Elephantshelf blog » news http://www.elephantshelf.com/blog Elephant Shelf band gig news music Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:16:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Copyright © Elephantshelf blog 2010 diana@elephantshelf.com (Elephantshelf blog) diana@elephantshelf.com (Elephantshelf blog) 1440 http://www.elephantshelf.com/blog/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg Elephantshelf blog http://www.elephantshelf.com/blog 144 144 http://www.elephantshelf.com/blog/feed/ The Elephant Shelf blog with all the low down Elephantshelf blog Elephantshelf blog diana@elephantshelf.com no no Crying on the floor Pre-mix from the new Elephant Shelf Album http://www.elephantshelf.com/blog/2012/02/03/crying-on-the-floor-pre-mix-from-the-new-elephant-shelf-album/ http://www.elephantshelf.com/blog/2012/02/03/crying-on-the-floor-pre-mix-from-the-new-elephant-shelf-album/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:16:22 +0000 admin http://www.elephantshelf.com/blog/?p=522

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Wednesday 1 February, The Malt Shovel, 121 Bridge Street, Northampton, Northants NN1 1QF 9pm

Saturday 18 February, Belle Vue, High Wycombe  9pm

Saturday 25 February, The Rose & Crown, Hemel Hempstead 9pm

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THE DEVIL’S MUSIC IN THE KITCHEN – BURY ST EDMUND’S DEVIL’S KITCHEN COLLECTIVE

ESTABLISHED AS A ‘REAL’ MUSIC VENUE WITH MUSIC FOR THE PEOPLE – NEW YEAR’S EVE SPECIAL FEATURES LONDON’S QUIRKIEST ROOTS BLUES ROCKERS ‘ELEPHANT SHELF’ !

 

The Devil’s Kitchen Collective is described as the most original jazz n’ blues club in the U.K -‘a winning formula of kooky volunteers, from hip teenagers to funky septuagenians’ We are a not for profit music club run by musicians, retired artists & live music lovers in Bury St Edmunds. It’s held on THE FIRST SATURDAY OF EVERY MONTH at THE GREENE KING SOCIAL CLUB THE DEVIL’S KITCHEN COLLECTIVE at The Greene King Social Club, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk IP33THE DEVIL’S KITCHEN COLLE… St Edmunds, Suffolk IP33 The venue has presented a very high standard of music in the fields of blues, jazz, roots and rock ‘n roll – artists who have appeared include – Mark Butcher, Hokie Joint, The Untouchables – Steve Downs –Gabrielle Ducrombie –Skip McDonald –Big Mama’s Door- Liane Carrol – past gigs have included acclaimed tribute gigs to Jimmy Smith and Ronnie Scott. Not only is the music acclaimed but so is the food – every gig features a superbly prepared menu that varies from the exotic – Creole Special – to traditional ‘Bangers ‘m Mash’ – spokesperson Fiona Kerr says “We pride ourselves on presenting great music and great food at a great price”

 

This New Year’s Eve special gig features one of the UK’s rising R&B / Roots acts ELEPHANT SHELF – the colorful band is fronted by two of the country’s leading transgendered musicians – Vicky Martin on Vocals and guitars, and Diana Stone – (acclaimed as a wonderful boogie pianist by London promoter Pete Feenstra) on piano and fiddle – the band’s exciting brand of swing based retro R&B has appeared all over the UK this year Festival appearances at Upton, Plumpton, glamorous Skegness, Cambridge and appearances at venues as far and wide as Swansea, Weston Super Mare, Sheffield Lincoln and Bethnal Green have all added to Elephant Shelf’s burgeoning reputation. Numerous gigs by The DELTA LADIES featuring Vicky & Diana of the Shelf have cemented a reputation for great musicianship and great entertainment.

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The collective’s supporters are in process of setting up a “FRIENDS OF THE COLLECTIVE” too. They thank Paul Dennet & the team at Greene King for all of their help and kind support and on their website give thanks for the support of many honest local businesses & organizations.

 

The collective are VALERIE BOLTON, KRIS K, Patricia Routledge look-a- like FIONA KERR, ROGER POWELL, HATTIE (THE LEGEND) ASHTON, plus recent recruits RICHARD (‘DICKIE DARLING’) & RUTH (also known as RUTH & ROGER) you find out more about this wonderful venue and about these lovely people at. http://www.thedevilskitchencollective.com/

 

 

DEVIL’S KITCHEN VIDEO CHANNEL – http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=devil%27s+kitchen+collective&oq=devil%27s+kitchen+collective&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=5563l19750l0l21125l28l14l1l10l10l0l938l1156l0.2.6-1l3l0

 

ELEPHANT SHELF – www.elephantshelf.com

 

DELTA LADIES – www.deltaladies.com

 

 

 

 

 
]]> http://www.elephantshelf.com/blog/2011/12/18/elephant-shelf-new-years-eve-2011-gig/feed/ 0 Elephant Shelf gigs for October http://www.elephantshelf.com/blog/2011/09/21/elephant-shelf-gigs-for-october/ http://www.elephantshelf.com/blog/2011/09/21/elephant-shelf-gigs-for-october/#comments Wed, 21 Sep 2011 13:08:11 +0000 admin http://www.elephantshelf.com/blog/?p=435

Oct 1st The New Inn Witney

 One of our favorite gigs Address: 111 Corn Street, Witney, Oxfordshire, OX28 6AU [map] [gmap]Tel:0871 951 1000 (ref 14279)Nearest train station Finstock (5.3 miles)

Pub facilities/features:
Cask Marque accreditation
Real ale!

