Ditch your tents as Undercover Festival VII 1/2 (Woking Surrey) is days away – 13 & 14 Sept
UNDERCOVER FESTIVAL VII ½ (Sept @ Woking)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (Sept 2019)
Time to Ditch your tents in a few days and head to Undercover Festival VII ½ an established intimate indoor alternative music festival including punk, postpunk and so much more…..
- Undercover Festival back home to Woking the area where we started 7 years ago for two packed days of alternative music including punk and post punk, at The Fiery Bird Venue Woking on 13th & 14th September 2019.
- Including Spear of Destiny (Fri) coming to Woking as part of their UK tour, celebrating the 35th anniversary of their seminal album “One Eyed Jacks” in full plus a very strong two line up including the return of Towers Of London.
- If you require any more information on the festival, bands or anything else please get in touch.
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Many thanks see ya down the front….Mick Moriarty and the Undercover team
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UNDERCOVER FESTIVAL VII ½ (WOKING)
Undercover Festival back home to Woking the area where we started 7 years ago for two packed days of alternative music including punk and post-punk, at The Fiery Bird Venue Woking on 13th & 14th September 2019.
Yes small festivals are two a penny BUT you won’t find anything like Undercover especially in the South East
Including Spear of Destiny (Fri) coming to Woking as part of their UK tour, celebrating the 35th anniversary of their seminal album “One Eyed Jacks” in full. plus a very strong two line up including the return of Towers Of London (Sat).
Undercover defies all other conventions and festival templates plus it is once again held undercover i.e. not outdoors so if it’s peeing down come September it’s not a problem and your beer won’t get diluted. Leave your wellies at home, and enjoy one of the best small alternative events the South East has to offer in SEPTEMBER 2019.
General admission tickets on sale now tickets are available by post / online or (paper tickets) from All Ages RecordsCamden, Banquet Records Kingston Surrey, Bens Records Guildford, Sounds of the Suburbs Records Ruislip ( you geta free gift at SOTS if you buy a ticket and tickets are on sale at face value) or go online to www.undercoverfest.comfor more details on the line up, tickets and everything else Undercover Festival related.
Undercover Organiser Mick said “we have been asked why back to the Woking area, well Elaine from the venue used to be part of the Undercover team back in the day as I was actually born in Woking we thought why not”. Mick added “at Undercover you won’t find any of that X Factor schmaltz so my message to the people of Woking come along and find out what the fuss is about and if you like your music alternative you will love what we have to off at Undercover”
As we say at Undercover “See Ya Down The Front”
Full line up
FRIDAY’S LINE UP
Spear of Destiny
1919
The Satellites
The Blue Carpet Band
R.E.D (Religion Equals Decay)
SATURDAYS LINE UP
Towers of London
Menace Punk
WONK UNIT
Rubella Ballet
Zounds
Actifed
The Fanzines
The Wipes
Plus both days Keith (part of the furniture) Woodhouse MC and Trev Bossom DJ in between bands
Fiery Bird venue is located 2 mins from Woking station 25 mins direct from Waterloo and direct from Portsmouth.
10 mins from M25/M3/A3 with parking opposite, a hotel attached.
Cash Only Bar
Doors Fri 6pm to midnight / Sat 4pm to 1am – See website for full details
Tickets
Fri – £20 in advance
Sat – £25 in advance
Both days – £40 in advance
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Note to editor: Spear of Destiny
Spear are coming to Undercover Festivals Woking to perform the classic One Eyed Jacks album in full.With the exception of “These Days Are Gone”, “Playground of the Rich” and “Prisoner of Love”, all songs had been performed live by the original Spear of Destiny line-up for nearly a year prior to the recording of One Eyed Jacks. “Everything You Ever Wanted”, “Attica”, “Rainmaker”, “Young Men”, “Forbidden Planet” and “Don’t Turn Away” were introduced to live sets in March 1983, with “Young Men” going by the title of “Remembrance (Every Other Day)”. “Liberator” was introduced to live shows in the early summer of 1983. The final live performance of the original line-up of Spear of Destiny took place on 9 June 1983, followed by a television studio performance on 8 July.
August saw Spear of Destiny return to the stage, this time with the introduction of Dolphin Taylor on drums, Neil Pyzer on saxophone, piano, and organ, and John Lennard on saxophone. The new line-up featured a dramatic reworking of the songs that were to eventually become One Eyed Jacks, along with the introduction of “Playground of the Rich” and “Rosie”, a song that would later be featured as the b-side to the line up’s first recorded output, the single “Prisoner of Love”. A tour in November premiered “The Last Card”. Although it proceeded the release of One Eyed Jacks by six months, “The Last Card” would not be featured on a studio recording until the release of the “All My Love (Ask Nothing)” single in 1985. “Prisoner of Love” was added to the live set in December 1983 and would be released as the first single for the record in January 1984. By this time, John Lennard had left the band, replaced by Mickey Donnelly. The band also added Alan St Clair as a second guitarist. St Clair had previously worked for Kirk Brandon as a guitar technician.
