Update - MMG Bucks Battle of the Bands – Heat Two

If you haven't heard already, the next Battle of the Bands heat will be held at The Cannon, Newport Pagnell on Good Friday (April 2nd) – entry is free (over 18s only) and the first band rocks at 8pm. Thanks to all of you who turned up last time – remember to buy your drinks to vote for your favorite rock'n'roll superdudes – only ONE band will get through to the final!

TRASH MONKEY are dedicating this next gig to you guys (yes, ALL OF YOU who got us through to heat two!) To show our appreciation we'd like you to vote for the outro song we play on April 2nd – simply head to the Trash Monkey homepage and cast your vote for your favorite song. We'll ensure we tear the roof down with the most popular song chosen by YOU! Go, go, go!

Planning on coming? Let us know by adding yourself to the facebook event!

Until then, keep it loud!

Johnny, Mikey, Paulo, Sleazy & Vega
Trash Monkey

Comin' Out Swingin' - Bucks Battle of the Bands

Trash Monkey to fly the rock'n'roll flag for Newport Pagnell – Friday 19th March sees Majick Music Group (MMG) brining the 2010 Bucks Battle of the Bands to town! The Cannon (Newport Pagnell) will be hosting the intimate round one heat so come along for the ride as The Pagnell's homegrown bluesy punk-rock outfit Trash Monkey wield axes with three other hopefuls in the quest for county-wide glory (well... a place in heat two would be a good start).

So don your drinking vessels and prepare for war – every drink you sink on the night will empower you to cast a vote for your favorite rock'n'roll superdudes – so the rules are clear; the band with the drunkest supporters wins – and we like those odds for a change!

Friday 19th March @ The Cannon, High Street, Newport Pagnell – doors 8pm, free entry.

www.majickmusicgroup.com
MMG facebook

Trash Monkey return to Bedford Esquires

Newport Pagnell's rock'n'roll heroes return to Bedford's Esquires alongside Wolf Law, The Beautiful Sleazy, The Smoking Hearts and Faith 'n'Fury on Saturday 30th May. Doors open 7:30pm/tickets are only five quid. Expect this one to start early and end late as Esquires crams five bands right into your ears.

See you there! Bedford Esquires (myspace)

Saturday 23rd August - Beer and music festival in Milton Keynes

Get yourself over to Manor Fields (Bletchley Rugby Club) today for some beer, live music and general shenanigans at the second annual Party on the Pitch. Live music kicks off at 2pm today and goes on well into the evening - Trash Monkey will be launching their usual aural onslaught from 9pm, taking the stage just before Marshall Amp's very own international touring band take over to play us into the evening...

Come say hello, come have a beer. We'll be there from 2pm, of course!

More details on the festival web site www.mkpartyonthepitch.co.uk

Two shows over August bank holiday... get your drinking heads on!

Kicking off the bank holiday weekend in style, we'll be hauling ourselves over to Bedford on Friday 22nd, returning to Esquires with old friends Dry 'Til Friday (check out their myspace here). It's free entry, so why not grab yourself a rock'n'roll fix to start the weekend?

We'll then be hosting our second 'lecture of rock' over the August bank holiday weekend at Manor Fields in Fenny Stratford (Milton Keynes) for the second annual 'Party on the Pitch'. We invite you to attend with your beer hats on and as we blast 45 minutes of adrenalin (and most likely booze) fueled rock 'n' roll into the stratosphere above Milton Keynes. The festival promises over thirty beers and ciders on tap (enough said, we're there!), plus three days of live music and events for everyone to enjoy.

Bring your family, your nan, your goldfish, maybe even your shrink but be sure to lock up your daughters! For full details we recommend that you check out the festival website – www.mkpartyonthepitch.co.uk

Don't be scared... The Monster Bash returns

Plans are in motion to raise the Monster Bash from its rock'n'roll grave for the third year. Just a heads up really, no details are confirmed as yet but you can be sure we'll post something right here as soon as we know more... subscribe to our email newsletter or our RSS feed to be the first to know.

It started on a chill dark night, the moon was full and bright
An eerie silence descended as the dead began to rise
They strolled into town picking chicks up on the way
The girls got naked the guys were dead not much more to say

The Naked and the Dead, 2006

Band Blitz Review by Steffi Lewis (steffilewis.com)

Last Friday's heat went down pretty well, we had an awesome time and although we didn't make it through to the Final (congrats to Rise Inside) there's no way we're loosening our Chuck Taylors as we're here to stay. We'll be taking the rest of August by the rock'n'roll horns as we return to Esquires and crank it up with another performance at this years MK Party on the Pitch. You can find more gig info by clicking here, but you came for the review, right? Read on then...

