Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Wholigans history.....1986

Band members in 86-87 were

Barry Quinn......Roger
Dave Smith...."The Quiet One"
John Walsh......Pete
Paul Holman......Keith Jones or was it Kenny Moon ?
either way he was good.

Baba O'Riley

Eminence Front 1986

Sister Disco 1986

Magic Bus

If you were ever in the band 1982-2009, please contact me ,as I'd love to see all of you in July at my birthday bash in Toronto
Present Wholigans excepted ;) ;)
:)

Thanks
Barry

Monday, April 27, 2009

VEGAS August 16th




Aug 16th update
I've been told by promoters to expect a crowd of around 35,000 for this event that we are headlining.

WOODSTOCK on FremontSt
Event info
Fremont Street Experience is a five-block entertainment complex located in historic downtown Las Vegas. Fremont Street Experience features Viva Vision, the world´s largest video screen which is 1,500 feet long, 90 feet wide and suspended 90 feet above the urban pedestrian mall.

Viva Vision features nightly spectacular light and sounds shows with 12.5 million LED lights and a 550,000-watt sound system. Fremont Street Experience is a one-of-a-kind venue which includes free nightly concerts and entertainment on two stages.
With direct pedestrian access to 10 casinos, more than 60 restaurants and specialty retail kiosks, Fremont Street Experience attracts over 17 million annual visitors.
Fremont Street Experience can be found online at http://www.vegasexperience.com/.

To see how the fremont st video viva vision works, do this
Go here http://www.vegasexperience.com/#/media/

Click on ‘media’…………. Top….far right

Click ‘film/photo ops’…….. ….top far right in the main box (centre of screen)

Scroll down in the centre box and ‘watch video’
Complicated I know, but it wouldn't let me copy the link. :

Thursday, April 23, 2009

A Quick One........while he's away

Mute playlist player at the top left side of this page first.


11 more new video's here>>>>>>>>> http://thewholigans.com/
Including this one ,just added Friday April 24th
Shakin' all over
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUCTSiytVG8

Saturday, April 18, 2009

Updates April 22nd

We just confirmed today we will be headlining a WOODSTOCK event on Fremont st in Las Vegas on Aug 16th.
Aug 15th we are in Chicago for a similar type event (see site)

New videos up & I'm editing last months gigs + some older never seen video's, so in the next week expect a number of uploads.

There's 11 new video's up, see front page(or 'Video' of the website for links http://www.thewholigans.com/

2009 March 14th St.Petersburg Florida
I'm a boy
Happy Jack
Young man blues
Compilation
Tommy pt 1..Overture & Sparks
Tommy ..pt2..Eyesight to the blind..Christmas..Acid Queen
A Quick One (while he's away)

2005 Tampa Lowry Pk
Magic Bus
Baba O'Riley

2003 UK WHO convention
Love Reign O'er me
BA-BA-BA-BA-BA
- BARBERANN +Dr.Jimmy

Wednesday, April 08, 2009

Frankfurt Germany April 1st-4th 2009

Here are the first group of photo's from the Musicmesse shows in Frankfurt.
http://thewholigansphotos.shutterfly.com/1024
It was the largest music tradeshow in the world in which we represented/sponsored by HIWATT UK.

Blog to come later.

A video of part of the German shows will be put on the HIWATT UK site soon.

In the meantime here is a video of our last show March 14th here
also I have just recieved 2 different video's of the entire show and will edit them and post asap (give me a day or so)

ps: In the next 2 years we have offers to go to China,Brazil,Russia,Sweden and add to that we are playing Canada,USA & Germany !
So life is good for us right now...can't complain :)

Also we just recieved offers to play Las Vegas for a week (possibly 2) in August prior to our UK tour.
Got Virginia beach,Florida,Canada,Chicago,UK,Germany, all coming up this year.
'Gotta feeling 2009 s'gonna be a good year....especially if you n me see it in together'
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