'TICKETS NOW ON SALE'
The Waterside Theatre 179-181 Long Lane, Holbury, Southampton.
14 December 2008
Tickets £9.50 Concesions £7.50 (O.A.P, Students & Children)
TICKETS AVAILABLE on 07733 024779
Please make Cheques payable to Shaun Moncaster, 1 Calshot Court, Calshot, Southampton, SO45 1BL
THE CRAZIEST BAND IN THE WORLD
BOB KERR AND HIS WHOOPEE BAND
Fresh from his tour with The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band
Sound
samples Winchester
Cathedral ---- Molatov
Cocktails for Two
When is a BAND not a BAND....... answer:when it`s a show!
Bob Kerr and his Whoopee Band combine their musical skills and great sense of humor to create a show of unashamed nostalgia. They are indeed the craziest band in the world.
From start to finish an evening with the kings of musical. Comedy will have you laughing in uncontrollable hysterics. 5 very eccentric English Gentlemen playing between them some 20 conventional instruments and some not so conventional.
Their show is a complete mixture of styles from the late great Spike Jones and his City Slickers & the Firehouse Five right through the whole musical spectrum from the 20's to the 90's, with parodies of Roy Orbison, The Blues Brothers to name but a few and with a little bit of "Classical Music" thrown in for good measure it all adds up to an evening of pure honest fun and entertainment.
The whole show was described by a leading European newspaper as a modern day cross between Spike Jones, The Marx Brothers and Monty Python.
The WHOOPEE BAND have performed on stage and TV in most European countries, had their own 45 minute TV show in Germany, not to mention their very own TV series for London Weekend Television in the 70's, it was called "Making Whoopee". They have worked with many leading stars including Lionel Bart, Peter Cook & Dudley More and Max Wall. They have toured with Ralph McTell, Manhattan Transfer and many more.
Such is the bizarre nature of this outfit they not only play Theatres and Festivals all over Europe and beyond, they even played at the legendary BOB DYLAN concerts in Earls Court London in the late seventies and when Roger Daltrey of The Who got married they even played at his wedding. The WHOOPEE BAND have appeared in concert at the Philharmonic Hall in St. Petersburg, Russia and in Denmark with Dame Edna Everage ............in various concerts with Chris Barber, Kenny Ball, Lonnie Donegan and Acker Bilk plus many many more.........If Musicians are have a "do" who do they book?
why Bob & the Boys of course.
Bob Kerr served his "apprenticeship" with such bands as The Temperance Seven, The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band and the New Vaudeville Band.............. Remember "Winchester Cathedral" ? well it was Bob who was chosen to sing this song through that now famous megaphone on Top of the Pops and the London Palladium to The Ed Sullivan Show in New York and most of the world all those years ago.
Bob has been running his WHOOPEE BAND since the late sixties. In this time the band have made many LP's, CD's, singles and Video's and appeared in several major films.
Bob and the Boys regular travels over the last few years have taken them to Germany, France, Holland, Belgium, Austria, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway, The Faro Isles, Iceland, Italy, Russia, Spain and of course Great Britain, playing Theatres, Music Festivals, Clubs and making regular appearances on TV in many countries (including Russia where their show was seen by 280 million people) .
Visit Bob Kerr's Whoopee Band website
http://www.whoopeeband.de/
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