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Dave at St Anne's Castle

Tall, Dark & Handsome

About Me

Short, fat & cuddly, grey haired luverlee bloke (Became a teenager end of 1960, and had his 21st birthday in 1968) who loves music (Rock DJ all through the 80s & 90s)and having fun with people who use his great little pub St Anne's Castle, Great Leighs near Chelmsford in Essex..... Our Real Ales are BLACK SHEEP, DEUCHARS IPA & GREEN KING IPA
WE WERE AWARDED 'THE BEST VENUE 2008' BY THE READERS OF PANIC MAGAZINE
Also we have a CD made entirely by performers who play at our ACOUSTIC SOUL CLUB evenings.... It has 20 fab tracks, and is on sale behind the bar for only a fiver, and all proceeds go to ESSEX AIR AMBULANCE
We put on shed loads of superb live music... The pub has loads of history.... and ghosts!!!!!....
Check us out on
www.stannescastle.co.uk
photos, food menu, history, and stuff.. ,
LIVE GIGS.....
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OUR REGULAR MONTHLY EVENTS are as follows.....
The First Tuesday every month
OPEN MIC' hosted by the lovely Jane White....
The first Thursday of every month; JAM NIGHT with House Band, 'FULL MENTAL RACKET'
The first Sunday afternoon of every month from 4pm
BOB COLLUM & THE WELFARE MOTHERS presents 'PROZAC YODEL' a country tinged afternoon...
Each month features guest acts....
The second Thursday of every month
THE LIZZIE B. EXPERIENCE
LIZZIE B. entertains us with her beautiful voice, singing Jazz standards, plus popular ballads and original material...
Each month she presents guest acts'
plus floorspots'
The second Friday of every month
MAURICE'S ROCKIN' MACHINE
DJ MAURICE spins music from the 50s & 60s
The second Saturday of every month
OPEN MIC/ACOUSTIC ROCK ROCK JAM presented by bassist JOHN T. & drummer 'THE CAPTAIN
The third Thursday of every month
C-A-S-Y-S SHOWCASE
Dedicated to acts that can perform a 30 minute set of their own material... Each month we feature 2 bands plus 3 acoustic acts
The third Friday of every month
'THE BLUEJAZZ NIGHT' presented by LIZZIE B.
This evening we present a jazz tinged bluesy evening featuring special guests....
The third Sunday of every month
'THE ACOUSTIC SOUL CLUB'
An atmospheric candle-lit evening featuring five hand picked acoustic acts, by Jenni & Jamie Williams,
GIG LISTINGS
OCTOBER
Thursday 2nd..... ROCK & BLUES JAM.... Jam with our House Band 'FULL MENTAL RACKET'
Friday 3rd..... MAURICE'S ROCKIN' MACHINE plays music from the 50s & 60s....
Sunday 5th
FROM 4pm......
PROZAC YODEL.....
This Month BOB COLLUM & THE WELFARE MOTHERS present BECKY SYSON & STEVE J. CURTIS
Tuesday 7th.... JANE hosts our monthly OPEN MIC'
Thursday 9th.... THE LIZZIE B. EXPERIENCE is presenting a showcase of acts performing songs made famous by THE CARPENTERS....
Friday 10th.... REDWOOD
Saturday 11th... JOHN T. hosts our
ACOUSTIC ROCK JAM
and OPEN MIC'br />
Friday 17th.....LIZZIE B. hosts our BLUEJAZZ NIGHT....
This month her guests are
GREY CAT BLUES, & TIM AVES
Friday 18th.....
BILL LEGEND & TONY WILLIAMS perform some of the best rock'n'roll, pop, blues, country & jazz classics...
Sunday 19th.....(My burfday!!!!)
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My Interests

Music(Of all types, Real Ale, food and sex.... In any order

I'd like to meet:

People interested in 'Live Music' and is willing to travel to the middle of nowhere (or so it seems!!!!!) to see the superb stuff we put on!!!! SUPPORT LIVE MUSIC!!!!

Music:

All types... Have seen Beatles, Stones, Floyd, (with and without Syd), The Who, Cream, Hendrix (3 times), Dylan, Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac, Animals, Yardbirds, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Moody Blues, Small Faces, etc etc all back in the 60s.... Plus loads since..... Loads in the 70s... Including Queen, Page & Plant.... Iron Maiden.... Latest big concert.... LEONARD COHEN at the O2
And of course the mad man OTWAY loadza times..... Favourite female singers at the mo..... BEX MARSHALL, SINEAD ORME, DI BILLINGHURST, LAURA YOUNGER, LYZ LE FAY & LIZZIE B.

Movies:

A few.... 7, Being John Malkovitch, Green Mile, Shawshank Redemption... etc etc

Television:

Not much

Books:

Last books read.... 'EVIL SPIRITS The life of Oliver Reed' by Cliff Goodwin, 'RONNIE' Ronnie Wood Biography, 'JOHN' by Cynthia Lennon.....'JACK' The Biography of Jack Bruce... Next book.... Any suggestions????

Heroes:

Daltry, Townshend, Moon, Entwhistle, Steve Marriott, Oliver Reed, Otway, Lennon etc etc etc