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Hark 2 Towler

CAN YE RIFF UNDER THE COMMAND OF A PIRATE? OR CAN YE NOT?!

About Me


The Hark to Towler is a place where all Live music is welcome...Indie, Metal, Rock, Blues, Reggae, Folk, World, Soul etc.....Keep an eye on some of the bands coming our way via our Gig Guide below. We have had some awesome bands in the past and the future is looking hot.
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OUR TORTOOGA FESTIVAL IS ON SAT 8th + SUN 9th SEPTEMBER. THERE ARE AROUND 8 BANDS PLAYING EACH DAY & IT'S ALL FOR LUVVERLY CHARITY. YOU CAN MAKE DONATIONS BY CLICKING ON THE LINK BELOW. THE FULL BAND LINE-UP WILL BE ANNOUNCED SHORTLY. IF YOU'D LIKE TO COME ALONG IN PIRATE GEAR, THAT'D BE TOP! BRING LOTS OF DISPOSABLE SPARE CHANGE TOO! AZTEC GOLD ETC :) THERE WILL BE A NOMINAL DOOR CHARGE OF £3.00 - ALL OF WHICH WILL GO TO THE VARIETY CLUB OF GREAT BRITAIN. WE ARE HELPING TO GET YOUNG, HANDICAPPED PEOPLE CUSTOMISED WHEELCHAIRS, IN AN EFFORT TO MAKE THEIR LIVES THAT LITTLE BIT MORE BEARABLE. I'M GONNA TRY TO PUT A SONG UP EACH DAY OF A BAND THAT WILL BE PLAYING TORTOOGA. HOPEFULLY YOU'LL BE IMPRESSED!

My Interests


PLEASE SEND ALL DEMO'S TO :-

HARK to TOWLER
43, MARKET STREET
TOTTINGTON
BURY
GTR: MANCHESTER
BL8 4AA
OR CALL US ON 01204 883856

THE TOWLER CODE:-

ALL MEN (& WOMEN) MUST KEEP TO THE CODE OR FACE WALKING THE PLANK HAHAHA !

NO CAPS!
NO HOODIES!
NO TRACKIES!
Please, & I doubt those concerned will be reading this, don't turn up in chav gear. It says no caps etc on the door - if you ignore it & walk in regardless, you just won't get served. It's not your kinda place pal.
OVER 21'S !
under 21's @ our discretion

I'd like to meet:



GIG GUIDE:-

SEPTEMBER

Wed 5th: JON'S BIRTHDAY. Nothing happening much - just letting ya know in case you're feeling generous. :)

Fri 7th: * ESKIMO BRIT. Drum prodigy Sammy Jo & her Rockin' stalwarts from the balmy beaches of Sheffield!

Sat 8th: TORTOOGA FESTIVAL! £3.00 entry (charitable donation) Starring: Tin Griffin. Loser. Rumble Suite. HINGe. Danblagroyd. Boy del Mundo. Clear Blue Skies. Piggery Bandana. Charity fund raiser for the Variety Club of Great Britain.

Sun 9th: TORTOOGA FESTIVAL! £3.00 entry (charitable donation) Starring: Wing Mirror Spiders. Beckonsale. Breakdown. Breaker. Soprano. Easy Tiger. Fury UK. DC/79.

Fri 14th: * INBRED QUARTER + SATELLITE 17. Local chappies return after a long absence with some intense guitar work.

Sat 15th: * RIFF RAFF. Our old pals are back with some top takes on Classic Rock tackle. Crue. Scorps. Priest. DC etc.

Sun 16th: QUIZ NIGHT! With a proper Quizmeister - not like the shambolic affair it is when we do it ourselves. Every Sunday from now on too!

Fri 21st: * SPIT LIKE THIS + * LIQUID AUDIO. Stars of stage, screen, the Daily Sport & Coronation Street! Plus the odd graveyard or two. This is gonna be one SPECTACULAR show. Special guests are London's Liquid Audio - a top Rockin' troupe!

Sat 22nd: LED BALLOON. We reckon they're the greatest Led Zep tribute in the UK - if not the world! Always a pleasure to welcome Jimmy Hill, Pot Plant, The Reverend John Paul & Moby Cock!

Fri 28th: * ADAM BOMB. Our pal Adam & his pyrotechnical pink Gibson! This guy auditioned for Kiss aged 16! He's the guy Axl Rose wanted in G n R but was scared to ask! He's recorded & played with John Paul Jones, Mike Monroe, Johnny Thunders & was given his first guitar lesson by Mr. Edward Van Halen! Worth a fiver or wot?!

