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If there's a story that involves our artists in the news, be they tribute bands, circus artists or comedians, you can be sure to read about it here.
After superb shows at Glastonbudget and several Universities Psycho management have launched the latest in their line of modern tribute bands - The Kaiser Thiefs. Playing all the hits from both albums, including 'Ruby' and 'I Predict A Riot', this band will make sure Modern Life Isn't Rubbish!
For a live video of their recent show at Surrey University, watch here.
More info about Kaiser Chiefs Tribute - The Kaiser Thiefs
The Stage's tribute edition featured a story on how Maybe Winehouse was found. Our Amy performer Rachel Rabin said: “I’ve been singing in various local productions, and when Amy came along, all my friends joked that I looked like her, so I posted some pretend photos on Facebook. Singing with a live tribute band is a terrific buzz. I’ve already got people leaving me messages hoping I return to health – I think they are confusing me with the real thing!”
Maybe Winehouse is confirmed for the Friday night at Glastonbudget tribute festival.
Amateur Transplants are Adam Kay and Suman Biswas - two junior doctors who sing smutty songs. They met at medical school in 1998, where their twisted routines got them well-known amongst doctors around the country. They sprung to wider fame a couple of years back when The London Underground song (a filthy tirade about the state of the tube) was downloaded 6 million times.
They continue to be a cult internet hit, with their new song - The Anaesthetists Hymn - downloaded 1 million times in the last few months. Their criminally irresponsible CD and DVD continue to raise tens of thousands of pounds for Macmillan Cancer Relief.
They have had sell-out runs at the Edinburgh Fringe for the last three years, but their day-jobs and busy schedule of disciplinary hearings have limited their number of performances the rest of the year. Following tiresome demand for gigs, they are delighted to announce 'Amateur Transplants and Enemies' - a monthly residency at the Bedford in Balham.
"Superbly politically incorrect. Gloriously funny" - Scotsman, "A cult hit" - Sunday Times, "Extremely funny" - Telegraph, "Bourgeois brats" - TimeOut
More info about Amateur Transplants
The red carpet was rolled out at London City Airport to launch British Airways new route to Nice from London City. Paparazzi photographers were on hand to capture the glamourous passengers posing under the lights and on the red carpet walkway to departures. A roulette wheel gave travellers the chance to try their luck on the fun casino, and a taste of the delights of the French Riviera. Ba CityFlyer and London City Airport directors posed for press photos. For a video of the route launch in the terminal, click here.
Psycho Management today launched a superb tribute to Amy Winehouse featuring a stunning lookalike singer Rachel. The five piece band are top London Jazzers adept in the finer art of making things swing, and Rachel as Amy provides the rock n roll. The recreation of Amy's distinctive vocals is exceptional and as you can see by the photos she has an amazing resemblence to the woman herself.
Maybe Winehouse is available for a 45 minute show as a 6 piece band or for an acoustic set with guitarist. For more pictures, demos and video, check out the website Maybe Winehouse.com
More info about Maybe Winehouse
Dr haze demonstrates his fertility bottle to Fern and Phillip on ITV's This Morning. Every contortionist who has entered the bottle becomes pregnant. Can they break this curse?
Youtube Clip Circus Of Horrors on This Morning
Dr Haze and Demon Dan recreated their legendary appearance in Edinburgh Casualty on Bizarre ER on BBC3 at 10.30pm. They showed the moment Dan realised his superglue quick fix had got him into more trouble than he bargained for, and Dr Haze the Circus Ringmaster had to rush him to Casualty to get Henry Hoover removed! For all the gory details, check out this Youtube Clip Bizarre ER.
Vicky Cluskey appeared on The Trisha Goddard Show (Channel 5: 10.30am) talking about her experiences performing as a Kylie lookalike. Vicky also suffered the unfortunate attention of a real life stalker; they say you haven't made it until you get your own crazy fans! Here her famous father Dec describes the price of fame and the worries that being in the public eye can bring. Vicky and Dec Cluskey on Youtube
More info about Kylie tribute: Vicky Cluskey is Counterfeit Kylie
Congratulations to Andy Abraham for winning the public vote this week and becoming the UK's entry to Eurovision with his song 'Even If'. Andy is a total showman and we know his energetic performance will be a big hit. Eurovision will be hosted by Belgrade this year on 24th May. Here's hoping the Eastern Bloc like it!
Big Brother Celebrity Hijack housemate and Circus of Horrors cast member Emilia is now in the final. Today she was interviewed by The Sugababes and they gasped at her bendy contortions. Wouldn't it be great to see this talented circus performer crowned the winner? Don't forget to vote tonight!
Emilia Channel 4 BB News
In the search for the 'Best Ever Guest' Scott Mill turns once again to Psycho and The Circus of Horrors cast. Today Scott feels what its like to touch Garry Stretch's elastic skin and see Helmut's fakir piercings. Will he be brave enough to accept the challenge of auditioning for the Circus of Horrors?!
BBC Scott Mills site with videos
More info about Circus of Horrors
Two former Circus of Horrors performers are part of Big Brother’s Celebrity Highjack.
