STOMPING GROUND PRESENTATION

1st ANNUAL MODS & ROCKERS BALL

Saturday May 24th

The Green Room – The Academy (formerly Spirit) Abbey St. Dublin 2.
featuring
Graham Day & the Gaolers (UK/USA) + Spellbound + The Urges + The Bonnevilles (NI) + Oona & the Devils +
Various Dee-Jays spinning Rockabilly, 60ts Soul, R&B, 60ts Garage, Delta Blues & Hammond Groove.
Doors: 8.00pm till Late
Price: 15euro (pay on door only)

Graham Day & the Gaolers: http://www.myspace.com/grahamdayandthegaolers
Graham Day & The Gaolers have one pair of feet in Kent (UK) and two pairs in Atlanta, Georgia in the good old US of A. Graham Day (guitar/vocals) is the Kent boy while Buzz Hagstrom (bass) and Dan Elektro (drums) are from exotic Georgia. All three have some serious garage rock pedigree backing them up. Graham Day was a founder member of The Prisoners, The Prime Moves and The SolarFlares. He was also the drummer in Thee Mighty Caesers and bassist in The Buff Medways alongside comrade Billy Childish. Elektro and Hagstrom are from the equally legendary American garage outfit The Woggles. The Prisoners were included in the NME’s feature of great “Lost Bands”. At one point Tim Burgess of The Charlatans said how much he loved the band & Radio 1’s Steve Lamacq devoted a whole chapter to The Prisoners in his book “Going Deaf for a Living”

Spellbound: http://www.myspace.com/spellboundmusic
Originally formed in Bray Co. Dublin in 1986, Spellbound blazed a brief trail across Europe where their 1988 debut album “Mystical Madness” established them a favour amongst the rockin’ set before vanishing back into the Hellfire woods of County Wicklow. The band reformed in 2003 & the band's pacey style has been described as 'neo-rockabilly' and their live shows have become the stuff of legend all over Europe. 2008 will see Spellbound bring their rockin’ style to American shores for the first time.

The Urges: http://www.myspace.com/theurges
"A new generation of teenage psych-punk bands is hitting the scene these days and the leaders of this movement are without any doubt Dublin’s amazing Urges, which their debut album 'Psych ward' proves impressively. The Urges have signed a recording contract with Wicked Cool Records of New York City. The label is owned and run by Steven Van Zandt (Bruce Springsteen's E-Street Band & Sopranos)

The Bonnevilles (NI): http://www.myspace.com/thebonevilles
The Bonnevilles are a blues duo from Lurgan, thirty miles south of Belfast – an unlikely combination, but what a result. Andrew McGibbon Junior on guitar and vocals and Chris McMullen on drums, formerly known collectively as the Motorsounds, are part of a new wave of musicians who are reinventing the blues for people who grew up with punk and grunge, with songs that are hard, angry and relevant.

Oona & The Devils: The delicious Oona White, formerly of the Great Western Squares and the Wedding Band from Hell among others, and Niall Toner JR, former Handsome Devil have gotten their pretty heads together to come up with an irresistible force, a devilish concoction of high-octane rockabilly, hipster country rock duets. With a classic two Guitar, bass and drums line-up, the backing fires more than a riff or two in the direction of the classic Bakersfield sound.