Sat 29th: * COLD FLAME. Top Jethro Tull tribute from the sunny mountains of Glossop! Mates of Dave Pegg too!

YOU CAN FIND MOST OF THESE BANDS IN OUR COLLECTION OF MYSPACE FRIENDS, SO IF YOU WANNA CHECK ÉM OUT JUST HAVE A TRAWL THROUGH! AN ASTERIX MARKS THE ONES THAT ARE IN THERE.

ADMISSION FREE! Unless stated otherwise. Shows start @ aprox 8.30pm

open 'til midnight
sun - thurs
open 'til 1.00am fri & sat
if we feel like it!

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Music:

RECENT BANDS TO HAVE PLAYED HERE - AND SOME TO COME:-

Coaldust. Martin Turner's Wishbone Ash. Budgie. Shutterspeed. Andrew Petersen. Winterville. Carvin Jones. Belisha. Bernie Torme/John McCoy (coming in November!) The Groundhogs (comin' in Dec!) Adam Bomb. Blast. Fury UK. Jack's Family. Diesel Fitters. Salford Jets. The Brew. Tracie Hunter Band. Alex Bach. Uniting the Elements. Dr. Voy. Riff Raff. Big Lix. Zoo. Arilyn. Abigail's Mercy. The Wombats. Black Manalishi. Nick Bold Band. Wrecked. Piggery Bandana. Das Ringmeisters. Supamodel. Well Said. Midblue. Paper Tigers. Rayne. Asomvel. Wing Mirror spiders. Rhombus. Owter Zeds. The Hope. The Lost Boys. Lenny. The Almaboobies. Sion. The Times. Playmaker. Ben Lee Tyler. Emilie. Steve Roberts & the Bank of England. The Flaming Moes. Backwater Blues Band. The Passengers. Myron Deputat. Buswell. The Happiness. The Sirens. Riff Raff. 10 Acre. Daniel Orlick. Joycopter. Mayhem Freak. Risa Hall. Hinterland. Magrathea. Shooting John. The Palominos. Jill Fielding. Salacious. Freespirits. Victor Brox. Aurora Plastic Monster. Southpaw Jinx. Los Vencidos. Addiction Lane. The Rubikons. The Flow. Fag Ash Lil. Northerndaze. Bobbie Peru. Rollin' Thunder. Temple Hedz. The Past. Inbred Quarter. Stone Sole River. Chokehold. Kody. Satellite Towns. The Northern Coast. Tarka Groove Experiment. Strobe. Dirty Rotten Bastards. Eddie & the Hot Rods. Golty & the Red Earth Roots Reggae Band. Spit Like This. Psychedelic Gods of Rock

Tribute acts include:-

Ozzbest. Mild Green Chillis. UK Doors. Led Balloon. David Bowee. Purple Rain. Queen Mania. Freestealer. The Zimmermen. Cold Flame. Motorheadache. Born to Run. The Bon Jovi Experience. Phe Ramones. Cold Shot. Tallica. Guns 2 Roses. Green Date. DC/79. Into the Bleach. Megedeth. Satch # 2.

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Movies:

Pirates of the Caribbean (1, 2 & 3!), without a doubt, are the best flicks ever! Pure awesomeness! MY peanut! Savvy?! Oh, + Blade Runner. V for Vendetta. Batman Begins. Bram Stoker's Dracula. Hellboy. Life of Brian. Eraserhead. Sean Connery Bond. The new Casino Royale. The Incredibles. Bedazzled (original). Nosferatu (both). Spiderman trilogy. Shrek 3 (check the Immigrant Song bit - amazing!) Lord of the Rings trilogy. Munster Go Home! Indiana Jones trilogy. Star Wars 3/4/5/6. Shaun of the Dead. Barbarella. El Cid. The Harry Potter series. Soldier Blue. First Blood. Cleopatra. A Hard Day's Night/Help!. Van Helsing. Hammer Horror stuff. All very sophisticated & avant garde eh? :)

Television:

Don't get bloody time mate!

