In London for the last gig of our mini-tour

Tomorrow, Easter Saturday 26th March, Acton Zappa will be playing at Under The Bridge, London SW6. This will be our last gig supporting Ike Willis and Zappatika. It should be a blast.

One down two to go

Here we are playing Peaches En Regalia in Stamford last Saturday.

We'll be at Talking Heads in Southampton on Wednesday and Under The Bridge in London next Saturday.

Three Gigs in a Week

Acton Zappa will be supporting Zappatika at their London gig on Easter Saturday 26th March at Under The Bridge. Added to the Stamford, and Southampton gigs on 19th and 23rd March that makes three gigs in a week (well 8 days actually).

Another Month another Mother

At Sunday's rehearsal we were joined by Jen Parkinson on keys. Jen is John the drummer's wife and mother of their children. As a music teacher, who for her degree dissertation put together a band to play Zappa music, she had no problem fitting into Acton Zappa and it was a real pleasure rehearsing with her and noticing all the extra little bits she added to our arrangements. I'm pleased to say that she will be playing with us at our two March gigs.

Playing at Zappadan Zappajam

As promised I've uploaded a shorter version of the highlights recording to youtube. It comes in at under 4 mins. Playing at Zappadan Zappajam

What's new for Acton Zappa

I've put together a sampler recording of Acton Zappa at Zappadan Zappajam you can hear it on Soundcloud. I had planned to put it on Youtube with pictures but at around 10 minutes I think it is too long and I don't have enough pictures so I now plan to make a shorter version, a sort of highlights of the highlights, and upload that to Youtube.

After the great success of Zappadan Zappajam the hall has been re-booked for Saturday 3rd December 2016 for Zappadan Zappajam 2. Not too early to put the date in your diaries.

Our Facebook page has just passed 200 likes. Thank you people.

Our next gigs will be supporting Ike Willis and Zappatika
Saturday March 19th Corn Exchange, Stamford
Wednesday March 23 Talking Heads, Southampton
We restart rehearsals this Sunday.

And there was cake

Zappadan Zappajam went really well last Friday. Each band did a short set on their own then there was general mixing and matching including a dozen guest players with an audience of around 50. It all ended with a mass rendition of Muffin Man with almost everyone playing, singing and dancing. Overall a fantastic night. It almost felt like the Acton Zappa Collective had come into being.