Sunday, June 26, 2011

Countrier Than Thou @ The Lock Tavern


Bonanza Presents:
'Countrier Than Thou'... (Country Blues Americana)

@ The Lock Tavern

Thursday 30th June 2011

Bonanza's 'Countrier Than Thou' club night (Normally Last Thursday of every month) has been successfully presenting the best in Country, Blues, Americana and Roots Music for over three years at the Lock Tavern way back in the days when Country was a dirty word round these parts and Americana was thought by some to be a typo error!
Bonanza has consistently sourced excellence in traditional Country as well as the most forward thinking Avant-Country, Blues, Americana and Roots music with zero irony just good old-fashioned quality music and very good times.
Bonanza also hosts a popular weekly radio show on ResonanceFM as well as numerous other club nights in the capital.

Live acts

Ben Folke Thomas:
Ben Thomas is a London- based, Swedish-born singer-songwriter. At 22 he’s one of the most exciting prospects coming out of the London acoustic scene, and a stalwart of the London Americana scene

Starting his musical career as drummer in a grunge band his life was transformed when he heard Kurt Cobain singing ‘In The Pines’ on the Unplugged record. Steeping himself in Leadbelly, Bob Dylan, and Leonard Cohen, by the age of 20 he was an accomplished finger-picker, confident performer, and mature songwriter. Jaded Londoners didn’t know what had hit them when they first heard songs like ‘Paradise Lost (Heaven Found)’, and saw this robust performer with a stage presence recalling the Bob Dylan of two decades ago.

With its renaissance as a print magazine ‘BoB’ has launched as a boutique record label and are pleased to announce their first release as being a six-track CD mini-album by BENJAMIN FOLKE THOMAS.

Stands out like Oliver Reed at an AA meeting"
Will Hodgkinson, The Guardian

"Captures the spirit of Greenwich Village ca 1965...A convincing calling card"
Stuart Lee, The Sunday Times


www.benjaminfolkethomas.com

www.facebook.com/pages/Benjamin-Folke-Thomas/210983153904

Bob Collum:
Upbeat, Rocking Americana and roots music from Oklahoman relocated to London... This is solid Country-rock with string-band laments and shiny singer/songwriter pop gems done up in their best western wear. ... Wouldn’t go amiss on a Tom Petty album with a slightly leftfield approach.

'Hook-heavy, steel guitar-driven, rootsy power pop’... Time Out

www.bobcollumonline.com/bcm2/index.html
www.facebook.com/bobcollum


+ Bonanza DJs playing Country, Blues & Americana


Thursday 30th June 2011
@The Lock Tavern,
35 Chalk Farm Road,
London,
NW1.
Free Entry
8-Midnight


UPCOMING:
For all future events please go to
www.bonanzablues.blogspot.com
www.myspace.com/bonanzablues
www.facebook.com/people/Martyn-De-Bonanza/1801275860

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Bonanza DJ set @ The Defectors Weld' Small Disco


Expect Retro Rock 'N’ Roll-Soul-Funk-Blues-Country & whatever vinyl curios I’ve picked up this week old and new!

The Defectors Weld,
170 Uxbridge Road,
Shepherds Bush, W12.
London.
FREE ENTRY 9-2am

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Bonanza DJ Set @ The New Rose, Friday.



Expect Retro Rock 'N’ Roll-Soul-Funk-Blues-Country & whatever vinyl curios I’ve picked up this week old and new!

The New Rose,
84-86 Essex Road,
Angel, N1.
London.
FREE ENTRY 8-2am

Thursday, June 09, 2011

Bonanza Film Set @ The Defectors Weld




'The Small Disco' presents:

'The Bonanza Film Set’

A Sunday Soundtrack of Film Scores, TV Themes, Commercials, Musicals etc plus your favourite Classic and Cult films screened all day and into the night, with Club night impresario and radio presenter Martyn Bonanza providing music & films.
4pm til 11pm
Free Entry.

Bonanza DJ set @ Filthy MacNasty’s




Bonanza DJ set @ Fiulthy MacNasty’s:
Swamp-Rock, Punk-Rock, Country-Rock, Cock-Rock, Rock ’n’Roll… You get the drift!
Oh and whatever vinyl curios I’ve picked up this week!

Filthy MacNastys
68 Amwell Street, (off Pentonville Rd)
EC1R 1UU
7pm-11pm

Wednesday, June 08, 2011

Bonanza Presents: 'The Kult Film Club & Kwizz'



Bonanza Presents:
'The Kult Film Club & Kwizz'

@ Filthy MacNastys

Thurs 9th June 2011

(2nd Thursday of the month)

A brand new and truly unique experience... the only audio visual film club and pub quiz in the known Universe!

Imagine a pub quiz like no other where all your senses are stimulated and you'll be somewhere close to the premise of Bonanza's 'Kult Film Club & Kwizz'.

Expect to hear Cult film soundtracks, scores, commercials, TV themes, musicals etc whilst the strangest of cult films are screened all night long + a FREE ENTRY cult film and music quiz with prizes... yes, you heard right, a recession busting FREE quiz with PRIZES!??

