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Andy O'Hare Reviews - 22/02/08 - BSN(420), Flo Rowland, Leaking Machine, Skankbox, Silver Tequila, Yashin
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Wow!! Three gigs in three days - now we're talking - kicking off with one of Worcester's finest at the Marrs Bar. Support provided from two-thirds of Leaking Machine and their melodic takes on driving tests and system failures. Wouldn't mind seeing a driving bass added though - so let us know when you'...
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Andy O'Hare Reviews - 08/02/08 - AWWBLOT, Mr-Johnson, Meg, Spencer McGarry, The Tide
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08/02/08 Where have all the gigs gone? It seems like everyone's playing a hundred miles away at the moment - come on bands and promoters - let's see a few more home fixtures! Another trip up to the excellent Tardebigge venue in Redditch for their regular Thursday night showcase. First up were flute-fr...
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Andy O'Hare Reviews - 25/01/08 - Meteor Street, Cobweb Dilemmas, Toxic Pijin, DLK
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25/01/08 Still a bit quiet on the local gig scene so we thought we'd catch the evening bit of the billed all-dayer at TJ's in Worcester last weekend. Turned out that Meg and Dudes Of Neptune couldn't make their afternoon slots and we were right on time for the main slot - that's got to be an O'Hare first! Ki...
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Andy O'hare Reviews - 18/01/08 - Columbo's Mac, DLK, Lyck, Mars Bonfire, Street Sider, State Of Mind
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Still quiet on the night-out scene in Hereford this past week so a treat then to catch one of my favourites at Worcester's Marrs Bar - reopening after their New Year booze cruise - sorry that should read vacation and refurbishing. It's the mega-gigging Dandelion Killers of course! All the catchy spir...
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Andy O'Hare Reviews -11/01/08 - Meg, 1147am, Blackout, Secret Sound
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Plenty of folks starting out in the music scene give their songs their first airing at an open mike night - like those held at the 11.47 Club at the Cellar Bar in Worcester. I popped down for a very quick look-in the other night - quite a few local movers on the local scene in the crowd - Broughton Hackett of t...
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Boozestock 2007
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Boozestock 2007 - december review by Andy O'Hare Happy New Year everyone and hope you enjoyed last week's Yuletide Top Ten - a treat then to unexpectedly catch the number two act at the Marrs Bar in Worcester later that evening as the two-day Boozestock festival celebrated its third anniversary. Bit...
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The George Cowley Experience @ The Marrs Bar
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The George Cowley ExperienceMarrs Bar, WorcesterFriday 4 April 2008 Review by Dr Emily Payne It is a truth universally acknowledged that, if a show opens with the bands front-man baptising the audience in wine, a splendid time is guaranteed for all. And thus was the case at The George Cowley Exper...
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Sister Sandwich Live
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The slice of entertainment 'Sister Sandwich' serve up is never run of the mill,and tonight they superseeded themselves with a batch of balmy tunes delivered in a fun,but at no times floury style.I think the band are Bewdley born and bred,so rose to the occasion at this free night.I don't know if the th...
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Cobweb Dilemmas / Girls On Film / Owen Tromans @ The Marrs Bar (Worcester)
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Cobweb Dilemmas / Girls On Film / Owen Tromans @ The Marrs Bar (Worcester) 08/04/04 We arrived probably half way through the set by Cobweb Dilemmas, a band that I have seen a couple of times now and l have to say that they alwgys seem to pull something new out of their hats. Every tlme see them they have impr...
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Planetman @ The Firefly (worcester) 12/04/08
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Planetman @ The Firefly, Worcester) Afer prior engagments at another venue I finally got down to the Firefly. Skankbox had long done their set and The Donns had only just finished. Oh well. Still Planetman to go. And go they did. From the opening number to the last roar of the crowd, Planetman had the cr...
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King Pleasure & The Biscuit Boys Live @ Huntingdon Hall 30/03/07 NJS
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King Pleasure and the Biscuit Boys Live @ Huntingdon Hall (Worcester) I'll give you a little tip. It may not seem much but it is a good tip. If you get to go to Huntingdon Hall for a show, be it live music, comedy or whatever, don't sit on the front row unless you enjoy an up close up and personal view of the per...
