Monday, March 25, 2013

JOSH ROUSE SURPRISE GIG

Howdy Folks,
Hope this update finds you well…

We’ve got another busy and absolutely amazing week ahead with a total exclusive for you…
Bonanza & Son Present:
JOSH ROUSE
in an intimate, one-off London show this coming Tuesday 26th March 2013
@ The Lock Tavern in Camden…



Today Josh releases his 10th studio LP ’The Happiness Waltz’ and he has decided to play a one-off, intimate gig with Bonanza & Son before his European tour kicks off in earnest at the end of May.

We are delighted to be hosting this event and you will not see Josh at a more intimate gig than this as he is now selling out 700+ venues like The Islington Assembly Hall in May.

We strongly advise you arrive early on Tuesday to avoid disappointment. Doors open at 8pm

Josh Rouse
+ Dylan Walshe
+ Bonanza & Son DJ Set

It is free entry so please arrive early to avoid disappointment
The Lock Tavern
35 Chalk Farm Road,
Camden
NW1 8AJ
8pm-Midnight


Also this week:
Monday 25th March 2013:
Bonanza & Son are guest DJs at The Country Soul Sessions at Nambucca on Holloway Road with live acts:
The Devout Sceptics, Black Scarr + house band Darkwood. 8-11pm £3

Wednesday:
Bonanza & Son on ResonanceFM with AL Scorch & The Country Soul Ensemble live in session
All the way from Chicago Illinois on the run up to their gig at The Country Soul Bonanza & Son Revue Alldayer on 20th April 2013.
Tune in at 4:30pm on 104.4FM in London or www.resonancefm

Thursday:
Countrier Than Thou (full details below)

Friday:
Bonanza & Son DJ Set at The Three Crowns, Stoke Newington Church St. N16. Free Entry 9pm-2am

Peace and Love to you and your pets,
Bonanza & Son.


Bonanza & Son on ResonanceFM Present

'Countrier Than Thou’ Country•Americana•Rock’n’Roll
@ The Lock Tavern
Thursday 28th March 2013

Live acts:

The Malingerers:
Out of the ashes of the blood-stained gowns of Peterborough’s The Surgens, comes Ex BBC Mark Lamarr favourites The Malingerers. Truly majestic and not so much phoenix-like, rather like a proud, bald-headed eagle; swooping and whooshing from Western, Swinging lows to intricate Folk highs. All this whilst resplendent in 40’s tweeds and armed with even older, wooden instruments such as mandolin, upright double bass, fiddles, banjos and vintage, hollow-body gibson guitars. Their brand new, debut album,The Lonely Years, is chock full of fat and bulbous tunes that re-appropriate all the best elements of Western Swing, Bluegrass, Jazz, Folk and Blues; interwoven seamlessly to a point that makes a nonsense of any credible attempt at genre identification… Can’t wait.
www.facebook.com/themalingerers


The Trailer Trash Orchestra:
Trashville collective and cottage industry Americana obsessives TTO are reminiscent of a traveling, troop of the jugglers and the clowns who will most certainly get your kicks for you via a nomadic caravan from the deserts and wastelands of bleakest St Albans. If a time traveling spaceship full of real Punk Rock had somehow crash-landed into 1950’s Nashville then this might be the first band to have found the distance to the stage too far… out!

The band recently performed a sterling live session on our ResonanceFM radio show and it’s the first time this cowboy has witnessed screaming mandolin feedback, colossally colliding with jangling telecasters and ace Rockabilly, upright, double-bass moves. Add to that a mean pedal steel and what shouldn’t can and will!.. As their name might suggest it's a trailer-park, clash and crash-collision course of ferocious but always sweetly melodic Country cow-poke and swinging Americana that could only be produced in the hinter-winterlands and desert oasis of Hertfordshire…

The band form part of the Trashville collective which is a little shop window for a bunch of lo-fi, DIY, outsider artists and wonderfully warped musicians. As well as promoting regular shows, Trashville operates as a micro label and agency…
Welcome to Trashville Trailer Park - you might never leave!
www.musicborn.com/trailertrashorchestra
www.facebook.com/TrashvilleUK


Dylan Walshe:
A Welcome return from Irelands favourite, rising Son… In fact Dylan Walshe’s return to the 'Countrier Than Thou' stage is more overdue than Bonanza & Son’s unreturned library copies of Bob Dylan’s ‘Chronicles’ and Pete Seeger’s ‘Rise-Up Singing Folk Handbook’ from Islington Libraries and Museums!.. Add that to the alchemical process and it is also a more welcome return than even Vashti Bunyan’s after her 35 year hiatus between debut and sophomore Lps… Hopefully you are getting our Pacific Drift! ..Bonanza & Son’s favourite, tenacious, traveling, troubadour from the Emerald Isle will not disappoint!
www.facebook.com/dylanwalshe?ref=ts&fref=ts


+Bonanza & Son (ResonanceFM) DJ Set:
Radio Presenters, DJs and Club night promoters playing traditional as well as the most cutting edge examples of Americana and Country with a few oddities to twist your heads plus special selections from our up-coming compilation mix ‘Gonzo-Country’!

