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Songs From the Floor is recorded, mixed and ready to be released on an unsuspecting world.

Check GIG section for new gigs.



posted on 23-01-2008

Some dates... (NEW TYLA DATES)

NOTE: NEW DATES WITH TYLA









posted on 05-09-2007

August gigs


posted on 21-08-2007

Bow do some gigs!



posted on 23-07-2007

News Slash -



Forsooth, having broken forth out of our
highly unusual spate of hibernation recently at a
FictionNonFiction gig that featured more visitors to
the stage than actual Bow membranes, including a very
heroic last stand by Capt Fido on Scar so that Matt
could play harp, a song Capt hasn't played since July
2003 in Wigan...thanks too to whoever it was in Grand
Central last night who came & said they'd seen us &
thought we were brilliant, I didn't do a very good job
of selling us...I didn't even ell them what we were
called ha ha...oooops. So, anyway, we're on top hat
tipping form to take the New Year by the velvet cuffs
& kick up a storm worthy of the magic 7. Oh, it's
nearly May already is it? Ah well, we have actually
been busy, having recorded the princely sum of 2 & a
half songs in mid-February. I heard a rumour last
night that they may be finished this coming week.
Recorded, mixed & fixed by Jaz Fiction they sound
great. One day you may hear them. One day WE may hear
them. Though Dr Danny Ace has been doing the honours &
playing Scar at Voodoo. Cheers.
Then, Bow Curse allowing, they may even see the light
of day as a shiny patent plastic 7" single, through
Las Vegas underground label Wood Shampoo.
Featuring Dr Danny Ace of Kid Voodoo / The
Tailshakers, Matt Gizmo of, erm, Gizmo, The Dangerous
Aces & External Menace & his own darn self & being the
deep-pocketed pirates that we are we've even kidnapped
Switchflicker Records / Catface collaborator Catherine
'Belle Of Les Bois' to sing sweetly over our
grimace-inducing gurgles. Perhaps politely Catherine
appears to love singing with us...as Jaz said when
recording us - 'it's a sin to have her voice with
yours' (ie mine). Cheeky but quite true. She's coming
along though, learning all the way.
Through this she's about to tread uncharted waters &
has enlisted various Bow-ers, Voodoo-ers & Matt
Gizmo-DangerAce to form The Semi-Precious Gents (nee
The Cretins, Semi-Precise Guesses, Semi-Permanent
Stains) as her backing band, now that her own Tremolo
Heart band has wobbled off the face of the earth,
since she met us, natch.
What else? Ya still here? Go out...have a meal...clean
your socks or something. We rehearsed about twice with
Jiminy so far this year, written a few new songs. Oh
what, that's 2002's news...oh, well, we might write a
new song this year.
In August we shall be playing MerseyRocks Punk
festival, presumably in the wilds of the NorthWest
somewhere (http://www.merseyrock.co.uk), & that after
a trip to Derry with The Dangerous Aces & Revenge of
the Psychotronic Man. I seem to remember Kaz last
night asking us to play her birthday at Voodoo later
this year too. Odds on that one, anyone? How much
vodka does it take to convince someone to ask us to
play?

Currently playing - Spermbirds - Set An Example
Teddy Trigger & The Gatling Guns, Joan As Policewoman
- Flushed Chest, Ray Campi & The Bellhops - One More
Hop, The Vicious - Alienated, Nekromantix - Life's A
Grave & I Dig It, Snatches Of Pink - Love Is Dead,
Regulations - Electric Guitar, Hammerlock - True Grit
& Forbidden Range.

See you next year! posted on 29-04-2007

In the studio

The Bow are currently in the studio preparing recordings for their upcoming releases. Hence lack of gig activity at the moment.posted on 27-02-2007

Happy New Year!

Festive Voodoo was a hoot! Thanks to all who came and boogied to the Bow. Undying thanks to Cath for vocals and Matt for harmonica. Nuff respec'.


Here's to a great 2007- kicking off with...

7th January a ROCK AND ROLL EXTRAVAGANZA!
Hot Rocket Trio,
The Straitjackets, The Hip Priests, Kid Voodoo, The
Medicine Bow, The Dangerous Aces, The Shadowcops +
more tba £2/£3, 5pm till laaaaate Joshua Brookes Manchester.

see gigs sections for full details! posted on 03-01-2007

Christmas, then.