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Cobweb Dilemmas / FatBoysAreHarderTo Kidnap / JohnJoe @ TJs (Worcester)
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Cobweb Dilemmas / FatBoysAreHarderTo Kidnap / JohnJoeLive @ TJs (Worcester) Sunday nights have been given a bit a bit of kick in recent months with City Centre pub TJs playing host to various gigs thanks to a variety of local promoters. This week, its the turn of Starsfall Promotions (www.myspace...
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Punk For Pudsey 2007 @ The Marrs Bar (Worcester)
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Punk For Pudsey Live @ The Marrs Bar (Worcester) It was the fourth time that Punk For Pudsey's been held at the Marrs Bar - credit for organising it to Alec whose son Phil plays in Backwash - highlighting the impressive lineup of mostly local outfits. Missed opening act Skankbox as the extended event k...
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Silver Tequila / Jimmy Nylon / The Irony @ The Marrs bar (Worcester)
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Silver Tequila / Jimmy Nylon / The Irony Live @ The Marrs bar (Worcester) Down to the Marrs Bar in Worcester for another sampler of the local scene and to check out one of last year's favourites. Late replacements for Cobweb Dilemmas were the duo Jimmy Nylon - after last week's Electric Proms I'm ope...
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Pencil Toes / Brandon Steep / Crow (ex-Larynx) @ The Courtyard (hereford) November 2007
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Pencil Toes / Brandon Steep / Crow (ex-Larynx) Live @ The Courtyard (hereford) November 2007 Andy O'Hare Pencil Toes / Brandon Steep / Crow (ex-Larynx)Live @ The Courtyard (hereford) A new promotion at The Courtyard in Hereford - promising a great venue with a great sound to justify the hefty £10 t...
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Da Vinci / Carol Lee Sampson @ The Marrs Bar (Worcester)
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Da Vinci / Carol Lee Sampson @ The Marrs Bar (Worcester) Another touch of adventure the following night at the Marrs Bar in Worcester - a premier for Battle of the Bands winner Da Vinci's rock opera 'Razorblade World'. Classy supporting set from Malvern's Carol Lee Sampson with help from West Virgi...
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Live Acoustic @ St Michaels (Stourport)
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Live Acoustic Live @ St Michaels (Stourport) We've mentioned Stourport a few times in the last couple of weeks but it seems that there's no regular music venue in the town. Credit then to Eva McIntyre for trying something by putting on a set of acoustic acts at St Michael's church hall - in hindsight th...
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Marrs Bonfire / Aura / The Donns @ Gun Tavern (Worcseter)
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Marrs Bonfire / Aura / The Donns The Gun Tavern (Worcseter) Sam Isaac mixes a blend of Badly Drawn Boy with the Magic Numbers to his Radiohead-feel set. Not really up my street so I bunked off his orchestral set on last week's extended Session and checked out a new promotion at the Gun Tavern in Worcester...
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Sam Issac / New Cassettes / Radio Luxembourg / Riff Raff / Riz MC @ The Marrs Bar (Worcester)
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Sam Issac / New Cassettes / Radio Luxembourg / Riff Raff / Riz MC Marrs Bar (Worcester) Great to go along to the Marrs Bar in Worcester for the local leg of the BBC Introducing tour of the best five sets called up to play this year's Glastonbury and the BBC Electric Proms- including of course our own Sam I...
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Joe Meek Tribute Night w/ Dandelion Killers in Newant
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Joe Meek Tribute Night w/ Dandelion Killers in Newant Now I said last week I'd check out the Joe Meek Tribute night in Newent - ok it's over the border but one of the original 'Telstar' Tornadoes was from Stourport (now that's a big one for the Music Map Andrew). The problem was that a gig for the forty-pl...
