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Announcing the So. Cal. Winter Surf Fest 2012!

Sun. Jan. 22nd, 11 am to 7pm, at The Starting Gate, 5052 Katella Ave. Los Alamitos, Ca. 
$20, raffle tix for CDs and T-shirts $2 ea. or 3 tix for $5

Line up and schedule for the Winter Surf Fest

• 11am to noon - TikiTena and Sean DJ, (and between sets)
• noon to 1:15 - High Tide (with special guests)
• 1:45 to 2:45 - The Breakaways
• 3:00 to 3:50 - The Tequila Worms
• 4:00 to 4:50 - Secret Samurai
• 5:10 to 6:00 - The Eliminators
• 6:15 to 7:00 - Slacktone

Facebook page for the event

Need more reasons to come? The Winter Surf Fest is the day after Deke Dickerson's Guitar Geek Festival, and is on the big NAMM weekend. Also the same weekend is the Vintage Guitar and amp swap meet at OC fairgrounds.

Marconi Beach Sound will be playing live at the Windsor on the 27th of January 2012. The Windsor is a real ale pub on the main road by the police station in Penarth South Glamorgan (CF64 1JE)

The set will include numbers from Beach Party, our first album and a selection from our in progress second album.. Intoxica, Munsters, Mr Moto and many more...

Come and join us if you can.

Best wishes for a happy holiday season and a prosperous New Year. May the Holiday Season bring only happiness and joy to you and your loved ones.

COMING EARLY 2012... Our Exclusive interview with Bob Berryhill of The Surfaris and WIPE OUT Fame!

Noodles

DJ & Curator of The Shrunken Head Lounge
http://theshrunkenheadlounge.com

Guitar Legend DICK DALE featuring son JIMMY DALE on drums rolls into Auburn, CA on Saturday, January 21st.  Opening the show will be local surfer dudes The Pyronauts. Show starts at 8pm, it's an ALL AGES show, tickets are $20 in advance and $25 at the door. For more info email pyronauts@hotmail.com and visit www.thepyronauts.com.

Austria's first all Surf Festival in the Alps of Tirol on Sat, 12. Nov. 2011 in Fieberbrunn. Featuring Austria's only Surf Bands: The Sonodrome Express  and Dave & The Pussies.

For more info: www.thePussies.eu (in German)

Hello gang--

Just wanted to give y'all a heads up on an upcoming show featuring NOKIE EDWARDS of the Ventures, along with my tribute band VENTURESMANIA and many more special guests!

Venturesmania (myself, Garrett Immel of the Ghastly Ones, Mel Bergman of the Phantom Surfers/Go-Nuts, and Chris Sprague of the Sprague Bros/Go-Nuts/etc.) have recorded a great new album with Nokie Edwards, entitled "BOUND AND SIDEJACKED AGAIN!"  We're proud to say that it sounds like a great unreleased 1965 Ventures album, and if you dig the 1960's Ventures sound, you will love this new album.

The CD release party (and your first opportunity to buy this great new CD) will be Dec. 3rd at Joe's Great American Bar and Grill in Burbank, CA.  The show will get started around 9 pm, admission is $15.  No advance ticket sales.

Come see a genuine legend up close and personal!  A great night of guitar instrumental rock and roll!

Deke

This just in from the Rockin' Jellybean site. Japanese surf band Jackie & The Cedrics will be on a short East Coast tour with The Fadeaways in November! This tour leads up to the Norton Records 25th Anniversary show. This is the first time Jackie & The Cedrics have been in the States in eight years!

• Saturday, Nov. 5: Precinct Bar, Boston MA w/The Lyres, Muck & The Mires
• Sunday, Nov. 6: Cafe Nine, New Haven CT
• Monday, Nov. 7: The Record Collector, Bordentown NJ
• Tuesday, Nov. 8: Firehouse13,Provence RI w/ The Fablous Itchies
• Wednesday, Nov. 9: Maxwell's, Hoboken, NJ w/ The Reigning Sound
• Friday Nov. 11: "NORTON RECORDS 25TH ANNIVERSARY show" THE BELL HOUSE, BROOKLYN, NY

You can also check out Jackie & The Cedrics on Facebook.

Josh Hickman's new solo CD "This House Is Haunted!" is now available! Harkening back to the kids' Halloween records of the 1960's-70's, it features music, stories, madness, and mayhem! Email thenoblegasses@gmail.com for a FREE advance copy! AND The Noble Gasses will appear and give away copies of the CD on October 28 at Captured Aural Phantasy Theater's Panorama Of Horrors Spook Show at the L.A. landmark old Union Theater, now the Velaslavasay Panorama Theater!

The Dynotones will be live at The Pike in Long Beach on October 14. Free show!

THE REIGNING MONARCHS and THE MIGHTY REGIS Team Up For All Out Sonic Assault On Orange County For A Special One Night Event! 

FREE SHOW WITH SURF/LOUNGE BAND THE REIGNING MONARCHS & CELTIC PUNK BAND THE MIGHTY REGIS!