Six Miles Away@Round Oak Padworth Common Sat18 Oct

About Me

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"Oh, yeah, I was miles away....... Well basically, we're a bunch of jammers who got together to have a good time and we'd like anyone who hears us to have a good time too. You can't have too much fun! How did you get the name? Oh, it came from one of Krabstick's songs "Six Miles Away". We liked the last line "I wanna be six miles away" - so we are Six Miles Away.
What do you play? Anything we can sing like James' Laid, J J Cale's Cocaine and Neil Young's Rockin' In The Free World. (Ed. - Sex, Drugs & Rock 'n' Roll?) Where can we see you? Well, each week we're usually at a Surrey Blues Delta weekday jam or two and we'll get up and play a couple of songs and we play weekend gigs about once a month in pubs in the local area. How would you describe yourselves? Oh, I'll give you the lo-down - we're a lo-fi, lo-tech, lo-rent, lo-life, lo-calorie kinda band who want to give you a great high. What do you want to get out of it? Oh, the usual, hot tea and biscuits, oh, and sick smiles." Some facts about Six Miles Away:On a clear day a polar bear's nose can be seen from six miles away with a pair of binoculars!Marconi once succeeded in lighting an electric lamp six miles away by wireless means!If you sneeze in space you will travel at least six miles away before you have time to get a tissue out of your pocket!
WOULDN'T YOU RATHER BE SIX MILES AWAY? Angry Cockroaches
I WANNA BUMP UGLIES WIT CHOO

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 9/27/2006
Band Website: This is it!
Band Members: Since we formed in 2006, Six Miles Away have played dozens of gigs, mainly in pubs in the Surrey Blues Delta.

Our gigs have gone down a storm with punters and pubs alike - so much so we have always been asked back! Our wide range of music covers all tastes and ages - there's something for everyone with the odd original thrown in for good measure! 100% reliable, we are known for not taking ourselves too seriously. All we want is everyone to leave at the end of the night with a smile on their face! We also host the Thursday night electric blues/rock jam at the Lion Brewery, Ash once every fifth week - for more details check out www.myspace.com/lionbreweryjamTo find out more about the band, click on the pictures below to go to our own myspace pages.Krabbers - Rhythm Guitar, Lead Vocals

Don Maxwell - Bass, Backing Vocals

Nick Farley - Drums, Vocals?

Dickie Hartt - Lead Guitar, Backing Vocals

Influences:

Just about any music of quality from the last 50 years or so. Covers - miles away from the originals of course and probably a bit raggedy, put together at speed with minimal rehearsal. We're not a tight band - except when we've been drinkin'! Our titles include, some a tad obscure and covering a wide range, by Neil Young, James, The Zutons, Sinatra, Snow Patrol, Gloria Gaynor, Cockney Rebel, Tears for Fears, Wreckless Eric, Louden Wainwright, Allman Bros., Tito & Tarantula, Primal Scream, Nat King Cole, Elvis, Traveling Wilburys, Bob Dylan, The Animals, Cream, Embrace, Beck, The Verve, Bachman Turner Overdrive, David Bowie, Radiohead, Bruce Springstein, The Clash, Green Day, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Jet, The Doors, Nirvana, Paul Weller, Tom Petty, The Dandy Warhols, Eddie Cochran, Johnny Cash, The Clash, Buffalo Springfield, Bryan Adams, The Band, The Velvet Underground, JJ Cale, Eddie & The Hot Rods, Icicle Works, Kings of Leon, Jimmy Hendrix, The Rolling Stones, REM, The Flaming Lips and Creedence Clearwater Revival.Sometimes a little off the beaten track, you'll find our music slips well into the C:ountry R:ock A:coustic P:op musical genres! Basically, we like (some say we are...)

Our approach is, let's have a go - if we fall on our faces in the attempt, so be it; what do you expect? - that's jammin'.

