A Wholigan in New York.

Photo taken at The Who concert at Madison Sq Garden. 2002












I'm off to NYC with the missus on Sunday for 5 days,and we've got a litle bit extra cash so we are sure to have a good time.As well as going to bbkings on Wednesday and hanging out with Bill from who'snext we are going to play tourist and do some shopping and also eat in Little Italy .
We plan on going to ground zero this time as we didn't do it last time in NYC not long after 911, we felt it was just too early last time, but I'm sure it will still be a sad reminder and it's something we must do.

NYC is such a fantastic city, if I were in my 20's again I'd probably live there.

Photo's from 2002

http://www.imagestation.com/album/pictures.html?id=4289083861&code=22303730&mode=invite&DCMP=isc-email-AlbumInvite

Highway to Hell

Got up and sang with some friends of mine in an AC/DC tribute band last Thursday and sang Highway to Hell, see photo's here
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v238/TheWholigans/highway%20to%20hell/

They are a great band based in Tampa bay Florida, check them out http://www.highwaytohell.info/


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Pure Madness !!!!!! aka 2006 Who convention & tour

UPDATED January 13th

Pictured left to right lower:
Simon Townshend (TheWho & Casbah Club), Chris, Barry & Mark...The Wholigans
Upper: Mark Brzezicki (BigCountry/Casbah club) Paul (drummer from Who's Next UK) & Bruce Foxton ,(The Jam/Casbah Club)

2006 Convention website http://www.whoconvention.com/

Convention on myspace
http://www.myspace.com/thewhoconvention

On 1st April 2006, the Bush Hall in Shepherd's Bush, London was rocked to the sound of Tommy, Leeds & more by The Wholigans at The Who Convention 2006. Now you can get a high-quality double DVD .
(see below)

CONVENTION PHOTO ALBUM http://www.dgw-hamburg.de/convention/album/

Simon wearing the flag we donated to the auction,it was signed by all The Wholigans and The Casbah club & Irish Jack. It sold for 160 pounds I believe, The winner also had his photo taken with us and Simon underneath the flag posed ala kids are alright.

Florida 3pm Monday April 10th
I just got in at 3am this morning and I'll be relaying the story of the entire "Wholigans Madness" tour over the next few days along with photographs (be sure to send me some photo's of the shows you came to) theband@thewholigans.com

It's best if you upload them to a site such as http://smg.photobucket.com/ and then send them as to avoid filling my mailbox.

The collage photo from the convention was sent to me from Louise Göransson who came over from Sweden..
Click on the photo for a larger image.

Here it is Wednesday and I still need a few more days to write and add photo's, speaking of which ...I have only recieved 2 or 3 emails from Who fans with photo's. PLEASE send me some, I know EVERYBODY had a camera ,so get off your arses and get them to me ya barstards ! ;)

theband@thewholigans.com

Especially seeking a photo of Roger and myself sidestage.

1ST UK photo album, more to come http://shorterlink.com/?O7AM0D this album includes the Friday night at The Goldhawk at the accoustic jam. Best viewed as a slideshow with 5-6 second pause.

2nd photo album courtesy of Ron Dovey, all photo's taken at the Robin 2 in Bilston/birmingham/wolverhampton

View only if you really really really love the wholigans.......239 of them taken at bilston/birmingham/wolverhampton....same gig

http://s21.photobucket.com/albums/b262/TowserTowser/Ron/

update Aug 10th 1.10pm

For those of you wanting to purchase hard copies of the Convention DVD’s here are the details..

The full set consists of 5 DVD’s, and are available in PAL and NTSC format, please specify with your order which format you require.

All profits will be given to Teenage Cancer Trust Registered Charity Number 1062559.

£24 = 5 DVD Set, Emailed Art, No Cases.

£26 = As Above but Europe.

£27 = As Above but America

£28 = As Above but Worldwide

Anyone who wants to order individual discs rather than the full set of 5, prices will be as follows,

The Wholigans 2 disc set will count as 1 disc and is not priced per disc.£7 = UK.£8 =

As Above but Europe.£9 =

As Above but America.£10 =

As Above but Worldwide.

