New Beginners' course in learning the embaire starts Sunday 2nd November 2008 at Bath Place in Leamington town centre, and continuing every Sunday in November, plus December 13th. Seby Ntege & Mugwisa Kalifani will lead the teaching of traditional Ugandan rhythms/songs. Further opportunities exist to join a performance group (Embaire Strikes Back) and to learn Ugandan dances.

Contact Nigel, tel: 0771 851 3100. For details of class times, go to www.embairestrikesback.org

Opera Warwick return to St Mary's Church in Leamington with a double bill of hilarious operettas by Arthur Sullivan.

Date: Friday 5th December
Time: 7.30 pm
Venue: St Mary's Church, St Mary's Road, CV31 1JW
Tickets: £8/£7

TICKET HOTLINE: 024765224411

City of Coventry Youth Orchestra, Conductor Brian Chappell
Soloist Randall Murrow, Baritone
Date : Sunday 26th October
Time : 7.30 PM
Venue : All Saints Parish Church, Leamington Spa
Programme : Flotow – Overture to the opera Martha
Stanford – Songs of the Sea
Glazunov – Suite Caracteristique
Tickets : £ 7 and £5 at the door

London’s finest venue for showcasing new talent will be hosting a monthly show of the best of new and established artists monthly at The Assembly in Leamington Spa.

October’s show on Wednesday 15th will feature international artists ROACHFORD and LUCIE SILVAS. Roachford was Columbia Records’ best selling artists for over 10 years and has written for Michael Jackson and Chaka Khan. Lucie Silvas sold half a million copies of her hit album and had hits with “What you’re made of” in the UK, USA and Europe. Leamington artist Ellen Miller will be providing local support.

visit www.leamingtonassembly.com for tickets!

London’s finest venue for showcasing new talent will be hosting a monthly show of the best of new and established artists monthly at The Assembly in Leamington Spa.

October’s show on Wednesday 15th will feature international artists ROACHFORD and LUCIE SILVAS. Roachford was Columbia Records’ best selling artists for over 10 years and has written for Michael Jackson and Chaka Khan. Lucie Silvas sold half a million copies of her hit album and had hits with “What you’re made of” in the UK, USA and Europe. Leamington artist Ellen Miller will be providing local support.

The Bedford Club in London is the brainchild of promoter Tony Moore who also runs live music clubs in Hammersmith and promotes at The 02 Centre. The club has an enviable reputation for discovering the best new UK acts and bringing them to the public’s attention before anyone else has seen them. Paolo Nutini, James Morrison, KT Tunstall, The Feeling, Amy Macdonald, Natasha Bedingfield, Lucie Silvas and many more began their careers with this legendary venue.

Get involved in Leamington's phenomenal African Drumming scene!

New Beginners' course in djembe starts Thursday 25th September 2008. Learn traditional techniques for this West African hand drum, and play a variety of traditional rhythms. No experience needed. Drums are provided but booking is essential. Course cost: £40 for 5 weeks. Routes for progression open to those who get the bug.
Contact Emma, tel: 07984 362 758/ africanginger'googlemail.com

MixedUp are back this bank holiday Sunday (27th May) at the newly refurbished White Horse in Leamington Spa.

Dj's: Yeti (Downbeat/Funk and all that Jazz) Jon Watts (Broken Beat/NuJazz/Afro Beat) Da Rock (Hiphop/Funk).

Live Band: Noke lick masheen (Playing Reggae/Breakbeat/Broken Beat).

Starts at 4.00 till 12.00. myspace.com/mixeduplives

We are Twisted Halo Promotions from RUGBY and we can provide bands for any venues in the MIDLANDS areas who need our help to find bands,We are a new agency BUT we DO NOT MANAGE any bands all we do is look for venues for the bands or look for bands for the venues. So if you are a venue in the Midlands anywhere whether you are a club,pub,hall,social club,hotel etc etc for private functions or public gigs please contact us on:

www.myspace.com/spannerandtictac
keeping.time@yahoo.co.uk
Spanner -- 07947214219
Karen -- 01788 842118

thankyou Spanner

Saturday 24th September 2005 at 8.00pm sees the return of The Royal Naval Association Male Voice Choir to sing in the wonderful acoustices of St. Peter's Church Leamington Spa.

