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The Meteors + The Tendons

  • Date: September 25, 2021
  • Time:20:00
  • Location: Bedford
  • Venue: Esquires - Bedford
  •  Postponed

Sorry to cancel this one again, working on a new date with the band watch this space all tickets will remain valid

THE METEORS + The Tendons + Guests

Saturday 25th September 2021 – Bedford Esquires

*All tickets from the April and July 2020 and February 2021 dates remain vaild*

We are pleased to announce the Meteors will be coming to Bedford Esquires in April for a night of psychobilly punk madness! Originally booked for November 2017, the tour was cancelled when lead singer Paul Fenech fell ill, so we’re very pleased to be able to have secured another date!

THE METEORS were formed in 1980 in a reaction to the bands that were singing about ‘Big Green Cars’, ‘Rocking This Town’ and being ‘Rockabilly Rebels’. Preferring their songs to contain topics about vampires, stomping in graveyards and radioactive kids P. Paul Fenech, Mark Robertson and Nigel Lewis soon found themselves all over the media. A media who were eagerly lapping up their new sound christened (thought that is surely not the right word) – ‘Psychobilly’. THE METEORS were front page news in the weekly music press, recording radio sessions and interviews for legends like John Peel, and gracing the silver screen care of a movie short that did the rounds with the Two-Tone movie ‘Dance Craze’. Their film ‘Meteor Madness’, apart from hosting some crazed performances with the unhinged trio, also featured songstress Lilly Allen’s father starring as none other than the rather exasperated Devil, strange but true.

By 1982 the original line-up had split with Lewis and Robertson going on to form their own bands while P. Paul forged ahead with a free hand with THE METEORS and his idea of how psychobilly should sound. That was a sound that had grown from one of a band’s own personal identity to a world-wide genre that is Psychobilly now over 30 years established and still growing and thriving around the globe. THE METEORS have continued to inspire and influence countless bands while continuing to lead the charge from the very vanguard.

‘The Power Of 3’ is the latest studio album by the undisputed ‘Kings Of Psychobilly’. It is as uncompromising as ever and encompasses all the elements that have always made up THE METEORS brand of ‘Pure Psychobilly’, mashing up rockabilly, country, surf and rock’n’roll. A sound woven by Paul Fenech’s rockin’ guitar and bile-spitting Beelzebub-rousing lyrics. ‘The Power Of 3′ proves once again that despite some aspiring would-be usurpers THE METEORS won’t be giving up that crown anytime soon.

 

Special Guests: Bedford Punk legends The Tendons

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Tickets are £15 advance, on sale from Seetickets / Esquires Bar / Slide Record Store / Mario’s Hair Design