Incoming Gigs

Abominable Showmen - Irish Centre May 11th

This is just a short post to tell you of gigs in the area that are going to be on , which you can still get tickets for. I missed out on tickets for the Public Service Broadcasting gig at The Cluny this Friday , but they , like Strypes are getting very popular very fast. Anyway here goes:

• May 11th - Abominable Showmen at The Irish Centre with the Animal Themed gig . Details here
• May 11th - Lord Rochester play The Schooner for Dave Campbell's Birthday. 
• May 26th - 27th - Evolution Festival Too few bands I want to see but Strypes and Jake Bugg are playing , but they are the only ones that I would want to see
• 6th June - Mudhoney , Meat Puppets and METZ play the Newcastle  O2 Academy
• July 12th-14th Mouth of Tyne Festival featuring The Human League on Friday , Jame Morrison on Saturday , and The Wonder Stuff plus Aswad on the Sunday.
• July 19th-21st Summertyne with loads of acts including The Mavericks and Martha Wainwright , lots of free bands on the Jumpin' Hot Stage as well as The River Cruise!
• The Deputies have the following gigs (all Saturdays)
  • 1st June The Three Tuns (free)
  • 6th July The Teams Club (£3 in aid of GNR)
  • 13th July The Killingworth Club (£3 in aid of MacMillan Cancer)

There will be a lot more going on but this is just an information announcement

Viva Los Abominable Showmen - Next Gig Tyneside Irish Centre - Thursday 19th May 2011

From Jim:

The Abominable Showmen are playing the Irish Centre on Thursday May 19th, and all the money will be donated to charity in memory of our friend and colleague Bruce Chaplin.

Let's get the place full and raise as much as we can.

If you want a ticket please let me know, we have them now and they are £4.

T shirts - £10
Ladies fitted shirt - £12
Kids - £7

Cheers
Jim

Toms Message:

The Abominable Showmen's Truly Tasteful "Las Vegas" Gig - 19th May

The Abominable Showmen shall be conducting their next gig on Thursday 19th May at the Irish Centre!
As usual it will be a half seven kick off and the theme this time is "Las Vegas".

Tickets will be £4 quid each and T-shirts will be available, cost depending on quantity ordered. (T-shirt design yet to be finalised. I shall post it when I get it).

All proceeds will be donated to charities in memory of their much missed colleague Bruce who was unfortunately killed in a traffic accident last October.
The now traditional Showmen event is always a cracking bash and they simply get better with every show.
The last one was a stormer and this one will be no exception.

So if you're up for it, get in touch with me and I'll sort out any ticket and/or t-shirt reservations for you.
Spread the word to owt as may fancy, not forgetting those who've departed and may want to keep in touch.

Final Message From Jim:

All

Just to let you know that we raised £700 from our gig at the Irish Centre.

Thanks to everyone who bought tickets, gave donations, bought shirts and helped to make this amount, especially Capgemini for paying for the practices and room hire.

We have decided to split the money between the Lake District Mountain Search and Rescue and The Intensive Care Unit, all money will of course be donated in memory of Bruce.

See you all again in November for our Disco themed gig......

The Abominable Showmen

The Good, The Bad, and The Abominable Showmen - Tyneside Irish Centre - Thursday 4th November 2010 - The Result

All

Just to let you know that we raised £530 for LIVErNORTH in memory of Karen Gault.

I will be sending the cheque soon.

Thanks again to everyone who helped making this possible.

See you all again in May for the next one which will be for Bruce.

Cheers

Jim Stevenson

Strategic Systems Solutions
Newcastle Office

The Good, The Bad, and The Abominable Showmen - Next Gig Tyneside Irish Centre - Thursday 4th November 2010

From Jim

All

The next Abominable Showmen gig will take place on Thursday 4^th November at The Tyneside Irish Centre, and will have a Country / Western / Cowboy theme to it

Tickets will be £4 and T-shirts will also be available, design to be confirmed but Chris will come up with something special as usual.

Let me know if you would like to come along.