Want to book us? Then message us through MySpace. We are keen to play weekend gigs at pubs and clubs up to Twenty-Six Miles Away (Six Miles Away would be a bit low down on the richter scale!) from our spiritual epicentre in Knaphill (near Woking) - we know we can make the earth move for you!"Six Miles Away belt out the hits..." Woking Review"Musical Treat" Staines and Ashford News"...everyone got up to dance. It all went brilliantly." Surrey Advertiser
Sounds Like: Music coming from 9.65 Kilometres away!
Record Label: Unsigned - and who would....
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Dog lost in space......

We had a call last week from The Dog & Partridge, Yateley cancelling our July gig. The excuse was they didn't like our demo CD and didn't think the hen party they had booked in would know th...
Posted by Six Miles Away@Round Oak Padworth Common Sat18 Oct on Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:46:00 PST

Farnham Free Music Festival CANCELLED.....

Unfortunately due to neighbour complaints, mainly around parking, the Farnham Free Music Festival which was due to take place on Sunday 22 June at The Fox, Lower Bourne, has been cancelled.&...
Posted by Six Miles Away@Round Oak Padworth Common Sat18 Oct on Sun, 15 Jun 2008 10:49:00 PST

Six Miles Away host the Lion Brewery jam.....

Starting this Thursday 1 May, Six Miles Away will be hosting the Lion Brewery jam, once every 5 weeks. Alongside a rota of 4 other local bands, we will be pitching up with our gear eve...
Posted by Six Miles Away@Round Oak Padworth Common Sat18 Oct on Sat, 26 Apr 2008 12:20:00 PST

New Bass Man.....

After our last gig at the Live & Let Live, Andy sadly told us that he wanted to leave the band. Andy had been in the band since Gary fell off his motorbike soon after we formed the band.&nbs...
Posted by Six Miles Away@Round Oak Padworth Common Sat18 Oct on Fri, 04 Apr 2008 12:35:00 PST

Easter gig cancelled - can you help?....

We've had to cancel our gig at The Anchor on 22 March - Andy wants to go away for the Easter weekend but as it happens we were double booked as well; that could have been embarrassing!Anyway that give...
Posted by Six Miles Away@Round Oak Padworth Common Sat18 Oct on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 01:12:00 PST

Top review of our Blue Anchor gig...

Someone placed a really nice review of our Blue Anchor gig on Lemonrock (it wasn't us, honest..).... "Well done to Nick, Mike, Andy and Dickie for another top performance on Saturday night. It was the...
Posted by Six Miles Away@Round Oak Padworth Common Sat18 Oct on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:58:00 PST

sma progress.....

No, not formula baby milk - we all know that breast is best! No, Six Miles Away has started the New Year with another great gig at the Crown in Knaphill - once again a great time was had by...
Posted by Six Miles Away@Round Oak Padworth Common Sat18 Oct on Sun, 20 Jan 2008 09:19:00 PST

Another great night at the Crown & Cushion....

We had a great time last night playing the Crown & Cushion in Haslemere and a great end to our first year gigging. A huge thank you to Richard Taylor from rock legends AIM who depped for us...
Posted by Six Miles Away@Round Oak Padworth Common Sat18 Oct on Sun, 30 Dec 2007 07:28:00 PST

Great opening to the Knaphill Village Music Festival....

We had a great time last night opening the Knaphill Village Music Festival at the Anchor. It was our first full gig with Krabbers stepping forward on lead vocals and apart from a few mistak...
Posted by Six Miles Away@Round Oak Padworth Common Sat18 Oct on Sun, 21 Oct 2007 12:50:00 PST

Thanks to Gary.....

We had another great gig at the Anchor last night, it also being Gary's last gig with us. We shuffled the songs around but as usual it didn't really get going until Mike warmed up the second ha...
Posted by Six Miles Away@Round Oak Padworth Common Sat18 Oct on Sun, 09 Sep 2007 01:05:00 PST