Sally & Chris First Dance Rehearsal

We are now getting started on Can't Take My Eyes of You......Crikey there's lots of chords in that one!!!! but starting to sound good after the 20th time we ran through it , well done guys ! Should be pucker for Sally and Chris' big day on the 26th June at Cripps Barn.

Skamp on Tour at Clearwell Castle.

The most interesting gig ever

Well what an interesting action packed gig we had on Saturday at Flagstone Fm in Condicote. Just for the record we had free beer, tennis, snooker, cats (x3), cheesecake, bails of hay, foxes mints in the porta-loo, cold wind and a crowd that wouldn't let us stop playing. Thanks to Heidi and Adam!

Here's Rob walking into our dressing room.

This is cat no. 1

SKAMP with cat no. 1. Nice aerial Rob!

Supper... yum!

Adam + beer = broken wall

Some of SKAMP playing tennis.

Heidi and Adam dance around a giant cymbal.

Quick rehearsal

As we were short on time and the main gear was in our band lockup, we did a practice in full acoustic mode. This is us having a run through of 'In your light' by John Allen that we played at Clearwell Castle.

I can see "Clearwell" now the gig is gone....

See what I did there? Pic shows the start of last night's fantastic gig at Clearwell Castle in the beautiful Forest of Dean. It looks like everyone is ballroom dancing but they're not! This is at the start of the gig when we did a few laid-back tracks to warm up the crowd.

Here's the outside of the castle
















This was the amazing disco booth (looked better with the lights running)
















The crowd were great and didn't stop dancing from 8 til midnight!! We had a brilliant night. One of the best gigs in a long time. For those of you that also like your rock trivia, the room we were playing in was once a recording studio and rehearsal space where bands like Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath used to come to for inspiration. So that's why we rocked!

And another great audition night!

You can tell we're getting into our busy season now. A successful first gig of the year last night and last week another audition for our gig this weekend. It's at Clearwell Castle and we're all looking forward to playing there. We've also got a good challenge on our hands to add a third set and a new track. Better get practicing!

Audition Night

Great to meet Amy & Matt who have booked us for their wedding this summer. Sounds like their guest list is full of dancers which suits us fine! We jammed a couple of new tracks tonight after a few weeks off. Now gearing up to our first gig of the wedding season next week. Jack Johnson is sounding sweet.