Here today ,gone tomorrow.

We just played last night in Melbourne Florida on the east coast
It was America's largest military vets reunion and we would like to tell every person there how proud we are of everybody who has served in the military.

I felt small amongst your presence, but very grateful you chose us to play for you, thankyou thankyou thankyou.___

_Great gig, huge stage and I got to swing the hell out of the mic :)

Darren(guitar) jumped like a loony and smashed the hell out of a very nice guitar which parts are now strewn in different homes in Florida.

The drums were *accidentally* ;) dismantled/kicked over thrown into the abyss, some drums were carried off by an enthuastic crowd never to be seen again :..oh well

We got a great video of the drums flying straight towards the cameraman (the drum hit him in the noggin I believe) sorry Mike !

The guys are headed back to Toronto now and I'll be there Wednesday.

We have a few more dates to put up ,I just have to talk to our Canadian agent tomorrow and firm them up.

We'll see some of you on Friday May 2nd http://www.bostonmanor.ca/


then Healeys on the 3rd. http://www.jeffhealeysroadhouse.com/

and so on.
Sun MAY 18TH FOR THOUSANDS http://victoriadayweekend.com/ (SEE SCHEDULE)
NO WORK MONDAY eh


It's been a long time Canada since we played up there and we are ready....boy are we ready !
Bring yer earplugs........(don't say I didn't warn you !

Should I bring snowshoes with me ? ;)

Jeff Healey ..a celebration May 3rd Toronto

There is a huge benefit / charity/celebration show in Toronto Canada May 3rd for Jeff Healey
here>>> http://www.q107.com/ConcertCalendar/Default/Details.aspx?ID=100850
featuring Ian Gillan (Deep Purple) and Jack Bruce (Cream) and numerous others.
Funds raised will be donated to the Daisy’s Eye Cancer Fund and to The Healey Family Trust.

Jeff & Ian 2006 http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=17316712
or
turn off our video(click twice) at bottom of page first

Ian Gillan and Jeff Healey - When A Blind Man Cries


We are playing at Jeff's club..Healey's later that night with *special guests
http://www.jeffhealeysroadhouse.com/
Just minutes away from 'the docks'

We'd love to see you at both shows.:)
Barry
TheWholiganswebsite
TheWholigansBlog
For other Canadian shows May 1st-18th see 'Oh Canada' blog below or our site.

November bookings.updated March 31st

The Wholigans are currently booking November 2008 dates in the UK & EU.
Interested venues please see 'Contact us' page at
http://www.thewholigans.com/
VERY FEW dates remain......thankyou... UK venues ! ;)
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March 31st
2 new shows added
Friday Nov 21st The Renfrew Ferry Glasgow http://www.the-ferry.co.uk/events.asp

Sunday Nov 23rd ...FINAL UK SHOW....Sutton in Ashfield
http://www.thediamonduk.com/frames.html
more coming soon ,see website for more shows:)
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Mon March 17th

An email was sent out to our mailing list subscribers concerning some UK dates being announced + other shows and personal messages.
If you want to be kept up to date , please join our mailing list at The Wholigans.com on the home page.
We do not share your address with any 3rd parties.....I hate it..you hate it....so thats not happening !:)
Emails are usually about once a month....give or take.

btw...if you don't see your town in the gig listings , please contact the venues and give them our website
TheWholigans.com
and tell them you demand (in a nice way of course) to see The Wholigans and have the bombastic music of
The Who pounding into your chest !!!!....asap
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Coming soon .... The Wholigans message board

Oh Canada...our home and native land.