With a varied programme for the night, carefully selected by Musical Director Russell McKie, the choir are looking forward to singing there once again.

There are songs from the shows, traditional Welsh hymns, arrangements of popular standards and spirituals sung without musical accompinent that both test the choir and Russell a chance to ..... well come and here.

Tickets are £5.00 and are available on the door. Extra seeting is on stand-by if required. All proceeds are to be split between the Church building funds and Leamington & Warwick Sea Cadets.

St Peter's is in Dormer Place adjacent to the Pump Room Gardens

Saturday 24th September 2005 sees the return of The Royal Naval Association Male Voice Choir to sing in the wonderful acoustices of St. Peter's Church Leamington Spa.

With a varied programme for the night, carefully selected by Musical Director Russell McKie, the choir are looking forward to singing there once again.

There are songs from the shows, traditional Welsh hymns, arrangements of popular standards and spirituals sung without musical accompinent that both test the choir and Russell a chance to ..... well come and here.

Tickets are £5.00 and are available on the door. Extra seeting is on stand-by if required. All proceeds are to be split between the Church building funds and Leamington & Warwick Sea Cadets.

The Big Band will be playing at the Leamington Spa Pump Rooms on Saturday 5th March from 7:30pm – 9:30pm. This will be a gig featuring the Big Band at its best, playing Swing, Jazz, Funk, Latin and Blues favourites as well as some of our more recently acquired tunes.

Entrance: £5 / £4 NUS

Further information available from http://www.thebigband.co.uk or info@thebigband.co.uk

A concert to raise funds for the Coventry, Warwickshire & Northamptonshire Air Ambulance is being held on Saturday 25th September 7.30pm at Radford Road Church, Leamington Spa.

Taking part ate the Royal Naval Association Male Voice Choir together with their guests from Cannock. the St Cecelia Singers.

Tickets are £5.00 Tel: 01926 422958 or on the door.

Come and support this good cause that we may all need at some time.

Leamington Spa's male voice choir meet every Monday 7.45pm at the RNA Club off Adelaide Road, Leamington.
It's open to all male voices 18 upwards to sing traditional male voice numbers to arrangements of pop-songs. No auditions are needed.
Call Colin Sullivan 0777 33 98617 for further information.

i was in a band in the early 70s called peppermint kreem left england in 76 and went to germany and made a name in germany and the usa playing blues guitar and blues harps It was very hard in this time but now with people like you to help bands to get on there feet its a very big help we need more people like you around

keep up the good work

MODIE ALBRIGHTON

Every Monday 8-11pm
Acoustic Night Original Flavour
Fivemonkeys cafe/bar/restaurant, Whitefriars Street, Coventry
Free entry.
Just turn up and book a slot at this open mic night!

Every Wednesday 8-11pm
Acoustic Night Folk Flavour
Whitefriars Olde Ale House, Gosford Street, Coventry
Free Entry
Come along and book a slot to join in with this folk flavour session.

Every Sunday 7.30-10.30pm
Special Guest Spot Acoustic Gigs
Whitefriars Olde Ale House, Gosford Street, Coventry
Free Entry
Different guest performers each week.

Next few weeks:
Sun 22nd Feb Brian Selby - local singer-songwriter
Sun 29th Feb Sean Taylor - singer-songwriter from London
Sun 7th March Plan A - Local acoustic duo.

Email Seamus for more info: shay@fish.co.uk

HARVEY BAND FREE CONCERT AT....

Warwick's Déjà vu café, as part of the Warwick Folk Festival weekend. The gig will be held on Sunday 25th July, between 1.00 and 3.00pm.

Harvey Website go to
www.timeaftertime.org.uk

We have two gigs coming up: May 5th 2003 - Robins Well Basement This will be Genius Breed, Wish and a Indie/Rock DJ. June 14th 2003 - Leamington Peace Festival. We also have a new website which can be found at www.geniusbreed.com, and contains updates and other stuff.

