Sick Note Tour Diary part 1

Y-O-R-K

Kurt Cobain's guitar

L-E-E-D-S

O-L-D-H-A-M

Special thank you to Steve Iles and Shay Rowan for the live pictures and the backstage's shots.

Bordeaux rocks

Healthy Junkies just came back from Bordeaux where we played a couple of gigs organized by Smooth Reverend.
The city council was also involved in the whole project based on a theme such as Rock in the Uk for this occasion.



It was quite refreshing to notice that there was a whole team behind it, associations got together with musicians to help them into the two gigs, there was such a diversity of bands in Bordeaux, including very precocious kids who were already into punk music at the age of 11.(and playing the drums really well)

I've been told Bordeaux used to be the rock capital in France, I can believe it and I wish we would have more help in London when it comes to promoting live events; you would end up in jail if you dared putting gigs posters on the walls of London.




Pole Evasion, Ambares

More H-J dates :

Spring Calendar

March 31st : live @ Nambucca supporting The DeRellas and The Gasoline Queens,here is the facebook event's link : target="_blank">www.facebook.com/events/268725343203797/



APRIL

French dates :

April 5th : Ciam, Bordeaux, France supporting Smooth Reverend.

April 7th : Pole Culturel Evasion, Ambares-et-la-grave, France, supporting Smooth Reverend.


Facebook event's link : target="_blank">www.facebook.com/events/262111293865932/

April 14th : Live @ The Unicorn with The Figurines, Maleficent, Honeygene and Elephant12. Charity gig to raise funds for the Marie Currie hospital.
Facebook event's link : target="_blank">www.facebook.com/events/314974741884752/

UK TOUR :

April 17th : live @ Stereo, York
April 19th : live @ Milo, Leeds
April 20th : live @ Jackson's pit Cellar Bar, Oldham
April 27th : Live in Stoke on Trent (venue tbc)
April 28th : live @ The Priory, Scunthorpe

(more dates to be added)

May

May 4th : Live @ in Liverpool, venue tbc
May 19th : Live @ The Maze in Nottingham as part of the Bitchslap Festival.
Facebook event's link : target="_blank">www.facebook.com/events/279559985411714/

May 25th : live @ The Unicorn, London, FREE ENTRANCE, as part of the Dutch exchange with Divine Rebellion.
May 26th : live @ The Hope and Anchor, second date of the Dutch exchange.



Facebook events links :
target="_blank">www.facebook.com/events/324916514228149/
target="_blank">www.facebook.com/events/386975284647122/

JUNE

DUTCH DATES :

JUNE 8TH : live @ DE PIT, De Pit Terneuzen, Netherlands
JUNE 9TH : live @ Vereinshoes, Vereinshoes Vaals, Netherlands
June 10TH : live @ Cafe Wilhelmina, Wilhelmina Eindhoven, Netherlands

JULY



JULY 7TH : live @ Barfly Camden, London, as part of the AntFest, to buy tickets :

target="_blank">www.barflyclub.com/camden/whatson/event/33582.aspx#Antfest+2012+%2b+Kings+Of+The+Wild+Frontier+%2b+Madam+%26+The+Ants+%2b+Metal+Pirates+%2b+Johnny+Normal+%2b+Prisioners+Of+Millbank+%2b+Three's+A+Crowd

JULY 13TH : live @ The Unicorn with The Smears and two more bands tbc.

Holland Trip

HEALTHY JUNKIES @ Bluescafe Apeldoorn NL













in THE HAGUE...










Bazaart Club :

Ladies First... ("Ladyfest 2011")

www.facebook.com/ladyfest.nottingham

That's what happened on Saturday the 19th of November in Nottingham, lots of different acts and all that ingeniously put together by Nathalie Caulton who also plays the bass in "The Smears".
I only arrived when Kerosene Queen started playing, I was standing in the toilet nearby queuing but I heard it all and it was really surreal to actually hear those girls play from the room next door. They sounded loud and grungy, the perfect mixture, with a trashy Marilyn Monroe on the vocals, and it was one of the girl's first gig that night so well done them.
Check them out : www.facebook.com/pages/Kerosene-Queen/222489541108423?ref=ts

I didn't stick around long enough to write about all the bands from that night, I did stay quite a while to watch Pussycat and the Dirty Johnsons, they played just after us. I've seen that band lots of times before and I've always enjoyed their set. The singer is dressed in a cat outfit with creative make up which could remind of Siouxie and hair shaped in cat's ears and I don't think you'll ever see any front woman who looks like her, she has a real iconic image. So she's Pussycat and she's backed up by a very good band too, "The Dirty Johnsons". They have dark and edgy moments in their songs but they always manage to roll back into the wild and madness which makes their sound so unpredictable. Performance wise you can't take your eyes off Pussycat, her stage presence is incontestable.

Their facebook : //www.facebook.com/thedirtyjohnsons


photo by Steve Iles

Then we had Obsessive Compulsive on next. One of my favourite band of the night with The Smears. I listened to OC's album quite a few times so I became familiar with the songs pretty quickly. I had their Machinery track in the head for days, and still does actually. Kelly's voice cut through anything, reaching some highs and lows and I suppose that's what their music is about, going from one extreme to the other, lyrics wise and music wise too. They definitely put me back in the 90's on some of their tracks, with a fresh approach though and that's what make their sound so unique.

Go listen to them : www.facebook.com/ObsessiveCompulsiveBand


photo by Steve Iles

Then it was The Smears, and they delivered an awesome gig as usual, a review on them is available on one of my previous articles, they did all the songs I wanted to hear, dragging the audience into their world... yeah go girls !!

and if you haven't already, go and see what those girls are about, you won't regret it : www.facebook.com/pages/The-SMEARS/115664515898


photo by Steve Iles

And to finish with here is a video of our brand new song, Play Me, filmed by Steve Iles, a big thanks to him too for all the content, pics wise and for the videos too !! This Ladyfest was a fantastic night.

Altercation in south east London

I'm not talking about riots I'm afraid, only a band. ;)
This is one of the last gig Altercation did, filmed by Brigeoo :



The Unicorn gig's pictures by Neil (www.wildblanket.com), alongside with Le Reparateur and Goat's cheese, two really cool french bands from Lyon who were on the same bill :

Goats Cheese : www.facebook.com/goatcheeese37/
Le Reparateur : www.facebook.com/pages/Le-R%C3%A9parateur/221475223906?sk=info



Now in preparation to record the first album "Take it or leave it".