July 3
Gig list for Beatleweek ready. Find it here.
June 18
Gallery for 2009 is coming!
June 10
The Repeatles are back in Sweden again, and I write this feeling like TIm
Buckley, that is; Happy/Sad.
Happy because I am home with my family and sad because this transition between
the realworld and the
Repeatleworld is hard. I think all of us feel the same way. But I am glad we
went back and proved we can still
rock out like a hurricane!
We had a great time in spite of broken guitar necks and colds, and played some
of our best shows ever in
Louisville and Halifax. Safe to say, the mission of the Repeatles, to play the
best 60s tribute shows possible
will continue!
I would like to thank the following people for being lovely human beings:
May the best Karma follow you through every life!
Hal & Shelley Bruce
Scott, Gail & Kelly Ferguson
Gary Jacob
Vicky & Marian
Donna Scaglione
Mark Beyer
Karen Iannetti
Robert & Debbie
Jackie & Jane
Chris & Phyllis
Lisa Pasquale
All You Need Is Love
Mark Rashotte
Jay Goeppner & Instant Karma
Itchycoo Park
All our friends in Nova Scotia
Gaelle
Derek & June Cane
Kathy Gurholt
Staff at Our Friend's Pub
The guy who fixed my Gibson ES335
Christina More
The Cryers (thanks for the stories Tommy!)
Steve Sizemore Group
All the bands at AROTR
All the performers at the Maritime Beatle Event
The Winchester & The Vernon clubs
Dale from The Vernon
Guitar Emporium, Louisville, KY
Sound and stage crews at all gigs
The Galt House breakfast staff
The Beatles, The Who & The Kinks
See you all sometime in the future!
Today's motto: don't procrastinate!
Janne on behalf of The Repeatles
May 18
Jan & Steve plays in this band together with Peder Brink. Original songs by Jan
& Peder.
April 29
See you all in the U.S.A!!!
March 5
Arnie's bio under construction...
March 4
Steve's bio has arrived... short but sweet!
March 3
Pete's bio has arrived! Read it and enjoy...
Jan's bio updated, well worth seeing!
February 24
Rumour has it we are going to be playing at Beatle Week for the 7th consecutive year in August!
Good news to some, we hope!
February 13 (Friday)
Revised setlists now published. The idea was to reduce the number of songs we
play to make room for new material.
And also because it's hard to keep all these songs fresh, when some of them
aren't played as regularly as others.
On another topic; we haven't heard anything from Liverpool this year, but so far only the bigger act have been named. Rumour has it they will start contacting bands in a couple of weeks. Are we up for it again? Speaking for myself (Jan) yes... As for the others, I think so... more info when we have it.
February 5
Good news from the AROTR/Jacob camp!
We are rehearsing for our shows in the States and hopefully we will bring you some cool surprises!
January 16, 2009
Welcome to the new year everybody!
The Repeatles have started rehearsing and planning ahead. After a bit of
flaffing about we finally got back into gear
and managed to get some new songs down.
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I'm A Boy (the Who, sung by Jan & Pete) Surrender (Cheap Trick, sung by Arnie) Mary-Jane's Last Dance (Tom Petty, sung by Jan) A Well Respected Man (the Kinks, sung by Jan) My Sharona (the Knack, sung by Pete) |
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This is actually the first time since the spring of '07 that we have rehearsed regularly! Of course this is down to me being back in Sweden again. Hopefully we can get some recording done of some original songs as well.
See you later
Jan
December 29, 2008
Merry
Christmas
& Happy
New
year!
December 5, 2008
A few new pictures from Belleville in the Gallery section.
November 27, 2008
A couple of new songs in the download section.
November 22, 2008
It's snowing in Stockholm and the Repeatles are taking it easy. More news about
next year's activities
will be annunced shortly.
October 22, 2008
| Kaiser Chiefs at the Kentish Town Forum yesterday
evening was a great concert. These guys are a cool mixture of 60s pop and 80s new wave with great singalong choruses that doesn't become "football terrace". Singer Ricky Wilson is all over the place and all over the audience (literally) and towards the end of the show he was crowd surfing all the way to the mixing desk. Once there, he stands on top of it and shouts "out of my f-ng way, out of my f-ng way" and the audience parts like Moses and the Red Sea and he just runs back to the stage, Pretty cool, never seen that one before. I love the quirky guitar lines and mixed with synth/bass grooves that make even me want to dance! Very tight and well performed without getting boring.
What struck me the most though, was that the atmosphere, though being
"riotous" The sound was good too! They did predict a riot... albeit a positive one! |
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October 21, 2008
Download section now in operation! Find two live numbers here, for you pleasure!
Happy birthday Peter!
October 2, 2008
"Come Dancing" at Theatre Royal, Stratford was wonderful! A great little piece of English history...
Loosely based on Ray's family in the 50s, and especially his sister Julie, who dies at the age of 19. But it's not sad, it's a heartfelt tribute to a long gone era, as a lot of Ray's songwriting has been as well. The story takes place in "the Palais", a dancehall where the Davies' (here "Waller") all went dancing and where his mother used to sing with the band. The main theme of course is the Kinks song "Come Dancing", and during the play, Ray realises that it was actually written as a tribute to Julie. Ray himself plays the narrator, sings a bit and the second song is actually "Tired Of Waiting". The rest of the music is written specifically for the play. The cast is doing a great job, and sometimes you actually get a "Grease/Singiging In The Rain" vibe. Lovely costumes and the stage is built like a dancehall where some of the audience actually sit on stage as if they were part of the show. .
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In the bar before the show we met lead actress Gemma Salter's mother Patsy and her friend John and had a nice chat with them. The play only runs until October 25 so hurry up! Thanks Ray (and Vicki) for an unforgettable night in Straford Cheers
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October 1, 2008
Janne here: my bio has been updated by none other than ME! Still waiting
for pics and words from the other authors.
Perhaps they have moved on... and are not dwelling on the past? But hey, the
past is cool! You make mistakes, learn from them and make them again and
again... and get better at it. How about "My Favorite Mistakes" anyone? I can
feel a concept album coming on!
Tonight I'm seeing Ray Davies' play "Come Dancing" in Stratford. Review tomorrow.
September 29, 2008
Jan and Steve partied in London.
September 23, 2008
Jan got hold of a Gibson ES 355 in satin black with Bigsby from Gibson Custom Shop.
September 15, 2008
Arnie bought a brand new Gibson Thunderbird.
September 12, 2008
The BAND tab is open, with a little help from a "cosmic freind" (sic).
The SETLISTS tab came to life with the aid of someone who clearly knows what songs we play!
September 9, 2008
We are building a new homepage as you may have noticed.
The reason for this is simply; we got bored with the old one.
It's probably going to take some time to get it they way we want it.
In the meantime, the NEWS, GIGS and GUESTBOOK sections are open.
Be patient my friends...