Chris A has added our first video from the Sapperton Tunnel Experience courtesy of Dr Sweeney.
You'll find it under the 'Past Triumphs' page.
This is a clip of Concrete with dog accompaniment and splashing. View for fun rather than for performance quality ...
;-)
Monday, 18 July 2011
Sunday, 17 July 2011
Seven Sleeps till "Spooky Sunday"
The planning has been done, the tickets been selling like the proverbial hot snacks and excitement is mounting and it is now only 7 sleeps till the return of the Spooky Men (& Spooky Women), see Spooky Do 2.
We are now officially SOLD OUT for the Spooky Men's Chorale gig next Sunday but people can re-live the moment from the previous event as we will be producing a semi-official bootleg from the recordings made in 2009. Contact themagnificentak47@gmail.com for more info, but shhhh, don't tell anyone and you ain't seen me right?
Advance warning to all attendees to get there as early as you can as we will now be STARTING the performances at 7:30pm in order to fit everything in and still have time to go to the pub after, so we will be OPENING at 7:00pm although there will be people there manning the bar from about 6:30pm.
Bring plenty of your pocket money as there will be a ton of goodies to purchase as souvenirs of another very spooky night.
Looking forward to seeing you all there, and sleep well till then!
We are now officially SOLD OUT for the Spooky Men's Chorale gig next Sunday but people can re-live the moment from the previous event as we will be producing a semi-official bootleg from the recordings made in 2009. Contact themagnificentak47@gmail.com for more info, but shhhh, don't tell anyone and you ain't seen me right?
Advance warning to all attendees to get there as early as you can as we will now be STARTING the performances at 7:30pm in order to fit everything in and still have time to go to the pub after, so we will be OPENING at 7:00pm although there will be people there manning the bar from about 6:30pm.
Bring plenty of your pocket money as there will be a ton of goodies to purchase as souvenirs of another very spooky night.
Looking forward to seeing you all there, and sleep well till then!
Saturday, 9 July 2011
Re-live AKMF2011 Sunday Showcase
New recordings of our performance at the Ashton Keynes Music Festival 2011 Sunday Showcase have been posted to http://soundcloud.com/the-magnificent-ak47/sets/akmf2011-sunday-showcase for you to re-live the Magic Man Moments of Chris forgetting the words to the walk on song (!) and Lars unburdening his anxistential (new made up word!) woes.
What a great way to spend a Sunday afternoon.
Tracks include
Sound off - walk on intro
Concrete
Tsmidao
Satisfaction
Down to the River to Pray Intro
What a great way to spend a Sunday afternoon.
Tracks include
Sound off - walk on intro
Concrete
Tsmidao
Satisfaction
Down to the River to Pray Intro
Tuesday, 5 July 2011
Recordings from Village Voices Gig
The now legendary performance at the Ashton Keynes Music Festival Village Voices event has been captured for posterity and circumstantial evidence and can be witnessed at http://soundcloud.com/the-magnificent-ak47/tracks
Tracks include
The various introductions
Magazena
Concrete
Tsmidao
Haul Away Joe
Down to the River to Pray Intro
Big Spender
Priceless!
Tracks include
The various introductions
Magazena
Concrete
Tsmidao
Haul Away Joe
Down to the River to Pray Intro
Big Spender
Priceless!
Thursday, 23 June 2011
Pictures from the 2011 Wold Tour
Attached are some photos from the AK47's recent Ashton Keynes concerts. Some camera shake was noticeable in these and a few rejected pictures, evidence of the barely contained excitement experienced by this photographer at least. The Haul Away Joe pic does suggest that we may be in danger of frightening young children and small dogs.
Tuesday, 21 June 2011
Corsham Fringe Festival - Best performance yet?!
Well who would have thought that we could top our recent performances in AK? And so quickly!
It's been a busy few days on the Magnificent front with three performances in five days, almost a mini tour.
We journeyed down through soggy Wiltshire to the lovely town of Corsham to perform at their Fringe Festival at St Bartholomew's Church. It was another tall order to follow our illustrious leader and his very talented pair of ladies as The Croutons but the blokes rose to the occassion, er, rather magnificently.
Most of us were slightly taken aback when Chris announced a curtailed set, depriving us of doing Haul Away Joe and the now ritual of doning our Pirate garb. There were a few plaintive "Aaars" to try to make him realised that he had skipped this integral part of the show but he was having none of it, last song Down to the River to pray was called so we duely obeyed, if somewhat heavy hearted.
We were very well received by the enthusiastic audience but sloped off back to our seats a little dejected at being deprived from singing one of our favourite pieces, or so it seemed. It turned out that he had just had the brainwave of using the piece as a Grand Finale so we were called back onto the stage to get togged up and wave our swords about intimidating the nice ladies from the Pound Sound crowd - and mighty fine it sounds too! You can here the whole set at http://soundcloud.com/the-magnificent-ak47/sets/corsham-monday-20th-june-2011/
And who will forget the picture of most of the troops sat in a section of the stalls like the angelic little choir boys they once were, except not all dressed in black at the time.