Review of our Band Blitz set from Steffi Lewis (www.steffilewis.com):

Trash Monkey who I've seen on numerous occasions around some of the smaller venues. You want some dirty rock guitars? These are the guys for you, and they certainly know what they're doing.

Load a bunch of 12-bar blues chord sequences into the rhythm, add in a very confident singer, a rampaging drummer, solid bass and a twiddly lead ... then lock and load! A great mix of Ramones and AC/DC and some sleezy lyrics too... totally worked for me!

Check out the full Heat review here
and Steffi's Band Blitz gallery here

Band Blitz review by Craig Short (ampjam.net)

Cheers to Craig for these words about our performance at the Band Blitz Heat...

Trash Monkey, I’ve seen the guys around a few times and they have got better over time, now grasping tightly at leather jackets and jeans while packing in some decent riffs and a more flamboyant showmanship from their frontman. The guys have a pretty enthusiastic audience to work with, the crowd and band bouncing off each other as they tear off into some old-school power riffs and some pretty articulate solos that break up the tracks, but “Trapped” is my highlight as it seems along some the lines of Rage Against The Machine with heavy, driven blues kick to it but without the rap.

Check out the full review on ampjam.net

Milton Keynes Band Blitz... Friday 1st August

Hey you lovely people!

Just a reminder that Trash Monkey will be competing in this years Band Blitz at The Pitz Club, our slot for a chance in the final is THIS FRIDAY so please, please come along if you're about. It's a good venue so should be a great atmosphere. It simply wouldn't be the same without you there so why not come along for the ride, and perhaps buy us a pint afterwards... Keep it loud!

Click here for direcitons to The Pitz Club.

The Sunset Lounge Band Showcase - Friday July 18th

For a small town, Newport Pagnell sure has some good music going on. In addition to Jeff's regular, more chilled Thursday Sunset Sessions at the back of The Cannon Pub, this Friday it plays host to a selection of live bands. It's £2 on the door and as soon as the venue reaches capacity the doors will close, be sure to get in early to avoid disappointment. And these nights never fail to disappoint. And be sure not to miss Newport Pagnell's very own bluesy punk rock band Trash Monkey making some noise on stage around 10pm! Cheers!

Check out the event on facebook

Trash Monkey to play the Marshall Stage at this years LiveZone Charity event in Milton Keynes

Trash Monkey are proud to be a part of this awesome day of live music in support of local charity Willen Hospice. Be sure to check us out on the Marshall stage at 2pm upstairs at the Sno!bar in Sno!Zone, Xscape on Saturday 19th July.

Details taken from SNO!zone website (www.snozonemiltonkeynes.com):
Willen Hospice is a registered charity that provides specialist care for people whose illness no longer responds to curative treatment and in the 33 years since it opened its doors, the facility has supported thousands of families through these critical times.

Back in 2005 SNO!zone played host to a full day of music and entertainment and managed to raise a good amount of money in aid of this extremely worthy cause.

SNO!zone will once again be putting on an amazing show, with 2 stages and 25 of the best local and national bands around and all we ask in return is for you to come along, listen, enjoy yourselves and help us to smash the previous total!!!!

The line up this year includes some of the following Shaping the End, Casio Kid, Lionsex, Terrapin Trainstation, The Riff, Stonebroke, Stanislav, Rave on the Driveway and 1000htz not to mention a headline act that will no doubt blow you away!!!. And if the event couldn’t get any better, BBC Introducing will be sponsoring the main stage with back stage interviews, Marshall Amplifications are taking over our SNO!bar stage, and BBC three counties radio are doing a live broadcast of there Saturday show live on the day!

So go on check your sofa's, old jeans and car doors for as much change as you can and get yourself down to Livezone on 19.07.08!!!


BBC Introducing Stage

11am-11.30am-This is the break
11.45am-12.15pm-Anti Vigilante
12.30pm-1pm-No Cigar
1.15pm-1.45pm-Sympathy State
2pm-2.30pm-The Riff
2.45pm-3.15pm-Lionsex
3.30pm-4pm-kill the DJ
4.15pm-4.45pm-Stonebroke
5pm-5.30pm-Casio Kid
5.30pm-6pm-Raffle
6pm-6.45pm-Terrapin Trainstation
7.15pm-8pm-Imperial Vipers
8.30pm-9.15pm-Device
9.30pm-10pm-Air Guitar
10pm-10.45pm-Secret headline act

