Roger Akers: Lead guitar (also plays Harmonica, Mandolin and Banjo) singer/song writer.
Verna Akers: Bass guitar, vocalist.
Sue Akers: Vocalist, percussion.
Graham Takets: Drums,
It's true to say we have more than one eccentric band member still adds to the energy at the live gigs!!!!!
Want to carry on writing and playing our own material for as long as possible without looking like ageing rock wannabes (nothing worse) and so working hard not to fall into becoming purely another older covers band. We will carry on working hard (UNDER NO ILLUSIONS) to just enjoy playing to those who support us and help us achieve more than we could have ever imagined so far!!!!! and we are just wondering what will happen next ????? READ ON BELOW.....
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Influences
Various Too many to name. Rock, Americana, Country rock anything alternative.
Wasted are a HARD WORKING rocking band WHO WRITE AND PLAY THEIR OWN MATERIAL and can include a few carefully chosen covers (DEPENDING ON THE VENUE) by the likes of , REM, Katie Tunstall, The Pretenders, Amy Winehouse, Pink, Green Day and on the country rock side Dixie Chicks all re vamped and made our own, variety is the spice of life they say so we dare to be different in our song writing and with the covers we perform.YES we are a grown up band, have been around awhile and still gigging. We just LOVE TO PLAY and let the PEOPLE HAVE A GREAT TIME!!!!!
The band has a wide repertoire predominately Rock and Americana which can have a country feel and really kick off when they play live. "Alternative and
MAD Always!" Wasted entertain with variety within their set, keeping the interest going throughout their performance...
2007 we played Rock in the Priory Ware Festival and Rock at the Castle Festival Hertford.. We also have played for the Strange Place club (supporting Jukebox Vandals and headling too!) and for the Marquee in Hertford,The Corn Exchange Hertford as well as our usual pub gigs and private gigs along the way, We have had great support from everyone and from these venues. ..This year we are playing for Trashville at the Cross Kings London and continue to write and record our own Stuff.
Not yet succumbed into becoming purely a covers band as so many more mature bands do, WASTED carry on working hard to get out there and enjoy the experience.UNDER NO ILLUSIONS just taking it as it comes WASTED were the main support for the Legendary 60's band THE ANIMALS on Sat 16Th Feb 2008 when we played in Ware, Hertfordshire as part of there European tour. It was a great night and a privilege to play with the likes of Mick Gallagher also of the BLOCKHEADS, John Steel, Peter Barton and John Williamson.
A GREAT NIGHT WAS HAD BY ALL. We have also supported Miles Hunt from, the Wonderstuff along with Divided opinions.
Set to Play the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2009 and Maybe the Twiglight Festival London TBC. Continuing to play in our new line up of Four. Catch us on our THEN THERE WERE FOUR TOUR Tour somewhere near you very soon.
Keep checking for dates..................
12 track cd available and a new one in the pipeline...........
Everyone is welcome at a Wasted Gig. We're not afraid to be different are you?
If your not get down and get Wasted.
Message us soon. Book us NOW for 2010!
Thanks to all those who are supporting us, you are the best that includes Hertbeat FM. We had a great time as artists of the week, playing live and acoustic in the studio. Breakthru Radio in New York and Local YP sound Wasted followers are very defiantly the best there are. THANKS GUYS.
WINGS BURNED AGAIN AND DANIELLE (for charity NSPCC) NOW AVAILABLE ON iTunes Go on help a good cause................
Hello Again, Just a quick note to say that the new EP 'Monster & Mintrel' is available for Download online through iTunes/Amazon and many streaming sites. Click here to choose a store. Thank you for your continued support. Namaste
As you may or may not be aware SoundARC hold a charity gig every year at Club 85 in Hitchin in aid of the Garden House Hospice in Letchworth, and this year we are going to try something a little different from previous years.
This year we are going to take over the club and host 37 acts in one weekend putting full bands upstairs and acoustic acts downstairs in an event that we are calling ARCfest!
It all starts on Friday 4th December at 7pm and then continues on through Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th from 12pm-11pm
As well as raising money for the Garden House Hospice in Letchworth, ARCfest will showcase all the different genres of bands that we at SoundARC have come across over the last 4 and a half years. Over this weekend a lot of the acts that you will see donât get a chance to play a great local venue like Club 85, So as well as hearing new music you will see all manors of genres and styles from acoustic - Metal - Indie - Rock - Punk - Electro - Ska - Funk - Hip Hop/Rap - Alternative - Rhythm & Blues - Reggae - Grunge and loads more that I cant remember!