Click on the Read Replies link below to read an update on Genius Breed, and their recent reviews - Editor

TIME AFTER TIME - are great entertainment for a variety of venues including Folk Clubs & Folk Festivals, Pubs, Garden Parties, Sports venues and Beer Festivals.

To find out more about them, or to make a booking, look at their website: www.timeaftertime.org.uk.

HARVEY DUO are playing at The TILTED WIG, Market Square, Warwick this Thursday 21st August 2003. (Free entry)

Bridges have been working on new material.
visit www.bridges.2ya.com for their official site or visit www.bridges.allhell.com for their unofficial site to skip straight to gig listings goto www.bridges.2ya.com/custom4.html other bands might like to enlist on musicentral, its free and if enough list on it, it should be pretty big. www.musicentral.vze.com

Attenshun music site
A Coventry based site aiming to promote bands , solo artists..DJ's etc around this area..it may be helpful to all those hopefuls out there.

Ben from Jamsons Nook will be performing the band's new material in a one off solo acoustic gig at the Picture House Bar in Stratford upon Avon on Thursday 24th April 2003 from 8pm onwards. The gig will include covers by Paul Simon, Ben Harper and Peter Gabriel. If you appreciate good music and want to experience a unique, raw talent come along! The band will be gigging around Warwickshire and the West Midlands in the coming months and would love some local support! See you then!

ANTI-WAR BENEFIT GIG - Saturday Feb. 8th - FULL DETAILS!!

Ok, this is going to be at Kelsey's (the bar next to the Railway Station) from 7pm, and is going to feature a number of excellent acts.

* 20" RIDE - "edgy, blues rock"
* WISH - local favourites, with an indie, song-based guitar sound,
style comparisons have mentioned Radiohead, tinges of The Cure...
* THE SEQUINS - "flamboyantly glitzy punk"

* Plus Reggae DJs and acoustic sets
* Local anti-war information, opportunities to buy coach tickets for the national demo...if they haven't all sold out!

Just pay on the door when you get there, price is £4-£2 concessions.

Email: leamstopwar@hotmail.com
Web: http://www.webalias.com/leamstopwar

The flicks are a new up comming band who have what it takes to be big! Their music is very Rock orientated but very original.For a preview of the flicks e-mail us @ the_flicksband@hotmail.com and we will send you a tape. The Flicks will be touring round the midlands shortly so look out for the name.

Very downright funky indeed and why aren't they signed yet ...that's what almost everyone who has seen Souler Rhythm in action has to say about them.

This is a 7-piece band of musicians from all over the world who have come together to offer a very unique and original mixture of funk, soul and jazz.

Based in Leamington Spa and Warwick, they have toured the UK extensively as a main act in their own right, and have also supported many major names, including The Average White Band, The Blackbyrds, The Pretenders, Bad Manners, and Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings.

It might be easier to list the places that they haven't played, but venues covered to date include Mole's Club in Bath, Concorde 2 in Brighton, and Ronnie Scott's. No matter how big or small the venue, one thing is for sure - the crowd always gets a fully funky workout.

Souler Rhythm are: Kevin Eaton (vocals), Chris Seager (Saxophone, Flute), Matt Ball (Keyboards/Acoustic guitar), Myles Matthews (Guitar), David Coldron (Electric Bass), Olivier Cantaloube (Drums), Nino Marsala (Percussion).

The music is always positive and melodic, and played with a tightness rarely seen in the live environment.

With more than 140 performances in the past twelve months, Souler Rhythm have built a loyal following around the United Kingdom. As Justine Thompson wrote in a recent review for UK Funk magazine ... ...

"the question is not how, but when ...Souler Rhythm give one of the most dynamic live performances that I have ever seen ...with a frontman who sings with the sweetness of Curtis Mayfield and the soul of Marvin Gaye, backed with a band who look as if they would (and could) play their funky music all night long, this band will undoubtedly be a major recognised name in the very near future"...

