Get TT Fortnight off to a groovy start at the Bay Hotel Port Erin

Friday May 25th 8pm till Midnight

FREE ENTRY

Ballagroove DJ’s playing a selection of Reggae, Funk, Soul, Indie, Punk, Boogaloo – a bit of everything

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Top new psych-funk-indie-boogie masters Castesian Jetstream will be playing live at Laxey Working Mens Institute on Saturday June 16th

There will also be a psychy DJ set from Ballagroove DJ Gyp

And !

Psychy Visual projections by Retina

All in all a pretty groovy night and well worth the journey to Laxey !

There is a door tax of £2 to cover the hire of the hall

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The debut release from the mighty Fletcher Christian Mutiny is out now on Bandcamp! Six tracks of awesome rifferry for the bargain price of a fiver – get it while it’s hot!

Good news – the debut release from the mighty Fletcher Christian Mutiny is now ready and should be available in the next few days – get ready to ROCK !

Mr. Eliminator and the Deadly Vipers’ phenomenal debut Mini LP ‘Danger of Death’ is out now!

CD is now available from The Ballagroove Shop, for a mere £5, plus £1 for P&P if you need it posting.

The recording contains the following tracks:

1. Danger of Death
2. Viboras Mortales
3. Nuclear Tsunami
4. Bitter Is Better
5. Bang Bang Bang
6. Attack of the Wolfman
7. Dead End Cruise

Buy the digital release here: iTunes | Amazon UK | Amazon US | Amazon Germany | Amazon Japan.

You can also follow them on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube, ’cause they’re good like that.

Garden Party Festival DJ Launch Party, Silent Disco, 3 sets of DJ’s starting with Ballagroove DJ’s, BPM themed night, we’ll be starting off at 70-90, next DJ’s 110-130, last ones working it up to 170, sounds like great fun !

13th Pillar will perform their debut live public gig at The Rovers Return in Douglas on April 21st – we play psych-garage-punk-rock, loud and noisy, firmly rooted in 70′s punk rock with a splattering of 60′s psych and garage – band members are Selwyn Collister, Karl Collins, Mike Seed and Gypo Buggane

Local legend DJ Shaun Hogg will provide the music – expect every form of Reggae and Punk imagineable – Shaun has been DJing in Bushys pub since before they were Bushys pubs – some 25 years odd !

And its …….. FREE

Join us once again for a night of Electronic fun and frolics as we make our journey from the sea back to the tranquil surroundings of Jabberwocky (Douglas)

Featuring : Dusty Plankton (Live Band), Dj Darren Millar and Ballagroove DJ’s

Oh and its Free, that’s right nish, zero, zilch….more details to follow soon

There will be various Ballagroove bands and DJ sets throughout the weekend in the Retina Tent

More details to follow

For the second year Ballagroove will be running a stage at Ramseys annual ‘Ramsey Rocks’ event

Hoping to repeat the fun we had last year, this year we have invited along the fantastic Fletcher Christian Mutiny to fill Ramsey with some ROCK !!

Ballagroove DJ’s will be playing too

And we will have one more band soon to be confirmed

There is also another stage further along the Quay run by the cream of the northern music crew, will post their line up here too when we here who they have got playing

Its all FREE and if its anything like last year its a totally top night !!

NB Times on the poster are wrong – no changed to 8pm till 1am

Rhysical Pheck – ‘The Little People Album’ on Bandcamp

Mr. Eliminator and the Deadly Vipers’ phenomenal debut Mini LP ‘Danger of Death’ is out now! The recording contains the following tracks:

1. Danger of Death
2. Viboras Mortales
3. Nuclear Tsunami
4. Bitter Is Better
5. Bang Bang Bang
6. Attack of the Wolfman
7. Dead End Cruise

Buy the digital release here: iTunes | Amazon UK | Amazon US | Amazon Germany | Amazon Japan.

You can also follow them on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube, ’cause they’re good like that.

Two hot Ballagroove bands playing with each other (!) at The Clarendon in Douglas. Get along for some hot surf action courtesy of Mr. Eliminator and The Deadly Vipers and some loud, rock chaos from The Fletcher Christian Mutiny.

Ballagroove DJ’s will be supporting new band ‘Starlite’ featuring Suzy Starlite, Simon Campbell, Val Nelson and Noah Egelnick at The Engine Room, which is the new venue in Castletown above The Ship pub.

Saturday (31st March) night sees two hot Ballagroove bands playing with each other (!) at The Clarendon in Douglas. Get along for some hot surf action courtesy of Mr. Eliminator and The Deadly Vipers and some loud, rock chaos from The Fletcher Christian Mutiny.

