The Buttmonkies

Ruddy heck, another great crowd, another top night.

Thank you Gloucester Road Conservatives Club in Trowbridge for making us so welcome and singing along so loudly.

The Christmas version of that classic black Sabbath song will forever be know as ' War Pigs in Blankets'.

Cheers you beauties.

Ready to go.

Ooooo you fab people The Talbot Inn thank you so much for your hospitality. Your are fab....

Cheers......

Thank you swindon.

We were fortunate enough to be allowed to make a huge noise at the Rolleston on Friday.

Top venue, top people, thank you.

The Crown Westbury.

Greetings humans! Spankie here to tell you that The Buttmonkies will be playing live and loud at The Rolleston Arms in Swindon on Friday the 24th November. Get your bad selves down there for some rip roaring rock that is guaranteed to cause your trousers to flap and ladies' underwear to jump three feet to the left! You know it makes sense....

Halloween at the Stallards Trowbridge

Ballet has never been on my list of things to do however I have a curious mind so I thought why not give it a go.

The Birmingham hippodrome is a great auditorium, the sound was top notch.

Orchestral arrangements of Sabbath classics worked amazingly well remaining dark and menacing Punctuated with a performer playing guitar on stage and ozzy's disembodied voice echoing around the theatre.

The voice overs (recordings from years of interviews) are funny and meaningful.

The ballet was simply staged with moody lighting and loads of dry ice. I don't know how good the dancing was, I have nothing to compare it to, I can, however, say the grace, power and control displayed appeared super human. How the Hell do people move like that?

A treat at the end was Mr Iommi, who had been in the audiance, appeared on stage to end the show with paranoid. Legend....

Age dictates your experiences and my first memory of actively seeking out and listening to Sabbath would have been the Dio years, I soon found the back catalogue and my love of the music that helps define who I am began.

Its not often that 4 working class people can change the world for ever.
Black Sabbath I salute you.
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Thank you to Dan and everyone at the Rolleston, Swindon for having us do our thing last night.

The death metal convention downstairs was flippin awesome, our small contribution to the night with some classic rock and metal in the upstars bar was, in comparason, a chill out zone.

Thank you again you beautiful, crazy metal monsters.

Ready to rock....

A massive Hell Yeah to everyone at the Sun Inn, Frome.

"Everything's so free n easy"

Cheers.....

It's true, we are live.

Join us...

Last night, the 4 silly sods of the Rock apocalypse did their first run-through of a classic tune, but which tune you ask?

Released as a single in Feb 1983. It got to 28 in the charts. It was from this bands last studio album.

It's tight, it's fast, it's bloody hard.

When it was suggested as a cover vläd went quiet, put his head in his hands and said " that'll need some serious fingerfudgery and brain mungling to get anywhere near Johns fiddly guitar bits"

What song???

It will or course NOT be a note perfect photocopy of the original as is the way of the Buttmonkies.

All will be revieled at a gig soon....

A massive thank you to shaun and everyone at the mighty 3 horseshoes, Bradford upon avon for letting us do our thing.

Fantastic venue and first class punters.

We salute you.

Untill next Time...

Ready to go.

This Saturday.

Be there....

A big Hell Yeah to everyone at the Con club, Trowbridge for their dancing, singing and air guitaring last night.

Crowd singing on 'pretty vacant, the emphasis on the last syllable always makes me smile.

Jolly fun...

See you next time.....