You can contact the band on soulerrhythm@hotmail.com or take a look at their website http://www.mp3.com/souler_rhythm

Local singing group Sounds Familiar will be performing at the Royal Pump Rooms on Sunday 15th September at 7.30pm. Tickets are available from Presto Music, Park Street and cost £7 (£5 for concessions). The programme is varied and includes something for all tastes, songs from the shows, light opera, television and film. The compere for the evening is Rex Satchwell, and the accompanist is Alan Biddle.

Sounds Familiar has been performing concerts in and around the Warwickshire area since 1993. All of the members of the group are soloists in their own right and, between them, they have played a considerable number of roles in amateur productions of musicals, Gilbert & Sullivan and opera. For concerts they draw on these musical forms and also include songs from the popular, film and folk styles.

For further information please call Mike Fletcher on (01926) 425693.

Great Scott Marty! Exciting New Band -'mcfly 88' rise from Leamington Scene.

Described as having 'rollicking good songs' 'mcfly 88' are a breath of fresh air to the music scene in Leamington. Formed only in February, as a result of a 2 sad and lonely songwriters needing a band to perform at the final of a songwriting competition, 'the flyers' (as their growing number of fans like to call them) are just starting out, but that is precisely why you should see them now - while they are still raw and finding their way.

The multi-instrumentalisation of the band (as well as the usual guitars, bass and drums the band boast talents on flute, clarinet, keys and beatbox) combined with the use of both a male and female vocalist and the fact that all members of the band contribute or contribute to self-penned songs makes 'mcfly 88's' sound more original and varied than most. With 6 members and a massive multitude of influences, the sound does not fit neatly into any predefined genre so you will just have to come along and find out! What is assured is that you will experience a hugely enjoyable evening, spent listening to an eager to please young band playing original, exciting tuneful songs with thoughtful lyrics.

More info available from mcfly88band@hotmail.com

Entropy are a somewhat unknown of quantity outside of the Pacific Rim circuit.

They currently hold the winners trophy for the 2001 Stratford Battle of the Bands, and have also competed in the 2001 Jaded rose Charity Rock COmpetition and the 2001 Godiva Festival Battle of the bands, winning the first and competing to a very high degree in the latter.

They are currently looking for gig's in and around the reigion (actually anywhere we can get too!) and have a demo cd available upon request. The band is made up of singer Sarah Watson, bassist Dan Bones, drummer Chris Laird and myself (Aaron Dudley) on the guitar.

Entropy are competing in this years 2002 National Battle of the Bands championship and have achieved qualification into the third round. This is to take place on Saturday 25th of May at the Wulfrun Hall in Wolverhampton (for more details see www.wolvescivic.com) and we would appreciate all the support we can get. The day begins at around 3:30 PM and continues until about the same time the following morning. Squashed between are around 20 of the best bands this country has to offer. And at the end, they let a DJ in to mop up the rest. If you want to be there, check out www.giglist.co.uk for details on the venue, or send me an e-mail. Aaron.

You can contact Aaron and Entropy at Streetno9@aol.co

New Local band Red Trap were successful in Kelly's battle of the bands semi-final on Sunday 13th Jan. We would like to thank the great support given by a receptive audience on an excellent night. We hope you will join us again for the Final on Sunday 3rd Feb.

We are releasing a 4 track EP in the coming months containing material played at our live shows. For further info please email band@red-trap.com or visit our website www.red-trap.com. Thanks!

Do you know what Acid Jazz is? You will certainly have heard the name and may well own a CD of theirs or of one of their discoveries. Following the emergence of Jamiroquai and The Brand New Heavies in the early - mid 90's the label became synonymous with a genre of music.

However, fed up by receiving demos from Jamiroquai/Brand New Heavies imitators, the label shut up shop during the late nineties. Now, with a fresh batch of signings, they are back releasing material by bands taking inspiration from the same influences which spawned the genre but unrestrained by the clich?s associated with the term 'acid jazz'.

