Live Music at the Halfmoon

January 2004 listings of Putney's leading music venue

To book tickets call 020 8780 9383 or click on link where available

Thu 1- Fri 9

***Closed fo venue improvements

Halfmoon Putney
93 Lower Richmond Road,
SW15 1EU
Tel: 020 8780 9383
Fax: 020 8789 7863
Putney Bridge tube, Putney Rail
www.halfmoon.co.uk
office@halfmoon.co.uk

Sat 10

THE NORMAL HAWAIIANS (excellent soul and funk classics from a top band with vintage Hammond)

8:30pm

£7 adv/£8 door

Sun 11

DICK LAURIE & THE ELASTIC BAND (mainstream jazz, be-bop and swing on a Sunday afternoon)

2-5pm

FREE

Mon 12

THE ACOUSTIC SESSION (popular and respected unplugged night with a high standard of song-writers)

8pm

£2.50

Tue 13

FREESTATE PROPHETS (indie retro grunge) FOUR STORIES (rocked up indie) SENSUS (alternative rock)

8:30pm

£4

Wed 14

SUBMACREWMAN (contemporary rock with very catchy numbers) DIMENSION (soul, jazz, funk and rap!) JADED (pop-rock with divine female vocals)

8:30pm

£4

Thu 15

MOON UNIT (retro rock outfit) SOUL CRY (soulful, funky rock)

8:30pm

£4

Fri 16

SILVERMAKER (excellent alternative pop rock from the headliners) THE PROJECT (original, intricate and dreamy sounds from a progressive indie combo) FUGUE (cross Jeff Buckley with INXS, beef it up with some Placebo-esque umph and you get a powerful, emotive breed of guitar pop from Fugue)

8:30pm

£4

Sat 17

FREE AGAIN (70’s rock nostalgia with this great tribute to Free)

8:30pm

£6

Sun 18

DICK LAURIE & THE ELASTIC BAND (mainstream jazz, be-bop and swing on a Sunday afternoon)

2-5pm

FREE

Mon 19

THE ACOUSTIC SESSION (popular and respected unplugged night with a high standard of song-writers)

8pm

£2.50

Tue 20

ANISON (excellent songwriting with a Pearl Jam feel from a very promising emerging rock outfit)

THE FAKE (contemporary rock’n’roll and indie)

8:30pm

£4

Wed 21

CAPTAINS OF THE CITADEL (leftfield lo-fi rock and pop) FONCHI (bluesy funk act with three main female vocalists) SYD CAN’T TALK (retro pop-rock)

8:30pm

£4

Thu 22

NUDI (American style rock) THE SEASONS  (acoustic based melodic alternative rock) ELMORE (indie rock-pop)

8:30pm

£4

Fri 23

tbc

   

Sat 24

SECOND SUN (Kent’s hotly tipped alterno rockers return with powerful vocals, big choruses and a back to basics four-piece sound) THE CORNERSTONES (rising indie stars who recently toured with Oasis, Shed 7, The Bandits and South, and have also collaborated with Finley Quaye. Plugging debut single ‘Smack Me In The Face’, a spaced out retro ballad with a blissful John Lennon feel) INTERNATIONAL 1 (elusive and quirky project from the North East with an ear for melody)

8:30pm

£4

Sun 25

Day: DICK LAURIE & THE ELASTIC BAND (mainstream jazz, be-bop and swing on a Sunday afternoon)

Evening: RORY MCLEOD (A one man soulband, poet and storyteller, singing his own unique upbeat dance stories. A modern travelling troubadour using tap shoes, acappella, harmonica, guitar, trombone, spoons, finger cymbals, bandorea, djembe and various percussion instruments!)

2-5pm7:30pm

FREE£8.50

Mon 26

THE ACOUSTIC SESSION (popular and respected unplugged night with a high standard of song-writers)

8pm

£2.50

Tue 27

SUGARMAN (US styled revival rock) PLEASURE GENE (jazzy pop rock)

8:30pm

£4

Wed 28

DRIVEN (pop-rock) THE POPPY SEEDS (uptempo catchy indie) GIFTHORSE (emotional indie)

8:30pm

£4

Thu 29

THE UKULELE ORCHESTRA OF GREAT BRITAIN  (cult orchestra featuring only ukuleles! With a repertoire that spans Bach, Ms Dynamite and everything in between, this is musical deconstruction at its surreal best)

8:30pm

£7 adv/£9 door

Fri 30

tbc

   

Sat 31

THE HAMSTERS (the overlords of the live blues scene. The blues-rock trio have been voted the UK’s best live band by readers of Blueprint mag, and kick off the new year with a host of excellent new material and a forthcoming album. A journey through rock and blues that detours into swing, country and even latin. The best)

8:30pm

£8.50