Bonanza & Son will also be screening rare, cinematic, Americana curios for your visual stimulation and pleasure including a screening of the 1971 Electric, Acid Western ‘Zachariah’ which was a major influence on Tarantino’s revisionist Western 'Django: Unchained’.
www.facebook.com/BonanzaANDSon


@ The Lock Tavern,
35 Chalk Farm Road,
London,
NW1.
Free Entry
8-Midnight
Thursday 28th March 2013



Bonanza & Son’s 'Countrier Than Thou' club night (The last Thursday of every month) has built on its success by continually presenting the best in Country, Blues, Americana and Roots music for over five years at the Lock Tavern from way back in the days when Country was a dirty word round these parts and Americana was thought by most to be a typo error!

Bonanza & Son have consistently sourced excellence in traditional Country as well as the most forward thinking Avant-Country, Punk-Blues, Americana and Roots music with zero irony just good old-fashioned quality music and very good times.

Bonanza & Son hosts a popular, weekly radio show on ResonanceFM which has simultaneously showcased the best in cutting edge, Avant-Country & Americana as well as regularly presenting numerous club nights and DJ sets in the capital for the past ten years.

Tune in to
Bonanza & Son On Resonance104.4FM
Every Wednesday tea-time at 4:30pm
(repeated Sunday mornings at 11am)

‘Tracing the roots and subsequent influence of the pioneers, innovators, outlaws, renegades and mavericks of Country Music and Americana’s past present and future’
+ Live sessions.
+ Competitions, album and gig ticket giveaways.
+ featurettes 'Country Birthdays’ and ‘Celluloid-Country’ where we discuss Americana movie soundtracks

Tune in on 104.4FM in London
or online at www.resonancefm.com

All past Bonanza & Son ResonanceFM radio shows are archived on our Mixcloud page and can be listened to at any time.
Each week after the Sunday repeat has been broadcast we upload the show to:
www.mixcloud.com/bonanza-son/

Winner of the Radio Academy Nations & Regions Award for London, three years running!
Nominee, Sony Radio Academy Awards 2010 'Station Programmer of the Year’

Bonanza & Son have a Facebook ‘PAGE' for all events:
www.facebook.com/BonanzaANDSon

We also have a blog with lots more interesting and obscure music, videos, facts and info that you might like to explore:
www.bonanzablues.blogspot.com

Bonanza & Son Promotions & club nights include:
Countrier Than Thou’ @ The Lock Tavern.
’The Biggest Little Picture Show On Earth’ @ John Salt, Islington.
‘The Film Set’ @ The Defectors Weld.
'The Country Soul Bonanza & Son Revue' @ Nambucca.
’The Gaslight Club’ @ Filthy MacNasty’s.
'The Cosmic Film Club' @ The New Rose, Angel.

Bonanza & Son also regulary DJ at all of the above venues plus The Lauriston in Hackney,
The Three Crowns in Stoke Newington, The Defectors Weld in Shepherds Bush + many more...

UPCOMING:
For all future events please go to
www.facebook.com/BonanzaANDSon
www.bonanzablues.blogspot.com
www.mixcloud.com/bonanza-son

Bonanza & Son Music & Promotions
Promoters•Radio Presenters•DJs
www.mixcloud.com/bonanza-son
www.bonanzablues.blogspot.com
www.facebook.com/BonanzaANDSon
Bonanza & Son on Resonance104.4FM
Every Wednesday 4:30pm (Sunday morning repeat 11am)
Tune in on 104.4FM or online at www.resonancefm.co

Sunday, March 24, 2013

JOSH ROUSE SECRET LONDON GIG!!!

EXCLUSIVE:
For all our blog friends...

Bonanza & Son presents a secret gig on Tuesday night:

Josh Rouse is playing an intimate, secret gig somewhere in London on Tuesday night… 26th March 2013

Keep an eye on here or his website for more details…
www.joshrouse.com

This is on the run up to the release of his fantastic 10th studio album ’The Happiness Waltz’ and a string of European dates at the end of May.

You won’t see him in a more intimate setting than this as he is set to play 700 seat venue Islington Assembly Hall, London on 22nd May 2013.