I just want to touch base, and keep you posted on some cool HOOTROCK happenings!
First, the JOHNNY HOOTROCK debut release, "6.66 Gallons fer Twenty Bucks" is now available on CD Baby and iTunes! Help spread the word! Everyone's got a greaser friend or two, git 'em a HOOTROCK CD fer Christmas! Yeah, baby!
£leTriKa sounds completely different from any Metal band you have ever heard. The Brazilian rhythms and the Portuguese language added to the songs makes its style unique, giving birth to a new kind of Metal. If you are really looking for something new about Metal, you should check £leTriKa out!
Ciao!!!!! qui di seguito puoi vederci nei vari studi di registrazione, e anche altrove, durante le registrazioni per l' EP 2009. Questo brano trova in oltre la speciale collaborazione di LUCIO DALLA al clarinetto e GUIDO ELMI alle percussioni. Le immagini sono amatoriali e totalmente girate da noi. Ci piacerebbe davvero tanto ricevere un tuo commento!!!! Grazie mille e buona visione!!!! A presto
Thanks a lot for the add ! EletriKa sounds completely different from any Metal band you have ever heard. The Brazilian rhythms and the Portuguese language added to the songs makes its style unique, giving birth to a new kind of Metal. If you are really looking for something new about Metal, you should check EletriKa out!
....FRIZZ RECORDS is proud to announce our second official LP release...
"Modern Mediaeval" is the third LP from singer-songwriter DAVID GARSIDE, and the first to receive the full Frizz Records vinyl treatment. It’s also clearly the most fully-realised statement of his distinctive vision so far…
It’s an easy route to locate David in the tradition of his ‘classic’ influences (McCartney, Nick Drake, Stevie Wonder, Joni Mitchell, The Beach Boys, Love, Talking Heads, Peter Gabriel, Dexy’s…), but there are few songwriters working today that have absorbed these influences so fully, and arrived at a mature style as David has…
This is ’singer-songwriter’ music in the sense that it’s focus is on song-craft and the unfolding of the lyrical vision of a single individual, but if so then it’s definitely at the sophisticated end of the scale (’progressive’ if that term isn’t too loaded…), filed alongside ‘Bryter Layter’, ‘The Hissing Of Summer Lawns’, ‘Pretzel Logic’ or ‘Surf’s Up’...another FRIZZ RECORDS instant classic!
"Modern Mediaeval" can be downloaded from the iTunes Store
The album is also available on heavyweight vinyl LP, or on Digipack CD from www.FrizzRecords.com & all good retailers
....FRIZZ RECORDS is proud to announce our first official LP release...
"It's Not The Wand, It's The Magic" is the debut release from AUGUST, the London based band centred around the songwriting partnership between vocalist VEDINA MOSE and multi-instrumentalist / producer RAPHAEL MANN (MR HUDSON / JOY JOSEPH / ART TERRY), with master drummer CLEAN CUT MARK and clarinetist / vocalist MAREE CHOIE completing the core line-up, and a supporting cast including ART TERRY (keyboards), SHOHEI KAWAMOTO (AKA Japanese producer Baraki, Bass clarinet, soprano sax and flute), and KAI HOFFMAN (French horn)
Always an act that juggled a diverse set of influences, the album has been compared to artists as diverse as KATE BUSH, PRINCE, DE LA SOUL, SLY STONE, MADLIB, SERGE GAINSBOURG and THE DELFONICS, for its concoction of wild experimentation and traditional song craft, organic production and futuristic electronic touches, funk bass & drums and jazz & orchestral references, infectious melodies and lyrical flights of fancy...with nods towards classic soul, JB funk, Studio One, 60s pop, psychedelia, left field hip hop, new wave, doo wop, tropicalia, high life, & avant garde jazz, without any song ever fitting squarely into any of those categories...new music, basically...and an instant classic!
"It's Not The Wand, It's The Magic" can be downloaded now from the iTunes Store
The album is also available on heavyweight vinyl LP in a sumptuous gatefold sleeve, or on Digipack CD from www.FrizzRecords.com & all good retailers
Hey! Thanks again for being our friend. Make sure you have a little listen to our album Songs For Abandoned Buildings. If you like it, please follow the link on the player to buy it from itunes so we can play a town near you! Don't forget to give us a review on itunes when you buy it :)
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