News: More Pianos, with some Bonzos
THREE BONZOS AND A PIANO
REMEMBER THE BONZO DOG DOO DAH BAND?
THEY were innovators of their generation, laughed at and loved in equal measure as they married musical mayhem with comedy and wacky theatrics on stage. The songs and antics of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band still hold fond memories for so many who fell under their spell in the mid to late 1960s.
The onstage show is also full of anarchic good humour and subversive silliness: "It's general chaos on stage – a bit like a workshop really," says Roger. "We don't want to get too slick with the act, but there little chance of that. We have collective amnesia, and rely on the audience to join in and remind us!"
The show is coming to the Lakeside Theatre, Colchester on Friday 25 November - go to http://www.essex.ac.uk/events/event.aspx?e_id=3312
“The undisputed heavyweight champions of comedy pop” Robert Spellman, Daily Express
Diabolical mayhem from the largest number of original Bonzos still playing together anywhere on the surface of the earth! Born in a distant art school past somewhere in the sixties, Three Bonzos And A Piano unleash their Bonzo Dog classics with energetic zip and palaver. Hunting Tigers Out In India, I’m Bored, Big Shot, Trouser Press, The Sheik of Araby, Monster Mash, Can Blue Men Sing The Whites?, The Head Ballet and many, many more (NEW songs, too)! Robots, smoke, unsuitable medical technology, ancient theatrical props, the kitchen sink and the audience (you get to join-in!) combine to re-create the atmosphere of those formative years of the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band at such legendary venues as The Tiger’s Head, Catford. Addictive stuff! You have been warned!
Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band fans will be delighted to learn that Roger Ruskin Spear, Rodney Slater and Sam Spoons have teamed up with super-pianist Dave Glasson to create chaos on the chords and put the mayhem into music!
“A sort of Bash Street Bonzos” Roger Ruskin Spear
NEW CD “HAIR OF THE DOG” now available! www.threebonzosandapiano.co.uk
REVIEWS ‘The band that single-handedly invented rock theatre...the stage crackled with energy...it was a joy to behold...Long may their mad gods bless and keep them. A band like the Bonzos only comes along once in a lifetime’ John Blaney, Shindig! Magazine 2010
‘These guys are my heroes’ Adrian Edmondson, Comedian
'More costume changes than an evening with Lady Gaga and more laughs than an audience with Billy Connolly...[the new songs are] as funny as anything Tim Minchin has written.’ R2 (Rock’n’Reel) Magazine
‘They played like wild things.’ Alan Franks, The Times
‘A joyful triumph’ whoslaughingnow.org for Birmingham Post
‘The guys have so much charm ... the audience loved them.’ Alex Lester, Radio 2 DJ
‘An evening of merry madness that induced shouts of approval, laughter and cheers not to mention more applause than Roger’s Spears old clapping machine could ever muster.’ Chris Welch, Rock Jounalist (NME, Record Collector)
‘Their musicianship is top.’ Joe Geesin, Classic Rock
‘Lampoons of every genre, style and pose performed with madcap good humour and unrehearsed idiocy...the genuine anarchy which spilled over, into and onto the lucky audience. A classic.’ Ralph Brown, Actor, ‘Withnail and I’
‘Absolute bliss and far better than the big reunion gigs of a couple of years ago’ Robert Rankin, Author
‘Exuberance and sheer determination...constantly surprising and never less than fun. Fun on the run, guffaws and applause galore, vaudeville just came back from a long holiday’ Brighton Argus
‘Like a ripe fungi sending spores of comedy far and wide’ Worcester News
‘Good to have the Bonzos with us, the audience had a great night’ Salisbury, Playhouse 2009
‘All the jollity, audience participation and raucous laughter of a spirited music hall...increasingly legendary!’ threeweeks, website of the Brighton Fringe Festival
Three Bonzos And A Piano are:
Roger Ruskin Spear sax, clarinet, trouser press & robots
Rodney Slater Bonzos co-founder with the late Vivian Stanshall - saxophones & washboard
Sam Spoons drums, electric spoons & didgereedon’t
Dave Glasson piano, bass pullover & glasses
with Andy Roberts, guitar, banjo & ukulele and occasional extra Bonzos ‘Legs’ Larry Smith and Vernon Dudley Bohay Nowell!
THREE BONZOS AND A PIANO
Ready to fill theatres with chaos, laughter and a truly life-affirming hair of the dog!
The show is coming to the Lakeside Theatre, Colchester on Friday 25 November