"Jinrai 's signing with Acid Jazz puts them alongside the label's other finds ? and with such instrumental acrobatics it's no surprise" sorted.com

In the case of this manifests itself in range of styles seldom seen in today's pigeonholing music market. The timeless quality of their songs puts them above the fleeting trends of the pop market and the range of influences that they draw on causes difficulties in reply to the inevitable question of "How do you describe your music?". The best answer has been 'folk-soul', a loose term paying credit to just a couple of areas from which the band get their inspiration. "Folk-ing great"Daily Star website " ? practically a festival of their own ?"The Fly Hotly tipped for big things, the live performance is a must see, if for nothing else then for the multi-instrumental antics of the band's nine, (count them, nine!), members.

You can catch on their "50 day 25 date" UK Tour in Jan and Feb 2002 at: Moo Bar, 24 Russell Street, Leamington Spa, CV23 5QB on Day 9 (Spa 20/01). On stage at 20:45. Tickets available free of charge from the venue Kelly's, 7 Court Street, Leamington Spa, CV31 2BB on Day 29 (09/02). On stage at 21:30. Tickets available from the venue. Online info from www.jinrai.co.uk

Based in Neilston Street, Leamington, this is the place to go if you want a recording.
Visit their website for more information
http:www.ersstudios.co.uk

The Dionysus Quintet is a semi-professional wind ensemble which was formed in October 2001 by students at the University of Warwick.

We are performing a concert on Saturday 23rd February in St John's Church, Westwood Heath at 19:30. The programme will include works by Mozart, Reicha, Arnold, Shostakovich and more! Tickets are available on the door and will cost £3.50 (£2.50 concessions). We look forward to seeing you there! For more information visit our website at: www.thedionysusquintet.co.uk.

Went to Bath Place on New Years Eve for the Grind Collective - What a fantastic night - great music, great venue and great crowd! Congratulations to Steve and Co for making it a night to remember, can't wait for Kellys at the end of the month!

Starting out as a four piece band with Canadian Kevin Eaton vocals, Frenchman Olivier Cantaloube on drums, Jon Blackford on bass, and Australian born Myles Mathews on guitar, this Leamington band spent some time searching for a keyboard player. In June 1999 the band became a five piece as local keyboard player Matt Ball joined.

Grind creative collective play at Kellys, Court Street, Leam on the last Saturday of every month.

Grind creative collective are looking for e-mail addresses for their e-communication data base.If you haven't checked any gigs yet look for us on the gig guide site or check us at KELLYS on the last Saturday of every month. We are a bunch of party nutters who give our time freely to put on top groove events for any one interested in and around Leam. We make no cash for ourselves and our only satisfaction if finding like minded local people to party with.Please get in touch if you want to be a part of the best party scene in the Midlands

Grind cc has presented a number of very successful community based gigs at Bath place over the last 3 years and due to their consistently responsible approach to the planning and and running of these events Bath place has approached Grind to plan a number of gigs,( up to 8) in the forthcoming year. Grind Creative Collective is a community based group dedicated to the idea of 'local music for local people', over the last 3 years this non profit making group has ammassed enough resources to be able to present a night of entertainment independently, we have PA, technicians, lighting and visuals, djs and a very dedicated and enthusiastic following.

Now that we have a guaranteed venue for a year all we really need is a list of local musicians and bands who would complement a Grind evening and benefit from a little local exposure. We are hoping to locate like minded people interested in performing. We are looking for bedroom based electronic musicians who might not have the confidence to air their work and bands with funk/jazz/breakbeat influences who need a platform on which to perform (fat rhino or superfly blue are local examples of such bands).

......Phill from GRINDCC

Superfly Blue are a six piece band based in Leamington Spa. They provide an original sound fusing funkrock/jazz/ska/reggae and dance.

They perform regularly around the Midlands and have also played at The Rock Garden in Covent Garden, London. In December of this year they are to appear on ITV's 'Young, Gifted and Broke' program and have also been featured in the Unsigned bands section of Steve Lamacq's Evening session on Radio 1.

Website: http://hey.to/superflyblue Contact: 0961 803 742 or 07967 198 440 e-mail: superflyblue@hotmail.com