Hey Ho! Let’s Go!

Sunday night is usually reserved for episodes of The Antiques Roadshow and digging hard to find motivation for the upcoming week. Surely it’s not only us?!

But Sunday, May 4th offers a welcome break from the sedate routine – it’s a bank holiday weekend, which means no work on Monday for many of you. If only SBD Promotions had gone and booked a raucous troupe of girls to do justice to the sublime catalogue of material left by The Ramones…

Oh wait, they have!
The Ramonas pay mighty fine tribute to Joey, Johnny, Dee Dee and Tommy, and embody that 70s spirit of the ultimate garage punkers.
The girls have staying power too – they’ve been smashing out those tremendous tracks like Blitzkrieg Bop, Pet Sematary, I Wanna Be Sedated and Sheena Is a Punk Rocker for two decades.

A ‘high energy, full throttle one hour’ show is the promise, and the band will be well-oiled when they arrive at The Black Prince – fresh back from dates in Germany and Spain.

Not ‘just’ a covers mob, for nigh on a decade the band has been delivering its own self-penned material, with albums and Eps available to tip your ears to.

Support at the bash is coming from The Vandervalls and Scarper.
Grab a ticket and go have all of the Sunday fun with none of the Monday glum!
Pop-punk players Who Saves The Hero? (May 9) are dab hands at delivering cool tunes, and in the past they’ve even hopped aboard the Vans Warped tour.

WSTH? will be joined by Wishing Wolf, Bio-Exile and Shooting At Fires.
Class of ’79 also do that tribute thing, taking you back to an era when punk and new wave ruled the airwaves. Members of UK Subs, The Selector, The Godfathers, Eddie and the Hot Rods, Department S and The Rezillos will be on the stage, playing tracks from their own bands and a scattering of punk and new wave classics.

To get you all loosened up for the main event, welcome 21st century space-punk blues from intergalactic music specialists The Aliens.
Man about town, Alex Novak is also showing out, or rather playing out, as the event DJ.

American singer-songwriter Dekker (May 17) issued his third long-player last year, and Future Ghosts managed to sound both familiar and fresh.

Dekker settled into life on this side of the pond back in 2010, and resides in Nottingham, so not too long a journey home after he has wowed the ‘fampton crowd with his indie-folk leanings, which arrive with added falsetto and nylon string guitar.

Up in support, Leipzig-based indie-folkers Almost Twins’ singer and guitarist Max Grüner will perform songs from his bands’ current album Hands/Trees in an intimate solo setting.

After a triumphant show at the venue last June, High Fade (May 21) are back, and this is a midweek treat of a show.

Delivering the very best in sharp fun and disco, the Edinburgh-based three piece are simply next level players, and feelgood? And the rest!
“High Fade doesn’t work unless there’s a crowd, a dance floor and people that want to get down,” the band says.

There’s no worries on that score. The Black Prince will be buzzing.
Jack Black, Rage Against the Machine’s Brad Wilk, Cypress Hill and Glenn Hughes have all been dazzled, and if you grab a ticket to this date (before it sells out) you can join their club.

The debut album from the Scottish boys, Life’s Too Fast, is out now and they are promising a show which ‘supersedes anything their fans have experienced before.’

It’ll be a hot one on and off the stage.

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