All payments however made MUST be in UK pounds.

All DVD’s will be supplied in plain white paper envelopes. All artwork and text files can be downloaded here

http://www.hntgzr.com/ConventionDVDs/ConventionDVDs.htm

Initially, orders should be placed via Steve at hentgeezer@yahoo.co.uk and paypal payments made to that same email address as I will be away on holiday for the next two weeks.

Please supply your full snail mail address and if you pay via Pay Pal, it might be wise foryou to include in the notes section just who you are - email addresses registered with paypal aren't necessarily going to be the same as the one you "place the order" with.

If you could also let us know with the order which forum you are a member of it will help with our records.

Shipping would take up to 10 days, all orders will be dispatched within 4 days, and therefore delivery from order should be less than 2 weeks.

Orders will only be shipped after payment has cleared (just in case someone pays via echeck on paypal - payment clearsafter about 4 days or so).

We can also accept payment by cheque or postal order again orders will be dispatched after payment has cleared and all funds must be paid in UK Pounds.

Should we be inundated with orders, please be patient as theymay take longer than 2 weeks to be delivered. We will however advise you of any delays.

Ron

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NOV 12th 06 update

youtube videos of the convention courtesy of jokerjames

Below are videos of The Who convention.
go here
http://www.thewhomovie.com/community/viewtopic.php?p=3884#3884

or here


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Svwvt613Ad8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jlbUCtqQ6s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRP3gBMgH30

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTLYAmlO53I

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNzrgsDZ4Hk

The more things change the more they stay the same.

For those of you that cannot make the convention or plan to come to Manchester the day after on April 2nd, .Irish jack is coming with us up to Manchester and will be doing a short reading before our show.
Tickets>>>>>http://www.manchesteracademy.net/thewholigans.html

In the 60's /70's Jack was there with The Who, and now he's still here.... except with us, now THAT'S a Who fan !
We all love Jack as we had a great time with him in 2003 at the convention and also in NYC, and now 2006.

I can guarantee you I will have lot's of story's (and photo's) for you after this tour.

Irish Jack
http://www.thewho.net/irishjack/index.html

http://www.quadrophenia.net/jacklyons/index.html

A canny weekend if ah say so me sel like :)

Here are some photo's from Saturday March 4th at Safety harbor in Florida.
Slyvie Damien http://shorterlink.com/?LS97DY

others http://shorterlink.com/?4ORRQZ

Taken by Kirk Mason http://shorterlink.com/?JK1ML6

On top of the world ma...on top of the world.

Feeling pretty good today, the gigs seem to be coming out of nowhere and all at the same time.
Theres a couple I can't put to press just yet but it's looking very good. March/April/May is going to be way busier than expected for the band and all pretty high profile gigs with the biggest profile gig of them all being The Who convention in London.
The convention has officially been sold out, so it should be a great day.

Sorry to hear that 'Who's Next uk' cannot play the convention because of an injury to the drummer,I know they were looking forward to the day.
'Who's Who' appear to a good 'substitute' for Who fans coming to the show, I'm looking forward to watching them and of course Casbah Club.

The Wholigans drummer Darren will be playing with 'Who's Next ' USA March 16th and 18th in New York City and possibly/more than likely he will be playing a Wholigans gig on the 17th in Florida , the dear boy certainly will be kept busy !
In related news, a great friend of the band Bill Canell (Pete) from 'Who's Next' USA will be finishing the UK tour with us from April 3rd on as Chris Bacon has to get back to Florida as he's moving house and the date can't be changed.
See Bill here http://www.whosnexttribute.com/video11111111.html
I just got off the phone with Bill and he can't wait to play and he's also pushng me to play some obscure who songs which The Wholigans don't play, so I guess I better start practising !