The album remains a classic in Spear’s back catalogue and a firm fan favourite.35 years later Spear are back on tour celebrating the 35th anniversary of the album and they will be at The Fiery Bird Venue Woking Surrey Fri 13th September…
Towers of London
Towers of London are a band that wear their influences on their hearts. Their hedonistic reputation precedes them but they’ve grown into something more. The bands new dawn sees them back seeking to make a difference
Controversy followed Towers Of London everywhere… but with new management, a calmer outlook and a joyous, stadium-friendly new single, could their time have come at last?
When someone decides to write the definitive history of London glam punks Towers Of London, they’re not going to be short of material. There’s the fights, the reality TV series, that performance on Never Mind The Buzzcocks, the ban from Download Festival, the support slots with Guns N’ Roses, the fights with My Chemical Romance, singer Donny Tourette’s early escape from Celebrity Big Brother, and yes, the comebacks.
13 years on from their debut album ‘Blood Sweat & Towers’ the Towers Of London have reformed with the original line up with promise of a new album in 2019.
Menace
“Not all Punks are dead”
Menace were London’s first generation no-nonsense boot boys, pre-dating Sham 69 and Cockney Rejects who overtook them in terms of mass popularity.
They formed in 1976 at the Hope And Anchor in Islington who soon playing the Roxy. Their high-energy, unpretentious sets won them few admirers in the inkies e.g. the Press, but they swiftly built a strong following that brought together both punks and skinheads. They’re often cited as the first to unite this potentially volatile mix. However, there was nothing premeditated about the audience they attracted. “Sham were more overt in their leanings towards skinheads,” Martin told me. “We had that crossover thing. We liked that idea.” Partly because most of the band themselves were skinheads in their youth.Move forward to 2019
The current line up still has Noel with occasional appearances from Charlie.The core of Menace is Noel, Finn, Rob (originally in King Kurt) and Harvey
1919
“The band formed in December 1980 in Bradford and set about recording heavy, melodic, intense dance music with no frills and pretensions. The band were an early contributor to what became the Goth genre.” (Gods and Alchoves)
1919 had chart success with the singles “Caged”, “Repulsion” and “Cry Wolf”” as well as the 1984 LP “Machine”, and recorded two Peel Sessions.In 2014, founding guitarist Mark Tighe attempted to reform the band, recruiting Rio Goldhammer from the Leeds underground scene to perform vocals. In 2015, original drummer Mick Reed returned to the fray, providing the final piece of the puzzle in the form of bassist Karl Donner. With the band’s core reunited, the “‘Madness Continues’ Sessions” live-album quickly emerged, along with the self-released Death Note EP.
Two European tours and a host of festival appearances later, 1919 signed a deal with Westworld Recordings in 2016 to release a new album, “Bloodline”, 35 years after their first. But it was to be no fairytale. In January 2017 Tighe lost a short battle with cancer, leaving a chasm at the heart of the band. Having insisted the others carry on in his absence though, Mick, Rio, and Karl now had to do justice to the album, and to the memory of their fallen comrade.
In fact Undercover 2016 was the last gig for Mark and it is fitting that 1919 have become firm regulars at Undercover.
Bloodline was released to critical acclaim in 2017, with Vive le Rock’s Pete Woods writing “Good goths come to those that wait” in an 8/10 review. Louderthanwar said “‘Bloodline’ will bewitch you“, and Sonic Seducer calling its “nightmarish-hypnotic gloom” a “fitting tribute” to Tighe’s legacy. In April the band confirmed that Sam Evans would be their new full-time guitarist, and began touring the new album once again to rave reviews. As of October, the band played the last of 19 dates across Europe in Leeds. On 12 January 2018, Bloodline was released on limited edition red vinyl, featuring two additional tracks (“D.N.A” and “A Hymn to the Night”) recorded with Mark.
Wonk Unit
The Wonk are a very difficult band to describe they are punk but they have pretty much thrown all preconceived converntions to the wind, what you will get after their set is a warm glow and a huge grin.
“Wonk Unit are arguably the future of punk rock; I fully accept that that’s a bold statement, but having had ‘Nervous Racehorse’, the fourth full length album from the London outfit on rotation for the past week I feel they entirely justify the claim…” – Louder than war
“(Wonk Unit) have managed the almost impossible task of having found their own sound.It’s punk son, but not as we know it” – (Big Cheese)
“one of the most unique bands in modern punk rock.Wonk Unit are a fresh breath of life in the London punk scene. They’re fun, weird, poetic and utterly compelling all at once, a must-see.” (Art Rocker)