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Mick Jogs into Devizes; Rolling Stones Tribute to Play Christmas Bash at Corn Exchange

It’s only rock n roll, but if you like it, why not break out the lycra and jog over to the Corn Exchange on Friday 29th of December, where you’ll find Mick Jogger & The Stones Experience bringing you all the classics from the wildmen of the sixties? A Christmas Cracker to work off those turkey sandwiches and Quality Street……

I’ve yet to witness this local phenomenon personally, but popular party-function band Purple Fish have donned the outfits of Britain’s most famous and timeless blues rock band ever, The Rolling Stones, for many years now, so it’s a safe bet they know which buttons to press.

Chatting with Aaron Potter, the Ronnie Wood of Mick Jogger & The Stones Experience, I bent his ear about the time I got “owned” by a Little Mix tribute on social media, arguing a tribute act should be of a past act rather than one currently in their prime. Those even littler mixers responded, “but we provide a safe and affordable environment for youngsters who otherwise wouldn’t be able to see the real thing,” or words to this effect. Had to confess, they made a valid point. Boy, did I hide my head in shame!

I suppose, a Rolling Stones tribute is similar, being the originals seem to be as immortal as Chrispher Lambert on steroids. Still Mick Jagger is eighty, you cannot expect an eighty year old to perform with the zest and vigour of their youth, can you? Okay, perhaps he’s the exception to the rule, but, just like Little Mix, you’re gonna fork out a small mortgage for the pleasure, and the Stones ain’t rolling into Devizes anytime soon!

Aaron replied in agreeance, supposing the Stones are past their prime, and I backed my thoughts with this video (below) of them doing their thing in Hyde Park way back when. You see, the “being in your prime argument” is only a part of a wider doubt I have with any tribute act, the other is unavoidable because you cannot turn back the hands of time, it’s recapturing the atmosphere of the era, the setting.

So, if you watch this video, note the Corn Exchange would be unable to replicate this precisely, health and safety will not permit a mass of gyrating hippies standing on the speaker boxes, neither will the aroma of exotic herbs I strongly imagine would’ve been smelt at this concert be permitted by the town council venue. You could try whipping off your kit and dancing with only flowers in your hair, I’m not going to stop you, but Wiltshire Police have enough on their hands already on a Friday night this close to Christmas without having to find a blanket to cover your wobbly bits with!

But you cannot live in the past, my once playful banter with the worth of tribute acts has been turned on its head this year, and I’ve bore witness to some incredible ones. All we can do is be rest assured satisfaction is guaranteed, Mick Jogger & The Stones Experience will put their all into this and bring the party with them. Please, I asked Aaron after reliving this monumental video of the Stones in action, tell me you do Sympathy for the Devil?!!

“Yes,” he affirmed, “you will hear Sympathy for the Devil.” Pleased to meet you, guys, I didn’t have to guess your names, they’re listed on your website; ah, that’s progress for you!! Tickets are a purple one, from HERE.

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Purple Fish on the Dark Side of Lavington

Who thinks I’d make a good job replicating Clare Torry’s orgasmic vocal improvisation on Pink Floyd’s Great Gig in the Sky?! Don’t all jump at once; Purple Fish’s bassist Roger Marsh suggested tight trousers may help, I reckon a vice or at least some mole-grips would be more appropriate!

It can’t be an easy section to reproduce live, of an album that can’t be easy to reproduce live, yet local rock covers band Purple Fish have already done it, five times. Originally to celebrate Dark Side of the Moon’s 40th anniversary, they bring their tribute of this stunning and timeless album to the Market Lavington Community Hall on Saturday December 28th. Face it, the Quality Street tin will be filled with just empty wrappers by then, and you’d have had it with cold turkey sandwiches.

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On another night, Purple Fish cover rock classics, a seamless five-piece, female-fronted function band, who cite Pink Floyd, Rush, Dream Theater, Doobie Brothers, and Heart as some of their influences. They also have a couple of side projects, namely this Pink Floyd tribute and amusingly titled Mick Jogger & The Stones Experience. Tricky Sunday quiz time, I’ll leave it up you to decide who that’s a tribute to!

Roger, who’s been Purple Fish’s bassist for the past four and a half years, informed me guest musicians and singers are pulled in to enhance the show, which includes all the sound effects from the album, plus a background projection which, although might not be possible for this gig, completes the effect usually. There may well be other Pink Floyd songs added in too, for your money’s worth!

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The Great Gig in the Sky vocal then, is okay, no need to recruit me after all. Roger explained it’s performed by a trio of girls who were originally pupils of lead singer Adrienne’s, when she taught at their school. Tickets are £15, in aid of Alzheimer’s Support. Best of luck to them all with this project, one of my all-time favourite albums, and I’m sure you’ll agree no easy feat to replicate live…. already said that bit, didn’t I?!

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