Rockabilly Christmas shindig with The Kingshakes and Russ Bebop & the Roadrunnerz at The Continental, presented by The Boatyard.
The Kingshakes and Russ Bebop & The Roadrunnerz are playing The Continental on Saturday 5 December, a night billed as a Xmas Rockabilly Shindig. It's presented by The Boatyard at The Continental, and it puts two rockabilly acts on one bill.
The Kingshakes are a three-piece — guitarist Duane Conn, drummer Steve Clark and double bass player Dan Clark — and they've taken their old-school Neo Rockabilly around the world. They recently put out the album Hard Knocks, and their sets mix original songs with hard-hitting covers, the kind of thing they say is built to get audiences to bop, wreck, stroll and jive. If you're not familiar with the terminology, that's the rockabilly dancefloor in a nutshell.
Russ Bebop & The Roadrunnerz were started in 1990 by frontman Russ 'Bebop' Purdy. They're known for high-energy, 'nitro-fuelled' live performances that blend classic rockabilly with gutsy blues and rock 'n' roll, so the two acts sit in the same general territory, just coming at it from different angles. Between them, the night covers the original songs, the covers, and the dancefloor side of the genre.
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Doors open at 8:00pm and the music starts at 8:30pm. Advance standing is £12.50, with a £1.30 booking fee on top. It's a 14+ night, and under-18s need an adult with them. The Continental is on South Meadow Lane, PR1 8JP.
