Tuesday, January 08, 2008

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.

Friday, January 04, 2008

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



TV show 'The Spot' featuring The Wholigans 2005 (scroll to the right for more or just push play)
Mute The Wholigans 'Playlist.com' player (above) before playing these video's
These video's will play back to back for at least 3 hours
ONCE A WHOLIGAN, ALWAYS A WHOLIGAN
TheWholiganswebsite
WE ARE ALL WHOLIGANS