Bye Jeff... |
Jeff Healey died on Sunday. I feel this loss as I'm sure all of Steel Monkey do. The guy was an astonishingly good, natural blues player. His music always had guts and his solos spoke to you. He was a...
Posted by Steel Monkey on Tue, 04 Mar 2008 04:48:00 PST |
Sunshine & Short Men |
The Spring sunshine is back!! Fabulous out there! It's transporting me back to the Cropredy performance last August and bringing back lots of wonderful memories of music & beautiful people.....
Posted by Steel Monkey on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 05:50:00 PST |
Whoops!! |
Lots of you looking at the blog and I haven't updated it, sorry peeps!
Well, Saturday morning was the last full rehearsal before the Church Preen gig on the 15th of March. A beautiful frosty, sunny mo...
Posted by Steel Monkey on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 04:48:00 PST |
Floating Monkey! (and snail evidence!!) |
COOOL!!! We've just had confirmation that we're playing a gig in May..on a boat sailing down the Thames!!! How funky is that?! It's a private party, but will be raising funds for War Child- a ma...
Posted by Steel Monkey on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 05:20:00 PST |
Tickets, practice and snails... |
HOT practice yesterday! It had a wonderful laid back feel to it, sense of confidence in what we're playing coupled with an enjoyment of the music for the sake of the music! When it's like this, i...
Posted by Steel Monkey on Sun, 03 Feb 2008 01:39:00 PST |
Unclean!!! |
Sorry people, Gerry is still poorly, his throat is shot right now, so we won't be coming to Ironbridge on Monday night to do a Wooden Monkey set. Hey ho, I'm sure we'll come and give you wo...
Posted by Steel Monkey on Sun, 27 Jan 2008 06:33:00 PST |
Chilled at Childs |
What a cool, chilled, mellow practice that was this morning!!
Strolled in and set up at the crack of ten-ish. Found out that our unfeasibly large box of leads had gone AWOL so Renno had to ...
Posted by Steel Monkey on Sun, 20 Jan 2008 06:28:00 PST |
Steel Monkey on Tour! |
It could only happen in Steel Monkey World!
We've been asked to play 2 mini festivals in one day! 25th of May to be precise, one in Oxfordshire, one in Shropshire. Well, you know we're a game bunch of...
Posted by Steel Monkey on Mon, 14 Jan 2008 03:44:00 PST |
Philo |
22 Years to the day since Phil Lynott died.
I can remember it so vividly. One of the few times I've cried in adulthood was when the news broke. I walked into "The York" in Shrewsbury. What was a...
Posted by Steel Monkey on Sat, 05 Jan 2008 05:55:00 PST |
Drawing Breath.. |
Hi Y'all!
Yep, just drawing breath between Christmas & new Year. After the success and huge high of the Childs Ercall gig, the monkeys all drove off into the misty night and back to their own liv...
Posted by Steel Monkey on Thu, 27 Dec 2007 03:11:00 PST |