Also, don’t forget to get your tickets for the Joe Driscoll and Sekou Kouyate gig at the Villa Marina on Easter Friday (April 6th). Tickets are limited and selling well and its only a week away – Full details here.

Hopefully see you at the gigs

No need for words, poster says it all

Will just mention – it’s FREE and the beer is cheap(!), and you can raffle yourself

New promoters Dark Horse Promotions are pleased to announce details of their first live event.

ALL proceeds from ticket sales will be donated to the Isle of Man Children’s Centre.

Joe Driscoll and Sekou Kouyate

“Spreading their unique fusion of folk, hip-hop, afrobeat, and reggae, not just an acoustic act, they use live looping to create soundscapes full of beatbox, guitar, harmonica, percussion, didjerido, and just about anything else they can find! A ground breaking and totally genre-defying live act; Joe & Sekou have been in high demand the world over, performing at Glastonbury Festival, Electric Picnic in Ireland, and Lake of Stars in Malawi, Africa.

“Joe Driscoll is the man Cee-Lo Green labelled ‘The gangsta with an iron lung’ and seeing him live I know exactly what he means,” Barry tells us. “I first saw Joe Driscoll perform at the Green Man festival in the Chai Wallahs tent a few years ago. He absolutely blew me away and the crowd was instantly taken by his amazing looping and beatbox skills!”

Hear them on SoundCloud

Mr Eliminator and The Deadly Vipers

“From the Isle of Man, they have somewhat of a cult following in the surf rock scene! The island’s only instrumental surf rock band, fronted by three young men, has revived a style of music almost as old as their combined ages! Expect a mix of underground Surf Classics and original tracks; soon to be releasing their debut mini-LP on Ballagroove Records.”

Ballagroove DJs

“DJs Gyp and Toots have been DJing around the Island for 15 years, playing their mix of Funk, Soul, Reggae, Dub, Indie and World music. From obscure rarities to up front floor fillers, an eclectic mix is guaranteed.”

Isle of Man Children’s Centre

The Children’s Centre develops, manages, and pioneers a variety of community initiatives and services aimed at enabling children, young people, and families to realise their full potential.They are an independent Manx charity – undertaking their own projects and working with others – to put children, young people, and families first.

• Joe Driscoll’s website
• Mr Eliminator and The Deadly Vipers’ Facebook Page
• Ballagroove’s Facebook Page
• Dark Horse Promotions IoM Facebook Page
• Isle of Man Children’s Centre website

Ticket Bookings

NB Change of venue – this gig is now at Jabberwocky NOT Amber (change of management, cancelled gig – thanks )

Ballagroove DJs will be supporting ace new local band Dusty Plankton at Jaberwocky in Douglas on Friday 24th February

Its FREE to get in, starts at 8pm, we are DJing from 8pm till 10pm, then the band are on, then top DJ action from Darren Millar into the early hours, did I mention its FREE

This is what they have to say , and, I quote…

“After a couple of months since our last gig, we thought it was time to climb out of the sea for another gig.

“Since we last left you Alan has been knitting jumpers, Tony has been running up and down hills and I have been mostly collecting stamps so we have been moderately busy.

“We are proud to announce that as well as being joined by the fabulous DeeDee (our very own Burlesque performer) we will be joined on the decks by Ballagroove head honcho and all round good guy Gypo, he will be spinning the warm up set with fellow tag team Dj of Funk and all things nice, Toots. following Dusty’s live set, we will be graced by our very own tour Dj, Darren Millar whose electronic funk filled grooves will see you to the end of play

“We will be kicking off at 8pm and Dusty Plankton will be on stage about 10pm, oh and its FREE entry too

“Soooo go tell it on the mountain that we are back, we have a few gigs and a few surprises and some great Dj’s joining us on our adventures this year. we hope you all could join us too.”

Ballagroove ‘Valentines Pimps and Ho’s Fancy Dress Party’

Bay Hotel Port Erin

Friday 10th February from 8pm till Midnight

FREE Entry

DJ’s Gyp and Toots

Funk, Soul, Reggae, Boogaloo and other delights

Ballagroove will be holding a Xmas party at the Bay Hotel, Port Erin on 17th December from 8pm till 12am

Would be great if people could come in Xmas Fancy Dress – of any kind imaginable

Ballagroove DJ’s Gyp and Toots will be playing the music, so usual mix of a bit of everything from Punk to Funk, Soul to Indie, Rock n Roll to Reggae

And …..

For the 6th year running (we think), Ballagroove will be hosting the New Years Eve party at the Bay Hotel Port Erin

This year’s theme is ….

MONSTER RAVING LOONY PARTY

It is, of course, FREE to get in and its FANCY DRESS – fancy dress theme is Monsters, Ravers and Loonys – if you can incorporate all three into one mega-costume then you probably deserve a prize, we’ll try and think of something

Its FREE to get in

Hope to see you there

Support your Local Pub, Bushys is the Islands only Independent Brewery !! – where else can you get a pint of traditional scrumpy for £2.60 a pint

Fancy Dress Disco
Ballagroove DJs
(Funk, Soul, Indie, Punk, Reggae, Boogaloo)
Bay Hotel, Port Erin

Saturday 22nd October
8pm – midnight
Free Entry

Put on a wig, come to the party, drink Bushys fine ales, bump into friends, have a dance, go home happy

Frank Sidebottom – Friend of the Isle of Man – sadly passed away last year, his alter ego Chris used to visit the Island regularly either to perform as Frank, play football with Bushys, or, just when he’d popped out for a pint of milk and found himself in the Rovers

In honour of the great man some of his friends / family are trying to raise the money to build a statue to Frank, a fitting tribute, this gig is to help with the fund raising

Our band Rhysical Pheck have been asked to play, so we’ll be playing a short set of about 1/2 hour, few tunes of our new album, one of the last album and a cover of a song by The Gerbils – no idea what time we’ll be on, best bet is to get to the Rovers for 1pm, get a seat and enjoy the day, there will be loads of bands and DJ’s and other entertainment throughout the day and evening

There is a Facebook event if you need more details, you know there is, there really is

Talons Nightclub – Falcon’s Nest Hotel – Port Erin, Ellan Vannin

Saturday 29th October 2011 – 8pm till Midnight

HOP TU NAA themed FANCY DRESS

Our favourite Manx Surf band Mr. Eliminator and The Deadly Vipers will be playing Live with guest guitarist Nelly from Fletcher Christian Mutiny.

Ballagroove DJ’s will be playing lots of horror themed muzak along with usual eclectic mix of Soul, Funk, Surf, Rock n Roll, Punk, Garage, Boogaloo, Jazz, Reggae, Mod, Indie, etc.

Tickets are £5 each and available from the reception at the Falcon’s Nest Hotel.

Friday 23rd September 2011 – 8pm till Midnight – Recommended preparation – Straight to the Rovers after work, chippy tea, few pints, dancing shoes on

Our favourite Manx Surf band Mr Emlinator and The Deadly Vipers will be playing Live

Ballagroove DJ’s will be playing an eclectic mix of Soul, Funk, Surf, Rock n Roll, Punk, Garage, Boogaloo, Jazz, Reggae, Mod, Indie ….. etc.

There is no Fancy Dress theme (for a change) but we positively encourage anyone to dress as ridiculous as they wish

FREE ENTRY – ALL WELCOME – HOPE YOU CAN COME !

BAY HOTEL, PORT ERIN

Saturday 13th August 2011 – 8pm till Midnight

Come along and swap stories, photos, tales and memories from this years festival.

Have a dance, drink some beer and enjoy

If you didn’t go to the festival, come along and hear about what you missed !!

FREE ENTRY – ALL WELCOME

We’ve been asked to organise a ’60′s California Surf’ party for the Bay on July 30th (Saturday) – its OPEN invite so anyone can come along, fancy dress follows the theme of the party.
Ballagroove DJ’s playing usual mixed up mess of all sorts of Funk, Soul, Punk, Indie, Pop, Boogaloo etc.
Live Surf Band – Mr Eliminator and The Deadly Vipers
From 8pm till Midnight
FREE ENTRY / NO DOOR TAX

Ballagroove ‘D.I.S.C.O’

Bay View Hotel, Port St Mary

Saturday 16th July 2011

FREE entry

Just for fun, Ballagroove will be DJing at the Bay View on Satuday 16th July from 8pm till Midnight.

Expect a mixed bunch of music; Funk, Soul, Reggae, Indie, Surf, Rock n
Roll, 60′s Pop, just a mash of everything really !

Support your Local Pub – Last couple of do’s down the Bay have been
great fun – can’t promise a womble conga this time though !

PS It happens to be Sarah Comish, Binny, Toots and Nelson Mandela’s birthday that week so if you wanna do fancy dress – dress as one of them

Ballagroove have been asked to put together a stage at this years ‘Ramsey Rocks’ in the Market Square (in front of the club that used to be ‘Nightlife’), – its on Friday July 8th from 7.30pm, we’ve got ‘Mr Eliminator and The Deadly Vipers’ (Surf Rock) and ‘Space Monkey’ (Psych Reggae Groove Machine) playing LIVE plus the Ballagroove DJ’s (Funk, Soul, Reggae etc.), music finishes just before 11pm after which there will be a mighty firework display – if you don’t dig Ballagroove then head over to the other stage by the swingbridge, lots of other stuff on to – check out Rogers stunning poster for full details, far as I know its all FREE and it’ll be great fun, been a while since we’ve done anything down North !!

