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| Graham Day & The Forefathers photographed by Paul Slattery |
The Medway Weekender at the 100 Club saw some of the now legendary area's biggest names performing over three nights. Friday saw the return of
The Claim with a special guest appearance by Jim Riley from Wipeout (and now head of Ranscombe Studios) along with ex-Dentists guitarist
Bob Collins and his new band
The Full Nelson. Also on the bill were
Theatre Royal who will be releasing a new album "...and Then It Fell Out of My Head" on March 31st. Unfortunately we couldn't make the Friday but we were there on the Saturday to witness
Graham Day & The Forefathers and
The Len Price 3. The Forefathers played a slightly different set to usual, after all they do have an absolutely huge back catalogue of classics to pick from. They kicked off with The Prime Movers scathing "Good Things" and took in early Prisoners tracks such as "Don't Call My Name" and "Till The Morning Light" as well as lots of classics such as "Reaching My Head", "Melanie" and "Whenever I'm Gone" along with a couple of Gaolers tracks and of course a heavy dose of The Solarflares including "Sucking Out My Insides", "You Want Blood" and "Can't Get You Out of My Mind". They threw in the (recently) rarely played "I Just Wanna Be Bad" a cover of Fire's Freakbeat classic "Father's Name Is Dad" and "I Drink The Ocean" which morphed into "Hush". They ended the set with a raucous run through of the Ramones "Glad To See You Go" and left a very satisfied audience baying for more.
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| Graham Day & The Forefathers photographed by Paul Slattery |
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| Graham Day & The Forefathers photographed by Paul Slattery |
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| Graham Day & The Forefathers photographed by Paul Slattery |
Before that,
The Len Price 3 opened proceedings to a nicely packed club and played a great selection of tracks that took in oldies including "Dorolia" and "Lai Ha Lam" as well as some of their singalong classics like "Rentacrowd", "Billy Mason" and "Pictures". They also treated us to a couple of really promising new songs entitled "Ride On Coat Tails" and "Man In The Woods" which will hopefully appear on the band's forthcoming fifth album. This will be the follow up to the critically acclaimed "Nobody Knows", which they are currently mixing and preparing for mastering for a vinyl release. Of course we will keep you updated on news of the official release date as soon as we have it and even better, we may have an exclusive new track or two to play on
Retrosonic Podcast.
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| The Len Price 3 photographed by Paul Slattery |
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| The Len Price 3 photographed by Paul Slattery |
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| The Len Price 3 photographed by Paul Slattery |
Thanks to Paul Slattery for the excellent photographs, all pics copyright Paul Slattery 2017. For more photos of the Saturday and Sunday night, which featured Russ Wilkins (from The Milkshakes and more...) and The Mindreaders, The Galileo 7 and The Masonics - please visit the
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| The Len Price 3 photographed by Paul Slattery |
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