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"Since Summer" - Band Update!

2024 is winding up busier than all of last year ... and we even got out on the road for a gig in Manchester last month!

Our glorious Dorchester Court "homecoming" was packed - a great crowd and also a stack of great talent including Paul Betts + Isabella Brandwood-Reed (pictured above with us and Dan Cross during our packed 'Heroes' encore), Lou Terry, Dan Cross + Peter O'Brien and Paul Kennedy (co-founder of seminals Salad) as Martpaul. Gestation until October, and then we got in another Off The Cuff gig with Dan, Paul and Camberwell mainstays The New Immigrants.

Then we hit the road to play an inaugural gig for OTC Antony Porter's new space, Fuel the Music Manchester, which is dedicated to supporting independent music.

And we're back in action this week as part of a Broken Art Collective revue in New Cross Inn, with a real Salad band bent!

For anyone not in the know, Salad originally formed in London back in 1992, and the initial line-up included Marijne van der Vlugt and guitarist Paul Kennedy. The band disbanded in 1998 and reformed in 2017. Since that time our guitarist Donald Ross Skinner has been Salad's drummer, Jon Hunt became an active member, and Paul Kennedy formed Martpaul. All three play the New Cross revue, and Paul Kennedy has had this to say:

"Hey groovers! Why not come on down or up to New Cross on the 19th of November to enjoy an invigorating and entertaining rock concert featuring three members of Salad performing in three different outfits? Plus the redoubtable Dan Cross?! (Note to self: look up "redoubtable".) It would be so gear to see you all there! The 17th person through the door gets a plastic windmill!"

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What a night in #DorchesterCourt for the #SummerParty last weekend! Fantastic #HOTMOTEL finale after sunset with an encore of Bowie's 'Heroes' to remind everyone about the importance of unity - Dan Cross & Bella Brandwood-Reed joining in on stage! From beginning till end, a great day of communal solidarity

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New version of 'Playing Around' aka NOT DONE YET ... Nigel Dean calls it the 'Deluxe' version! A lot of it was shot at OTC Bar - Off The Cuff - come see us do it there again live on Friday night! We have #Martpaul & #TheFragileStates opening, 8pm

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Tonight! Friday 24th May at #OffTheCuff in #HerneHill with #TheFragileStates and #Martpaul ... 8pm

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Phone version of ALIVE performed at The Old Dispensary in Camberwell for our #PeckhamFoodcycle #benefit in association with #CostOfLivingCrisisConcerts and #ph7 The Neutral Zone. We're at #OffTheCuff #HerneHill tonight, 24th May

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All set for OTC on Friday May 24th with the Fragile States and Martpaul! Here's a look back at our last one at The Old Distillery in Camberwell - featuring a slowed down version of ALIVE and some fancy dance steps from the audience! It was a benefit we played for Peckham Foodcycle. Thanks to Cost of Living Crisis Concerts , Grove Collective and The Neutral Zone for helping to make it happen. Other fabulous musicians on the night included Paul Betts of All The Presidents Men, Tahlia Gray, Undici, Motherwitz, The Dubious Characters and MeU

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Great to be back at OTC! We're limbering up for our next show with The Fragile States and Martpaul on the 24th of May at Off the Cuff in Herne Hill! See you there! 24/5/24 #RailtonRoad

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Recut of our classic about love and loss, mashing OTC live footage with new twists!

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Weaving together elements as diverse as Brechtian psychodrama & sex boogie, South London dark boys HOTMOTEL laid waste to a frozen back room in Lewisham as relentlessly as a panzer attack on a defenceless village in central europe in 1940.

The bruising rhythm section were as tight as the scammell wheel nuts on a 16 wheeler freight liner, whilst 'Donald' tore chunks out of the cruel winter sky and sprayed the word "majesty" across it for good measure.

However, for me, the human icing on the cake was the one they call Rupert, strutting, pawing and imploring the microphone to the cadre of bare breasted acolytes in the front row.   He may just be the finest British blues singer for a generation and, although firmly in the tradition of Ferry, Berry, Bowie, Hadley and Ant, it is also entirely possible that outside music he could act as a lighting rod for a future wild eyed sex cult some day, such is his manic charisma & devilish tongue,,,,,,RECOMMMENDED.