Heroes:

CAPTAIN JACK SPARROW!
Shobna Gulati. Me Grandad - Albert. Noel Gallagher. Andrew Petersen. Kate Bush. Keith Richards. Jimi Hendrix. Joni Mitchell. Cows. Richard Ashcroft + Nick McCabe. Gandhi. Gandalf! Paul Weller. Native Americans - or Red Indians if you like, let's not be too PC eh? Chewbacca. Humphrey Lyttelton. The Simpsons (new movie is AWESOME by the way). Dome! Dracula. Robert Nesta Marley. The Beatles. Hylda Baker. Tia Dalma aka Calypso. Lovejoy. Natacha Atlas. Roy Batty. Sade. Charles Dickens. Elizabeth Swann. Jerry Cantrell. John Coltrane. Carlos Santana. Stevie Wonder. Eddie Izzard. Jimmy Page. Peter Cook + Dudley Moore. Kelly from Jack's Family. Rutger Hauer. Bootstrap Bill. Max & Paddy. R2D2. Spiderman. Hector Barbossa. "V". Tamla Motown. Stax. Trojan. The Pythons. Mr.Gibbs. Geoff Hurst. Any Owl. Border Collies...Animals in general really. Kurt Cobain. Papa Lazarou. Foxes. Ike & Tina Turner. Father Ted. Batman. Creedence Clearwater Revival. Abi from the Zutons! Thomas Hardy. Milk Chocolate. Milk! Mr. Cotton's Parrot. Mr. Cotton too! Any Werewolves that are about. Any ordinary Wolves that are about an' all. Not forgetting... Richard, Jozef & Sebastian ... me 3 little scallywags.

My Blog

BANDS WANTING TO PLAY HERE! (Again!)

Ooooooooh. Right, can I just let you know that we get bombarded with requests by bands wanting to play here. Bloody hundreds of em! Now, obviously we can't put everyone on, so we have to be a bit sele...
Posted by Hark 2 Towler on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 07:02:00 PST

DRAMA

Hey peoples! Do yourself a BIG favour & check out our pals DRAMA (in our top mates, obviously) Go & have a listen & hear some QUALITY tackle! Ian Gordon is a genius & a (Prog) Rock sta...
Posted by Hark 2 Towler on Sat, 04 Aug 2007 07:10:00 PST

BANDS! PLEASE READ THIS IF YOU WANNA PLAY HERE!

Hello yáll! Please, please, please - would you email me at [email protected] if you have intentions of wanting to play here? Just send your web address & contact details - easy as that! I can't...
Posted by Hark 2 Towler on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 11:10:00 PST

VERVE!

Blimey O'Charlie Reilly! They've been & gone & done it! Read this maties & be very excited! (well, some of you) In an extremely exciting piece of news, The Verve have officially revealed t...
Posted by Hark 2 Towler on Wed, 27 Jun 2007 03:35:00 PST

PIRATES 3 - the MASTERPIECE!

I'm no Jonathan Woss but I reckon I'm qualified enough to say "At World's End"  is possibly the greatest movie EVER made! Every single riveting minute of it. It's the freakiest, funniest, trippie...
Posted by Hark 2 Towler on Mon, 28 May 2007 11:06:00 PST

BANDS! Please read!

Hello again. As you know, there only 300 & odd days in a year (I think) & some of those days are Tuesdays, Wednesdays - crap days as it were. We put our gigs on mainly on Fridays & Saturda...
Posted by Hark 2 Towler on Fri, 18 May 2007 03:53:00 PST

CHECK IT ALL OUT! PLEEEEEEASE!!!!

Hiya mates. If you're new on our myspace, or not, I want to implore you to spend a bit of time & explore the friends we've amassed on here. Every one of them has something special to offer (I'd li...
Posted by Hark 2 Towler on Sat, 12 May 2007 07:13:00 PST

RECORD COMPANIES! ARE YOU A-BLOODY-WAKE?!

I was just wondering, Sony, Warner, Universal...whoever! If you realise that there are TWO major MAJOR UK acts in the making just wallowing in a bit of a limbo & wondering why no one has picked up...
Posted by Hark 2 Towler on Wed, 25 Apr 2007 10:00:00 PST

Wanna play here?

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Posted by Hark 2 Towler on Mon, 05 Mar 2007 01:46:00 PST

WWW.HARK2TOWLER.CO.UK

HEY THERE YOU  SCABAROUS DOGS! PLEASE TAKE 2 SECONDS, OK 30 mins, AND CHECK OUT OUR OTHER SITE ON www.hark2towler.co.uk. WE HAVE MORE PICS, AND ADDITIONAL INFO REGARDING THE VENUE ITSELF. &...
Posted by Hark 2 Towler on Tue, 06 Mar 2007 01:20:00 PST