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Former bassist with Thee Exciters and his Swedish-based raucous garage/R&B band. Their self-produced debut single sold out in no time at all (and has now been re-issued on Dirty Water). Their second single, "You Got The Hurt", came out on Dirty Water Records to great reviews. The album that followed sold out so quickly that we have had to re-press it already! This gig is to promote their second album "Shout And Holler".

Now three albums into their non-career, The Stabilisers feature Medway stalwart Allan Crockford (ex-Prisoners / Solarflares / James Taylor Quartet) on guitar, alongside Jon Bott (the tallest man in showbusiness to successfully combine rock'n'roll and medicine) on bass/vocals. Recently signed to Little Steven's Wicked Cool Records in the USA, The Stabilisers have unwittingly created a monster - the evil offspring of an unlawful coupling between classic ’60s garage rock and ’70s British punk/new wave. Come prepared for loud guitars, cheap organ, pristine(ish) harmonies and irritatingly catchy ditties about legendary snooker players, open craniums, domestic unrest and bendy heads. And probably some friendly swearing.

With his latest combo, The Musicians of the British Empire, Billy carries on his tradition of home made punk and rhythm and blues, singing odes to Joe Strummer and nodding to The Who, whilst showing the next generation what a real rock ’n’ roll group sounds like. Since his first recordings in the late '70s with the Pop Rivets, Childish has followed a single-minded course under a variety of monikers including the Headcoats, the Milkshakes, the Mighty Caesars and more recently the Buff Medways. Childish hasn't really deviated from his punky Kinks-Who-Bo Diddley-Link Wray formula – but, hey, if it’s good it’s good, if it ain’t broke there’s no need to fix it!

Teenage rock'n'roll terrorists from the small town of Bury St Edmunds on a mission to kung-fu kick all the boring bands out of existence! Real raw and vintage sounding garage-rock'n'roll! Their single, Don't Try To Tell Me, came out on Dirty Water Records earlier this year. Their debut album, Back on the Streets, is out now on Dirty Water Records.

With his latest combo, The Musicians of the British Empire, Billy carries on his tradition of home made punk and rhythm and blues, singing odes to Joe Strummer and nodding to The Who, whilst showing the next generation what a real rock ’n’ roll group sounds like. Since his first recordings in the late '70s with the Pop Rivets, Childish has followed a single-minded course under a variety of monikers including the Headcoats, the Milkshakes, the Mighty Caesars and more recently the Buff Medways. Childish hasn't really deviated from his punky Kinks-Who-Bo Diddley-Link Wray formula – but, hey, if it’s good it’s good, if it ain’t broke there’s no need to fix it!

With his latest combo, The Musicians of the British Empire, Billy carries on his tradition of home made punk and rhythm and blues, singing odes to Joe Strummer and nodding to The Who, whilst showing the next generation what a real rock ’n’ roll group sounds like. Since his first recordings in the late '70s with the Pop Rivets, Childish has followed a single-minded course under a variety of monikers including the Headcoats, the Milkshakes, the Mighty Caesars and more recently the Buff Medways. Childish hasn't really deviated from his punky Kinks-Who-Bo Diddley-Link Wray formula – but, hey, if it’s good it’s good, if it ain’t broke there’s no need to fix it!

A shamelessly fundamental collision of The Ramones, James Brown, and The Stooges, backed by the tribal thump of two drummers, the song with which they open their set says it all: “Do You Believe in the Power of Rock’n’Roll?” John Robb's restless spirit courses through the urgency of the band's glam-drenched strut, giving you a sense that every moment of your life should be an all-or-nothing, doing it to the utmost, that rock'n'roll can be your salvation, your reason for living.

What name would be more accurate for a rock'n'roll band in the present times - in a decade where car bombs, ethnic cleansing, suicide bombing, and kidnapping are the equivalent of elevator music on the news? Guitars rumble like a Panzer rolling through a French village, drums pound like mortar shells hitting no-man's land, the singer wails like it might be his last day on Earth. This is a band for people who are into the MC5, Stooges and Suicide, and all the noise-merchants that came after them, through to the Royal Trux and Brian Jonestown Massacre. By the way, these garage punkers from Berlin like to point out that there are two asses in the band name...

With his latest combo, The Musicians of the British Empire, Billy carries on his tradition of home made punk and rhythm and blues, singing odes to Joe Strummer and nodding to The Who, whilst showing the next generation what a real rock ’n’ roll group sounds like. Since his first recordings in the late '70s with the Pop Rivets, Childish has followed a single-minded course under a variety of monikers including the Headcoats, the Milkshakes, the Mighty Caesars and more recently the Buff Medways. Childish hasn't really deviated from his punky Kinks-Who-Bo Diddley-Link Wray formula – but, hey, if it’s good it’s good, if it ain’t broke there’s no need to fix it!