FORTHCOMING EVENTS

About The 5.6.7.8’s…

The 5.6.7.8’s are an all-female Japanese rockin’ garage trio band from Tokyo who play the UK every so often. The band consists of Yoshiko Fujiyama on guitar and lead vocal, Chellio Panther Omo on bass and Sachiko on drums.

The 5.6.7.8’s music draws from multiple genres of American music, including rock and roll, surf, rockabilly, doo-wop, punk rock and psychobilly. According to Yoshiko “Ronnie” Fujiyama, the band wanted to “deconstruct rock ‘n’ roll into punk music by using distortion and noise and screaming.”

The 5.6.7.8’s became known in the West after their appearance in Kill Bill Vol.1 in which they performed “I Walk Like Jayne Mansfield”, “I’m Blue” (a cover of The Ikettes’ song) and “Woo Hoo” in a Tokyo club, “The House Of Blue Leaves”. On the Special Bonus Features of the Kill Bill Volume 1 DVD, one of the specials featured a live performance which shows the 5.6.7.8’s singing “I Walk Like Jayne Mansfield” and “I’m Blue” during filming of the movie. The 5.6.7.8’s song “The Barracuda” is featured in The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift soundtrack.

According to Kill Bill director Quentin Tarantino, he discovered the music of the 5.6.7.8’s after hearing it in an urban clothing store in Tokyo, hours before going to the airport. Tarantino asked if he could purchase the CD from the store, as he had no time to go to a music shop. When the shop assistant on duty refused, the manager was called. When Tarantino offered the manager double the retail price of the CD, he acquired it!

About The Masonics…

This ‘Louder Than War’ review tells us all we need to know!

“The Masonics play in Black and White on a convex screen on a three-channel television, metaphorically speaking. Their stock in trade is Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and A Kind of Loving type stories made into a series of two and a half minute songs instead of movies. Musically it’s a Beatles at the Star Club meets Bo Diddley with a bit of ’50’s balladeering, recorded in the garage adjoining the House of the Rising Sun.”

I saw them live pre-pandemic and it was one of the utterly perfect performances I’ve seen by any band. I was a latecomer to the Medway Delta bands, but once you hear them and ‘get it’, it stays in your blood. It’s about the commitment to authenticity and the blocking out of the modern day. And it’s just great music.”

This event is a fundraiser for community radio station Phonic FM.

Nine Below Zero released their classic debut LP, Live at the Marquee in 1980, the band kept the momentum going with Don’t Point Your Finger in 1981 before releasing their third and final LP on A&M Records, Third Degree (1982).

Nine Below Zero toured with The Who and The Kinks around the time of this LP and also appeared on The Old Grey Whistle Test, and The South Bank Show.

Dr. Feelgood formed on Canvey Island in Essex in the early 1970s and have enjoyed a string of hit singles in many countries including Milk & Alcohol, Down at the Doctors, Roxette, She’s a Wind Up and See You Later Alligator.

The current line-up of Dr. Feelgood is led by their drummer Kevin Morris, and features Gordon Russell on lead guitar, Phil Mitchell on bass and charismatic vocalist, Robert Kane.

Dr Feelgood

Formed on Canvey Island in Essex in the early 1970s Dr. Feelgood remain one of the most popular and exciting live rhythm and blues acts in the world. The raw and uncompromising style of their performance resulted in the album Stupidity that immediately went to the number one position in the U.K. charts.

Dr Feelgood have also enjoyed global success with a string of hit singles including Roxette, Back in the Night, Milk and Alcohol, Down at the Doctors, She Does it Right, Going Back Home and See You Later Alligator – which gave the group their first gold record.

The current line-up features the rhythm section Kevin Morris on drums and Phil Mitchell on bass (both 38 years), the return of the legendary Gordon Russell on guitar, and Robert Kane (formerly of the Animals) who joined in 1999.

Nine Below Zero

Formed in 1980 with their debut ‘Live at the Marquee’ album taking the world by storm, Nine Below Zero have continued to be a hardworking, hardrocking rhythm and blues force ever since!

The current line-up still boasts founder members Dennis Greaves on guitar and vocals and Mark Feltham on harmonica and vocals. They are aided and abetted by Charlie Austen, Sonny Greaves, Tom Monks and Anthony Harty, pedigree musicians guaranteed to keep the original pair on their toes!

This is a fundraiser for Exeter community radio station Phonic FM.