Treebeard have been a popular attraction on the pub, festival & beer festival circuit for many years now, with regular appearances at Sheffield, Derby, Tamworth, Newark, Stockport, Lincoln, Stoke & Barnsley festivals, as well as Earls Court for the Great British Beer Festival, and the Cropredy fringe. This year the band have shows at Rockstock […]
The Undertones
The Undertones are a rock band formed in Derry, Northern Ireland in 1974. From 1975 to 1983, the Undertones consisted of Feargal Sharkey (vocals), John O’Neill (rhythm guitar, vocals), Damian O’Neill (lead guitar, vocals), Michael Bradley (bass, vocals) and Billy Doherty (drums). By 1977 the band were performing their own three-chord pop punk material, which […]
Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye
“Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye” is a 1969 song written and recorded by Paul Leka, Gary DeCarlo and Dale Frashuer. They wrote a blues shuffle version of the song in the early 1960s when they were members of a dop-wop group from Bridgeport, Connecticut, originally called the Glenwoods, then the Citations, and finally, […]
The Mighty Doonans
The Mighty Doonans have a deserved reputation for their imaginative and innovative interpretations of traditional and contemporary songs. With brass, drums, keyboards, electric guitars and amazing vocals, they have the ability to blend different genres of music and dance (and the occasional joke) into their act. This leads to thoroughly entertaining performances that delight audiences across the ‘folk world’. […]
Send In The Clowns
“Send In the Clowns” is a song written by Stephen Sondheim for the 1973 musical A Little Night Music, an adaptation of Ingmar Bergman’s 1955 film Smiles of a Summer Night. It is a ballad from Act Two, in which the character Desirée reflects on the ironies and disappointments of her life. Among other things, […]
Spencer The Rover
Spencer The Rover is one of the best-known songs in the repertoire of the Copper Family. Bob Copper collected it in about 1954 from Jim Barrett, at the Fox in North Waltham, Hampshire, and printed this version in his book Songs and Southern Breezes. This recording was included in 2012 on the Topic anthology of […]
Dando Shaft
Dando Shaft is the name of a short-lived psychedelic/progressive folk and folk jazz band that was primarily active in the early 1970s. The band has attracted a measure of attention from recent compilation releases and Dando Shaft is today known primarily as one of the major influences on the progressive stream of the 1960s folk […]
Eartha Kitt
Eartha Mae Kitt (born Eartha Mae Keith) was an American singer and actress known for her highly distinctive singing style. Her mother, Annie Mae Keith (later Annie Mae Riley), was of Cherokee and African descent. Though she had little knowledge of her father, it was reported that he was the son of the owner of […]
Stanley Unwin
Stanley Unwin was a British comedian who invented his own comic language, “Unwinese”, referred to in the film Carry On Regardless (1961) as “gobbledygook”. Unwinese was a corrupted form of English in which many of the words were altered in playful and humorous ways, as in its description of Elvis Presley and his contemporaries as […]
Deep Purple (song)
“Deep Purple” is a song and the biggest hit written by pianist Peter De Rose, who broadcast between 1923 and 1939 with May Singhi as “The Sweethearts of the Air” on the NBC radio network. “Deep Purple” was published in 1933 as a piano composition. The following year, Paul Whiteman had it scored for his […]