Recently nominated for the 'UK Festival Awards'.
Sticking two fingers up the musical outlet, and playing with the switch!
Ready, willing and able to render audiences helpless with laughter and amazement the Wierdstring boys are on a journey to the end of the world (or pilton as it's otherwise known) and back via numerous merry mirth filled fields and other suitable spaces.
Continuing the summer odyssey the weirdstring boys are back and they're taking no prisoners. Cos we got nowhere to keep them, and don't really bear any grudges either. Their musical force had been sharpened by last year's impressive festival appearances up and down the country. Armed with three instruments, which normally bear fourteen strings and a remarkable amount of beer they have caused musical mayhem to the point of having at least two crowd surfers at an acoustic and totally unamplified gig. Sights such as James playing the double bass above his head, and lying on his back, Wal leading dances round muddy fields and Paddy's cunning linguistics, even getting through entire festivals without breaking strings, have amazed audiences from Scotland to Somerset, and quite a few places in between and beyond. So, for your enjoyment we bring you - - The Weirdstring band ******************************************************************
. . . Three men, fourteen strings and a whole lot of Weirdness
The Wierdstring Band, a wholly intriguing mixture of fiddle, double bass and the Acoustic guitar, among others. We bring you songs and tunes from the wide ranging genres of folk, ska, gypsy swing, heavy rock, and pop. Including iconoclastic classics to contemporary original material. Expect amazement, confoundment, exhilaration, dancing and sitting down. Come and experience the Wierdstring band.
They met in the mint mines of Old Kendal, seeking a flame strong enough to inflame the semi-mythical Whitbarrow Cigar. Further reconnistance into the Cheese seams of Wensleydale let them to farther flung fields and they chose to not to follow their previous enthusiasm for Astrology, the Black arts and animal husbandry, deciding instead to follow the Muse. The Muse, however, had other plans and a much faster car. But our boys had skill, enthusiasm and a very curious dog with great big legs, and eventually the Muse admitted defeat. The pursuit finished, the boys returned to the task of working out what to do, now that they had forsworn witchcraft and their novelty telescope.
It was with some surprise, then, that they turned their manifold attentions to the face of Music. Music, of course, succumbed readily, and the results can be heard at every turn; first tender, then sprightly, now melancholy, and moving stealthily through energetic dance discourses to the place where all music naturally concludes: drunken abandon. - - - - - - ------ The wierdstring band, Naturally found lurking round festivals late into the morning. Coming soon to a stage or field near you. Oh, and we got CD's and T shirts and stuff to sell too!!
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