A serious rock band with attitude, playing all the favourites as they should be played, with energy and style. From rock, pop, blues, R&B and rock'n'roll through soul, funk and disco to reggae, with the aim of getting everybody up and dancing
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"The Bash Band has become one of the most popular party bands on the circuit. Bash Band plays all the old favourites from the Seventies onwards with a bit of rock'n'roll thrown in for good measure" |
- Tatler |
"The wedding was a small but wildly joyous affair, in the River Cafe. The minute everybody came in, the Bash Band started playing, everybody began to dance, the three little girls started singing (daughters of the groom) ..... it was truly delightful, a happy thing to see" |
- Telegraph Magazine |
The Bash Band has several times braved the ascending stage and (like Spinal Tap) wandered lost in the bowels of
London's Hippodrome at Leicester Square
looking for the stage, alarmed the duty manager of
The Dorchester Hotel
(at the size of the sound system being loaded in), charmed the gorillas from their
cages at
London's Regent Park Zoo,
played both inside and outside
Ruthie Rogers'
River Cafe
in Hammersmith,
and at her and Lord Rogers' Tardis of a house in Chelsea (being also known as "Ruthies' Band"), survived the
Cresta Ball,
given motivational performances at
Wembley Conference Centre,
played rock versions of "Farmers Boy" and the National Anthem at
the Wye College Beagle Ball,
performed 'til dawn with
Beaufort Farmers Hunt,
the Bicester and Whadden Chase Hunt,
and Bedales Hunt.
We've gigged Westway Studios, The Staff College Camberley, and the Royal Marines Officers Mess at the Commando Training Centre Lympstone. We've given the delegates of DKFL the ideal excuse for misbehaviour, been on parade for the Royal Anglian Regiment Colours Ball, the Royal School of Artillery, and the Royal School of Military Survey.
We've enlivened the literary atmosphere at HarperCollins Balls (almost getting Eddie Bell up to play "Baker Street"), Random House Christmas parties, Dorling Kindersley extravaganzas, Salman Rushdie book launches, and at Jane Austin's brother's former home, Godmersham Park in Kent, our literary endeavours reaching their pinnacle on 1st November at Ed Victor's 30th anniversaire dinner dance. We've made strenuous efforts at Leukaemia Research balls, and empowered the well-developed and remarkably unconstrained social skills of medics at Guy's and Bart's Hospital. We've jumped (up and then down again) for the 5th Airborne Brigade Officers Summer Ball, and stayed up late for 145 Brigade.
We've played at both the old and new In and Out Clubs (like many members, prefering Lord Palmerstone's to Lady Astor's), used brand-new electricity at the opening of the new PowerGen power station at Connah's Quay, unsettled the bats of Lyminge Village Hall , acted as unrehearsed backing band in various chance encounters with famous people at parties, including Gary Brooker of Procol Harem and Mrs Jonathan Newhouse' beautiful daughters. We've played the backroom of the Bell and Dragon in Cookham, we've looked terribly smart in black tie (and even white tie), at Margate Winter Gardens, the Camberley Drag Hunt and many other equally sartorial venues, played all night for a hotel-full of complete maniacs at Hintlesham Hall (until the manager begged us to stop as he had to get the room cleared for a wedding later that same day), played Led Zeppelin covers for our friend Debbie Collings just as her brand-new father-in-law entered the room to see how the "string quartet" were getting on. We were heard quite clearly several miles away by my bank manager, we've played for Mr and Mrs Tony Foster, Mr and Mrs Liam Rosenbaum, Jan and Keith Gay and many more...
The Bash Band - 1992
