Tubesnake

People Are Strange (2009)

TUBESNAKE recorded live at the Heart ‘n’ Soul Rally, Newcastle racecourse, on Saturday 19th September 2009.

“The women seem wicked!”

thanks to Brian Baty for this video

Just confirmed earlier this week a gig at The Three Tuns, Gateshead, Friday, 29th January 2010. Gig starts 9pm.

I Can’t See Your Face In My Mind (1967)

Recorded live at The Matrix, San Francisco.

Shake dreams from your hair
My pretty child, my sweet one
Choose the day and choose the sign of your day
The day’s divinity
First thing you see
A vast radiant beach in a cool jeweled moon
Couples naked race down by it’s quiet side
And we laugh like soft, mad children
Smug in the wooly cotton brains of infancy
The music and voices are all around us
Choose they croon the Ancient Ones
The time has come again
Choose now, they croon beneath the moon beside an ancient lake
Enter again the sweet forest
Enter the hot dream
Come with us
Everything is broken up and dances

… Jim Morrison

“There seems to be an absence of a certain ornithological piece?”

Another Brick In The Wall (2005)

TUBESNAKE VIII recorded live at Stormin’ The Castle, Witton Castle, on Friday 2nd September 2005.

“We don’t need no thought control!”

The Beamish Mary Inn, No Place, Stanley. The place has been refurbished / tidied up / brightened up. The wall dividing the two bars, which was weirdley knocked down by management last year, (much to the disgruntlement of everyone who goes there), has been rebuilt with new flooring and bar-tops throughout. The gig room has had the old (non-used) bar taken out leaving a lot more space for punters and a little raised stage area has been created for the bands! The whole place looks Excellent and feels a lot cosier. Anyway, new peeps, new look - so get along to TUBESNAKE’s gig if you can! We wanna re-christen this place!

thanks to Andy Atkinson for this video

Elvis Aaron Presley born January 8th 1935.

Ziggy Stardust (2005)

TUBESNAKE VIII recorded live at Stormin’ The Castle, Witton Castle, on Friday 2nd September 2005.

“When the kids had killed the man I had to break up the band!”

“My eyes have seen you!”

The Mill House, Birtley. Sunday 20th December 2009. Quiet as hell when we first turned up but then patrons, Carl & Deanne McDonald, brought the girls from their other pub just around the corner, The Ship Inn. It was their staff night out and they were dressed to the hilt like glossy front-cover magazine models. As our set played on, they even prompted an instrumental snippet of Molly’s Chambers by Kings of Leon, led by Tom, and a blast of Hot Stuff by Donna Summer. Amazing what a few pretty smiles can drag out of a band. Thanks to them there beauties for partying like it was 1999. One of the barmaids from The Ship, Laura Kerry, stepped up and did the full version of Black Velvet by Alannah Myles with the band. For an off the cuff request, the lads really pulled it off, and she had a great voice too. More bods turned up as the night went on and the end result was another cracking night at The Mill House! … Lenny

Friday 18th December 2009. Our first gig in The Stables Pub & Brewery which is set in the grounds of Beamish Hall, near Stanley. Opened in May 2009 as a bar-restaurant with its’ own brewery, it also hosts live bands every Friday night and has done for a few months now. Hell of a setting for a gig and, due to the festive season, we found our gig shortened to fit in with a pre-booked Christmas feasting party and consequently shared our slot with a DJ who let us make use of his lights and very powerful smoke machine. We still had a blast in this very classy joint and we’ve been promised a return when we can have the place to ourselves so keep an eye on our gig list for next year!