The evening was rounded off by a swift half or two in the Flemish Weaver which included a single round of Tsmidao to one of the ladies in the pub which brought the place to an amazed standstill, and Lisa(Chris' wife) rushing to his side to protect him from the lady in question. All most bizarre but very entertaining.
Roll on next year's event!
P.S. Great trip there and back, thanks to Stuart for driving and buying crisps (along with his milk) on the way back - Rock 'n' Roll ;-)
It's been a busy few days on the Magnificent front with three performances in five days, almost a mini tour.
We journeyed down through soggy Wiltshire to the lovely town of Corsham to perform at their Fringe Festival at St Bartholomew's Church. It was another tall order to follow our illustrious leader and his very talented pair of ladies as The Croutons but the blokes rose to the occassion, er, rather magnificently.
Most of us were slightly taken aback when Chris announced a curtailed set, depriving us of doing Haul Away Joe and the now ritual of doning our Pirate garb. There were a few plaintive "Aaars" to try to make him realised that he had skipped this integral part of the show but he was having none of it, last song Down to the River to pray was called so we duely obeyed, if somewhat heavy hearted.
We were very well received by the enthusiastic audience but sloped off back to our seats a little dejected at being deprived from singing one of our favourite pieces, or so it seemed. It turned out that he had just had the brainwave of using the piece as a Grand Finale so we were called back onto the stage to get togged up and wave our swords about intimidating the nice ladies from the Pound Sound crowd - and mighty fine it sounds too! You can here the whole set at http://soundcloud.com/the-magnificent-ak47/sets/corsham-monday-20th-june-2011/
And who will forget the picture of most of the troops sat in a section of the stalls like the angelic little choir boys they once were, except not all dressed in black at the time.
The evening was rounded off by a swift half or two in the Flemish Weaver which included a single round of Tsmidao to one of the ladies in the pub which brought the place to an amazed standstill, and Lisa(Chris' wife) rushing to his side to protect him from the lady in question. All most bizarre but very entertaining.
Roll on next year's event!
P.S. Great trip there and back, thanks to Stuart for driving and buying crisps (along with his milk) on the way back - Rock 'n' Roll ;-)
Sunday, 19 June 2011
Ashton Keynes Music Festival - back to the Mother Ship
It was an emotional afternoon at Ashton Keynes Music Festival as we returned back to the Mother Ship from whence The Magnificent AK47, or the Spooky Blokes of Ashton as we were known for a little while, were spawned.
It's hard to believe that just about 3 years ago we staggered into the public consciousness, swaying onto the stage on the Sunday afternoon doing a rendition of the Volga Boatman song and then massacred Rawhide and polished off a version of "Vo slav!" to depart to tumultuous applause.
How times have changed. This time we marched on and ran rings round some of the audience to a drill song and then proceeded to wow the assembled throng with "Concrete" (which we must never announce again as it gives away the joke), a fantastic, best ever yet version of "Tsmidao", a glorious confessional version of "No Satisfaction" and finshed off with a audience participartion of "Down to the river to pray". There were some very bewildered looks from some of the younger children but the vast majority of the audience seemed to thoroughly enjoy us.
Chris was delighted with the performance and thought some of the singing was the best we have ever done to date. All very gratifying along with the many, many wonderful comments people have made about us in the last few days.
Onwards and upwards and here's to a great performance at the Corsham Festival tomorrow night.
Well done, lads, your mothers would be proud (in fact mine was!) even if they don't quite understand what's going on!
It's hard to believe that just about 3 years ago we staggered into the public consciousness, swaying onto the stage on the Sunday afternoon doing a rendition of the Volga Boatman song and then massacred Rawhide and polished off a version of "Vo slav!" to depart to tumultuous applause.
How times have changed. This time we marched on and ran rings round some of the audience to a drill song and then proceeded to wow the assembled throng with "Concrete" (which we must never announce again as it gives away the joke), a fantastic, best ever yet version of "Tsmidao", a glorious confessional version of "No Satisfaction" and finshed off with a audience participartion of "Down to the river to pray". There were some very bewildered looks from some of the younger children but the vast majority of the audience seemed to thoroughly enjoy us.
Chris was delighted with the performance and thought some of the singing was the best we have ever done to date. All very gratifying along with the many, many wonderful comments people have made about us in the last few days.
Onwards and upwards and here's to a great performance at the Corsham Festival tomorrow night.
Well done, lads, your mothers would be proud (in fact mine was!) even if they don't quite understand what's going on!
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