to meet up with friends that perhaps you haven't seen since the festival, to make new friends, enjoy quality music, get a flavour of Moorfest if you haven't already been and also to talk to the organisers in order to give your opinions on how to improve the festival. We'll also be projecting your favourite photos that you've taken from previous Moorfests to create a live mashup that will adorn the walls of the Brudenell so please send them to bandsformoorfest@yahoo.co.uk and make sure that everyone in the picture is cool for you to use them like this.
There'll be much more to boot like gorgeous organic food, t-shirt stall, films and raffles to win tickets to Moorfest 4 which we're working on right now and aim to make it the best yet.
We really appreciate your continued support in making Moorfest what it is and hope to see you all there.
