A curious
hybrid of heritage and tribute acts has emerged over the last few years – bands
made up of departed personnel from groups no longer with us.
Bruce
Foxton still plays music From the Jam, Nik Turner’s Space Ritual is Hawkwind in
all but name, while the Campbell brothers each have their own UB40.
Granddaddies
of them all are the Kast off Kinks – essentially the real thing without the
Davies brothers. They have been performing their considerable back catalogue
for the last 20 years.
Mick
Avory, Jim Rodford and Ian Gibbons clearly have a fine old time working their
way through a seemingly endless checklist of hits, and are ably assisted by the
guitar and vocals of Dave Clarke from the Noel Redding band.
While Ray
Davies is a fine songwriter it was somehow refreshing to hear the Kinks music
without the faux gravitas of an audience with his majesty.
The band
rattled through Sunny Afternoon, Dead End Street, David Watts, Lola, Waterloo
Sunset, You Really Got Me, and so much more. A reminder that the Kinks, for all
Davies’s undoubted genius, were fundamentally masters of the three minute
single in all its catchy, disposal splendour.
Forthcoming Kast Off Kinks gigs: -
30 May 2015
White Horse Club, White Horse Caravan Park, Paddock Lane, Selsey PO20 9EJ
23 June
2015 Belgrade Theatre, Belgrade Square, Coventry CV1 1GS
24 June
2015 Haverhill Arts Centre, High Street, Haverhill, Suffolk CB9 8AR
26 June
2015 Playhouse Theatre, Ashley Avenue, Epsom KT18 5AL
27 June
2015 White Rock Theatre, White Rock Road, Hastings, TN34 1JX
01 July
2015 Winding Wheel Theatre, 13 Holywell Street, Chesterfield, Derbyshire S41
7SA
02 July
2015 Grimsby Auditorium, Cromwell Road, Grimsby, S Humberside DN31 2BH
03 July
2015 Forum Theatre, Queensway, Billingham, Stockton-on-Tees TS23 2LJ
04 July
2015 Staxtonbury Music Festival, Manor Farm, Staxton, Nr Scarborough YO12 4SH
09 July
2015 Subscription Rooms, George St., Stroud, Glos GL5 1AE
10 July
2015 Chapel Arts Centre, St James Memorial Hall, Lower Borough Walls, Bath BA1
1QR
11 July
2015 Midsummer MODness Mini Festival, Pontardawe Arts Centre, Herbert Street,
Pontardawe, Swansea SA8
12 July
2015 Wyvern Theatre, Theatre Square, Swindon, Wilts SN1 1QN
12 August
2015 Exeter Corn Exchange, George Street, Exeter EX1 1BU
13 August
2015 Princess Pavilion, 41 Melvil Road, Falmouth Cornwall TR11 4AR
14 August
2015 The Wharf, Canal Road, Tavistock, Devon PL19 8AT
15 August
2015 ROCK THE GHOSTIES 2 Poltimore Arms, Yarde Down, Brayford, South Molton,
Devon EX36 3HA
16 August
2015 Westlands Club, Westbourne Close, Yeovil, Somerset BA20 2DD
04
September 2015 Royal Hippodrome Theatre, 108-112 Seaside Road, Eastbourne BN21
3PF
05
September 2015 Oakengates Theatre, Limes Walk, Oakengates, Telford TF2 6EP
06
September 2015 Loughborough Town Hall, Market Place, Loughborough,
Leicestershire LE11 3EB
12
September 2015 Pavilion Theatre, Pier Garden, Gorleston-on-Sea, Great Yarmouth,
Norfolk NR31 6PP
18
September 2015 Oake Manor Golf Club, Oake, Taunton, Somerset TA14 1AT
19
September 2014 Regent Centre, 51 High Street, Christchurch BH23 1AS
20
September 2015 Courtyard Theatre, The Courtyard, Edgar Street, Hereford HR4 9JR
02 October
2015 The Platform, Old Station Buildings, Marine Road West, Morecambe LA4 4DB
03 October
2015 Tamworth Assembly Rooms, Corporation Street, Tamworh, Staffs. B79 7DN
14 October
2015 Palace Theatre, Palace Avenue, Paignton, Devon TQ3 3HF
15 October
2015 Exmouth Pavilion, Exmouth, Devon, EX8 2AZ, UK
16 October
2015 Cheese & Grain, Market Yard, Frome, Somerset BA1 1BE
17 October
2015 Littlecote House Hotel, Hungerford, Berkshire RG17 0SU
18 October
2015 Princess Theatre, Princess Street, Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset TA8 1EH
22 October
2015 Ferneham Hall, Osborne Road, Fareham, Hants PO16 7DB
23 October
2015 Lyric Theatre, 8 King Street, Carmarthen SA31 1BD
24 October
2015 The Globe, 125 Albany Road, Roath, Cardiff CF24 3NT
25 October
2015 Weymouth Pavilion, The Esplanade, Weymouth, Dorset DT4 8ED
29 October
2015 Eel Pie Club, Cabbage Patch, 67 London Road, Twickenham TW1 3SZ
30 October
2015 Princes Theatre, Town Hall, Station Road, Clacton-on-Sea CO15 1SE
05
November 2015 Riverside Lodge, High Stanners, Morpeth, Northumberland NE61 1QL
(Charity event for breast cancer)
06
November 2015 Glasgow O2 ABC Academy, 300 Sauchihall Street, Glasgow G2 3JA
07
November 2015 Hartlepool Town Hall Theatre, Raby Road, Hartlepool TS24 8AH
13
November 2015 Bacon Theatre, Dean Close School, Shelburne Road, Cheltenham, Glos
GL51 6HE
14
November 2015 Stamford Corn Exchange, Broad Street, Stamford PE9 1PX
15
November 2015 Brookside Theatre, Romford War Memorial Social Club, 21A Eastern
Road, Romford, Essex RM1 3NH
22
November 2015 Official Kinks Fan Club Meeting, The Dome (Upstairs at The
Boston), Tufnell Park, London N19 5QQ
27
November 2015 Bingley Arts Centre, Main Street, Bingley BD16 2LZ
29
November 2015 Spa Theatre, South Bay, Scarborough, North Yorkshire YO11 2HD
04
December 2015 Hertford Corn Exchange, 39 Fore Street, Hertford, SG14 1AL
05
December 2015 The Ropetackle, Little High Street, Shoreham-by-Sea, BN43
5EG
11
December 2015 Lewes Con Club, 139 High Street, Lewes, East Sussex BN7 1XS
12
December 2015 The Half Moon, 93 Lower Richmond Road, Putney, London SW15 1EU
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