Suffering from a musical drought? Now is the time to ‘Mender’ your ways

The Rezillos pull the van into The Roadmender car park (March 1) for the ’fampton show of their ‘Mission Accomplished…But The Beat Goes On’ tour, marking 45 years since that elpee made a connection with ears.

The Scottish punk/new wave wonders originally caused a stir when they debuted in the mid-1970s, and their debut 7” I Can’t Stand My Baby was picked up by airwaves king John Peel.

The debut album, Can’t Stand The Rezillos smashed the Top 10 album chart here and became a punk classic.
Essex boys Eddie and the Hot Rods have done the mileage career wise too, and following the loss of their frontman Barrie Masters in 2019, former bassist Ian ‘Dipster’ Dean is now handling those frontman duties.

Sambroso Noda arrives (March 8) with his All Stars to deliver a loving tribute to the eponymous debut album by the Buena Vista Social Club.
Here’s a fact for the pop pickers among you – that elpee is one of only two non-English speaking albums to make it into the Top 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list compiled by Rolling Stone. So there.

Bedlam Breakout (March 14) is covered elsewhere on these pages, and Wilkinson marks a decade since Worried About Henry (March 21).
The dance monster behind a stack of crazy cool anthems has racked up in excess of 200 million album streams and shifted more than three million singles.

The A-list community queues up to work with him, and collaborations and remixes to date include Rag N Bone Man, The Prodigy, Ed Sheeran and Chase & Status, to name just a few.

Safe to say this South West London export has done just swell, and, unsurprisingly, tickets are flying out.

Last up at the venue this month, Live/Wire come to play musical homage to Aussie aces AC/DC (March 22).

When it comes to banging rock anthems, these power players always Shoot to Thrill.

‘Let there be Rock’ declare fans, and the DC respond by asking ‘Are You Ready’ and take you on the Highway To Hell…you get the idea, and you’ll get lots more at this celebration of Angus & Co’s best moments. And there are plenty of ’em.

Head to theroadmender.com to book tickets