What's On - Not To Be Missed!
The must see highlights of The Horn's diary - you don't know what you'll be missing out on if you miss these nights!
Sat 4th Sep DIRTY DC
8-2 £7 door/£6 adv Buy Tickets
An awesome tribute to rock legends AC/DC. Rock fans, this is your night to get down and dirty to classic rock anthems like Highway to Hell, Whole lot of Rosie, Touch Too Much + lots more.
Links: DIRTY DC
Sat 11th Sep ZU2
8-2 £7 door / £6 adv Buy Tickets
It's been a lengthy time since we had these guys play. We happily welcome back this fantastic tribute, recreating the music of U2, playing hits spanning almost twenty years. ZU2 are Europe's top U2 tribute and have been described as "Even better than the real thing".
Come and be the judge for yourself!
Links: ZU2
Wed 15th Sep STANLEY SINGS SINATRA
8pm - Midnight £5 Buy Tickets
Stanley Sings Sinatra is a must for any Sinatra fan, Stanley presents all the classiscs from 'Come Fly With Me' to 'My Way' with many more in between with a style that mirrors the late great Mr Sinatra himself. Don't miss this classic tribute to Ol' Blue Eyes."...Stanley Possesses a fine voice
coupled with the right amount of
confidence and stage presence..."
B. Levy (Levy Studios)
"...Stanley's voice and style was
phenomenal..."
N. Goldhill (L.A.USA)
"...with professional big band
backing tracks, sounded and orchestrated
from the original recordings, this
is a well produced and entertaining show.."
H.Lopes (Sound Engineer London)
Thu 16th Sep TOYAH WILLCOX
8-12 £17 Adv / £20 Door Buy Tickets
TOYAH WILLCOX is coming to The Horn in St Albans on Thursday 16th September 2010.TOYAH WILLCOX first became well-known during the punk rock era, her appearances in Derek Jarman's 1977 film Jubilee, 1979's Who album-inspired Quadrophenia, which launched her as a provocative and anti-establishment figure. Fronting a band known as Toyah, her singing career was slow to take off and the band released six singles in the UK before finally hitting the charts in 1981, with "It's a Mystery". This was followed by several other huge hits including "Thunder In The Mountains" and "I Want to Be Free". These singles were also successful on an international level.
In 1982, she was voted Best Female Singer at the British Rock and Pop Awards — since restyled as The BRIT Awards, or "BRITs" and in 1987 she made the top fifty with her version of "Echo Beach".
Toyah has released 30 albums 7 of which have been UK Top 40 successes. She has 13 UK top 40 singles, making her one of the most successful female artists in British history.
In 2001, 'Q' magazine named Toyah number 48 in their top 100 Greatest Women in Music poll, as voted for by readers of the magazine and in 2009, Toyah came 7th in a BBC series naming the 'Queens of British Pop,' as voted for by the British Public.
She has also appeared as a presenter of programmes such as Songs of Praise, Holiday (BBC), and Good Sex Guide Late as well as being a guest on several shows such as The Heaven and Earth Show, Through the Keyhole and Loose Women. She also provided the voices for the children's television programmes Teletubbies and Brum and has also appeared in the reality television series I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! and I'm Famous and Frightened!.
Toyah has had two best selling books published. Following her 2000 autobiography Living Out Loud, Toyah had a further autobiographical book published in 2005 documenting her experience of cosmetic surgery, Diary of a Facelift. This is a night certainly not to be missed!!!