S'up, dudes?

Two gigs for the festive season...

29th Dec Voodoo at Retro Bar in Manchester. Seasons Rockin' Celebrations with The Bow, The Aces, The 'Shakers and those Kids who dabble way to deeply into the black arts of Voodoo. Criminy.

7th January a ROCK AND ROLL EXTRAVAGANZA!
Hot Rocket Trio,
The Straitjackets, The Hip Priests, Kid Voodoo, The
Medicine Bow, The Dangerous Aces, The Shadowcops +
more tba £2/£3, 5pm till laaaaate Joshua Brookes

see gigs sections for full details!posted on 15-12-2006

It was a cold and dark december night...

Endless thanks to Dangerous Ace Matt for the magnificent metronomic machine-gun drumming. Thanks to him Swing Ball 2006 and the gig with The Peacocks were booze-fuelled, sweat-cooled blitzkriegs of rock and roll.

New pics in the PICTURES section.

We start December with a gig!

Corrupted present an evening of Stockin' Rockin' Roll at The Cellar Bar, King St, BLACKBURN on 1 DECEMBER 2006 .

And guess what?

IT'S FREE!

Can you say fairer than that? No. You can't.posted on 24-11-2006

IMPORTANT VENUE CHANGE

The gig on Sunday (19.11.2006) with the Peacocks will now take place at the Star and Garter in Manchester.



Sorry for any inconvenience. posted on 17-11-2006

Bow Gigs

The Bow play at Retro Bar for the Swing Ball 2006 12/11/2006
(Bow Time 7pm) and with The Peacocks at Satan's Hollow 19/11/2006/

Thanks to Dangerous Matt for all his harmonica work recently, and for agreeing to drum at the these November gigs for us!posted on 31-10-2006

See them shimmy, see them go, See their painted faces glow, Slow, slow, quick quick, slow, See those pagans go, go, go, go, go..

Attention fun-seekers!

Continuing our bizarre spate of activity 'Whisky soused cuntry punk legends' (Liam Revenge) The Medicine Bow wheeze through a couple of shows in town next week...

Mon 23rd October - The Attic (above Thirsty Scholar) - Oxford Rd, Manchester 3 quid or so from 8pm, Bowtime 10pm. With GFA & Doctor Butler's Hat Stand Medicine Band (which isn't us, I hope)

Sat 28th October - FictionNonFiction In The City Day (I hope!) @ Tiger Lounge, Central Manchester - with the excellent Exorsisters - FREE, sometime around tea-time maybe.

Then, after FNF, we can all pop to The Bowling Green where Kid Voodoo play with The Vipers & there's music and salad & stuff all for 3 and a half quid.

This promises to be magic.

Then, in November, The Bow support the Peacocks at Satan't Hollow, Manchester. Check gigs section for details!posted on 20-10-2006

Gigs gigs gigs

Wednesday Oct 11th - Night & Day, Manchester - supporting Dan Sartain with
Kid Voodoo. The Medicine Bow take the stage at half 8.


Monday 9th October - Retro Bar, Manchester -
GFA,
The Dangerous Aces, The Vipers, The Medicine Bow. DJ Wes & compere
Rev Porl. Charidee gig for NSPCC.

...and something exciting in November. posted on 27-09-2006

A weekend of Bow-tastic fun

Set your controls for the heart or the knees and the meak will inherit what they damn well please... yeah, right, Eld.

Alternatively, set your faces to fun (ho!) and head in to Manchester for a couple of almost reunion gigs for the fab four.

Sat 30th Sept CLUB CAVARAL - Bowling Green - Grafton St - Manchester (Near MRI)
Featuring: The Exorsisters, In the Black, and The Medicine Bow

Sun 1st oct - TNS- Joshua Brooks, Manchester

Looks like their madjes will be playing with a full compliment too.

"That's a nice shirt, Stu!"
"Cheers, Stew, I like what you've done with your hair."

Hey, y'know what? We hope to see you there.posted on 20-09-2006

Thanks to guest on guitars!

The Fest of Death has been and gone y'all. Great fun and shame on you if you missed it.

Due to a timing mix-up Stew didn't arrive until after his compadres had blasted out their own brand of drunken dude-ranch disco (sorry, man!), and it looked like the Bow needed a little help to flesh out the three-piece sound.

