Athletic support band* (will play for pinot, plum-pud and pavlova)

 

*No, not 'Jock Strapp & the Elastic Band' (or 'The Crickets' ;-)

 
OK, to be strictly calendar-correct it was a "Mid-Winter Boxing Day" (July 26, right?) but, otherwise, last Friday night's fundraiser event at Te Pai Netball Centre in Henderson had all the requisite Christmas trimmings - fabulous food, festive fun and even some high-value 'prezzies' (for the lucky raffle winners). 

And, of course, it was freezing - outside.

The Shadz were privileged to strut our stuff and contribute to the merry-making of a great evening, organised to help fund travel costs for Netball Waitakere rep. teams. We also enjoyed backing guest artist Gerard Smith (host/producer of "The Beat Goes On" weekly TV magazine show for Baby Boomers and lead singer for legendary band, The Rumour).

Noting that July 26, 2013 was Mick Jagger's 70th Birthday, Gerard packed the dance floor with a rip-roaring extended rendition of "Satisfaction" - a word that pretty much summed up the night.

Demon drumming, "Savage" strumming, jumpin' jive

 

Set 5: "Shadoogie", "Wonderful Land", "The Savage", "Do You Wanna Dance?", "Got a Funny Feeling"

 

One for Mum, four for the "Young Once"

 

Set 4: "Living Doll", "It'll Be Me", "D in Love", "The Young Ones"

 

Two toe-tappin' tunes by "nivraM knaH" & Co.

Set 3: "Nivram", "Foot Tapper" 

"Spliff Pilchard" with "The River Herringz" (aka: "Shadz")

Set 2: "Move It", "Please Don't Tease", "I Could Easily Fall in Love With You", "Gee Whiz, It's You"

Rare footage (medium quality)

 

That whole Variety Artists Club "Shakin' the Chev" event (at the Pt Chevalier RSA) back at the end of April was captured in splendid HD video/sound, and we recently received a DVD of the Shadz+Shane segment. After a lot of tricky re-encoding/conversion, some decidedly amateur "splitting/editing" via Windows Movie Maker and brutal compression to shrink the file size from 965mb down to inside Blogger's 100mb limit, here's the first slice. More - including Shane performing as "Sir Spliff Pilchard" - on the way.

Set 1: "Dance On", "The Rise & Fall of Flingel Bunt", "F.B.I."  

They played on words, too!

When we early Shads fans got our hands on the group's first LP ("The Shadows" - 1961), we were amused and delighted by some of the track names:  "See You in My Drums"; "Nivram" ("Marvin" backwards), "Shadoogie" and "Theme from a Filleted Place" (think "Summer" and "Plaice"). The Shadows' name games would continue over their recording career with titles like "Stars Fell on Stockton" (not Alabama), "Rhythm and Greens", "I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Arthur" and many more.

Here are Pete and Graham {fooling around at rehearsal), "Strato-nising" on that fishy "Theme". Polka Time!