Hey folks! News and new gigs for 2012 up on my website. See you real soon!
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Hey folks. Some new gigs (including 3 this weekend!) and bits of news for you. Happy January! – http://t.co/e1g1aL0J

January

A belated happy new year folks!

Two weeks deep and this year has been nothing short of eventful already. Loads happening and lots of exciting things in the pipeline but we’ll stick to the facts for now…

NEW Recordings – coming soon!

During the first weekend of January, myself and James had the privelage of recording at London’s renowned Dean Street Studio. The studio has been around since the 70′s and has hosted an almighty plethora of greats such as David Bowie, Dave Gilmour and Robert Plant. We were very honoured to be given the chance to record there and we cannot wait to share the results with you. Just a few finishing touches and they’ll be ready, so keep them ears peeled!
A huge thanks goes out to Suzanne, Jas, Alex, Matt, Dave & Paulie, Nick and everyone at Dean Street Studios for feeding us whiskey between takes and letting us play incredibly loud music in their house til the small hours!

GIGS

We got some tasty shows coming in already this year at home and abroad. We’ll be stopping by Wales, London, Bristol & Liverpool in the next couple of months, so please keep checking the Tour Page on the website for updates.

Finally we’d like to say a very special and heart-felt thank you to our brother in life and music Mr. Simon Lovelock. The 4 stringed filthy beast parted company with us at the start of this year. We continue on as a two-piece with Simon’s blessing and we wish him the best of luck with his future endeavours.

We have been working hard on new tunes, tweaking some of the old ones and we really think you’re gonna dig where this is going!

That’s all for now folks. We hope to see you out and about soon. Don’t forget to wrap up warm though, there be snow out on them there hills…

John and James

http://www.johnfairhurst.com/

Recording @ http://t.co/ocdfm6Zr on 7th,8th, 9th Jan. Cant wait!!

John Fairhurst interview and live track on NBC New York @ http://t.co/HwJ0owzd

2 Free-Entry London shows! http://t.co/7Ds3iAFv

Hey folks!

Just a quickie to let you know about two free shows the band have got this month in London. Both are gonna be corkers and a great way to end a fantastic year (and our first as a band!). Hope to see you there…

Friday 23rd December @ Hootenanny Brixton
This Friday we’ll be playing at one of London’s premiere venues The Hootenanny in Brixton. It beat the likes of the O2 to win best London venue 2011 in the London Lifestyle Awards and many of our good friends have played there, so all signs point towards this being a belter of a gig! Doors are at 9pm and we’re first on so get down early and have a good old stomp with us.

Venue Website & more details

Saturday 31st December – New Years Eve @ The Finsbury Pub

Oh yes! We’re going to be seeing out the year in fine style at The Finsbury pub. If you haven’t made plans yet and you fancy a dirty evening of rock n roll with us and our good friends The Graveltones – then get yourselves down to this event. It’s FREE ENTRY all night! Nuff said.

Facebook event

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We’ve just landed back in England after what can only be described as a terrifyingly brilliant tour of Ireland. Made a lot of ace new friends and sank a fair few pints of Guiness! The partying in that place is second to none and as a band we had some amazing musical experiences taking in everything from busking on the streets of Galway to playing The Button Factory – one of the biggest venues in Dublin! We’ll be back there in July next year and we can’t wait. There are far too many people to thank but special shout outs have to go to Neil & Christina from Jack Of Diamonds Productions, Allen Gosker and the boys from Mikey & The Scallywags and everyone at the Ringwood House. We love you all! Check the Facebook page for some videos and photos from the tour.

So, there is loads of stuff happening for us in December. The John Fairhurst Band never stops! So without further waffling, here is what we’ve got in store…

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Voodoo Chile live at GreenMan Festival 2011

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ivp-2CiTvg

Very excited to unleash our first official band live video. This cheeky number was filmed at GreenMan Festival in Wales this year on the Chai Wallahs stage. We had a great time jamming the fuck out of this one, so we hope you enjoy it. Huge thanks to Dave Prosser at Parrafin City for putting this together for us. Also thanks to Bright Black Films and the Chai Wallah crew for making this happen. Post it out amongst your friends and help spread the word!

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Headline Band show @ The Hare & Hounds, Birmingham
Thursday 1st December • Full-screen106 High Street, Kings Heath, Birmingham, B14 7JZ • 7pm-late
₤5 adv, ₤7 on the door

Tickets from WeGotTickets
Venue Website

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Headline Band show @ The Canteen, Bristol
Friday 2nd December • Hamilton House, 80 Stokes Croft, BS1 3QY • 9.30pm-midnight

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Solo Tour of New York City, 6th – 13th December
New York City

Dead excited to be heading out to New York for a mini solo tour this month. Please check the Tour page of my website for details. More dates to be announced soon. Massive thanks to my pals Joe Driscoll and Alex Munro for helping with that one.

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Solo show @ The Vintage Emporium, London
Thursday 15th December • Full-screen14 Bacon Street, Brick Lane, London, E1 6LF • 7pm
FREE entry

Venue Website

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Battersea Arts Centre & One Taste’s Christmas Market London
16th, 17th & 22nd December • Battersea Arts Centre, Full-screen160 Lavender Hill, London, SW11
FREE entry

Really, really pleased to have been asked by One Taste to play their stage at the BAC’s Christmas Market. We’ll be playing a special busking style set so this is really gonna be a unique experience. Check my website or join the facebook event to find our more details and what time we’ll be on. Loads of other great artists (including my good friend Brooke Sharkey) and market and food stalls, so be sure to get down there!

Venue Website

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Local Posse @ Bedroom Bar, London
Thursday 15th December • Rivington Street, Shoreditch, London • 8pm – 1am
₤5 entry, FREE entry before 9pm

Another outing for the people at Local Posse. Collaborations and improvisations from some of the best musical talent on the festival circuit. Each event is a one off with a revolving line-up. This month will be Lazy Habits, Dizraeli, Klumzy Tung, More Like Trees, The Drop and of course The John Fairhurst Band. Join the Facebook event for more details. Be sure to check out our drummer James’ special collaboration with Dizraeli on YouTube!

Venue Website

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Hootenanny’s, Brixton & New Years Eve in London

OK, so we did say we didn’t have any more shows this year in London but we’ve had a couple of offers we just couldn’t refuse. 23rd Dec at one of London’s best venues The Hootenanny in Brixton and a New Year’s Eve show at The Finsbury with our good friends The Graveltones. Those guys know how to make seriously heavy noise. More details to come soon.

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That’s all for now. Really hope to see you this weekend or over in Ireland. Keep checking the website for new stuff.

John, Simon and James

http://www.johnfairhurst.com/