Emilia & Victor Arata both stared in the Circus of Horrors summer tour at Stockton Riverside Festival, Dublin & Derry Festivals & The Edinburgh Festival.
Victor played the part of a Jesuit priest and Emilia played Ragen, the young girl who runs away & joins the circus and is eventually turned into a Vampire.
More info about The Rollerskating Aratas
After two weeks of special guests on Scott Mill's breakfast show (filling in for Chris Moyles) Henry Hoover and Dan's Bits and Bobs performance was voted best guest, beating off stiff competition from Danni Minogue and McFly. Dan performed his legendary stunt of pulling a Henry Hoover along with his willy, to an astonished studio audience. You have to lsiten to the clip to hear guest Yvette Fielding wetting herself half way through.. as Henry fires up!
Simon Cowell was asked by Scott who would he book on his talent shows - Mr Methane or Demon Dan. He said "I'd book the talented dwarf anytime!"
Listen to Dan and Haze on Scott Mills
Demon Dan, our freaky dwarf and star of the Circus of Horrors will appear on Scott Mill's show today as he stands in for Chris Moyles. He'll be talking about his sticky situation with the Hoover. He will also be talking about his issues of height, and weather he gets discriminated against at shows
So to meet the demand a new breed of ultra-modern tribute bands are springing up - and doing the gigs themselves. "Bands don't have the time to tour the provinces, so you don't get a chance to see the real thing gigging live," says Patrick Haveron from Psycho Management, which handles more than 200 tribute bands.
"That generates the whole tribute industry, people want to see the Antarctic Monkeys instead of the Arctic Monkeys."
Sky asks New Breed of tribute Acts and Killers or the Fillers?
Psycho management have been leading the field with modern rock tribute bands. The demand for cutting edge tribute acts has increased, with the originals now playing huge venues and festivals. Really popular at the moment are The Fillers, The Antarctic Monkeys, Green Days, Ded Hot Chilli Peppers, Coldplace.
The Unofficial UK Top 10 Tribs
Presented by comedian and musician Bill Bailey, ‘Earth, Wind, For Hire’ traces the history of the tribute band phenomenon, examining some of the more unusual acts that are playing today, how they manage to recreate the sounds and the look of the original artists, and what they add to the music of the bands they’re covering.
There will also be a wide range of music featured from The Bootleg Beatles to Bjorn Again, The Counterfeit Stones to Greenish Day, highlighting just how close to the sounds of the original artists tributes can get, whilst still being talented and successful musicians in their own right. The show starts tonight on Radio 2 at 11pm
More info about Beatles tribute: Bootleg Beatles
"Keep it unreal" Business is booming as never before for tribute acts like Antarctic Monkeys and the Pussycat Dolls, as Paul Morley discovers the earnest authentic homage of T-Rextasy and the dodgy wigs of Oasish; "I'm happy being a weekend pop star, and love the band I'm copying. I can only play four chords on my guitar and I get to play to thousands."
Meet Britain's Top Tribute Acts in the Observer
Patrick Haveron appeared on Canadian Radio One in Toronto discussing Glastonbury Vs Glastonbudget, and the worldwide phenomenon of tribute bands. Why do the public like seeing these bands, and how has the scene grown from the classic tributes (such as Beatles, Abba, Queen, Pink Floyd) to keeping up with the cutting edge - Green Dayz, Antarctic Monkeys, Kaiser Killers etc
Listen to the Q show with Jian Ghomeshi here on their CBC Podcast.
Psycho has created its own YouTube channel where you can watch all the bands latest promo videos here:
Footage of Ded Hot Chilli Peppers, Teen Spirit, Oasish, Pink Fraud and the Sex Pistols Experience at Glastonbudget. A load of old bootlegs? What turns you into Liam? How good do you have to be to play Kurt? Find out here.
And Irish radio interview's Patrick on Dublin based Radio Phantom 105.2: Irish Acts Welcome at Glastonbudget
Leading light in the alternative music universe Patrick Haveron was interviewed by Reuters about the unusual tribute industry. "Irony works wonders. Fans lap up tribute bands and singers who do not take themselves too seriously. We had a George Michael who played in a toilet. VH1 hired him as the cloakroom attendant who was dressed in a police outfit for one of their functions. People loved it"
More info about George Michael tribute: Rob Lamberti
Patrick Haveron, agent for tribute bands at the Glastonbudget Festival, talks about the popularity of tribute bands, and why Psycho has over 237 tribute acts on their books. Will the phenomenon ever stop asks the BBC? There’s also video footage of our Nirvana tribute Teen Spirit smashing up their guitars in style, and performance from our Chillis – the Ded Hot Chilli Peppers and Guns 2 Roses. A list of tribute bands can be found here.
More info about Nirvana tribute: Teen Spirit
The Guardian interviewed 'tribute band svengali' Patrick Haveron about Psycho Management's role in the rise of the tribute band, publishing a front page Arts article on tribute bands called The Copycats who got the Cream.
Director Patrick Haveron features in the new edition of The Guerilla Guide to the Music Business. Written by Lecturers from Westminster University, the guide covers all aspects of the music business, and has interviews with key players such as DJ's, agents, managers, labels and producers.