How do we do it? Answer that or some of our quick fire rounds and you might just win a round of shots! Plus many more desirable prizes.

Your host, DJ & Quiz master:
Martyn Bonanza (ResonanceFM)
(Cult Film soundtracks, scores, TV themes, commercials, adverts, musicals, radio broadcasts & all manner of strange & Psychedelectronica sounds effects)
www.bonanzablues. blogspot.com
www.myspace.com/bonanzablues
www.facebook.com/people/Martyn-De-Bonanza/1801275860


FILMS SCREENED ALL NIGHT

Thursday 9th June 2011
(2nd Thursday of every month)

Filthy MacNastys
68 Amwell Street, (off Pentonville Rd)
EC1R 1UU,
FREE ENTRY
7pm-11pm

Bonanza & Son Present 'The Cosmic Film Club’ + Day Of The Dead


Howdy Folks,
Hope you’ve enjoyed yet another short Bank Holiday week.

Bonanza has two shows for you this week; on Thursday Bonanza & Son will be testing your film and music knowledge as well as treating you to some great films and film soundtracks at The Cosmic Film Club at The New Rose. The quiz is completely free to enter and there are prizes!??

Then on Saturday it is time once again for our monthly tribute to the dead icons of the past ‘The Day Of The Dead' at Filthy MacNastys and this month we pay our respects to the true Queen of Country Miss Patsy Cline.

Both shows are completely FREE ENTRY so we hope to see you there and enjoy ya weekend whatever you do.

Bonanza & Son Present
'The Cosmic Film Club’
@ The New Rose
Thurs 2nd June 2011 8-Midnight FREE ENTRY

A truly unique experience and the only audio visual film club & pub quiz in the known Universe!

Expect to hear film soundtracks, scores, commercials, TV themes, musicals etc whilst we screen Classics and Cult films all night long + a FREE ENTRY film and music quiz with prizes... yes, you heard right, a recession busting FREE quiz with PRIZES!??

Your hosts, DJ’s & Quiz Masters
Bonanza & Son (ResonanceFM)
(Film soundtracks, scores, TV themes, commercials, adverts, musicals, radio broadcasts & all manner of strange & Psychedelectronica sounds effects)


FILMS SCREENED ALL NIGHT
Thursday 2nd June 2011
The New Rose
84-86 Essex Road,
Angel,
N1 8LU
FREE ENTRY
8pm-Midnight
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Saturday 4th June
Bonanza Presents
'Dia De Los Muertos'...'Day Of The Dead'

Patsy Cline Tribute

Emit Bloch playing live and doing his best Patsy Cline impersonation
+Female vocals on record all night from Martyn Bonanza
+film projections in respect of Patsy Cline

Each month Bonanza & Filthy MacNastys pay homage to the icons, innovators, outlaws, renegades and mavericks who in the name of their art went further than the rest and paid the 'ultimate' price…

On Sat 4th June 2011 we will pay tribute to the true Queen of Country Miss Patsy Cline (September 8 1932 – March 5 1963)

Patsy Cline took the standards for being a Country music vocalist and raised the bar to cross over into the mainstream delighting audiences and fans of ’ALL’ genres. A true innovator as well as an artist who gained mass appeal; it’s scary to think what might have happened if her life had not been so sadly cut short at the peak of her career.

We will celebrate her life & those she has influenced and been influenced by with bands, djs, visuals and film projections.

Playing Live

+ Emit Bloch:
London based American Country Beatnik and Son of a Utah Cattle rancher Emit Bloch draws on a rich history of Americana and beyond to create his distinct brand of authentic sounding lo-fi, Avant-Americana.

Primarily relying on the basics of voice, guitar and harmonica, Bloch fuses old-timey structures, absurdist wit and earthy melancholy to produce highly narrative Country tunes that bring something fresh and vital to the great American tradition of the Country-Folk song and speak of today as well as of yesteryear.

An exceptional songwriter, very much in the same lineage that runs from Hank Williams to Woody Guthrie, through to Bob Dylan right up to and beyond Bon Iver, Silver Jews, Devendra Banhart et al.

Bloch recorded a batch of songs for his One Little Indian released debut album, ‘Dictaphones Vol. 1’, at home from his kitchen table for the princely sum of just £6 with all tracks recorded directly to his dictaphone. It went on to be HMV’s recommended album of the week as well as a five star review in Mojo Magazine.

His sound has matured and been augmented by the use of psychedelic effects and ephemera. Can’t wait!
www.facebook.com/pages/Emit-Bloch/340969892871
www.mutesong.com/artists/details/emi
www.myspace.com/emitblochcountry

+ Bonanza DJ's (ResonanceFM)

Saturday 4th June 2011
@ Filthy MacNasties
68 Amwell Street,
EC1R 1UU
FREE ENTRY
7-11pm


Bonanza DJ set @ The Defectors Weld


Friday 27th May 2011
FREE ENTRY 8.30pm-2am
Expect Righteous Rock ’N’ Roll Classics & off the radar gems plus loads of Bob Dylan for his 70th birthday...

170 Uxbridge Road, Shepherds Bush, W12