Links: TOYAH WILLCOX
Thu 23rd Sep JOHN OTWAY
8-12 £10 Buy Tickets
John Otway first became notorious back in 1977, after an appearance on the Old Grey Whistle Test with his former partner Wild Willy Barrett, this was rewarded with his first hit, a recording contract with Polydor worth a million in today´s money and a sizable live audience. He was considered a one hit wonder for 25 years until he had his 2nd Top Ten hit “Bunsen Burner” last year. Otway has recently appeared on Never Mind The Buzzcocks, the only person in the history of the program to rise from the ranks of the "who are they now" line up, to the guest panelist. John has never quite lived up to the bill as "Rock'n'Roll's Greatest Failure" simply because this engaging, witty and compulsive performer will entertain you as nobody as ever done before. Links: JOHN OTWAY
Sat 25th Sep THE BIZZAROS + Support
8pm - 2am £5 Adv / £6 Door Buy Tickets
The Bizzaros are a 10 Piece band with the sound of a classic big rockin r’n’b band which whilst having the feel and soul of some of the great big bands of the past also has a current contemporary rock edge underpinning the groove with influences from Otis Redding and James Brown to Jimi Hendrix The Bizzarros are not a band that can be pidgeonholed easily !!The material is eclectic and electric, white trash soul, rock, blues, r’n’b, funk and ska, with such a diverse range of material available this is not a band that slots into one particular style or genre but effortlessly glides between a bewildering range of material to leave their audiences grooving.
The Bizzarros themselves have musical CVs which are pretty amazing in themselves, a World Champion Blues Harp Player, the guy that wrote most of the Monty Python film music, guys from bands like Talk Talk, Bad Manners, Jeff Beck Band and record company house session musicians, fronted by the prodigious talent that is Isaac Rose, a 22 year old singer with a huge voice. These guys have played with everyone from Fleetwood Mac to Jools Holland.
You know that feeling when you hear something that makes you want to move your feet and hop around with a huge grin on your face well that is what The Bizzarros are all about and the audience at The Horn will get a chance to hear it for themselves tonight, every time they play they bring the house down, let the good times roll with a bang !!!
Fri 1st Oct MOSQUITO presents
8 - 2am £3 Entry ALL NIGHT
The Good Fridays present their new night MOSQUITO on the First Friday of Every Month - and it's only £3 Entry ALL NIGHT or FREE if you arrive before 8pm!!!. Featuring 3 or 4 original bands from 9-midnight with a dj playing new and classic indie rock from midnight until 2am.
This months installment features: Shabby Tinkers + Tom Pearce
Fri 8th Oct THE SCRATCH 'DIY' ALBUM LAUNCH PARTY
8pm - 2am £5 Adv / £6 Door Buy Tickets
It's The Scratch 'DIY' album launch party!The Scratch return to hometown venue The Horn for the first time in 2010, since their highly successful 2009 residency that featured such high profile supports as Goldblade and XFM DJ Clint Boon.
DIY is the bands first album that is being re-issued for the digital market and to celebrate they are returning for a party!... Not only will there be three excellent support acts, but also a live radio broadcast and other promotions on a night not to be missed!
Special guests include: Kalazar + 50ft Woman + We Are White Worm
Plus a DJ until 2am.
Links: THE SCRATCH
Fri 15th Oct THE SMYTHS
8-2am £8 door / £7 adv Buy Tickets
The Smyths return - the best trbute to one of the UKs most important bands - The Smiths. The Smiths band of Smiths fans for Smiths fans playing all the hits including There is a light, The Queen is Dead and many more. Links: THE SMYTHS
Tue 26th Oct WISHBONE ASH
8pm - Midnight £17 Adv / £20 Door Buy Tickets
Wishbone Ash are a British rock band who achieved success in the early and mid-1970s. Their popular records included Wishbone Ash (1970), Argus (1972), There's the Rub (1974), and New England (1976). They were one of the first of many bands to come who used twin lead guitars.Wishbone Ash are considered to be one of the major innovators of the harmony twin lead guitar format. Their contributions helped in Powell and Turner being voted "Two Of The Ten Most Important Guitarists In Rock History" (Traffic magazine 1989), and part of the "Top 20 Guitarists Of All Time" (Rolling Stone). Melody Maker (1972) described Ted Turner and Andy Powell as "the most interesting two guitar team since the days when Beck and Page graced The Yardbirds".
