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No Way Out Weblog Friday the 28th
November at Mullens in Eastbourne: Friday the 14th November at The
Half Brick in Worthing: Friday the 31st October at The
Fountain in Chichester: Friday the 24th October at The
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Friday the 28th November at Mullens in Eastbourne: It was another excellent night at Mullens! After we set up and
done a sound check we had a bit of time to mingle and relax before kicking
off. Soon it was time to start and opening the first set was one of our own
songs Love Is A Gamble and was followed by Shot Down In Flames, Angels Cry
and Big City Nights. The audience clapped and cheered as each song ended with
Pete H being on top form even though he was suffering from a nasty chest
infection and sore throat. Misery came next with Touch Too Much, Fool For
Your Lovin’, You Shook Me, 24/7, Long Way To The Top, Paranoid following and
Hush closing the set to cries of more from everyone. The break gave Pete a
chance to rest his throat but unfortunately he was suffering quite badly so
we decided to change the second set to help. Craig took over singing duties
to kick off the second set as well as getting out his harmonica for Hoochie
Coochie Man. Pete H was back on the mic with Smoke On The Water and When A
Blind Man Cries, again everyone in the audience was clapping and cheering
with a few even singing along. Highway To Hell came next with Out For The
Count, Don’t Believe A Word and Tush. Sweet Home Alabama saw a few people get
up and dance and most of the pub was singing along to How You Remind Me. Our
new song Hard As A Rock followed with Illustrated Man finishing the set. With
an encore of Black Night it was time to call it a night at Mullens. A HUGE Thank you to everyone who came out to see us including
Sharon, John, Jenny (Pete’s missus!) and Pete H’s Brother Tony who came all
the way from the States to see us! Plus a big thank you to anyone else I’ve
forgotten to mention – the “air triangle” girls for one!!!! A REALLY BIG Thank you to Sandra (Pete’s Mum) for running the
merchandising stall and Paul our “Roadie” for everything he does for the band
from Maz’s Drum Technician to the bands Lighting Technician! A MASSIVE Thank you to Pam and all The Staff at Mullens for their
excellent hospitality and for letting us play. Check out the Mullens website
at http://www.mullenspub.co.uk Don’t forget to come visit our Myspace page at http://www.myspace.com/nowayoutsussex where
you can add yourself as a friend, listen to a few tracks and our Facebook
page as well at http://www.facebook.com/pages/No-Way-Out/28898724664 Unfortunately that was our last gig at Mullens this year but
we will be back in 2009. Keep an eye out on the Gigs page. Our next gig is sadly our last gig for 2008 as is at The
Crow’s Nest in East Grinstead on Friday the 12th December. Of
course we’ve got a very full diary for 2009 but still, if you want a No Way
Out fix before Christmas then this is your last chance! Till then… |
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Friday the 14th November at The Half Brick in
Worthing: Well it was a new way of doing things for us at The Half Brick
as Bob the Landlord decided to try something new and for those lucky people
that came out to see us that meant 2 bands for the price of one! With us set
up on stage in the function room Backbeat set up in the other part of the pub
the arrangement was that Backbeat played a set, then we’d play a set, then
Backbeat with us finishing and I must say it worked very well! After Backbeat
had finished it was time to start our set and kicking it off in style was our
very own Love Is A Gamble, which was followed by Shot Down In Flames.
Everyone was clapping and singing along and Pete H was on his usual top form
playing to the crowd. Angels Cry came next with Big City Nights, together
with Misery, Touch Too Much, Fool For Your Lovin’, You Shook Me, 24/7, Long
Way To The Top, Paranoid and finishing the set off with Hush to cries of
more. After watching Backbeat’s second set it was again time for us to do our
own second set all be it a slightly short one as time was against us! Still
The Half Brick echoed to Hells Bells followed by Railroad’s favourite Smoke
On The Water and When A Blind Man Cries. Again everyone was singing and
clapping along with each song ending in cries of more! Highway To Hell came
next with Don’t Believe A Word, our new song Hard As A Rock and Whole Lotta
Rosie bringing the night to an end. With everyone wanting more we did an
encore of Shoot To Thrill before calling it a night much to everyone’s
disappointment – but rules it rules and Bob has a license, which we don’t
want him to lose! A HUGE Thank you to everyone that came out to see us including
Graham and Sandie, Peter, Rebecca, Mat, Ray and Chris, Kristy, Mandy and
anyone else I might have missed! Thank you all. A BIG Thank you to our long-suffering roadie Paul for all his
help as well as Pete’s Mum Sandra for manning (or should that be “Mumming”?)