On a personal note, healthwise 2005/06 has been really shitty but the futures so bright I gotta wear shades.
(too many details I won't bore you with)

A note to the weatherman at the BBC, could you please order up some warm weather for April as I'm spoilt here in Florida.
It looks like we are not playing my hometown of Newcastle at which I'm really dissapointed at (see:really pissed off ! )
I have no idea why not....oh well :(

I'm looking forward to playing for all the UK Who fans and sharing a few pints and hopefully not sleeping in a Soho doorway ; }

Barry

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Another day in Paradise ?

Sunday Jan 16th

80 degrees,sun shining so it seemed like a wonderful day to go to the beach. So we pack up the car and head up to the family condo right on the beach.
What could be better, hang out on the beach, venture carefully into the cool water, cool because despite the air temperature the water is still 60 which is wayyyy too cold for us floridians brrrrrr!
Well anway after a knee high walk into the water and hours of shell picking and the odd cold beer :) I decided to walk along to the bird sanctuary where they take in injured birds such as pelicans,owls,egrets and assorted other florida birds. The sanctuary is acccessible right from the beach and feeding time is quite the sight as all of the other birds in florida congregate on the beach just outside at that time.
So I wandered in and oohed and awwed and at all the birds (covered under netting) and after a while this old fart had to sit down.....well.....little did I notice one of Floridas largest bird 'the pelican' was sitting about 12 feet above me.
Well apparently his bowels were in need of a movement and I was soon to be his persoanal toilet, so there I was sitting innocently thinking what awonderful day it was when sssssSSSSSSSSPLatTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!
I was covered in lots and lots of warm really warm pelican poo, and I began to whine like a little girl.
Apparently I was a a great source of amusement to my wife and sis in law + many others around me.
Fortunatly there was a water hose around the corner to wash me off and of course I was only wearing swim trunks so cleaning up was easy.
Another day in paradise huh ?

Later on in the day after sunning and swimming in a heated pool we were invited to go see some friends of mine for free at a sold out show, Zoso a Led Zepp tribute band at a theatre, so I got to play semi rockstar for the night.
The steady flow of Heineken seemed to soften the blow of the pelican poo,and at this point I am really gratefull I wasn't looking up at the pelican with my mouth agape.....now that would be an entirely different day !


ah Paradise, got to love it.

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Bye Bye 2005

Late 2004 /All of 2005 was possibly the worst time of my life physically / mentally / financially & early 2006 doesn't appear much better.
Without going into detail, I am hoping for the best and looking forward to the future, and I am also hoping for favours from the big guy in the sky.

Life is a strange animal.

Who fans keep me going....for which I thank you.....and I'll see you soon.

Barry
*sigh*

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Merry Christmas & Happy Hogmanay

That time of year again, whatever happened to 2005 it flew by so fast!
It's been a year+ since my initial back surgery and I'm still dealing with minor day surgery's as recently as last week.
Hopefully all will be well soon.

I'm headed out christmas shopping today for the missus, which is pretty good for me as it's usually christmas eve when I do that.
Can't say I've been a good boy this year but hopefully santa will be good to me ;)

As the title of this blog says , Merry Christmas & Happy Hogmanay, Hogmanay for those of you don't know is new years eve and is basically a Scottish tradition which I grew up with as my dad was from Motherwell Glasgow as were most of my relatives on my dads side. My dad died on christmas day a few years ago, I miss him as I do my mum but I know they are both proud of my accomplishments.
Anyway, you can read up on Hogmanay here http://www.hogmanay.net/history/faq#hogmanay

Not much going on in Wholigan world until the UK tour , but usually right after new years the phone starts ringing for gigs.
Unfortunately our webmistress who ran our site http://www.thewholigans.com/ seems to have taken permanent leave ,so we are seeking a replacement.There are a couple of things on the site which need fixing such as the Jan 21st Singapore show which has been cancelled and the uk dates need to be updated , but you can find the list of dates and updates on tributecity.
http://www.tributecity.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=23


We can't wait until the UK tour + I get to nosh on a good english breakfast of bacon,eggs,sausage,beans,black pudding etc and probably(more than likely) a pint of good ale to wash it down ;}
and of course the after show party's with you lot !

