Playing drums badly, Music, putting on random gigs, Leicester City, Gloucester RFC, York City & Torpedo Haringay 5-a-side
New things we really want to put on but are finding it a bit tricky at present but you really should go and see yourself and basically their our top tips...
Some of what we like is (last updated Jan 06):
Hood, Sufjan Stevens, Low, Adem, Broken Family Band, Why?, They Might Be Giants, The National, Pavement, The Beach Boys, Disco Inferno, Game Theory, Adrian Crowley, Charlie Parr, MJ Hibbett, My Sad Captains, The Havenots, New World Record, My Two Toms, The Shins, Game Theory, Loud Family, Throwing Muses, Julian Cope, 65 Days of Static, Youth Movie Soundtrack Strategies, Robbie Faulks, Elbow, Johnny Cash, Bonnie Prince Billy, Palace, Micah P Hinson, Bobby Bare Jr, Yo La Tengo, James Yorkston, Sage Francis, The Human League, Clem Snide...
Before 2007, Let's go baboon has had perform a range of acts, some brilliant, some, ahem, not so. All very entertaining though
2004
Our first ever show was for Cancer Research in April 2004 featuring The Havenots (brilliant), Adrian Crowley & Our Tuli (now morphed in to Maggie!)
It used to take 6 months to recover from a gig, so the next one was October
It was at the Windmill with
CHARLIE PARR
HALEY BONAR (v. brief set!)
& MINES.
2005 saw me move in to my Unsigned phase with not a great deal of success it has to be said
April 2005 at The Rhythm Factory
with M.A.S.S.
THE TRELIKS
DADDY LONG LEGS
GENERAL KHAKI (great forgotten band, watch out for Tommy Mack as comedian!)
UNCLE PEDRO (worth watching if you wanna rock out good)
Mighty Irish outfit, KILL CITY DEFECTORS
CICCONE
FRUIT MACHINE BLUES
& CHET (as of Aug 07, now defunct)
2006 I really really enjoyed everyone and all the evenings.
featuring:
February 2006 at the 12 Bar Club:
CHARLIE PARR
ADRIAN CROWLEY
& MY TWO TOMS,
March at the Luminaire
MY SAD CAPTAINS
MJ HIBBETT & THE VALIDATORS
& BY THE FIRESIDE
May 06, our first bankholiday bbq at the Windmill with:
DAVID DONDERO
FORMER BULLIES (insanely good, you gotta watch em!)
THE YOUNG PLAYTHINGS
& THE COLONIES
July at the Windmill followed with
LAZARUS CLAMP(then not seen for years, now almost ubiquitous!
LARDPONY
EMILY BARKER
THE LEISURE SOCIETY
September saw us at the Wimdmill yet again for the legend that is CHARLIE PARR
Also
STARS OF AVIATION
November 06 at the Luminaire with:
ADRIAN CROWLEY (& band ft. Adem)
THE DIAMOND FAMILY ARCHIVE
THE SLOW LIFE
GARETH S BROWN
Our Christmas show went all Manchester with
ITS A BUFFALO, SPECIAL BENNY & NATHAN PERSAD....
Spirited Away, A Matter of Life and Death, Point Blank, American Werewolf in London, It's a Wonderful Life
The Thick of it, Life on Mars, Simpsons, Larry Sanders Show, My name is Earl, Vic n Bob, Chez Lester
Wallfloweresque by Alan Devey