The book is is chatty and informal, and it's full of useful, hard-earned advice telling you how to get ahead in the music business. Through interviews with industry experts in the US and the UK, "The Guerilla Guide" gives priceless tips on every aspect of gigging - from rehearsals to foreign tours. It takes you through the process of recording, from home-made demos to releasing your own finished product and radio promotion. "The Guerilla Guide to the Music Business" also explains what managers, publishers, PR people, accountants, and lawyers can do for you, and when and why you will need their services.
Patrick is the tribute band expert, and provides insights into running a band as a business. The Guide is available from Amazon
The 2006 Visit Florida dinner at the Savoy went for a Casino Royale 007 theme. A real Aston Martin DB5 wowed the guests as they arrived, which certainly impressed the American guests. Our Bond team of Odd Job, Jaws, Halle Berry, Sean Connery and bond girls greeted the guests and made them feel welcome. Other features included projected Bond DVD's and Gobos and a surprise appearance of Blofeld an his animatronic cat!
Our favourite impersonators have been captured for a Muller Lite advert. Muller picked Suzi Kennedy as Marilyn and Steve Ballard as Elvis for their candid moment, worthy of a papparazzi shot in Heat... if it existed in the 70's!
More info about Marilyn Monroe tribute: Suzie Kennedy
We provided a choreographed show for the awards day that featured a combination of party sets from The Time Machine as well as backing The Counterfeit Concert. Our new dance troupe Entourage worked particularly well in backing, and almost outperforming, the tribute acts. Here's Counterfeit Kylie live onstage with Entourage.
More info about Entourage Dancers
We created a fabulous indoor nightclub in the exhibition hall of Sandown Racecourse for their post race party. A real change of atmosphere was produced with a large sound system, podiums with club dancers, amazing intelligent lighting, and of course the world's only lookalike DJ - Fat Boy Tim. Tim not only played all Fat Boy Slim's dance anthems, but other party and club classics, which kept the audience dancing well into the night. Tim is a superbly slick DJ, and co-incidentally an amazing lookalike - click on his link to see him meeting Norman Cook.
More info about Fat Boy Slim tribute: Fat Boy Tim
Sandown Racecourse rocked out to the UK's top Queen tribute band, Killer Queen, as part of a series of after racing spectaculars. Killer Queen feature the amazing performance of Pat Myers as Freddie, with his virtuoso performance and outrageous teeth.
Create Events arranged the staging, sound and lights and band, as well as a pyrotechnic finale. 'We are the Champions' brought the race day to a fitting spectacular climax.
More info about Queen tribute: Patrick Myers is Killer Queen
This band are a fantastic tribute to the outrageous and multi award winning Scissor Sisters featuring the songs, the costumes and of course the attitude. The band have been touring their set that includes the chart hits Take Your Mother Out, Comfortably Numb, Mary, Laura, Filthy/Gorgeous as well as plenty more fantastic album tracks.
Perfect for University balls, Council Events and corporate parties. The band also have some different costumed sets up their sleeve, such as So 80's, So 70's and Bleach - their excellent Blondie show.
More info about Scissor Sisters tribute: Scizzor Sisterz
The demand for Gavin and his Green Dayz tribute has been great and he is looking forward to putting the rock back into Freshers Week. Recent appearances have included 5,000 screaming fans for Gloucester City Council and some open air festivals in Holland. The band also had a chance to shoot a proper pop promo video, which involved lots of fun, snow, pie throwing and driving around in a limo. Lifestyles of the rich and famous!
Click here for Streaming Quicktime Video: American Idiot
More info about Green Day tribute: Green Dayz
Killer Queen headlined Europe's biggest tribute band festival at the Ahoy Stadium in Rotterdam this weekend. The Ahoy is Holland's equivalent of Wembley and was filled with over 7000 people to see their 'Tribute Band Night'. Killer Queen performed a stunning show on a huge stage set, culminating in an all cast 'We are the Champions' finale. Also on the bill from the UK were Bjorn Again, U2UK and Absolute Earth Wind and Fire. Dutch bands included a Belgian Blondie and the Pink Project (Pink Floyd) and Sticky Fingers (Rolling Stones) appeared from the USA.
More info about Queen tribute: Patrick Myers is Killer Queen
With Morrissey pulling out of the legendary Fuji Rock Festival in Japan last week, what could the organisers do but book the best Smiths tribute to replace him? These Charming Men, now based in Ireland and America, were flown to Mount Fuji to headline the main stage in front of 35,000 people.
Morrissey apparently pulled out of the festival due to a 'miscommunication with his management', and reaction to These Charming Men, according to the NME was 'confusion anger or amusement'. The tribute Irish Moz said " It was a fantastic festival, the crowd were amazing and right behind us."
Festival goers were also able to see other Psycho acts including the Circus of Horrors' Wheel of Death (featuring Willie Ramsay & Jeff Jay) and the dexterous juggling of Ethiopian Circus stars Bibi & Bitchu.
More info about Smiths tribute: These Charming Men
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