I hope everybody shows up early to the convention as there is a great uk Who tribute playing in the afternoon called 'Who's Next' + all kinds of *special guests* throughout the day :)
Many thanks to our UK agents http://www.moneypennymusic.co.uk/ who put this tour together.
Scroll down to see their review of us.http://www.moneypennymusic.co.uk/Pics/n
Big thanks go out to Ron Dovey for putting the convention on out of his own pocket, and for having us back again since the last convention in 2003 which was phenominal.

It's supposed to be 71 degrees here in Florida on christmas day, which is cold if you're used to living here but I know is hot to most of you.
Having grown up in Newcastle then living in Canada I know what snow is all about and I don't miss it one bit!!!!!

As of today we don't have a gig in Newcastle but I hope that will change in the coming weeks, either way it will be a canny tour and we can't wait to " turn everything louder than everything else"

Thanks also to all of you Wholigans that came out to see us in 05, we appreciate everyone of you, and big thanks to the inspiration of the band that moves us all.......THE WHO

Until 2006 Wholigans.....HAPPY WHOLIDAYS !!!

Barry

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Nothing to say,Nothing to hear & Nothing to see

Sunday morning, buggar all to say really cept lovely weather we're having..
Hang on.... I just turned my brain on, give it a minute to start up.
whrrrrrrr*click*
AH...that's better, now where were we ?..oh yeah

Watched The Who get inducted to the UK hall of fame last night on VH1.
A word to the wise Pete...sonna.......lose the handbag, good god what were you thinking!
Apart from that Mr.T was his relaxed self and looked good (apart from the handbag)
Roger's comment about being "otherwise employed" was a good one, I don't know if that was a dig or what.

The Who deserve to be there along with The Kinks and Black Sabbath and Bob Dylan, but as much as I like Annie Lennox (have seen her twice) I thought that it was a bit too early for The Eurythmics to be inducted especially alongside such greats as The Who and The Kinks.
The individual catalogues of The Who ,Kinks and Bob severely outweigh the pop throbbing of 80's electronica Eurythmics.Good band n'all, it just was bad timing if you ask me. It was kind of like having ABBA open for The Who, it just doesn't work.
Then again Who am I to criticize ?
Then again I'm a fan, surely my vote counts for something.

I told you I didn't have much to say ;)

::turns brain off .....: whrrrrrr*click*

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Hmmmm..... where to start ?

9.35 am Friday November 25th

1st day as a blogger, it's good I suppose as it allows me to keep Whofans and fans of The Wholigans up to date instead of writing a diary every few months on the site.
As you may have noticed I've been completely lazy in that respect.

Uhm..so much has happened this year that I'll just have to recall it bit by bit over time, but for now lets just deal with the now.
We were supposed to play Singapore Jan 21st but apparently there was lots of interest to have us play more than just one show, so that was cancelled and now the powers that be are looking to do a tour of Singapore,Maylasia,Taiwan,Thailand around May 2006.
We are hoping to tag on some dates in Australlia and maybe Japan & Korea.

In April we are headed to the UK for a couple of weeks starting April 1st at The Who convention put on entirely by Who fans with their own money and their own bravado, this convention is put on by the fans for the fans.
Ron Dovey is the main organizer along with various other people,but without Ron none of this would happen, he also put on the 2003 convention which we also played.
http://www.whoconvention.com/

The Wholigans are having a quiet November/December on purpose as it's such a busy time family wise for everyone.
2006 though is a different story, there is soooooo much in the works.

I look forward to blabbing on here, hopefully the southern comfort posts at Friday at midnight won't offend too many of you, but to those of you who know me from relayers and theshout know I speak my mind.
So readers of this blog beware , you may not like everything you read ;)

' I'm a substitute for another guy'
Barry ...Who's still trying to figure out how to blog and edit etc etc....lord I'm old :(

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