Punk & Hard Rock Night The Fenton Leeds

The Fenton is hosting a punk and hard rock night on Friday the 8th of October to help raise money for the Shaun Prest Cambodian Orphanage Appeal. Doors are open at 8.00pm until 11.30pm and some great local bands will be playing including The Sewersuckers, The Swindells, Auntiedope and guest band from Nottingham the Amplifires. Tickets are £4.50 on the door or £4.00 online (buy your tickets here: Fenton tickets

The Orphanage Appeal is seeking to raise £10,000 by January 2011 to enable them to start working building an orphanage for the beach children and street children of Sihanoukville, Cambodia. You can find out more about the Appeal here: Cambodian Orphanage Appeal

Other venues include The Snooty Fox in Wakefield on the 24th of October with headliners Gargamel (featuring the members of My Dying Bride), Carpe Diem in Leeds on the 18th of November and the Well in Leeds 9th of December with headliners Exit State.

Sham 69 playing in Leeds

Veteran punk legends, Sham 69 will be playing at Carpe Diem in Leeds on the 1st of March 2009. Tickets cost £6.00 and are available from the bar.

I love the Sham and I can't wait for this one! I wonder if they'd be interested in my Borstall Breakout parody? It starts off in Chester Zoo, and has UN zoo keepers involved in a high speed chase all the way to Betty's Tea Rooms, with the refrain: Can I get a bagel takeout? Its nearly as good as my parody 'God feed the Queen - the fascist baked bean'.

Unfortunately, I have it on good good authority that none of the original band members are in the lineup - shucks!

Anyway get your tickets for Sham 69, and I'll see you in the pit. Let's hope for some classics, like 'Angels with Dirty Face', 'Hurry up Harry', 'Hersham Boys', 'If the Kids are United' e.t.c. e.t.c. It would even be nice to get the sombre and ever so sinister 'Dead Nazi March'. Bring it on (Watch Sham 69 live at the Reading festival in 1978 below)