Live & Kicking: 10th February 2011
Weaving through a cloud of babble and smoke, Dreadzone will be playing at the Lincoln Drill Hall tonight, Thursday 10th February. With their fusion of dub bass, dance, guitar and electronics and in their 17th year, the band have released five albums and toured their live show all around the world. Born from the ashes of Mick Jones’ Big Audio Dynamite and named by fellow B.A.D. colleague Don Letts, founder members Greg Roberts and Leo Williams formed Dreadzone continue the good work now with vocalist Earl 16 and MC Spee and previous singers have ranged from Melanie Blatt to Alison Goldfrapp. Having recently recorded and released their sixth studio album ‘Eye on the Horizon’ the band will be in Lincoln as part of their short current UK tour. Tickets for the show are available at the Drill Hall Box office (01522 873894) from £15.00 and obviously this will be a standing gig.
Mentioning Big Audio Dynamite it’s worthwhile pointing out that a reunion tour featuring all of the original line-up has since been confirmed to take place over the next couple of months. Mick Jones, Roberts and Williams from Dreadzone, Don Letts and keyboard maestro Dan Donovan have recent announced nine U.K. tour dates throughout March and April 1011 on their website and will be playing at Rock City on Wednesday 6th April – get on in there quick!
Friday night sees the start of a mini Valentine’s season in Lincoln with Valentine’s Rock night a free entry gig at the Duke of Wellington featuring The Ram Raid, Towering Heights, Pilomotor Reflex. Doors open at 7pm but remember your ID.
Speaking of the Duke this year’s Battle of the Band s continues on Saturday night with some excellent local acts including The Treehouse, Lower lands, Zeus Fox, Filthy Trigger and Everything Can Wait. The show starts around 7pm with a small charge on the door.
The Duke also opens up on Monday night for another Valentine’s Day gig with Everything Can Wait, Rules of Romance, Give It Time, Painting Bus Stops and City of Ashes. There will be £4.00 entry on the door and remember that all-important ID card.
Now in their twentieth year, the Welsh popsters, Feeder, return to Rock City for yet another Valentine moment on Monday night! So, if you and your beloved fancy a cuddly night out in Nottingham listening to the likes of Buck Rodgers and wondering where the last ten years went, this is the place to be. Together now for twenty years and averaging one record company for every two of them their profile has been fairly low of late. However, they up there with some of the best being cited as one of the most ‘charted’ all-male groups ever with twenty top 40 singles! When they have not been touring and recording as Feeder guitarist Grant and Bassist Taka with their drummer Karl Brazil work as Renegades, coincidently the title of the new Feeder album. Tickets and more information online at www.rock-city.co.uk.
