Billybop Festival: The First Edition
Last Sunday, June the 17th, the First Billybop festival took place in Bonheiden, Mechelen. For months the crew of Billybop carefully planned their first event and the result of their work was simply said great. Kudos to the Mechelen division of Billybop who prepared every detail from scouting the place at Bonheiden months before the event to prepare the first coffee on Sunday morning.
A Sunday afternoon full of roots rock music, Cajun food & cold beer! Four Bands, more then twenty volunteers and over 350 visitors made the hard work of the last months worthwhile. Opening the afternoon were the Big Bayou Bandits with their Cajun spiced ... continue reading
Added : 24/6/2007
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TWO TONS OF STEEL PLAYING CONCERT.TV JUNE 1- 30
Info Submitted by Palo Duro Records
TWO TONS OF STEEL PLAYING CONCERT.TV
JUNE 1- 30
Austin, TX June 1 2007 AUSTIN, Texas Two Tons of Steel, the dynamite country-billy combo whose shows get audiences out of their seats and onto their feet, will be at the beck and call of viewers of live music TV network CONCERT.TV during the month of June.
June 1-30, subscribers of Comcast, Cox, Insight, Charter and other cable services will be able to watch the country-rock combo and one of its high-energy, dance-mandatory shows as well as pause the action and rewind for repeats of their favorite Two Tons tunes.
The kind of live shows that make fans call out for ... continue reading
more info on : http://www.concert.tv
Added : 20/6/2007
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Boppin' Around issue 72 out !
Hot off the presses : issue 72 of Boppin' Around Magazine, the leading and longest lasting 50s rock and roll lifestyle in the Benelux, plus the ONLY printed rock and roll magazine written in Dutch, now in its 14th year and stronger, bigger and better than ever !
Issue 72 contains stories on UK rock and roll pioneer Rick Hardy, US pin up photographer Maggie St Thomas, the first installment in a brand new series on the most unusual deaths in rock and roll history, all the latest rock and roll news and cd, dvd and book reviews, plus the best gig guide in the world. Concert reports include Rockin' Around Turnhout, Rock Around The Werft, ... continue reading
Added : 18/6/2007
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Elvis Presley's pills, gun auctioned off
BEVERLY HILLS - A gold-plated gun and a pill bottle owned by Elvis Presley, an umbrella twirled by Marilyn Monroe and Alfred Hitchcock's passport were among items that attracted bidders at an auction Saturday.
The umbrella used by Monroe in a famous 1949 seaside photo shoot by Andre de Dienes sold for $42,000 at the annual Julien's Summer Auction, CEO Darren Julien said in a statement. The buyer, William Doyle, said he planned to display the umbrella at the Museum of Style Icons in County Kildare, Ireland.
Hitchcock's passport sold for $19,200 during the eight-hour auction at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
Presley's gun commanded ... continue reading
Added : 18/6/2007
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Ferlin Husky has leg surgery
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Country singer Ferlin Husky was resting in a Missouri hospital after surgery on his leg, his spokesman said.
Doctors at St. John's Hospital in Springfield, Mo., on Friday inserted a number of stents into the arteries in his left leg to aid his circulation, said Tracy Pitcox, president of Heart of Texas Records, Husky's label.
Husky, 81, has been having problems with his legs for the past few months. Tests showed that arteries in both legs were nearly blocked.
Surgery is planned on his right leg in the next two weeks.
At the height of his career, Husky was a movie and TV star and recorded such hit songs as "Wings ... continue reading
Added : 17/6/2007
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"Lost" Johnny Cash performance on tap for summer
NEW YORK (Billboard) - Johnny Cash fans will soon have access to a new recording of the Man in Black, the 16th since his September 2003 death.
"The Great Lost Performance," a 1990 Cash concert featuring duets with June Carter Cash and with singer Lucy Clark, will hit stores July from Universal Music.
The 18-song banter-filled live album was recorded July 27, 1990, at the Paramount Theatre in Asbury Park, N.J. Cash classics like "I Walk the Line" and "Folsom Prison Blues" are present and accounted for, the disc also features Johnny and Carter dueting on "Jackson" and "The Wreck of Old '97" and tracks "What is Man" and "Forty ... continue reading
Added : 16/6/2007
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Billybop festival in the newspaper (gazet van Antwerpen) (English version)
Billybop lures quiffs
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Sint-Ludwina Hall in Bonheiden flashes back to the fifties this weekend with the first edition of the Billybop Festival. Lovers of the genre will be treated to the roots rock and rockabilly of four bands.
Quiffs, cajun food and roots rock are just a few of the ingredients that will bring back the atmosphere of the long gone fifties in Sint-Ludwina Hall next sunday the 17th of June. The originator of all of this is non-profit organisation Billybop, presenting the first edition of the Billybop Festival.
"Non-profit organisation Billybop has been promoting Belgian rockabilly ... continue reading
Added : 13/6/2007
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Billybop festival in ... "Gazet Van Antwerpen"
The belgian newspaper "Gazet Van Antwerpen" shows interest in our first Billybop festival.
Click here to read the article ... (article in dutch)
Added : 13/6/2007
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77 El Deora
I can ease your pain. Get you on your feet again...
We haven't done this in quite a while. We used to play the Parkside Sunday
shows fairly regularly before things became sort of "fluid" there. But the
place has been sold. A new regime has been installed and our hope is that
the sun shines there again.
What was so great about these shows (it wasn't the money, that's for sure)
was that it was a relaxed, easy place for a lot of friends who don't do the
bar scene to hear the band and hang out. It's free. The parking is easy.
It's early (daylight!). And it's all ages. Hell, there aren't even any steps
so ... continue reading
more info on : http://www.77eldeora.com
Added : 7/6/2007
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THE RHUMBA KINGS ~ NEW GUITARIST
THE RHUMBA KINGS ~ NEW GUITARIST
Hi Everybody.....
It is with a heavy heart that I must officially announce today that Thierry Limelette, Rhumba Kings guitarist for the last 12 months or so, has had to remove his services from the band.........Reasons are personal but no secret-you will hear different versions as always in these situations, that's showbizz!!
Over the past year Thierry brought a lot of great and creative input to the band and we have moved onwards and upwards at a breakneck speed, recorded a full album of original material and enjoyed many great and happy fun times together on the road, in the rehearsal ... continue reading
Added : 5/6/2007
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