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The Lockup

Two smoking barrels of Ska from Newbury

About Me

It's hard to define The Lockup – where do you start??

Frenetic beats, passionate and compelling lyrics, dub, reggae, ska.....it doesn’t stop.

Maybe The Lockup is just unique, offering something original with cross-genre influences.

Hailing from Newbury, the past few years have seen The Lockup play to some of the best crowds across the UK, never failing to get people on their feet and dancing.

With a beautiful mix of four vocalists, two guitars, keys and brass, The Lockup will push you through a mix of emotions via their music but will ensure you have fun while it happens!

The Lockup should come with a health warning:
Caution – danger of enjoyment and dancing!!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/21/2005
Band Members: Daz - Vox & Guitar

Mel - vox

Ben - Vox

Charley - Bass

Tom - Guitar

Skink - Keys

Wiggy - Drums

Twaz - Trumpet

EP AVAILABLE AT PUNKERMENTALITY.COM

Dancers:
Starby
Blacknose
Influences: The Specials, The Selecter, Dexy's Midnight Runners, Mr Pringle, The Bodysnatchers, Sublime, The Clash + others.
Record Label: Do The Dog Music
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

What a weekend!

Wow - what a sexy weekend!!   We played Ska Burlesque at the Amersham Arms, New Cross on Friday night and it was such a well organised, fun gig to play.  The bands were awesome (ermmm.....co...
Posted by The Lockup on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 01:35:00 PST

The Lockup sign to Do The Dog Music

As of today! Here’s the info from Do The Dog Music’s myspace blog: We are very happy to announce that the latest addition to the Do The Dog Music kennel of bands is the superb Newbury, Ber...
Posted by The Lockup on Thu, 03 Apr 2008 05:47:00 PST

2008 diary is filling up

Hiya all you lovelies. The diary for 2008 is filling up.  I reckon this is gonna be a good year. Anyway - if your home town doesn’t feature on our gig list yet, and you want it to....drop u...
Posted by The Lockup on Fri, 21 Mar 2008 11:08:00 PST

"Cheerio" 2007 and "Hello there" 2008

So, 2007 has seen The Lockup go from strength to strength and play some rather tasty gigs which have included BOMfest, Skanival, The Rainbow Warehouse with The Trojans, Urban Dub, HEADJAM, and The Cr...
Posted by The Lockup on Sun, 16 Dec 2007 03:36:00 PST

good times, bad times, sometimes sadtimes..

Firstly, Griff has left to concentrate on work with Julien Tulk and Wiggy is back on drums after deciding he liked Newbury better than Ipswich and came home! We played a blinding gig at the Stag up Sl...
Posted by The Lockup on Thu, 19 Oct 2006 01:03:00 PST

So... It's about time for an update!

Hi this is Skink, i am writing stuff what a novelty... Anyway enough of the non-sense this is what's happening. Basically Wiggy and Harry buggered off. One off to Ipswitch and one off to Austrailia. ...
Posted by The Lockup on Wed, 08 Mar 2006 11:38:00 PST

What's new in The Lock Up camp

Well, after a summer of playing some wonderful gigs with some amazing bands up and down the country, we have had a month or so of just playing a few local gigs as a well deserved rest :D Just to let ...
Posted by The Lockup on Fri, 23 Sep 2005 04:41:00 PST

Lineup changes

There have been a few changes in The Lock Up camp, our rhythm guitarist, Stevie B has been forced to leave the band due to personal reasons. In his absense, we are dropping the piano from the lineup ...
Posted by The Lockup on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Seems like it's slightly less temporary

Website is still down - been royally messed around by our web host. Gonna be looking for a new one as soon as I get paid and hopefully we should have the new and improved site up for you soon. Watc...
Posted by The Lockup on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Website ever so temporarily dead

Just to warn everyone, our site has been down since last night due to a problem with our ISP, I am having a few problems getting hold of the guy who can sort it out. Normal service will resume just...
Posted by The Lockup on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST