We enjoyed Sunday evening at The Ship. Almost everyone who came has supported us over the years and families where welcome so it was good to see the kids. Cherry Scott and family got to hear a poem she wrote take the ambiguous form of a song for the first time. Special thanks to Nefarious …
We just had a sentimental jam in the studio and played some tracks we haven’t played for years. It’s been ages since we played at The Ship and we’re doing a long set tomorrow so we’ll perform some tracks from the new album as well as some oldies and some totally new stuff. it’ll be good to see you …
This week we had no gigs so Dane caught up with Simba at The Camden Head on Sunday for an open mic session which always draws quality musicians and a beautiful audience too. Dane made a link with a couple of new venues while he was there so we’ll be returning to Camden soon. Today we …
When we agreed to play at a snooker club in Grays I knew I couldn’t expect it to be a great night but you can usually depend on Paul who arranged the evening, to get a crowd, even in the most obscure venues so we agreed to join Dagenham mod band The Mannequins. On the way …
It was good to return to The Essex Arms in Brentwood on Thursday. we joined Soma Rising for there first gig. there’s some some rough footage of our performance so you’ll be able to find that on Youtube soon. Brad dropped into The Beatroots HQ yesterday brandishing his trumpet so we had a little jam. Join us at Burtons …
We’ll probably give The Sunrooms a miss next week because we played there twice this week. It was good to step up and join Tallowah on Mon and to see Big Dogg. It was also good to See Mikey who used to play trumpet for Goldmaster before leaving to tour with Get Cape Wear Cape Fly. …
Jack from Tallowah was in The Beatroots Studio on Sunday with his box and we had a jam. It was then that we decided to Join Tallowah on Mon 16th for KOOL KIDS CLUB at Sunrooms. Tallowah frontman Joe called and Invited me to do a verse on a track called Wise Up on monday. They’ve also asked …
There was a good buzz in The Sunrooms last night for The Beatroots. We played a brand new track which hasn’t yet got a title, so for now I’ll call it Boots on the ground or Man Down. Dave joined us on the keys for the final song in our set, Flowers by the roadside . …
Thanks to Ian Claxton our website is now manageable. I’ll do my best to do a daily blog updating you about our progress so tomorow I’ll add some pics from this evenings gig at Sunrooms.