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Brandon Steep / Will Dance For Chocolate / Spencer McGarry / George Clarke @ The Marrs Bar Worcester)
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Brandon Steep / Will Dance For Chocolate / Spencer McGarry / George Clarke Marrs Bar Worcester) Another scintillating Little Hellfire Club at the Marrs Bar in Worcester with another of the Hereford big-hitters making an appearance. First upthough he's been described as the handsomest chanteur...
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Show of Hands @ Huntingdon Hall (Worcester) 2/11/07
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Show of Hands Huntingdon Hall (Worcester) 2/11/07 As one of Englands most well respected Roots and Folk acts I was greatly looking forward to hearing this duo in the impeccable acoustics of Huntingdon Hall. Singer/songwriter Steve Knightley and multi instrumentalist Phil Beer both grew up in Ex...
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Psyflyer / Dudes of Neptune / Meteor Street @ TJs, Worcester 28/10/07
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Psyflyer / Dudes of Neptune / Meteor Street @ TJs, Worcester, 28th October 2007 The news of a Halloween themed circus of local psychedelic music was a good enough reason for me to forgo my traditional Halloween activity of hardcore trick-or-treating until next year. Leaving behind my petrol fuell...
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Pencil Toes / Py 'n' Mash @ The Tap House (Kiddermnster)
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Pencil Toes / Py 'n' MashTap House (Kiddermnster)Well it's been all Worcester bands for the past few weeks so time to check out the Hereford scene again - lucky for me that the big hitters decided to crossed the border - so - when I heard Pencil Toes were playing the Tap House in Kidderminster this was not...
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Unkle Monty / Dandellion Killers : Live @Tardebridge (Redditch) Andy O'Hare
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Unkle Monty / Dandellion Killers Tardebridge (Redditch) A couple of days later I popped up to check out probably the best stage and sound system in Worcestershire at the Tardebigge in Redditch. What used to be Volume One are now Unkle Monty and it's hard not to think of James Dean Bradfield when the fro...
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Knight, Othen & Smith / Paul J Rose The Mug House (Claines, Worcester)
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Knight, Othen & Smith / Paul J Rose The Mug House (Claines, Worcester)What better way is there to spend a Sunday afternoon? Bright warm sunshine, local beer garden, good beer, a bar-b-que and some great live music.A certain Mr Jamie Knight organised this event to raise a bit of cash for St Richar...
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Balls Deep / Terry Trillion & The Millionaires / Isolace Live @ The Marrs Bar (Worcester) 3/8/07 NJS+
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Balls Deep / Terry Trillion & The Millionaires / IsolaceLive @ The Marrs Bar (Pierpoint Street, Worcester)Tonights gig was a bit of a mixed bag starting off with the awesome Isolace who are a really good 6 piece band, with a lead singer that not only knows now to sing but knows how to lead. This Redd...
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Host Live @ The Marrs Bar (Worcester) 30/7/07 NJS
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HostLive @ The Marrs Bar (Pierpoint Street, Worcester)Host are a four piece Worcester band who have decided to follow the rock and roll dream and have quit their day jobs in order to concentrate on the music. And from tonights performance, and the reaction of the assembled crowd, they may just have ma...
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Jimmy Nylon / Last Letter Read Live @ Bossa Nova (Worcester) 25/7/07 NJS
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Jimmy Nylon / Last Letter Read Live @ Bossa Nova (New Street, Worcester) Two bands, a cool retro style venue, great atmosphere and a night of local(ish) live music, all for the price of a hundred 1 penny sweets. Cant be bad, but there has to be a catch. Well, no. H Promotions have been putting on live musi...
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Lipstick Gypsies / Cobweb Dilemmas / The Rising Live @ The Marrs Bar, Worcester 11/07/07 NJS
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Lipstick Gypsies / Cobweb Dilemmas / The Rising Live @ The Marrs Bar, Worcester 11/07/07 We arrived just as American/Norwegian duo Suburban Fix were finishing their set of acoustic styled hip hop. Two guys one guitar and from what I heard an act worth seeing more of. Sorry I missed them Cheltenha...
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