The Shend (The Cravats, The Very Things) will be doing the thing, at The Rebellion Ponk Festival, Blackpool in Aug 2009
Featuring The Shend and Svor Naan (original Cravats sax behemoth!)
Okay, it's not the Very Things but it's the closest you're going to get, matey!
1982 saw the implosion of the brilliant but unstable dwarf star, jazz/punk fusion The Cravats. Staggering away from the debris, the two founding fathers Robin Raymond Dallaway and The Shend took refuge and fed themselves on a late night diet of episodes of The Twilight Zone and Outer Limits, Tamla Motown singles, hyper bad 50s sci-fi films and psychedelic grooves from the 60s. They went back into the studio in 1983 and built The Very Things. They were a band loved by many people, including John Peel, who soon gave them a session. Their critical and record buying popular acclaim led to a film made for and in conjunction with The Tube, a black and white pastiche of low budget B films based around two of their tracks. Ken Russell declared the piece wonderfully gothic, adding that it made him want to destroy his greatest work.
