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THE BEATLES VS THE STONES. (DEATH BY AUDIO)
LAST NIGHT @ EXFORD EVER. FUNDRAISER FOR NEW VENUE.

Its The Last Night we are ever doing @ the exford hotel, in celebration we are re-doing the Biggest night we had, The Beatles Vs The Stones & the last one was collosal so don’t miss out. This is also a fundraiser to Hire our very exciting & new venue. The Beatles also re-released & remastered all there albums in the last few weeks along with the release of The Beatles Rock Band. Its Beatlesmania.

We are going to present to you a special one and a half hour set of purely Stones & Beatles Classics. Also for the rest of the night we have 2 bands & 4 Amazing DJ’s to tranform this into one of the most memorable nights you have had.

The Cocoa Jacksons
"From the smouldering ashes of Tokyo, Transnational, Thee wylde oscars and fyrebird comes an epic 5 piece rock band whom once nearly had there final moments in a tiff out the front of pony. With influences from nearly every good band thats worth mentioning The Cocoa Jacksons are an extraordinary young and upcoming band."

JAY HOWIE – "Having played in a string of blues bars around Melbourne, including The British Crown Hotel and The Nighthawk Blues, young singer/songwriter/guitarist Jay Howie is starting to make quiet a name for himself as a rising star in the Blues industry. Having picked up the guitar at the age of 8 Jay slowly taught himself the likes of Zeppelin and Hendrix, before being opened up to the world of blues by a neighbour. Jay immersed himself in the style and tried to learn anything and everything he could. At the age of 16 Jay decided to start arranging his own versions of classic blues songs and with his initial hard rock roots he has certainly made these songs his own."

+ DJ’s

The Beatles are among the most influential popular music artists of the second half of the 20th century, affecting the culture of Britain and America and the postwar baby boom generation, and the entire English-speaking world, especially during the 1960s and early 1970s. Certainly they’re the most successful, with global sales reaching past 1.2 thousand million records sold as of 2003. Their influences on popular culture extended far beyond their roles as recording artists, as they branched out into film and even semi-willingly became spokesmen for their generation. The members of the group were John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr (Richard Starkey), all from Liverpool, England. The effect of the Beatles on Western culture (and by extension) on the rest of the world has been immeasurable.

Originally a high-energy pop band (typified by the early singles "Twist and Shout" and "Please Please Me"), as the Beatles progressed their style became more sophisticated, influenced in equal measure by Bob Dylan and Chuck Berry. Their popularity was also aided by their attractive looks, distinctive personalities, and natural charisma; particularly on television where they appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show and others.

This was the beginning of Beatlemania in which the committed pop-music band found itself turned into a worldwide phenomenon with worshipful fans, hysterical adulation, and denunciations by others such as Frank Sinatra. None of this had much to do with music and was regarded by the band members with intermittent awe and resentment.

The Rolling Stones define rock ‘n’ roll. They are the longest running act in the history of rock music, having remained wildly popular and prodigiously productive over their 30-year career. Success came to the Stones rather quickly as they transformed from a blues band to a rock band. In the coming years the Stones would experiment with just about every kind of rock music out there. But still, they would never wander too far from the blues.

By the mid sixties the Stones were the number two band in rock behind the Beatles. They would turn out a number of great songs written by Jagger/Richards that had instruments on them that were never heard before in rock music. This all came via the versatility of Jones, "a cat who could play any instrument" as Richards would later say about him. But by the late sixties things were not going well between Jones and Jagger/Richards. Jones wanted writing credit on songs he help write in the studio, which he would never receive. He also had a drug problem that was getting out of hand and on top of everything else lost the love of his life, actress Anita Pallenberg, to his now former best friend Richards in 1968. In May of ‘69, it was agreed that Jones would leave the band. Tragically, less than a month later his body was found at the bottom of his swimming pool. No credible explanation was given on how he got there and to this day many friends and fans feel foul play was involved. The band hired blues guitarist Mick Taylor to take his spot in the group. Taylor’s guitar playing compared to Jones’ was a world apart. Taylor played a more cleaner guitar than Jones and unlike Brian stuck to just the guitar. As the Stones entered the seventies he pretty much took over most of the lead guitar parts in the band as Richards’ drug problems got somewhat in the way. While all this went on, Jagger remained the front man and continued to deliver songs vocally like no one else. It was during this time period that the Stones would become rock’s best live act.With the Beatles now gone, the Stones were the true kings of rock. Unfortunately in December of 1974, Taylor suddenly quit the band. Some say it was over his lack of receiving writing credits that was the cause, a problem Jagger/Richards still hadn’t addressed to the rest of the band. In April of ‘75 Ron Wood, guitarist for Faces was named as a temporary replacement for the upcoming tour. But just about everyone knew he would stick, and in time he did. For the first time since the Brian Jones days, Richards had someone he could guitar weave with again. The band’s present lineup would stay intact for years to follow. In the mid eighties things got tense between Jagger and the rest of the band as Mick wanted to do solo projects and was seen as slipping away from the rest. For the first time it seem that maybe the end of the Rolling Stones was near. But by the close of that decade things were ironed out and the Steel Wheels tour was a huge success. In January of ‘93 Wyman quit the band and once again, like Jones and Taylor, a lack of credit for song writing was one of the reasons cited for his departure. To this day the Stones have yet to replace him.

BANDS:
The Cocoa Jacksons (come back gig)
Jay Howie
The Strange Attractions

DJ’s:
THE LA-DJs (DJ Carlos)
MINGO STAR
PAT THE RAT
MOJO FILTER & DJ SHANI

$10 Entry $8 List

$2.50 Pots of Carlton 10-11pm

8 – 10PM BEATLES ROCK BAND ON BIG SCREEN
BANDS 9.45- 11.30PM
BEATLES TRIBUTE 12 – 1.30AM
DJ DANCE PARTY 1.30 – 4AM.