So, then, massive respec' and big up yerselves dudes to:

Dr Danny Ace of Kid Voodoo fame for playing guitar on Downtown and Wine Drinker.

Liam Psychotronic better known for his sterling work with Revenge of the Pyschotronic Man for guitar on This Side of Town and Scar, and for his backing vocals on Scar.

Birthday boy Matt Gizmo (who appears to play every instrument to an expert degree in about a third of the bands on the planer) for his harmonica playin' and guitar skills.

Dangerous Ace bass professor Dino for his backing vocals.

If I've forgotten anyone feel free to let me know, but a massive thanks to everyone for helping out in what turned out to be a really enjoyable gig. We should do it more often (but with Stew too, obviously, coz we missed him).

Hotcha!posted on 21-07-2006

Barnyard Boogie Update!

Well, it looks like most of the info we gave y'all in the last news item was correct. Word.

Check out this line-up!

Sunday 16th July 2006: Joshua Brooks, featuring Kid Voodoo,
The Tailshakers, Revenge Of The Psychotronic Man,
Gizmo, Barnyard Masturbator, The Medicine Bow,
Homebrew, Monkey Toast, The Dangerous Aces, The
Smackrats. Free entry, doors at 15:30posted on 13-07-2006

Barnyard Boogie

Date for your diaries, amigi!
Dangerous Aces (Medicine Stu and sometime Medicine Matt Gizmo are joined by dynamic Dino and the magnificent Mozz in a frenzy of intelligent punk racket- it's Oi! Jim, but not as we know it) , Barnyard Masturbator (ooh, cheeky), Tailshakers (2 thirds of Kid Voodoo make up two thirds of this excellent rockabilly combo) & Kid
Voodoo (two thirds of The Tailshakers make up half of this excellent swamp dodgin' blues sleeze outfit) all playing, along with Their Shambolic Medicine Majesties (will everyone turn up? Who knows- it's a fair bet that Jumble Sale Jim will be back behind the skins, but even two or three majestic Bowmen is better than none, y'dig?).

It's the most incestuous line-up of bands this side of Ronnie James Dio and you'd be crazy to miss it.

Joshua Brooks 16th July (I think- I'm writing this is a rush and me tea's ready! RAWK!)posted on 11-07-2006

Swing those revolving doors, muchachos...

Shacks well and truly shaken (and how!) their conquering yet shambolic majesties returned to Manchester. A great gig at Joshua Brooks with The Revenge of the Pyschotronic Man and The Blunts (for their album launch) was pulled off despite the absence of Don Sam (scouring the lower half of Italy for Mafiosa connections) and Stew. Big up and massive props to Liam Revenge and Dangerous Matt for standing in on bass and guitar respectively. Respect. N'ting.

But lo! The marvellous Kings of Nuthin' are to grace Manchester with their presence (and hopefully their exploding sax) once more. Who better to provide support then, than the Bow themselves! This time Jimi is on a Black Sabbatical with Uriah Heap, or Nazareth, or Saxon, so once more the neverending talents of that Gizmotic Dangerous Ace, Matt are called upon, as he flays the hide of drums left right and centre to provide a potentially more frenetic beat to the Bow's wounded knee. Or heart. Or sumfink.

Be at Satan's Hollow, Manchester 19.06.2006 to see The Medicine Bow joining Buzzkill and The Kings of Nuthin' onstage. Doors about 7.30, and about 7 knicker.

You know it makes sense.posted on 15-06-2006

Shake those Shacks!

The Bedraggled Bunch of Delapidated Dandies that are
The Medicine Bow, or Their Shambolic Majesties if
you're handy on the old sort-hand, would wish to
announce to all 17 people who may read this (or me
sis, or Gail, or me Dad! or Jiiim...nawww, back to
sleep Jim!) that we will be supporting the greatest
band ever seen (no, not Le Arses D'Angereuse) Th'
Legendary Shack*Shakers on May 1...nope, May 9th
(Manchester Roadhouse) & London Underworld (May 10th).

I mean, you would wouldn't you?

It almost makes me want to run to our message board &
rant in piques of jealousy...

In the meantime I'm gonna take a leaf outta Gizmo's book & bid ye 'Smell
My Cheese'...but also smell ma fucking socks & the
boots they came from.