the merchandising stall! A MASSIVE Thank you to Bob and Sue as well as all the Staff at
The Half Brick for letting us play and for their excellent hospitality. And finally a HUGE Thank you to Backbeat for supporting us
(although if you ask them it was us supporting them!) and giving us a chance
to have a nice long rest between sets! Don’t forget to come visit our Myspace page at http://www.myspace.com/nowayoutsussex where
you can add yourself as a friend, listen to a few tracks and our Facebook
page as well at http://www.facebook.com/pages/No-Way-Out/28898724664 Sadly that was our last gig at The Half Brick this year but
fear not we will be back next year so keep an eye out on our “Gigs” page http://www.nowayout.co.uk/giglist.htm
to see when! Our next gig is going to be at the other end of Sussex on
Friday the 28th November at Mullens in Eastbourne, so we hope to
see as many of you there as possible! Till then… |
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Friday the 31st October
at The Fountain in Chichester: What can I say but WOW! What a night! As it was Halloween
night Colin the Landlord decided to have fancy dress at The Fountain with a
prize for best costume and a couple of us in the band dressed up for the
occasion. Jerry took off his makeup and became Freddie Krueger, Pete H was a
serial killer disguised as a FedEx Delivery Man, I was stabbed in the chest
and to complete the illusion Railroad, Craig and Maz dressed up as members of
No Way Out… well truth be told Craig’s ninja suit was being washed,
Railroad’s Batman suit doesn’t go out of his bedroom and Maz wasn’t allowed
to use the Gorilla suit he wore for the Cadbury’s adverts! As we were a
little late in getting set up there was no time for a sound check but being
the true professionals we are (lucky more like) we didn’t need one as the
levels were spot on! Love Is A Gamble kicked off proceedings opening the
first set and almost instantly everyone was up dancing, clapping and even
singing along! With Shot Down In Flames and Big City Nights following on Pete
H gave it his all, playing to the crowd, giving Railroad a bit of a hard time
as well as myself and Craig and just being the awesome front man he is! With
the audience cheering and clapping every song, it was time to play another
one of our own tunes Misery, followed by Touch Too Much, Burn, 24/7 and Long
Way To The Top. Paranoid saw Pete getting everyone to go “1, 2, 3, OI!” and
although everyone was a little reluctant, Pete got them going! Tush, Back In
Black and Hush closed out the first set to cries of more and a huge round of
applause from everyone. With a bit of time to cool off, mingle with everyone
and generally relax it was soon time to get back on and with it being
Halloween Hells Bells opened the second set to cheering from everyone. With
Smoke On Water following again everyone was up singing, dancing and clapping
along, each song ending to a huge round of applause and cries of more! Our
Bon Jovi medley of Its My Life and You Give Love A Bad Name got almost
everyone singing as did Highway To Hell and Don’t Believe A Word. No Way
Out’s new song Hard As A Rock made another appearance to the set followed by
everyone in The Fountain shouting, “Thunder” as Thunderstruck followed. Sweet
Home Alabama got everyone up on their feet with How You Remind Me (dedicated
to Pete’s Mum Sandra) getting everyone singing again. Another No Way Out
track in the shape of Vampire (can you see a trend here?) came next with You
Shook Me following right behind. Alright Now gave the crowd another chance to
join in, as did Black Night. Whole Lotta Rosie closed out the second set to
cries of more from everyone and not wanting to disappoint we did an encore of
Rock ‘n’ Roll, Sweet Child Of Mine and Illustrated Man to end an exhausting
but excellent Halloween Night at The Fountain. A MASSIVE Thank you to everyone in Chichester who came out to
see us including Steve, Anita, Neil, Liz, Hagar, Helga, Jim, Mischa, Karen,
Julian and partner, Missy and all her friends, Jerry’s missus Jan with her
daughter and boyfriend plus everyone else I’ve forgotten to mention. It’s
you, our fans, that make our gigs as fun as they are and with out you guys
we’d not be doing this at all! A HUGE Thank you to Pete H’s Mum Sandra and Dad Derek for
running our merchandising stall as well as a HUGE thank you to Paul our long
suffering Roadie for everything he does at all our gigs ! A REALLY BIG Thank you to Colin the
Landlord and all the Staff at The Fountain for a fantastic night, their
excellent hospitality and for letting us play! I don’t know who won the prize
for best costume but I know it wasn’t anyone in the band!!!! Don’t forget to come visit our Myspace page at http://www.myspace.com/nowayoutsussex where you can add yourself as a friend, listen to a few
tracks and our Facebook page as well at http://www.facebook.com/pages/No-Way-Out/28898724664 Sadly that was our last gig at The Fountain for this year BUT
fear not as we will be playing at The Fountain for our first gig of 2009 on
Saturday the 3rd of January. If you can’t wait that long and you
can travel to them, we are down the road so to speak, at The Half Brick in
