Rally for Riley
A fundraiser for Ranscombe Studios on Friday 13th January 2023, at the Stanley Ballroom, St George Hotel, Chatham… featuring, … and more 6pm until late – all proceeds to helps save and relocate Ranscombe Studios
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We’re putting the band back together!
We’re putting the band back together! Live concert featuring the legendary Brothers Grimm. Big G, Slim Jim Riley, Rufus Ruffel, Bingo Starr, Ned the Head, Bad Baz Basildon, Twintub Bob Goodwin and Rob the Bone Jarvis. Royal Function Rooms, Star Hill, Rochester. See you there. Friday 4th March 2022. Tickets available from Skiddle https://www.skiddle.com/whats-on/Medway-Rochester/The-Royal-Function-Rooms-/Brothers-Grimm/36007003/
Lancashire Bombers – Into The Sun
In their quest for sonic production excellence those cheeky northern (and cockney) scamps the ‘Lancashire Bombers’ braved the sunny climes of The Medway Delta to record their eight track debut album ‘Into The Sun’ with Jim and Brendan at the Ranscombes. Watch this space for further updates and snippets… Lancashire Bombers on Facebook
Please Don’t Be Like That
Taken from The Pastel Waves EP ‘I Hate Myself For Wanting It’ https://www.facebook.com/thepastelwaves/videos/313668440075878/ Available from the Trouserphonic Records online shop https://trouserphonicrecords.co.uk/product/i-hate-myself-for-wanting-it-cd/
Songs that you didn’t know you knew…
It happens very rarely, but when it does it honestly shocks you. The phrase… Why haven’t I heard of this band before???? Such it is with … Read the full article here https://www.modsofyourgeneration.com/post/lucky-bag-show-reviews-groovy-uncle Mods Of Your Generation Target Radio
Groovy Uncle – God On A Bike
Recorded at the Ranscombes to be released on the forthcoming album The Man Who Calls The Shots
Basking…
in the warm glow of the idiot lantern … Enjoy this latest from Theatre Royal taken from the forthcoming album Portraits featuring a superb lego stop motion video, recorded at Ranscombe … natch
Mysterious Medway Nuggets and Snippets
The writing and performing of songs is a mysterious thing. The things that you expect to work sometimes don’t, and then sometimes little nuggets of gold come out of nowhere. Sometimes a song appears waving a flag and demanding attention, and sometimes it is like trying to squeeze toothpaste back into the tube. The songs that we are drawn to tend to be like Sketches, in the Dickensian sense, little snippets of … Read more
Intangibility. Yearning. Melancholy.
Review re-blog courtesy of the wonderful folks at reviewage.net Intangibility. Yearning. Melancholy. If Theatre Royal had a penny for every instance of reaching for the unreachable, desiring the unobtainable, losing the unwinnable, they would be as rich as kings. Almost inevitably, that won’t happen. And so we come to their latest EP, Incidental Friend. Wistful, regretful, achingly dissatisfied, the four new songs cover familiar Theatre Royal ground. But, as ever, there’s a … Read more
Incidentally …
It’s not very often that a band appears on the music scene, one hundred per cent ‘ready.’ Rochester band Theatre Royal are one. I have been banging about them from virtually day one, and now, ahead of their fifth album release, due early next year, they have confirmed my faith with their excellent new ‘Incidental Friend‘ EP. Read the full Loud Horizon review  here…
Big River Album Launch – Kentonline
Rockers Big River return to Red Lion in Gravesend to launch album where they started out Blues-rockers Big River are set to return to the venue where their journey first started, to launch their debut album. The band come to The Red Lion in Crete Hall Road, Gravesend, on Thursday August 15 to mark the release of their new album Redemption and celebrate a whirlwind three years on the road. Since forming … Read more