On a lighter note, I am finding The Tropics Of Cancer,
The Urban Voodoo Machine, The Grit, Zeno Toledo,
Southern Culture On The Skids, The Mutants & yuss,
sorry Nic, the Hollywood Rocks box-set to be most
soothing of late alongside my old pipe fillers Classic
FM & Radio 3.

And everything from Bourbon Records I just got! I
mean, there's a dear sweet band called Cervantes
Muertos playing dynamite jet graveyard bottle rock,
Sensacional Plasma sounding almost exactly like Sigue
Sigue if they'd actually BEEN the Dolls...& they all
love Nikki Sudden & Dave Kusworth it seemeth, & Syl
Sylvain too boot. They're Argentinian. They Rock (I
assume!). And I bet they quite like The Dogs D'Amour
too...

Just thought I'd let you know.

Fuckers. posted on 22-03-2006

Belated Happy New Year!

Warm greetings for 2006 from The Bow to all our reader!posted on 28-01-2006

Yuletide Rocket Fuel

Voodoo and Satan's Hollow have been and gone.
Thanks to everyone who turned up and supported us, and many thanks to all those involved in organising the gigs. Big up y'all!

Christmas is nearly here eh? Still no new record- but wait! Soon. Maybe we should be rockin' the frozen sands like Setzer, but instead we'll probably be sat on our arses eating turkey bones and vomitting egg-nog onto TV Quick.

New year after that. Anyone up for Peterborough in january? See gigs..posted on 08-12-2005

Their Shambolic Majesties continue to drink...

With recent gigs being a mixed bag of hair straightening joy and toe curling disappointment who knows what to expect...
get yourselves down to Voodoo Night at Retro Bar on 25th November and/or Satan's Hollow on 27th November to find out!

(both Manchester- see gigs section for full details)posted on 09-11-2005

All The Latest News From The Library Of The Lost & Found...

For those 3, 7 or maybe 13, if we're very lucky, of you wondering where in Gods howlin' hell The Medicine Bow have meandered off to you can now rest assured and go merrily about your daily business content in the calamitous comfort of knowing that we're back.

Indeed! Y'see, after the stars conspired to be aligned against us, well, me, Stu, that be, and made him, or me, realise that he'd been traipsing down the wrong track, or pissing up the wrong tree, if ya will, for the last few years, he did return from a disastrous trip to old London town last August with a new band. Well, not returned from London with one, else I'd still be there, but gathered some new cohorts in Manchester in the aftermath, dusted off the dirt and now have a fully functioning band of capable hands. He had to really, it's the centre of the whole 'Bow ethos and where the damned name came from to pick up the pieces and carry on regardless. Perhaps now we can lay to rest the days of having a revolving door of musicians, and mutants. So now we have Stew tearing some meaty strips of Devildrunk guitar jerky from his Telecaster like Fast Eddie Clarke playing Johnny Cash and our very own Tracey Pew on bass, Mr Sam. Only he's thankfully somewhat more alive, and will hopefully remain so for some time yet. Oh and Oops then me, Stu, snarling incomprehensibly over the top. Splendid.

The newly rejuvenated 'Bow played a highly successful first gig (well, I had to say that really, no? But especially as it was after one rehearsal with a band that had only just met each other, oh and a drum machine) back in April, kind courtesy of ma old mucker Max and Lee of TVH-3, thankee. Tho there is now a young drumslinger by the name of Jimi James, as you shall see, smacking skins and cymbals as only a hellbound hybrid of Bam Bam and Philty Taylor can do.

Innarestin', huh?

And so here is our new website. 'Twill be updated further shortly, but as ever according to the strictures dictated to us by that elusive entity hereby known as 'Bow Time. Particularly The Bow Rocka's Guide To Manchester, and surrounding areas, and London, and anywhere that we're kinda fond of really, ya dig? And we shall actually be playing some more gigs forthwith, what? putting our punishing rehearsal schedule to good effect. Maybe...

Devils Brew - Rockin' At The Bank

Things ain't changed too much since we been away. Folk in Manchester and surrounding areas can still brave the city centre and head to The Bank on Moseley Street for some righteous Reelin' and Rockin' courtesy of DJ's Captain Fido and Mrs Skullknuckles. That be from 8pm. But don't let that stop you from venturing into Maggies finely appointed boozer as the jukebox has some great tunes on and DJ John spins ska and whatever the hell else he likes on a Friday night too.posted on 12-08-2005