Cheers

The Abominable Showmen

Jim Stevenson

Strategic Systems Solutions

Newcastle Office

From Tom:

The Abominable Showmen boldly ride once more! Thursday 4th November.

Even a goldarned fool plumb knows you should never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear, or a Showman from any direction. So you'd best lock up your cattle, silverware and womenfolk cuz the rootinest, tootinest, shootinest hombres west, east, north and south of the Pennines will  be thundering into town imminently.

Yes indeed, those desperadoes of notoriously abominable disposition shall be inflicting their scandalously intemperate musical ways upon the good folk attending an otherwise respectable soirée at the Tyneside Irish Saloon on Thursday 16th September, the Year of our Lord 2010. The God fearing and temperate few amongst you should consider themselves forewarned, for I believe the Showmen intend to exercise what they regard as their irrefutable Constitutional right to arm bears.

As you may have calculated by now, they will allegedly be performing both kinds of music. Country AND Western.
Leastways they appear to be professing a 'Cowboy' theme or some such and they have further remarked that all funds herewith obtained shall be devoted to worthy causes. Bar those intentions I currently claim sweet ignorance.

They proclaim that admission shall be  £4.00

For those wishing to garb themselves appropriately the latest Paris fashions will be available, as soon as the Showman Dog & Pony Express delivers my Sears catalogue. Should you possess a spirit of enquiry or a perhaps even penchant for partaking in this event, feel free to direct your attentions to me.

Y'all take care now.
And remember, if'n you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop diggin'. (A lesson some of my foremen have yet to comprehend).
Spread the word.

     Black Tom.  (2nd floor back at the SLH branch of the old PPA mine).

Abominable Showmen - Centre For Life 26th November 2009

The gig was a sellout - call back for photos, video and the like.

Here's the missive from Jim :

"All

Just wanted to let you all know that we raised £570 on Thursday night.

This will be divided equally between Cure For Parkinsons and St Oswalds Hospice.

Thanks to everyone for helping raise this amount.

Cheers
The Abominable Showmen
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All

We just wanted to thank everyone for a great night last night.

We had a brilliant time and we hope you enjoyed yourselves.

I’m not sure exactly how much we have made as I still have some to come in but I’ll let you all know as soon as I find out.

As usual we would like to thank the following…..

Graeme Bell and Tim Hines for setting up and manning the PA,
The Centre For Life for letting us have the room for free and to all the staff for their help,
Tom and Mike for selling shirts and tickets

And especially to all you that came along, bought shirts, tickets, copious amounts of alcohol and helped make it such a brilliant night.

Thanks
Chris, Richie, Stephen and Jim"

Abominable Showmen - Next Gig 26th November 2009

The supported charities for this gig are St. Oswald's Hospice and Cure Parkinsons Trust.

From Jim

"All

Just a quick note to let you know that the SSS band The Abominable Showmen are playing at the Centre For Life on November 26th.

The room will not be as big as it was last time as we will have it partitioned off so the number of tickets will be less than previous gigs (about 120 – 130 I think but I need to confirm this)

I know it’s a few weeks away but let me know if you would like a ticket, they are £4 each, with all profits being donated to charity (to be decided)

As usual we will be selling shirts as well and they will be around £10 each depending on how many orders we receive.

The gig will have an 80’s theme to it (although not all the songs will be from that era) and the T-shirts will reflect this.

Let me know if you want any tickets and if you want shirts please let me know what size.

Thanks
Jim

email: jim dot stevenson atsign sssworldwide.com (to stop spambots)"

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We have decided to go with the A-Team design.

We have also decided to get some camouflage shirts printed, (please note that the camouflage shirts are smaller fitting than the usual shirts we get).

Please let me know as soon as possible if you would like the Black or Camouflage

The cost for these will be

Black £10.00 (£13.50 girls) Camouflage £12.00 (£13.50 girls)

If you want one please let me know size and colour please.

Cheers
Jim

Abominable Showmen - November 2005

The Videos:
All My Lovin'
Paranoid
School's Out
Teenage Kicks

The Charities:

£800 was raised on the night and from subsequent underhand dealings which was split between Debra and Saint Oswalds Hospice

T Shirt Design: