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RETURN OF THE JERRY LEE LEWIS CONVENTION
The first revived JERRY LEE LEWIS CONVENTION will take place on 21st February 2009
at the Princes Marine Hotel, Hove, Sussex.
Tickets on sale now - £20 from Tales From The Woods.
CLICK HERE for more information!


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Other "Tales From The Woods" events coming up!

Picture: 2I's banner
"2I's no.3" - coming to the 100 Club in 2009

"2I's no.3" will be taking place in early 2009 - negotiations with several important artists are under way.
There will be some great rock'n'roll, a bit of skiffle and some trad jazz, all featuring original artists from the fifties and sixties.
More details to follow!


Big Jim Sullivan at the previous 2I's celebration at the 100 Club, January 27th 2008
Big Jim Sullivan at the 100 Club, January 27th 2008
Jenny Laine - Country music in the style of Patsy Cline - Saturday 20th December 2008
Details of December Gang Meet-up

FOR LIST OF ALL PLANNED TFTW EVENTS CLICK HERE!


Pictures from The Portobello Hayride 15/08/2008


RADIO NEWS
BBC Radio 2 Mondays 2330hrs - In Dreams: The ROY ORBISON story
Presented by Mark Lamarr
4 parts starting December 1, 2008.


OPEN ALL HOURS

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Click here for the TFTW Shop - Books, records, other items for sale
Updated 12/05/2008

COMPUTER FOR SALE
Packard Bell 1559. Windows Vista Home Premium, Flat Screen Monitor, Mouse etc,
Pentium 820 1.5 GHZ, Ram 1024 DDZ, 320 Gigabyte Hard Drive, nVidia GeForce 620 Graphics Card, 8 in 1 Card Reader, DVD Rewriter
Price £300 - if you are interested in this purchase or require more information, call Eddie Bowser on 075338 25293 or Email/Text on edwardbowser_mobile@yahoo.co.uk

FOR SALE
Contact KenMajor.maggots@btinternet.com or 020 83667168 for return email lists of the following. Please advise which list you require:
1) 36 Jerry Lee Lewis vinyl LPs for sale. USA/UK assorted labels, mainly mint, average price £8.
2) Hundreds of vinyl records, all speeds, mainly 1950's early 1960s collectors items.
3)150 S/H CDs, rock'n'roll, r&b, doo-wop, blues, c&w all £5 each.
4) Lots of blues, rock n'roll and jazz books, average price £8 new condition

TALES FROM THE WOODS FORUM - discussion group on rock'n'roll and other roots music


TFTW STOMPIN' USA 2008 TOUR

Picture: At the Louisiana Hayride
Pictures from the 'Tales From The Woods' Stompin' USA 2008 tour


Click here for more pictures from the January 2008 gig


A MESSAGE FROM THE EDITOR OF "TALES FROM THE WOODS" MAGAZINE
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 Hi Kats and Kittens! I'm Keith Woods and welcome to my website
This website is devoted to that outstanding publication -
'Tales From The Woods'
which is an off-the-wall roots music magazine, reflecting the music, humour and occasionally the politics of the contributors and myself.
It also incorporates theatre and cinema when the mood takes us, as well as a jazz column and the more contemporary sounds are catered for via a near regular and popular column

Subscribe for only £10 a year

Subscribers to the magazine are entitled to discounts for most TFTW gigs, and there are special subscriber's prices on many items of TFTW merchandise.
"Tales From The Woods" also from time to time organises trips to music events in the USA, and subscribers can take advantage of our specially negotiated travel arrangements.



"Tales From The Woods"
is proud to announce that Keith Woods is now the official representative of a number of quality musical acts.

TO BOOK ANY OF THESE ARTISTS
For information and enquiries please contact Keith

Contact details

NOW ON THE TFTW BOOKS
You can now book the following artists through TFTW
JENNY LAINE
DAVE SAMPSON
DANNY RIVERS
WEE WILLIE HARRIS
THE SWINGING CHANDELIERS

TERRY DENE
"Tales from the Woods" is now looking after the interests of Britain's first ever rock'n'roller and we are taking bookings for gigs throughout 2008. Terry is available to play in a rock'n'roll trio or with a five-piece band.

THE INCREDIBLE ROY YOUNG
Tales From The Woods is proud to announce that Keith Woods is now the official UK agent for
The Incredible Roy Young
Roy is available for UK appearances from the throughout 2008 with his Rock'n'Roll trio
The band can be augmented by legendary sax player Howie Casey by special arrangement.

CORLISS RANDALL
Keith Woods is now the official agent for
Corliss Randall
with her exciting and raunchy brand of New Orleans R&B
and her cabaret diva homages to Mae West, Judy Garland, Peggy Lee.

You can buy Corliss Randall's CD New Orleans Boogie at TFTW gigs or from
'Tales From The Woods'

MICHAEL T. CLAYTON
Piano bass and drums
Jerry Lee Lewis style Rock'n'Roll trio.

ROCKIN' GERRY
Keith Woods is also the official agent for Rockin' Gerry Champion
Rockin' and a-Rollin' since the 1950's.

TO BOOK ANY OF THESE ARTISTS
For information and enquiries please contact Keith

Contact details


LATEST NEWS

Stop Press! Catfish Kings added to the convention bill!

click here for the TALES FROM THE WOODS NEWSLETTER October 2008
click here for the TALES FROM THE WOODS NEWSLETTER September 2008
click here for the TALES FROM THE WOODS NEWSLETTER No 2a issued 6th September 2007
The newsletters will take a few seconds to load - please be patient!
Click here to find out how to contact us

A BOOK ABOUT THE 2I'S AND THE SOHO COFFEE BAR SCENE
Andrew Ings, in collaboration with Keith Woods, is writing a book about the 2I's and the 50's Soho coffee bar scene.
This book will be available soon. Keep watching here for more news!


Some recent 'Tales From the Woods' promotions

Picture: Lou Pride at the 100 Club    Picture: Terry Dene at the 100 Club

Lou Pride at the 100 Club, October 25th 2007 - Terry Dene at the 100 Club, October 7th 2007
Pictures by Alan Lloyd & Nick Cobban

Picture: Gerry and Danny Picture: Pete Stanley
At the latest TFTW jam session - Gerry Champion and Danny Rivers; Pete Stanley

More pictures from TFTW jam sessions


Picture: Red Hot Louisiana Band and Guests
Terry Wayne at the 100 Club
Presented by "Tales From The Woods"



Picture: Red Hot Louisiana Band and Guests
Red Hot Louisiana Band and guest performers at Zydeco night at the 100 Club
Presented by "Tales From The Woods" and "The Swamp Rock Club"



2 I's REUNION AT THE 100 CLUB
A TRIBUTE TO THE 1950'S COFFEE BAR SCENE
Sunday 28th January 2007

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Click here for more pictures from the 2I's reunion
Click here for pictures from the 2I's plaque unveiling ceremony

Picture: Robert Penn     Picture: MaryJean     Picture: Wee Willie Harris    Picture: Vince Eager
Robert Penn - Mary Jean - Wee Willie Harris - Vince Eager

Picture: Ken Cook of Eastside     Picture: Barrence Whitfield     Picture: Lazy Lester     Picture: Hottboxx
Ken Cook (Eastside) - Barrence Whitfield - Lazy Lester - Hottboxx

For more pictures from the above 'Tales From the Woods' promotions - look under "Pictures - TFTW events" here
For pictures from non-TFTW events - Hemsby, Rhythm Riot etc. - look under "Pictures - other events" here


LIVE MUSIC!
Forthcoming gig list here
Updated November 2008

LINKS
Links updated 4 November 2008
New link to Hardrock Bunter's MySpace Page

LOTS MORE INTERESTING THINGS!
Click the link above for photographs, reviews, obituaries, tales



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