Thursday, March 21, 2013

Bonanza & Son on ResonanceFM

Here’s yesterday’s Bonanza & Son radio show which was another beauty:



A live session from tenacious travelling, troubadour Dylan Walshe whose return is more overdue than Bonanza & Son’s unreturned library copies of Bob Dylan’s ‘Chronicles’ and Pete Seeger’s ‘Rise-Up Singing Folk Handbook’ from Islington Libraries and Museums!..
+Part 2 of an exclusive and intimate live session from rising stars Shovels & Rope.
+ the best of all the latest Country & Americana releases.
Bonanza & Son On Resonance104.4FM

Next week:
Wednesday 27th March 2013 4:30pm.
AL SCORCH & THE COUNTRY SOUL ENSEMBLE live session:
On the run up to their gig at the 2nd Nambucca Country Soul Bonanza & Son Revue Alldayer on Saturday 20th April the live guests will travel all the way from Chicago, USA to entertain and serenade us with their delightful brand of twisted and literate, character-driven song craft. Mid-American roots music collides with a Post-Punk DIY attitude and sound that, dare we say it, charts a new, musical topography and brings to mind a Hillbilly Dead Kennedy’s in dungarees and pick-up trucks.
+ all the usual featurettes including ‘Celluloid Country’, looking at a film soundtrack that features Americana significantly in its soundtrack.
+ the best of all the latest, up-coming Country & Americana releases.

Bonanza & Son on ResonanceFM
‘Tracing the roots and subsequent influence of the pioneers, innovators, outlaws, renegades and mavericks of Country Music & Americana.’

Wednesdays at 4:30pm (repeated Sundays at 11am)
Tune in on 104.4FM in London or www.resonancefm.com

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

'Bonanza & Son’s Song Of The Day'

Conceptual Country from Scott Walker and Bonanza & Son’s 'Song Of The Day’:

‘Cowboy', written by Randy Newman, appeared on Scott’s commercially and critically contemned LP ‘Any Day Now’ from 1973…

… The LP was part of, what Walker would later describe as, his 'wilderness years’ but in this house, at least, it is seen as some of his best work!



Expect to hear more of the same and some surprises tomorrow Wednesday 20th March 2013 at 4:30pm (London time) on Bonanza & Son on ResonanceFM.

+live session from travelling, tenacious, Troubadour Dylan Walshe
+Part 2 of an exclusive and intimate live session from Shovels & Rope.
+ the best of all the latest Country & Americana releases.

Bonanza & Son On Resonance104.4FM

‘Tracing the roots and subsequent influence of the pioneers, innovators, outlaws, renegades and mavericks of Country Music and Americana’s past present and future’
+ Live sessions.
+ Competitions, album and gig ticket giveaways.
+ featurettes 'Country Birthdays’ and ‘Celluloid-Country’ where we discuss Americana movie soundtracks.

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Radio show at 4:30pm (London time)

Todays show is gonna be an absolute blast, we are so excited…

Bonanza & Son on ResonanceFM.
Wednesdays at 4:30pm

We have The Trailer Trash Orchestra live in session with their special brand of raggle-taggle, urban Punk-Country on the run up to their gig at Countrier Than Thou @ The Lock Tavern in a couple of weeks time (Thursday 28th March)…

… We also have an exclusive announcement from our favourite South Carolinan’s Shovels & Rope in the shape of part one of a pre-recorded interview and live session….

As well as the usual big, bag of all the latest and upcoming Americana and Country releases including:
Ace Aboriginal Country artist Roger Knox,


+ Andrew Combs, Peter O'Brien, Phil Odgers, Jonny Fritz 'Corndawg' , The Rockingbirds, Diamond Rugs, The Godfathers and much more... Tune in on 104.4FM in London or on the live stream at www.resonancefm.com

Diamond Rugs are Deer Tick’s John McCauley new band with members of The Black Lips, Dead Confederate and Los Lobos no less...

Todays radio show"


Some recent acquisitions which may well be on the show tomorrow, Wednesday at 4:30pm…

Bonanza & Son on ResonanceFM... We have The Trailer Trash Orchestra live in session on the run up to their gig at Countrier Than Thou @ The Lock Tavern in a couple of weeks time (Thursday 28th March)…

… We also have an exclusive announcement from our favourite South Carolinan’s Shovels & Rope in the shape of a pre-recorded interview and live session….



As well as the usual big bag of all the latest and upcoming Americana and Country releases...

...Tune in on 104.4FM in London or on the live stream at www.resonancefm.com

Saturday, March 09, 2013

Brand new night + Shovels & Rope interview...

It’s all go at Bonanza towers this weekend:

We are just editing the live session and interview we pre-recorded on Friday morning with our favourite South Carolinan's ‘Shovels & Rope’ and it sounds ace so we will broadcast ASAP + they mentioned an exclusive we were sworn not to divulge until it is officially announced on Monday!??



