Tubesnake

Yep! Today’s the day. Tubesnake at Witton Castle. There’s a buzz in the air and everything’s golden! See you there!

Following on from The Lambton Hounds Open Air Rock Festival on the bank holiday weekend of August 2009, which became affectionately known as Pity Me Woodstock, the pub has decided to re-host the event this year on a slightly smaller scale.
Last year featured Ha’Waysis, Bad Lashes and Victims of The Fury who each played on […]

The full line-up of bands for the 20th Anniversary Stormin’ The Castle is now sorted.
On the Main Stage, Friday 3rd September, Mother Earth open the proceedings, followed by Tubesnake, then The Force and closed by head-liners Powerage.
On the Main Stage, Saturday 4th September, the opening act is Radge Against The Machine, followed by Voodoo […]

Doors open at 8pm and the night features 3 Bands: EVERENDING who were to play at 9pm have dropped out and we have been informed that TUBESNAKE are now on at 9pm for an hour long set. END REIGN will play at around 10.20pm and CURB CRAWL, from Leeds will follow. Rock DJ will then […]

Got some serious problems with sending emails at the moment so in answer to Henry Dawson’s email from a couple of days ago … No, we’re not playing The Wheatsheaf in Sunderland on Saturday 1st May and were never down for that date. We were in fact booked to play The Wheatsheaf on Saturday 22nd […]

Tickets at £2 for our gig at The Lambton Hounds on Easter Sunday are on sale NOW! Call in to collect or ring 0191 3864742 to reserve or pay on the day. We are playing 5pm til 8pm. A Buskers Night, hosted by Dave Appleton, follows at 8.30pm til close so bring your balalaika if […]

Organisers, Veece and Michelle, caught our gig at The Star Inn on Sunday 28th February 2010 and offered us a slot at this years’ Stormin’ The Castle. It’s the 20th Anniversary of the event and to be invited to play is great news! We last played there in 2005 when we opened on the Friday […]

“My eyes have seen you!”

Our website is two years old today. Many thanks from all of us in Tubesnake for your continued support. Cheers!

Things are gonna be a little quiet on this site for the next couple of weeks due to holidays but we’ll be bursting back on the scene with six gigs in June. Out here we is stoned, immaculate. Check our Gigs page for details!

A very big thanks to everyone who turned out to the Tubesnake gig at The Lambton Hounds, Pity Me, on Sunday 3rd May 2009 which aimed to raise further funds for St.Cuthbert’s Hospice in Merry Oaks, Durham. The whole pub was packed, not just the gig room, and there was a truly fantastic atmosphere at […]

Catch us this weekend as we beam in on Sunderland’s Wheatsheaf (a first) and Birtley’s Mill House. Switch on the TV and pick us up on Channel 2.

By close of play today, midnight on the 2nd March 2009, we clocked our highest number of visitors in one day since the site launched on the 1st September 2007 … 104 visitors

Never mind The Ropery in Sunderland stopping live music (two gigs lost), just heard that The Pemberton Arms in Cold Hesledon, near Seaham has shut down altogether (four gigs lost). Win some, lose some! Snooze you lose!

Tubesnake have just accepted an invitation to play at this year’s Heart ‘n’ Soul Rally at Gosforth Racecourse at 8.15pm on Saturday 19th September 2009. This time we have been promoted from playing in the Silver Ring Bar as we did last September to doing a straight hour and a half set on the main […]

Third break for 2008. Two weeks this time while Chris da Bass revisits his Jamaican cousins on his third cruise of the year. Meanwhile the rest of us might scrape together enough cash to get a return train fare for a night out in Newcastle. Heh! Heh! Back on the road on 30th November at […]

¡Ay, Caramba! We’ve got a weekend off due to other commitments, seasonal illness, christmas shopping and the “Will to be Weird” but not necessarily in that order. Looking forward to a first appearance at The Royalty in Sunderland on the 14th November (used to drink there when I was a student at Sunderland Poly … […]