Straighten Out Rock The Bungalow – A Packed Week of Tribute Bands, Live Gigs and Open Mic Sessions Across Town

The Bungalow have Straighten Out in tonight. They are said to be the world’s premier Stranglers tribute band with an extensive set-list that spans two solid hours as they re-create the ‘early years’ sound of The Stranglers, complete with a Hammond organ and Minimoog synth; the same models used by Mr. Greenfield himself, back in the day!

The growling bass sound and the quirky guitar riffs are all there to be heard as is the dual vocal ‘attack’ from the two frontmen a-la Burnel/Cornwell as they rip through the Stranglers’ classic: ‘Peaches’, ‘Hanging Around’, ‘No More Heroes’, ‘5 Minutes’, ‘The Raven’, ‘Walk On By’, ‘Straighten Out’, ‘Down In The Sewer’ and many more as they cover the Stranglers’ early classic albums and beyond.

Straighten Out will take you on a nostalgia trip that transports you back to those raw, powerful, exhilarating times when The Stranglers emerged through the quagmire of mediocrity to produce some of the finest music ever written. Straighten Out will put you back in that place. Tickets on the door from 7pm.

Another free entry afternoon with the wonderful Bobby Deans Big Band tomorrow. Doors open at 1pm/ Band on at 2pm.

Popscene the UK’s No1 Blur Tribute Band make their debut at The Bungalow tomorrow night. Expect to hear all the favourites including There’s No Other Way, Girls and Boys, Trouble in the Message Centre, End of a Century, Chemical World and Clover Over Dover. Tickets on the door from 7pm. 

Itchycoo Park (60’s tribute) present another Sunday Session selection of sounds of the 60’s and beyond. The band feature songs from The Beatles, Stones, Kinks, Who, Hollies etc., plus some ’60’s inspired’ tunes from various acts from later decades. Free entry / Doors 1PM & IP on-stage from 2pm to 5pm. 

The Tuesday Bungalow Open Stage starts at 7pm. If you want to get on stage and jam or play some songs this is for you. The house band will be there to help and full backline available. Free entry. On Wednesday The Bungalow Club starts at 2pm. Join in with the regular fun quiz and listen to John Griffin, The Bobby Deans Big Band lead singer. 

On Thursday Echo Chambers and The Lines take to the stage for another Introducing Night. Both bands have been busy on the circuit building up their fanbase and are finding new fans at every gig they do and most likely you will be one too if you get along and check them out. Tickets on the door from 7pm. 

The Swan has Abbey Road on tonight from 8pm. Live rock action tomorrow starts at 4pm as always and this time it is Midnight Moses on stage. The Sunday Soul Club starts at 3pm with John and Maria on the decks. Crawford Carlyle will be playing on Monday from 4pm, Lee James starts his comedy and song stage show on Tuesday at 3pm and every second Thursday at 5.30pm, Duncan McLellan kicks off at 4pm on Wednesday.

The Cave’s line up this week starts with a doubler in the shape of Freight Train tomorrow at 5pm followed by Gordon Alive at 8pm. On Sunday the mighty Kong will be rocking it out from 6pm. 

The Keg have Lewis Toms in tonight from 9pm and Thursday’s Keg Sessions starts at 9pm for all the latest original music acts and bands. 3.15 are at Kennedys on Sunday. Starting later at 4.30pm 01Four1 kick off at 4.30pm at The Inn on the Corner. 

The Open Mic/Stage sessions next week are: The Abbey at 9pm on Monday, Ugly Duck Monday at 7pm, The Gantry at 9pm on Tuesday, The Bungalow on Tuesday 7pm, The Keg on Wednesday at 8.30pm and The Cave from 7pm on Thursday. The Inn on the Corner has an Open Mic on the last Tuesday of the month.