2008 Canadian Shows
blog updated Friday April 4th 11.45am*
note:new sidebar links

Watch this space between now and Thursday/Friday .....
for 3 possibly / more than likely 4 new Canadian shows .
1 a bit north of T.O,
2 east of T.O .
and a new club opening in T.O.
:)



March 3rd Jeff Healey passes on.
Jeff finally 'see's the light' .........another good man gone.
The Wholigans were honored to have shared the stage with Jeff in the 80's.
1 COOL CAT.
http://www.jeffhealey.com/
Hey Jeff, give Hendrix a couple of pointers when you meet him ;)
Condolence book http://www.jeffhealey.com/wishes


NEW SHOWS ADDED....
Midland Ontario
May 9th http://www.twistedpines.com/index.php?show=126

The Wholigans will perform on Friday May 9
following a showing of ...
Amazing Journey - The Story of the Who. http://xrl.us/AMAZINGJOURNEY
at the North Simcoe Sports & Recreation Centre. Festival kick-off $32


Date change....... Burlington now May 2nd from the 10th
http://www.thewholigans.com/

****More Canadian dates to be added in a while, Montreal,Peterborough,Oshawa,Ottawa,
Waiting for the ink to dry before we can confirm. ****


http://xrl.us/Smashing07 not for the faint of heart ;)
http://www.thewholigans.com/pages/video/my_generation.htm

' You guy's are still around ? ' ..........Tour......April /May 2008




Hey!..... isn't that Dave 'gater'Smith on bass from the 80's Wholigans lineup ?_________________________________________


The Canadian Wholigans will be the same band that toured Germany last October.Barry/Roger.....Darren Lolk/Pete....Dave'gater'Smith/the ox....Darren A./Keith

1982....ah I remember it well :)

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Florida , April Wholigans are...
Barry/Roger.....Darren.A/Keith.....Mark/ 'young ox'........& .Darren L./Pete



ps: 4 photo's of 2006 convention added to top of this blog http://thewholigans.blogspot.com/2006/04/pure-madness-aka-2006-who-convention.html
No biggy really,just thought you may want to see.

hmmmm ?

What's that smell ?
Could it be the smell of gaffa tape in my future ?

Maybe sooner than I thought, who knows ;\
(not that soon though ;\



What's gaffa tape you say? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaffer_tape

1001 uses for gaffa tape ( for those of you that have waaay too much time on your hands ! )http://www.ducttapeguys.com/new_intro/index.html

http://people.bath.ac.uk/su2bc/cgi/gaffer/start.pl

PS: the music you hear is a video close to the bottom of the blog attached to the 'slide' photo's.

Video by 'Ozzie' 2003 Live at Leeds

It's not all about zepp you know !

Dec 10th 2007
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsGZVyom9LM

+Free New years eve concert with 'the voice'

http://www.eq.tv/watch/paulrodgers

http://www.paulrodgers.com/news.html

A good man gone.

http://www.myspace.com/brunobruno3

Lost a musician friend yesterday to a heart attack at 49 .

Bruno was a friend I came upon (at least 10+ years ago)through Chris Bacon(wholigan guitarist) and Ray Harris (a one time wholigan bassist)and good friend.

Those 3 guys (along with singer Peter) were in a south Florida band in the late 70'/80's called Z-Cars who were very popular back then, and just recently in the summer had filmed a reunion concert/movie along with other popular Florida bands of the time including one with Johnny Depp.

Zcars on myspace
http://www.myspace.com/zedcars

The movie is due out soon.

http://www.myspace.com/sheilawitkinmemorial

+ see video below (featuring Bruno,Chris and Ray)

Bruno was keen to drum for The Wholigans at one time as he knew a lot of Who songs as he played them in zcars, and we met a number of times over the years and even played in Miami/FtLauderdale.

Bruno wasn't a close close friend but he meant a lot to Ray and Chris, and through them I met a great guy ....and any friend of those guys is a friend of mine.

Bruno I'll miss you man, I hope they have a bloody ceasar waitng backstage at the great gig in the sky for you.

Barry

Z-CARS 2007 http://a693.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/40/l_29030036b22e43d3266528a4f2a2f7c4.jpg

A night at the Agora on youtube...a documentary on Florida bands of the late 70's early 80's. Look for Chris,Ray & Bruno.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9otLy7eYeVk for more details.

Ironically Bruno is the last one commenting on the video.

"You cannot escape the black hole of rock n roll"