Worthing on Friday the 14th November as well as at The Cob and Pen
in Littlehampton on Thursday (yes Thursday!) the 20th November! Our next gig is going to be for Charity (he says in his best
Smashie and Nicey voice) as we are doing a gig for Children In Need on Friday
the 7th November at Tiger Tiger in Croydon. This is a ticket only
event with all proceeds going to Children In Need and will see No Way Out
joined by friends of the band who will “guest” for the majority of the gig as
well as two other bands playing a couple of numbers. For more information
drop us an email at Sandra@nowayout.co.uk. Our next “normal” gig will be at The Half Brick in Worthing on
Friday the 14th November so we hope we can get as many of you
there as possible – lets really pack the place out! Till then… |
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Friday the 24th October at The Old House At Home in
Dormansland: Hooray back to normal with a Blog on time for the 1st
time in 3 months! What a night we had at The Old House with a packed pub,
lots of laughs and some awesome music to boot – of course it was, we were
playing! With us all shoehorned into the corner (the pub is a bit small!) and
the sound-check out of the way we had a bit of time to relax and watch
Railroad in his native habitat. Soon it was time to get going and the first
set kicked off with Fool For Your Lovin’, Touch Too Much and Love Is A Gamble
with the whole pub up and singing, dancing and clapping along and each song
ending in a huge round of applause with cries of more. Pete H was on
excellent form as usual and giving it his all, playing to the audience and
fooling around trying to put poor old Railroad off! As it was Railroad’s
local he decided on the set-list so Sweet Home Alabama was thrown into the
first set, followed by Highway To Hell, Big City Nights, Angels Cry, Left
Outside Alone, Don’t Believe A Word and 24/7. Paranoid came next and it gave Pete
H a chance to divide the pub in half for a bout of “1, 2, 3 OI!” before
wrapping up the set with Hush to cries of more from everyone. After a chance
to cool off and continuing to watch Railroad at work in his second home
blaming his “unusual” playing on a number of things including new strings,
the heat and seeing Mrs Railroad arrive it was soon time to get back on for
the second set, with The Old House echoing to the sound of Hells Bells. Again
everyone in the pub was up singing, dancing and clapping along as Hells Bells
gave way to a Bon Jovi medley of It’s My Life and You Give Love A Bad Name.
Railroad broke into the intro of Tush with cries of the “come on Railroad!”
shouted out from the audience followed by When A Blind Man Cries, our brand
new song Hard As A Rock and You Shook Me. More cries of “Come on Railroad!”
came as the opening riff of Smoke On The Water was cranked out by Railroad
with Shot Down In Flames following right behind. Black Night came next and
Pete H had the whole pub singing along with a bit of “follow the singer” as
did Alright Now as Pete got everyone to sing “alright now” along with him.
Whole Lotta Rosie, Shoot To Thrill (together with a Les Dawson intro!) and
Sweet Child Of Mine heralded the end of the set to cries of more, encore,
“come on Railroad!” and a lot of clapping. With Trevor’s blessing we did an
encore of Long Way To The Top closing the show and ending another fantastic
night at The Old House At Home! A MASSIVE Thank you to everyone that came out to see us
including Ray, Sharon, Tonka, Nev, Sam (I hope Jerry was a gent!), Mrs
Railroad, all of Railroad’s friends and neighbours as well as everyone else
that came out to see us. Apologises if I forgotten everyone but thank you
all! A BIG Thank you to our suffering Roadie and Lighting
Technician Paul for all his hard work at every gig, we’d be lost without him
– well Maz would, as Paul always knows where the gig is and how to get there! A HUGE Thank you to Tina, Trevor & Natalie and the rest of
The Staff at The Old House At Home for their fantastic hospitality, the
cheesy chips, bacon butties and of course for letting us play, but then again
as Railroad seems to spend almost every other waking hour in there, getting
him to actually do more then drink is a bonus! Don’t forget to come visit our Myspace page at http://www.myspace.com/nowayoutsussex where you can add yourself as a friend, listen to a few
tracks and our Facebook page as well at http://www.facebook.com/pages/No-Way-Out/28898724664 Well we’ll be back at The Old House At Home sometime next year
although Railroad will be in there from about opening time everyday! But you can
catch us at The Crow’s Nest on Friday the 12th December in East
Grinstead. Our next gig is going to be at The Fountain in Chichester on
Friday the 31st of October and as it’s Halloween, Jerry has
persuaded us to all dress up! So if you want to see which one of us actually
makes the effort (which will be just Jerry… only joking I’ll be dressed up as
well as Maz and hopefully the others!) then get yourselves down to The
Fountain, it promises to be a cracking night! Till then… |
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