December gig listings for the Ropemakers the best live music venue in Bridport.
Saturday 3rd – Big Red Ass – 9:15pm – New to the Ropeys, a very special treat. Guaranteed to but a smile on your face, blisters on your feet and cider in your hair. Big Red Ass play high energy, brass fronted ska/reggae/cossack that will get you moving. You’ll leave with new dancing friends, lucky as you’ll most likely spill your drink over your current mates. Songs about Suzukis, Festival Toilets, being far too drunk, Jim Morrison, and gossiping are easily digested and brilliantly executed. Much like many old campers BRA have been locked in a shed ready to shine better than ever this summer. Expect MADNESS – Take a look
Friday 9th – Shelby’s Elbows – 9:15pm – ‘Shelby’s What?’ – Barack Obama. An acoustic duo from deepest darkest Dorset, playing a variety of covers, from Nirvana to Neil Young, Seal to Skynyrd, Dire Straits to Turin Brakes and anything in between. You never know – you might like it… Here they are…
Saturday 10th – Elephant Talk – 9:15pm – Since reforming in Spring ’09 UK band Elephant Talk have been stunning audiences with their unique ‘Urban Folk’ sound. They skilfully combine authentically played traditional acoustic music with a wide range of electronica including: dub, dubstep, drum and bass, trance, nujazz and techno. This is proving to be popular with a wide audience in music venues, festivals and events throughout the UK and Europe. “ Music for the head, heart and dance floor ” mixmag. Brilliant
Friday 16th – Fat Marrow Blues Band – 9:15pm – Doctor Chris and the chaps with another fine performance to take the chill from those winter blues.
Saturday 17th – Nobody’s Heroes – 9:15pm –
Nobody’s Heroes are a 4 piece formed in Feb 2010. This ‘foursome’ have had bags of experience, having been involved in various local bands for a few years… Panic Attack & Steves Bike Shop are two previous bands.
What makes this band different is that they play only punk & new wave tunes from 1976-1982… nothing else! Give us a go and you’ll be pleasantly surprised.
Songs in set are by artists like Buzzcocks, Sex Pistols, Clash, Damned, Adverts, Generation X, Ruts, Tenpole Tudor, and many, many more… the setlist changes from week to week
Monday 19th – Sunset Cafe Stompers – 8:15pm – Sunset Cafe Stompers play exciting traditional jazz in the style of the New Orleans pioneers. The band takes its name from the famous night-spot on Chicago ‘s South Side, owned by Al Capone, where Louis Armstrong once played.
Thursday 22nd – Skimmity Hitchers – 9:15pm -Special for Christmas Eve Eve Eve. Bring your wives, girlfriends and kazoos. Denizens of Dorset, Weirdos of the West Country, for your delight and delectation, here are the Skimmity Hitchers… A band of brothers, blaggers and badgers, they loaded up thier Skimmity wagon in the spring of 2010 and took to the road. They now roam the B-roads and back alleys of the West Country, playing old-fashioned Scrumpy & Western live music with a modern edge. In pubs, festivals, weddings, parties and cider sheds you will find us singing our songs, with a smile on our face and a wink in our eye… Everyone is welcome to join the Skimmity Hitchers party, to dance and laugh and sing along. But be prepared for much sauciness, banter and barracking too, for tis all part of the show… Some call it folk. Some call it punk. Others call it cabaret. Some simply call us a bunch of cidered-up chancers. They are all of this and more, come and see for yourselves to be sure… Have a badger
Friday 23rd – Pronghorn – 9:15pom – The countdown to the big holiday continues with Pronghorn performing on Christmas Eve Eve. The UK’s leading exponent of cowpunk, we are promising a big night of pure shenannigans (or however its meant to be spelt). Here is a sampler
HAPPY CHRISTMAS TO ALL OUR CUSTOMERS.
No bands until 7th January when we have King Tuts Revenge lined up. In the mean time, Happy New Year.