Marshall Stage

11am-11.30am- Rave on the Driveway
11.45am-12.15pm-Temples Burning
12.30pm-1.00pm-Slave To Nature
1.15pm-1.45pm-Stanislav
2.00pm-2.30pm-Trash Monkey
2.45pm-3.15pm-Stonebreaker
3.30pm-4.00pm-Rumble Suite
4.15pm-4.45pm-Quarentine
5.00pm-5.30pm-RSI
6.00pm-6.30pm-Firetone
7.00pm-7.45pm-Seethe
8.15pm-9.00pm-Shaping The End
9.20pm-10.00pm-1000 Hertz
11.00pm-2.00am-Rockstar Karaoke


Full event details:
When: Saturday 19th July – 11am – 2am
Location: SNO!zone at Xscape, Milton Keynes.
Cost: Free entry in SNO!lounge & SNO!bar (over 18’s only in bar after 7pm)

APT gig re-scheduled for June 13th

Upcoming:
Just to give you all a heads up that Trash Monkey will be returning to APT at the County Arms, New Bradwell on Friday 13th June...

Who are APT? – APT (Aptly Named Music) are a bunch of true rock ‘n’ rollers dedicated to the local music scene. Seeing the chance to give bands a venue to show their material thier once monthly music night quickly took off as a great night for rockers of all ages. To accommodate the list of bands asking to play and the crowds turning up each month they had to expand putting bands on every week rather than every month! Great work guys!

You can read about their efforts on their myspace www.myspace.com/aptlynameduk

Coming soon:
We've now been confirmed to play on Saturday 23rd August at the Milton Keynes Beer Festival / Party on the Pitch '08 so be sure to come along and make that an awesome weekend (it all kicks of on the Friday). There'll be some great local bands playing over the weekend, including our friends Sirenide who'll be taking the stage after us and before the evenings headline act Chris George and the Marshall Band. More details about the bands playing MKPOTP '08 here

Trash Monkey's full gig schedule can be found here

Milton Keynes Band Blitz 2008

Trash Monkey to are to compete in The Pitz Club Milton Keynes Band Blitz 2008. We'll be taking the stage in heat one on Friday August 1st – keep coming back as we'll be posting loads of updates over the summer and as the event nears

SPREAD THE WORD... come along to support Trash Monkey in this years Milton Keynes Band Blitz. Five former Ousedale students take on 19 other bands from MK's music scene... Let's show them that Newport Pagnell can still produce a mighty fine rock band...

This will be the last Band Blitz @ The Pitz Club, so it's gonna be massive this year. We'd love to see as many people come along to a real important gig for us, this invitation is open to everyone so pass it around to as many people as you can, former Ousedale students and fellow residents of 'The Pag' especially...

Check out the band's music at www.trashmonkey.co.uk, feel free to leave a comment below if you're up for coming along, or if you'd like to get involved getting our noise out there somehow (on your myspace profile, facebook etc.)

We've set up a facebook event here, so please feel free to drop in there and leave a message for the band

Here's the full details from the Pitz Club's myspace page:

HEAT 1 - Friday 1st August
FALSE ALIBIS (rock)
RISE INSIDE (alt/metal/ambient)
STEFFAN VALE
TRASH MONKEY (hard rock)

HEAT 2 - Friday 8th August
STANISLAV (indie/rock)
FEBRUA (screamo/rock/metal)
WHORES OF MEGGIDDDO (post metal/doom)
DROP THE ACT (alt/punk/rock)

HEAT 3 - Friday 15th August
TEMPLES BURNING (metal)
SOVRIN (indie/rock)
TAYLORMADE (punk rock)
ACACIA CLOSE ( screamo/tech metal)

HEAT 4 - Friay 22nd August
STONEBROKE (rock)
TOMBSTONE BULLETS (alt/rock)
THE VISION ( indie/ alt/rock)
RUSTY G’S (rock)

HEAT 5 - Friday 29th August
AFTER THIS PLAGUE ( deathmetal/hardcore)
ZEITGEIST (alt/metal)
BETWEEN ORDER AND MODEL ( post hardcore)
INCENDIA (modern rock)

5 bands go through to the Grand Final in September

Please cut,paste spread the word...

Enter November...

After a summer full of gigs and a compliment of local festivals, it wouldn't be surprising to see the band take a break – and if you’ve seen these guys on stage they certainly pack some energy. But as the nights become shorter and the skirts become longer, the five piece from Newport Pagnell return with two new dates to finish the year...

We'll be opening the show for Zodiac Mindwarp at The Pitz Club, Milton Keynes this Sunday 4th November, also on the bill are Spit Like This. If you're about tonight (Friday 2nd November) you can catch us in Northampton at The Racehorse, 15 Abington Square with Last Stop China Town heading the bill. More dates for 2008 are being scheduled and we'll keep you updated... 'til then, keep it loud!