Cary-ann and Mark were lovely both interview and live session and we couldn’t help but think they have a very big, bright future ahead of them as a car came to pick them up afterwards and rushed them off and over to Robert Elms show on BBC London.

They play live at The Slaughtered Lamb on Sunday and Monday… See you there.



Tonight Friday we are spinning our vinyl wares at The New Rose on Essex Road, Angel til 2am

Saturday evening there is a late screening of the original Django, the Spaghetti Western from 1966 directed by Sergio Corbucci (makes Tarantino look like The Wizard Of Oz!) at The Rio Cinema in Dalston, London (makes Tarantino look like The Wizard Of Oz!)



Next week doesn’t let up either as we are incredibly excited to announce our brand new DJ/VJ Set at
John Salt on Upper Street, Islington, London N1 on Monday night:



Bonanza & Son Present:
The Biggest Little Picture Show On Earth @ John Salt:

A night of films, film soundtracks and other related scores and oddities.

Taking as our inspiration Cecil B. DeMille’s ‘The Greatest Show On Earth’ from 1952, as well as ‘The Smallest Show On Earth’ starring Peter Sellers from 1957,
Bonanza & Son will be screening significant, key films with a themed DJ set.

This month we will screen two Sci-Fi, cult classics with a space theme:
John Carpenters ‘Dark Star’ from 1974 and Douglas Trumbull’s ‘Silent Running’ from 1972 starring Bruce Dern.

Carpenter’s ‘Dark Star’ tells the wacked-out tale of four astronauts in deep space, whose mission is to destroy unstable planets in star systems which are later to be colonised. The Commander is dead but cryogenically stored in deep freeze where he is still able to offer advice to the crew! The crew must also cope with a runaway alien, which resembles a beach-ball, faulty computer systems and a ‘smart bomb’ with God-like delusions.
Dark Star is a visionary exploration of contemporary paranoia in the face of over-population and advancing technology.


‘Silent Running’ is set in a future where all trees are extinct on Earth. Commercial astronaut Bruce Dern is given orders to destroy the last of Earth's plant life, which he has been lovingly tending in a giant greenhouse on board his spacecraft.
Silent Running is an ecological thriller way ahead of its time and all the more pertinent in the face of globalisation and depleted resources.


See these films whilst Bonanza & Son play relevant soundtracks, futuristic soundscapes, Psychedelia new and old plus contemporary electronic music and it’s influencial forebears.

Records played will include: BBC Radiophonic workshop, Goat, Morricone, Kraftwerk/Krautrock, Raymond Scott, Scott Walker Kriedler+Tarwater, John Carpenter, Zombie Zombie, Lalo Shifrin, Pretty Things, Nuggets and Rubble compilations, Trentemøller, Stockhausen, Crazy World Of Arthur Brown, Wendy Carlos, Hawkwind plus all manner of Cult Film scores and soundtracks.

THE BIGGEST LITTLE PICTURE SHOW ON EARTH @ JOHN SALT:
Monday 11th March 2013
7-11pm FREE ENTRY

JOHN SALT
131 Upper St, Islington,
London, N1 1QP

As we said earlier our new night was inspired in part by ‘The Greatest Show On Earth’ which at the 1953 Oscars won 'Best film' however many consider it to be one of, if not, the worst films ever to win the Academy Award.

'High Noon’ was also nominated and is by far the superior film if not the best Western ever made. A landmark in minimalist suspense and edge-of-your-seat drama clocking in at only 85 minutes in comparison to the bloated 150+ minutes of ‘The Greatest Show On Earth’.


It is worth considering the political climate at the time as Joseph McCarthy was pursuing Communists in no uncertain terms and the ‘The Greatest Show On Earth’ Director, Cecil B. DeMille, was openly supportive of McCarthyism. Also worth noting 'High Noon' was produced by Carl Foreman who was on the McCarthy/Hollywood blacklist. Worse still 'High Noon’ itself has also been seen as a scathing, political commentary on the McCarthy witch-hunts.

That said the train wreck scene in ’The Greatest Show on Earth’ is a cinematic masterwork of the time and it has also been suggested that the Oscar was seen as more of a lifetime achievement award for Cecil B. DeMille as The Academy had not been formed when he was producing some of his greatest works.



Both films contain very significant train scenes that lay at the symbolic core of both films.

The train wreck scene in 'The Greatest Show On Earth' was a massive influence on Stephen Spielberg who claims it actually inspired him to begin making films in the first place. An almost carbon-copy of this train wreck scene, albeit using CGI, appears in the film ‘Super 8’ produced by Spielberg. There is also a scene in his earlier remake of ‘War Of The Worlds’ where the train wreck is seen to be televised.