Guitar n' Verse with Injun Joe

Following a great night in january with Wayne Lostsoul, Paul Sudlow and lots more great performances especially a song from Shannon, Sam & Alistair about Syd Barrett, I am pleased to announce Februarys gig on 3rd February 2011 at Butterflies in Bolton. Headlining will be Injun Joe. Injun Joe (Joe Lyons to his friends) is a brilliant young singer/songwriter and amazing guitarist. I'm pleased to have Joe headlining one of my gigs again. Joe headlined my Jammin with Jeffarama! gig in Wigan last year and with his mate Dan, teamed up as Juke Box Heroes to support Hayley Haye Band and Starecat, and did gigs for us on the Buskin 4 Beer tour. Joe (pictured) will be playing a selection of contempory folk, covers and original songs of his own. There will be the usual open mic slots for anyone who fancies it - please let me know, it helps me plan!! Cheers Jeff 07984197175

Next Half Evil Promotions Concert - Clara Barker

Friday 28th January 2011 19.30 - 23.00 


Butterflies Bar, Bolton - £1 admission

Half Evil presents an acoustic evening with Clara Barker. I met Clara in october at a gig at the House with No Name in Harwood. She is a great singer/songwriter and has just released a fine album Indigo which is available on Amazon - also check her out on Facebook & Myspace. Clara lives in the Isle of Man but lived in Bolton for a few years so asked me to arrange a local gig for her as part of a mini tour she is doing, me and Andy N enjoyed her gig at the no name. I've also asked local favourites Danny Liptrott and Kate Hannah (katehannah.com) to do support slots on the night. There will also be limited open mic (2 songs) so let me know if you want to perform; if you don't get on I will put you first on the next one! Cheers Jeff, hope to see you on 28th! 07984197175

Write Out Loud - Bolton - Butterflies @ Bolton January 2011

Here are pictures of the acts from Write Out Loud

at Butterflies in January 2011 as hosted by Jeffarama

(Half Evil) assisted by Andy N (also Half Evil) 

A Means to an End (Andy N & Jeffarama) 

Andy N 

Scott Devon

Jeffarama 

Val Cook 

Eric Tomlinson 

Natalie 

Steve Mellor 

Seamus

Gus

Rob Goodier 

Chris Co

 

Rachel Bond

Dave Bradley 

Tony Baxter 

Don Parry 

Mel Rees

Mel Rees

Alan Gray 

Darren Thomas 

John Darwin 

Paul Blackburn 

Some Pictures from Half Evil event 'Guitars and Verse' 6th January 2011

   Alan Gray 

Alistair and Sam 

Anna McCrory

Danny Morris 

Don Parry 

Isobel 

Jeffarama 

Wayne 

Tony Webb 

Winston Plowes

Yolanda

Shannon, Alistair, Sam 

Who are Half Evil Promotions?

Here is a little about Half Evil Promotions by Jeffarama 

Cheers

Andy N (Half Evil)

'Half Evil came to life in 2008. It was more of a challenge when a few friends (Jeff, Bob, Jools & Joolz) got together with the aim of making local gigs better than the ones they were attending! The idea was to organise events better, with a personal approach, better publicity and use a variety of acts and genres to ensure the audience had a great time! The first proper gig was a charity night at the Soundhouse in Bolton called Bands 4 Babies; this was a great success attracting 250 people to see 6 bands and rasie over £1000!

Following on from that we staged several other gigs at the Soundhouse for bands such as The Salford Jets, Punk/Ska outfit The Naughtys from Manchester and singer/guitarist Tom Hingley from the Inspiral Carpets, and Indie nights for newer bands. Things didn't work out quite as we expected, and because we all had day jobs we decided to go our own way and concentrate on things that were closer to our hearts, poetry and acoustic music.

After a few local gigs which combined the two, we decided to go on tour in 2009 (9 dates around the north west. We called this 'Busking 4 Beer'. The gigs included open mic, then special guest poets and musicians. Gigs were compered by Jeff Dawson (Jeffarama!) and included Julie (Booth) doing several acoustic sets with Bob (Wight) doing most of the stuff behind the scenes. The Busking 4 Beer tour was a great success enjoyed by all and led to the 'Jammin with Jeffarama!' tour of 2010. This was a similar format but in addition to the local gigs in Bolton, Wigan, Salford, Manchester and Hebden Bridge the tour went further afield with gigs in Birmingham and Leeds!

Following 'Jammin with Jeffarama!' 2010 then saw a change in line-up at Half Evil, Bob took a back seat with the poetry and acoustic scene to concentrate on fundraising events and shows we are staging at Bolton Irish club. Because of that, we have recruited poet Andy N (who was a former co-arranger of the Poets and... Night in Bolton from 2008 - 2010 and vocalist of the band 'Wordmusic') to assist Jeff with his latest venture 'Guitar n' Verse' which we now hold first Thursday each month at Butterflies Bar in Bolton. Andy is now proving to be a valuable asset to Half Evil. This has already become a great success and Decembers gig saw Dave Sharp (ex Alarm guitarist) headlining.

2011 is looking like an exciting year for Half Evil. In addition to Guitar n Verse, Half Evil, will be holding an acoustic night (last friday each month at Butterflies) again with special guests and compered by Jeff with Andy N assisting. Bob will continue his stuff at Bolton Irish Club again with Jeff as MC. Jeff is also now co-ordinating poetry evenings for Writeoutloud in Bolton, while he and Andy have formed a spoken word/music combo called 'A Means to an End'. As we like to say 'It's all go at Half Evil!'