Tuesday, August 30, 2011

New Facebook page

Bonanza is now 'Bonanza & Son Promotions’

We have a Facebook ‘page' for all future promotions including the soon to be relaunched radio show. Feel free to have a look & click ‘like’. Our ResonanceFM show relaunches Mon 10th Oct 11pm-Midnight with repeats on Sundays 1-2pm

www.facebook.com/pages/Bonanza-Son-Promotions/252844611416444

We also have another blog for artwork only which you might like to check out at

www.bonanzagallery.blogspot.com


www.facebook.com/pages/Bonanza-Son-Promotions/252844611416444

Saturday, August 27, 2011

The Cosmic Film Club & Quiz


Bonanza & Son Present:
'The Cosmic Film Club'

@ The New Rose

Thurs 1st September 2011

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

Imagine a pub quiz in outer space and you'll be somewhere close to the premise of Bonanza's 'Cosmic Film Club'.

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

Your hosts, DJ & Quiz Master:
Bonanza & Son (ResonanceFM)
(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 1st September 2011

The New Rose
84-86 Essex Road,
Angel,
N1 8LU
FREE ENTRY
8pm-Midnight

Bonanza & Son DJ Set



Bonanza & Son playing records old and new tonight

Expect anything from
‘From Dylan to Daft Punk, Psych' to Soul, Krautrock to Country & Beyond’


at Filthymacnastys Whiskeycafe,
68 Amwell Street (Off Pentonville Road)
EC1R 1UU
FREE ENTRY… 7-11pm

Thursday, August 18, 2011

'Countrier Than Thou' @ The Lock Tavern


Bonanza Presents:
'Countrier Than Thou'… Country-Blues-Americana

@ The Lock Tavern

Thursday 25th August 2011

Bonanza's 'Countrier Than Thou' club night (last Thursday of every month) has been successfully presenting the best in Country, Blues, Americana and Roots Music for four years at the Lock Tavern from way back in the days when Country was still a dirty word round these parts and Americana was thought by some to be simply 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 broadcasts a popular weekly radio show on ResonanceFM (relaunching in September) as well as running numerous other club nights and dj sets in the capital.

Live acts

D-66:
A very welcome return for our favourite One-man Blues sensation and fire-breathing, whiskey guzzling Bluesman

D-66 has been holed up in the deserts of North Africa (I kid you not) and after training in the desert camps of the Touareq, 2 attempted sex changes, kickin off the Arab revolution and surviving the terrorist bomb plot against his life in the Souks of Marrakech he is back with a vengeance and a Robert Johnson-like transformation; see him play like no other of his kind!!!

This Tasmanian devil-dodging one-man band from Hoarse Records has toured the world as far afield as Brazil and Martinique where he recorded his album 'Chainsaw Blues', armed only with his guitar, a mobile phone + the local bull-frogs as backing singers!!!... So, fresh or rather sweating, from his recent European/Mediterannean/South American tour, as well as being featured on Mark Lamarr's Radio 2 show, D-66 is gonna blow your socks off with his dirty-dawg show of animalistic, cannibalistic, bone-through-the-nose Screamin' and Hawking.

Jack White can only have wet dreams about being this gnarly and this good!

D-66 has also specially composed some dirt-road, bad-ass Country tunes just for us... Aren't we the lucky ones?... Yeeeeee Haaaaaaa!


'At least 50 times better than The Kills'
Artrocker Magazine

'A full spectrum of rabble-rousing sounds that stretch The Blues to breaking point'
Uncut

www.facebook.com/people/Dee-Sixtysix/100000699970165
www.myspace.com/d66isd77



+ Greg Humphreys (USA):
All the way from North Carolina US of A Greg brings a guitar case full of authentic yet unique and beguiling Americana-Soul and Bluegrass.

He will be showcasing a brand new album 'People You May Know’ which is a series of character sketches inspired by experience, observation, imagination and affairs of the heart. You may know these people; you may even be one of these people. Every song is a story.

The album title is also a wink and a nod at social networks' current ubiquity; how these networks have changed our interactions with the world and how they connect and reveal us to each other but also how their presence can serve to isolate us or complicate relationships.

'People You May Know’ is Greg’s third solo album, following 2009’s 'Trunk Songs' and 2010’s ‘Realign Your Mind’.

