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Gigs POKE have played (ex-news):
Saturday November the 4th, Poke played at the Lost Vagueness night at Plug in Sheffield with Bison, Bollocks and many flavours of cabaret. You should be able to find more about it at www.lostvagueness.com.
POKE's Festive Fiasco at The Boardwalk went almost exactly according to plan, as far as we actually had a plan (we always have a plan). The Busketeers'
marvellous nativity play (apparently Joseph was a Beatles fan) and Sheffield's top norse acapella ceilidh band, The Fates were followed by an almost complete Poke set (sadly missing Hazel's trumpet - don't worry, she'll be back). As usual, DJ Bollocks filled every available interstitial temporal crevice with glorious noise. Hallelujah!
It was a benefit gig to help make the wonderful Shefstock festival happen again somewhere not very far into the Peaks this summer. Photos of the gig will be up here, hopefully, soon.
We want to play more gigs! In December, the Boardwalk was the venue for another legendary POKE "Festive Fiasco". We had a great night. We hope you enjoyed our horns, and previously unheard exciting rhythmic augmentation. We certainly did.
Have a listen to one of our brassy new tunes recorded live at Glastonbury!
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2006 news
Cabaret Heaven! Poke played 3 gigs for Cabaret Heaven in different towns this winter.
Friday 24th November at Brudenell Social Club, Queens Rd, Leeds 6.
Saturday 25th November at the Trades Club in Hebden Bridge.
Saturday 16th December at Otley Courthouse.
The new DnR Live in Sheffield was the venue for a Poke gig on the 30th September. Thanks to Seaweedbiscuit for having us!
On the 9th July POKE played at Abbeyfield Park Festival in Sheffield.
On Saturday 25th March, we joined the mighty Bison at the Blind Institute building on Mappin Street, Sheffield for their 2nd birthday bash. If you haven't already, pop over to their website to hear / move to / grin at some of their marvellous tunes.
On the 13th April, Poke supported Bellowhead (a huge funky brassy folky monster, including somewhat notoriously brilliant members John Spiers and Jon Boden) at the Regal in Worksop.
POKE headlined at The Grapes on Friday 21st April. It was fun. The Bluesome Twosome supported us (there's two of them and they play the blues). They were rather good too!
The Grapes. It was about time we played there again, and we did. On the 28th January, we were guests of the wonderful Dead Like Harry at their acoustic night. I'd tell you all about it, but why bother when Nadinepie has already done such a great job in our guestbook?
2005 news
On the 23rd September, at the DnR Live, POKE supported Thomas Truax and Misty's Big Adventure who were just as good, big, blue, memorably tuneful and as daft as we expected.
Devon's Shambala festival spectacularly lived up to its reputation for being damn good hippy fun. POKE managed to play a total of 3 gigs - one in the Cabaret Tent and two in the lovely Star Bar cafe tent. By far the best 12 Volt PA we've ever had the pleasure to play through, and the messiest bunch of hippies we've ever had the pleasure to play to. We could quite happily do it every night...
Shefstock!
Despite rumours to the contrary, it happened again on the 30th July - this time, in a slightly less idylically rural setting, but hey, a field's a field, isn't it?. Bigger than the last one, and with proper stages, and yes, of course, POKE played. For more Shefstock information, visit the Shefstock website.
POKE played in Pitsmoor at The Plaza, Spital Hill, on Saturday the 16th April, followed by The Raging Horns, who while not as brassy as you might expect were damn funky nonetheless, and as ever, DJ Bollocks.
2004
even older news:
Thanks to Jok from the Biggles Wartime Band, Ceilidh Saturnalia, and to DJ Bollocks.
Here's a request. If anybody has any photos of POKE that we haven't seen, we'd love to get hold of copies of them. Feel free to contact us with them - we'd certainly appreciate it.
We played at Glastonbury in Lost Vagueness Ballroom - the coolest stage of the festival, naturally - again in 2004, billed as "Frank Zappa's twisted children", and unveiled our new and disturbing (well, we try) "Naked Bras(s) Section" - have a look at our pictures page.
Time does go back further than this, but sadly this incarnation of POKE's website does not.
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