If your suffering from Elephant Shelf withdrawl symptoms you make like to know that the Roots/Acoustic arm, The Delta Ladies can be seen at the following places:

Delta Ladies Gigs October 2011

   Saturday 15 October, The Mermaid, St Albans, (no tel), FREE 9pm

Friday 21 October, Cambridge Folk Club, Cambridge, (no tel) £TBC 9pm

Friday 28 October, Belle Vue, High Wycombe Tel 01494 524728, FREE 9pm

Saturday 29 October, Oliver’s Jazz Bar, Greenwich, (no tel) £6 9pm

]]> http://www.elephantshelf.com/blog/2011/09/21/elephant-shelf-gigs-for-october/feed/ 0 Elephant shelf gigs for September 2011 http://www.elephantshelf.com/blog/2011/08/18/elephant-shelf-gigs-for-september-2011/ http://www.elephantshelf.com/blog/2011/08/18/elephant-shelf-gigs-for-september-2011/#comments Thu, 18 Aug 2011 10:32:42 +0000 admin http://www.elephantshelf.com/blog/?p=386 Plumpton Beer and Blues Festival Sunday 4th September 2011 This is a two day festival with Debbie Bonham 9 below zero and many more. Its near Lewes in Sussex.
Plumpton Beer & Blues Festival September 2011
Plumpton Beer & Blues Festival September 2011
The Bull Colchester

This is a new venue for us out in the wilds of Essex

Friday 23 September

]]> http://www.elephantshelf.com/blog/2011/08/18/elephant-shelf-gigs-for-september-2011/feed/ 0 Elephant Shelf in the Studio http://www.elephantshelf.com/blog/2011/08/04/elephant-shelf-in-the-studio/ http://www.elephantshelf.com/blog/2011/08/04/elephant-shelf-in-the-studio/#comments Thu, 04 Aug 2011 12:13:04 +0000 admin http://www.elephantshelf.com/blog/?p=369 We have started recording the 2nd Elephant Shelf Album in sunny Burnham on Crouch, and we have 6 tracks down so far. Unfortunately I have also managed to pick up a chest infection so I couldn’t do the one vocal track that I intended. We have 3 gigs coming up this weekend including the Cambridge Rock Festival on Sunday so I am hopeing I will be feeling a bit more human by then. We will be back in the studio in a week or so for a couple more days we have another 6 or 7 tracks to record for the album.

A few pictures  of the usual suspects.

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Friday 5 August The Star, Ewell Tel 020 8786 8413, FREE 9pm

Elephant Shelf at the Star Ewell

Sunday 7 August, The Cambridge Rock Festival, Cambridge Tel 01353 749749 £TBC

Elephant Shelf on stage at the Cambridge Rock Festival Photographs by Roger Morton

Sunday 21 August, Private Party, Holton le Moor


Monday 29 August, BB’s Blues Club At The Colourhouse Theatre, Merton Tel 020 8542 5511 £TBC 9pm
With special guests, as part of Abbeyfest.


 

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]]> http://www.elephantshelf.com/blog/2011/07/21/elephant-shelf-at-cyphers-music-bar-catford-29th-july/feed/ 0 0:00:01 We are pleased to be back at Cyphers in Catford again after a really good gig there recently. Its a nice venue with a good size stage and some decent Ales (not that we would know about that sort of thing of course). You can download the Cyphers flye[...] We are pleased to be back at Cyphers in Catford again after a really good gig there recently. Its a nice venue with a good size stage and some decent Ales (not that we would know about that sort of thing of course). You can download the Cyphers flyer here  CYPHERS AUG Flyer  Dont forget also up and coming we have the Cambridge Rock Festival on Sunday August 7th which should be a good one too.   gigs, music, news, video diana@elephantshelf.com no no Latest news http://www.elephantshelf.com/blog/2011/07/11/latest-news-2/ http://www.elephantshelf.com/blog/2011/07/11/latest-news-2/#comments Mon, 11 Jul 2011 18:50:17 +0000 admin http://www.elephantshelf.com/blog/?p=341 We had brilliant weekend of gigs – BLUES at the FARM Billericay was one of our best ever – fantastic response, that was in the afternoon; in the evening we had the privilege of having the renowned ‘Buffalo’ Bill Smith as our guest at The Crown Otford another great gig. Sunday evening was quieter but the Delta Ladies were honoured with the presence of renowned guitarist Robin Bibi, we played some jazz, some blues, and some rootsy stuff together and it was really cool

This week Elephant Shelf has a gig at Boogaloo Promotions’ venue the Cellar Bar at Farnham Maltings – and we have John O’Leary formerly of Savoy Brown Blues band in the line-up should be a good one – starts 8.30pm

Farnham Maltings

Bridge Square
Farnham
Surrey
GU9 7QR

 Friday night the Delta Ladies duo are at the Talbot Inn Pershore and then its on to the Upton Blues Festival, there are several venues and two main stages – here is the web-link
http://www.uptonbluesfestival.org.uk/index.php

Delta Ladies are on the The Conway Castle On Saturday and on Sunday at 3pm on the accoustic stage




]]> http://www.elephantshelf.com/blog/2011/07/11/latest-news-2/feed/ 0 Elephant Shelf gigs July 2011 http://www.elephantshelf.com/blog/2011/06/22/elephant-shelf-gigs-july-2011/ http://www.elephantshelf.com/blog/2011/06/22/elephant-shelf-gigs-july-2011/#comments Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:31:58 +0000 admin http://www.elephantshelf.com/blog/?p=323 Saturday 2 July, Old Bell, Enfield

And also “Mean Girl”

And Parchman Farm

About The old Bell Enfield

Saturday 9 July, Blues at the Farm, Billericay  3 pm Tel 01268 570642

Saturday 9 July, The Crown, Otford 9pm

Thursday 14 July, Farnham Maltings, Farnham Tel 01252

Friday 29th July, Cyphers Music Bar Catford

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