We're only singing in Bath Abbey!!

Who would have thought?!  Little old us, from darkest North, North Wiltshire, The Magnificent AK47, the "Sound of Testosterone", "The Harnessers of Thunder and Lightning", performing at one of Great Britain's most celebrated Abbeys...  Well, 'tis about to happen.

We will be performing for the Dorothy House Hospice to help celebrate their 40th birthday with a concert and service of thanksgiving at Bath Abbey on Thursday.

Doors open at 7pm while the concert starts at 7.30pm. Entry is free to all and no tickets are required.

More info at https://www.dorothyhouse.org.uk/events/than/.

A Magnificent time at Lyme Folk Festival

A very big THANK YOU to the organisers and all the visitors at Lyme Folk Festival today who made us feel so welcome and came along to enjoy our many performances around the town and sea front.

More pictures can be found at https://twitter.com/magnificentak47 and hopefully more to come soon.

Wending down South for the weekend to Sing Like a Pirate

And here we are... on the verge of another landmark event in the annals of Magnificent places we have sung... 

We've done concert halls, grottoes, caves, castles, windmills, ancient monuments, preaching circles, cliff tops and now finally a stage by the sea!

Tomorrow also marks our first participation in a Festival Parade to entice the audience along to our show by the sea and thence to our "Sing Like a Pirate" Workshop.

Here's our timetable in case you can make it along 

(Ignoring the horribly early start for Day Trippers...)

10:30 – Start to assemble as close to Langmoor Gardens & the top of Broad Street as possible 

11:00 – parade down the seafront

12:00 - NOON – performance on stage

13:00 - Fast lunch then

14:00 – WORKSHOP lead by Chris Samuel helped by The Magnificent AK47 at Langmoor Marquee just above the seafront stage, in the gardens, on top of the By the Bay restaurant

15:00 - After that you are into "Afters" territory and who knows what might happen

Enjoy the festival if you are coming and do pop along to say hello.

Seaside sojourn

Brace yerselves, Dorset!  The Magnificent AK47 be heading down south to teach you survey seasiders how to do a proper Pirate song or two...!

Yes, taking the proverbial "coals to Newcastle", those daring swashbuckling blokes from North, North Wiltshire are invading the quiet fossil town of Lyme Regis to sing them songs about deepest, darkest doings in the Upper Shire and also regaling them with tales of being tossed on high seas.

11:00 – parade from Langmoor Gardens & the top of Broad Street down the seafront

12:00 NOON – performance on stage on the Seafront

13:00 - grab some sustenance

14:00 – "Sing Like a Pirate" workshop by Chris helped by us at Langmoor Marquee (for the workshop) is just above the seafront stage, in the gardens, on top of the By the Bay restaurant

15:00 - who knows what will happen after this...

We very much hope some of you may be able to join us for what should be very jolly do.

More info about the festival can be found at http://www.lymefolk.com/.

The Magnificent AK47 undaunted by "act of God" at Stroud Fringe

Bizarre scenes at Stroud Fringe this afternon...   Firstly the blokes felt like caged animals as they warmed up to the side of the stage (witness mild mannered Trevor H and Jim climbing up the rails), then, just as we had finished our (rather ropey) soundcheck the most almighty thunder clap and lightening strike occurred on the nearby church...

Maybe because we had been rehearsing there only minutes earlier...

You can hear the full experience here...  Don't play it too loud, you will damage your speakers!

Back in action, despite being poorly

By rights it shouldn't be allowed, we should be resting, calmly in a darkened room, with a damp hanky on our furrowed, fevered brow, with our dearly beloved attending to our every considerable need.  

But no, the public demands our presence, they said, you're not so poorly that you can't drag yourself out to do it in front of all those people.

So, despite our better judgement and against medical advice, we are being lured out of our summer slumbers to unleash yet more new material on an unsuspecting public this coming Saturday in The People's Republic of Stroud, at their very own Stroud Fringe.

We are due to be performing at 13:45 (precisely) on the Bank Gardens stage, slap bang in the middle of town - details can be found at http://stroudfringe.co.uk/venue/view/bank-gardens and even more details can be found at http://stroudfringe.co.uk/events/detail/the-magnificent-ak47.

Hopefully we will find some of you, dear reader, loitering around to hear our latest masterpiece by that devilishly clever songsmith, our very own Top Bloke, Roger Jackson, veteran workshop leader at BlokeFest.  He has penned a plaintive ditty about the trials and tribulations and slings and arrows of being a bloke who is sick, but not receiving much sympathy - a song that has struck a chord within the group - can't think why...

As demonstrated by Brother Matt, we will soldier on manfully, even though some of us are suffering, from "Man flu"

Happy Birthday Bill

A (slightly belated) Happy Birthday for our saintly (can you see his "halo"?) and beloved ArtMeister, bass rumbler and general all round top bloke, Mr Bill Hicks celebrated in song as only The Magnificent AK47 know how to do...