Bonanza is very happy to finally have this travelling troubadour aboard and that his meandering path of genre adventures in songwriting crosses the Lock Tavern stage.

Expect a ‘peppering’ of Country Standards, Soul Classics, Folk Songs, Beach Music, Murder Ballads and Classic Pop Hits all of which flavour this man’s gumbo!
www.facebook.com/Greghumphreysmusic


+ Guest DJ TBA

+ Bonanza DJ set (ResonanceFM)
Radio Presenter, DJ & Club night impresario Martyn Bonanza spins his latest acquisitions of Country, Blues & Americana vinyl curios.

+ Bonanza will be screening Monte Hellman’s ’The Shooting’, arguably thee first ‘Acid Western’ from 1968 and featuring Jack Nicholson & Warren Oatesplus other Western & Americana cinematic curios all night long.


Thursday 25th August 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

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Bonanza & Son Present 'The Film Set'


'The Bonanza Film Set’

A Sunday Soundtrack of Film Scores, TV Themes, Commercials, Musicals, adverts and commercials etc plus your favourite Classic and Cult films screened all day and into the night with Club night impresario and radio presenter Bonanza & Son providing music & films.

Sunday 14th August 2011
4 til 11pm
Free Entry.


The Defectors Weld,
170 Uxbridge Road,
Shepherds Bush, W12.
London.
FREE ENTRY 4-11pm

Thursday, August 04, 2011

Day Of The Dead Tribute To Screamin’ Jay Hawkins


Bonanza Presents
The Day Of The Dead
Tribute To
Screamin’ Jay Hawkins
with D-66 live + Guest DJ Dirty Omar + Bonanza djs

A very welcome return for our favourite One-man Blues sensation and fire-breathing, whiskey guzzling, Blues animal.

D-66 has been holed up in the deserts of North Africa (I kid you not) and after training in the desert camps of the Touareq, 2 sex changes, kickin off the Arab revolution and surviving the terrorist bomb plot against his life in the Souks of Marrakech he is back with a vengeance and a Robert Johnson-like transformation, see him play like no other of his kind!!!

This Tasmanian devil-dodging one-man band from Hoarse Records has toured the world as far afield as Brazil and Martinique where he recorded his album 'Chainsaw Blues', armed only with his guitar, a mobile phone + the local bull-frogs as backing singers!!!... So, fresh or rather sweating, from his recent European/Mediterannean/Sou​th American tour, as well as being featured on Mark Lamarr's Radio 2 show, D-66 is gonna blow your socks off with his dirty-dawg show of animalistic, cannibalistic, bone-through-the-nose Screamin' and Hawking.

Jack White can only have wet dreams about being this gnarly and this good... 'Learn to play guitar like this man Jack and maybe Bonanza will book you!'

D-66 has also specially composed some dirt-road, bad-ass Country tunes just for us... Aren't we the lucky ones?... Yeeeeee Haaaaaaa! AND OF COURSE he’ll be playing a number of Screamin’ Jay Hawkins tracks to pay tribute to the great man.


'At least 50 times better than The Kills'
Artrocker Magazine

'A full spectrum of rabble-rousing sounds that stretch The Blues to breaking point'
Uncut

www.myspace.com/d66isd77

Tuesday, August 02, 2011

The Cosmic Film Club @ The New Rose



Bonanza & Son Present:
'The Cosmic Film Club'

@ The New Rose

Thurs 4th August 2011


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

Imagine a pub quiz in outer space and you'll be somewhere close to the premise of Bonanza's 'Cosmic Film Club'.

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

Your hosts, DJs & Quiz Masters:
Bonanza & Son (ResonanceFM)
(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 4th August 2011
(FIRST Thursday of month)

The New Rose
84-86 Essex Road,
Angel,
N1 8LU
FREE ENTRY
8pm-Midnight

The Kult Film Club & Kwizz


Bonanza & Son Present:
'The Kult Film Club & Kwizz’

@ Filthy MacNastys
Wednesday 3rd August 2011

Do you like KFC?.. The Kult Film Club & Kwizz is a brand new and truly unique experience… The first and 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 film soundtracks, scores, commercials, TV themes, musicals etc whilst the strangest of cult films are screened all night long + a FREE ENTRY 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 hosts, DJs & Quiz masters:
Bonanza & Son (ResonanceFM)
(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

Wednesday 3rd August 2011

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


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