Links: WISHBONE ASH
Fri 29th Oct JUICEBOX presents
8pm - 2am £5 Adv / £6 Door Buy Tickets
Juicebox presents a Friday Night of fantastic signed and unsigned talent showing some of the best acts from the mid-week Juicbox ShowcasesFeaturing: Charly Coombes & The New Breed (Ex Supergrass/22-20s) + Dirty Thursday + The Tearaways + The Pins
Links: JUICEBOX
Fri 5th Nov MOSQUITO presents
8 - 2am £3 Entry ALL NIGHT
The Good Fridays present their new night MOSQUITO on the First Friday of Every Month - and it's only £3 Entry ALL NIGHT or FREE if you arrive before 8pm!!!. Featuring 3 or 4 original bands from 9-midnight with a dj playing new and classic indie rock from midnight until 2am.
This months installment features: The Beta Rays
Tue 23rd Nov HAZEL O'CONNOR & THE SUBTERRANEANS + Support from TENSHEDS
8-12 £17.50 adv / £20 door Buy Tickets
Award winning singer-songwriter HAZEL O'CONNOR teams up THE SUBTERRANEANS and stunning saxophonist CLARE HIRST. Here celebrating 30 years of Breaking Glass, they perform for the first time ever all the songs from this iconic film, live. Melding Hazel's superb vocals with soaring sax, guitars, bass and drums – this is the full band sound. Hazel's ageless songs from the soundtrack including Eighth Day, Will You, Big Brother, Monsters in Disguise, Calls The Tune and Blackman, all seem even more relevant in our present times.Striding into the spotlight, with her lead role in Dodi Fayed's cult movie Breaking Glass in 1980, Hazel immediately became an iconic figure as well as a BAFTA nominated actress. She was the first female to star in a hit film and also write and perform its soundtrack, which went Top 5.
Hazel O'Connor with her sultry vocals is no stranger to the live scene. Consistently recording and touring, Hazel took to the road with a stage show about her amazing life story - Beyond Breaking Glass. It took Edinburgh by storm in 1998 and again in 2008 and has toured the world. The impossibility of performing classic new wave songs accompanied only by the celebrated Irish harp player, Cormac De Barra, has been wooing audiences since those first shows, all those years ago.
Formed in 1998, The Subterraneans are - on vocals, Tony Dangerfield (Wonderland, Ocean Colour Scene), on guitars Mark Roberts (Chris Evans, TFI Fridays) and Andy Shortland (Doctor And The Medics, Cloven Hoof), bass guitarist Kevin Lomas (Wonderland, Roy Wood, 2-Tone Collective) and drummer Steve Tombs who has worked with all of the others at some stage. Long time collaborator, Clare Hirst on saxophone, currently also performs with Hazel in the Bluja Project and is perhaps best known for work with Bellestars, Communards, Maxi Priest and David Bowie among others.
“ It's all there, that voice, soaring sax, layered drums and textured guitar riffs...timeless...” Glastonbury Festival
“The sturdiness and earthy expression of her voice...marvellous” Hot Press
Support from: TENSHEDS
Winner of the PRS Unsigned Award 2008 and Northern Trax Award Winner 2009.
With just an acoustic guitar, piano, harmonica and voice Tensheds produces his stylish and authentic music that dons its cap top Bob Dylan, David Gray, Leonard Cohen and Woody Guthrie! He has performed all over the UK and Europe including Cannes Festival, Monaco Grand Prix, and The Vladimir Palace in St.Petersburg!
www.myspace.com/tensheds
Links: HAZEL O'CONNOR
Fri 3rd Dec MOSQUITO presents
8 - 2am £3 Entry ALL NIGHT
The Good Fridays present their new night MOSQUITO on the First Friday of Every Month - and it's only £3 Entry ALL NIGHT or FREE if you arrive before 8pm!!!. Featuring 3 or 4 original bands from 9-midnight with a dj playing new and classic indie rock from midnight until 2am.