GLASTONMARY

Ballagroove DJ’s with Live Acts -”CampStar” and “Dub Fellaghs Sound System”

Saturday 25th June 2011
8pm to Midnight
Bay View Hotel, Port St Mary

FREE Entry / FANCY DRESS

We’ve been invited by the good folk at Dirty South to DJ again at The Bay View Hotel, Port St Mary

This time instead of adding Live Surf and Harp to the mix we’ve got Live Blues and Electronic Dub – variety a go go !

“CampStar” are basically an acoustic duo featuring compositions from Simon Campbell and Suzy Starlite. Suzy plays acousto-punk with a couple of powerful ballads, empathetically inspired by the human condition… Simon is developing an acoustic set ready for his next album. Tracks to date feature stomping blues and some majestic acoustic pieces.

Providing us with some smooth Ambient Electronic Dub will be “Dub Fellaghs Sound System” (a pseudonym for one of Ballagroove’s regular artists) as another warm up for their set at Mannifest Festival in August – the last gig at the Bay Port Erin was Dubtastic so we are well excited to welcome them back.

Ballagroove DJ’s will be playing the (un)usual mix of Funk, Soul, Reggae, Indie, World Music, 60’s pop, Boogaloo, Jazz, Psych – in other words there will be a wild mix of stuff played J, there will be no Coldpl*y, U* or Beyon*e that’s fer sure

FANCY DRESS theme is ‘Happy Campers’ so basically get dressed as if you were going to Glastonbury – crazier the better

The last party down the Bay View was real fun with a great crowd and some top freaky dancing, lets hope we can do it all again !

Support Local Music and Support Your Local Pubs !! – FOR FREE

Just for fun, Shaun Hogg of Boss H Soundsystem will be bringing his great reggae tunes down to Port Erin for a Soundclash with Ballagroove who will be playing their favourite Funky breaks. Alternate funk and reggae tunes all evening.

Now with added ‘Dub Fellaghs Well Sound System’ who will be playing a live electronic dub set in the middle of the evening as a rehearsal for their gig at Mannifest later in the summer – we’ll be videoing it to put up on youtube, so put on your worst fancy dress and dance like a loon then you can laugh at yerself on youtube

Starts at 8pm
Vaults, Bay Hotel, Lower Promenade, Port Erin, Ellan Vannin

Fancy Dress if you wanna, same theme ‘Reggae v Funk’

FREE ENTRY

Surfy, Groovy, Harpy, Funky, Drunky Party !

Hosted by The Dirty South

FREE ENTRY

BIG plug for our very good friend David Maddrell’s new exhibition at The Sayle Gallery

Ballagroover ‘Buggane’ has done an exclusive soundtrack for the exhibition which will be available for sale from the gallery for the duration of the exhibition – its a 21 minute long ‘ambient’ piece of music with a special hand made CD sleeve featuring artwork from the exhibtion – only 100 copies – £4 (we couldn’t do it any cheaper than this, or we would have done)

Nice flashy graphic on the BBC website

Couple of nice articles about the exhibition here and here

Hope you can get along for a look and a listen, let us know what you think

Full details available on David’s Website

Space Monkey, Mr Eliminator and The Deadly Vipers and Ballagroove DJ’s

Castletown football club

Saturday 26th February from 8pm

Should be fun

This was recorded for a compilation album of Jim Bob Covers put together by Chris T-T as a present for Jim Bob for his 50th birthday recently

Hope you like it

Buggane – Special Wants and Special Needs (Jim Bob Cover)

Saturday February 12th 2011

Come along and get loved up, or, cry into yr pint, either way we’ll try and have a good time !

FANCY DRESS – theme ‘St Valentines Day Massacre’

FREE ENTRY

Ballagroove DJ’s playing usual mix of crazy shit

Top Ballagroovers Cohiba are playing at the invitation of the lovely people at ‘Dirty South’, Bay Port St Mary on Tuesday 11th January from 8.30pm, could become a regular event at the Bay so please support it would be great to have a regular music night in the village !!

Check out some old Cohiba tunes on our downloads page

Git Yaw … Cotton pickin, Horse-in thievin, denin wearin, mullet harin, beer swillin, wood choppin, critter killin, fishwyfe hollerin, vehicle collectin, engine teakin, hair greasin, tooth missin, truck pushin, bar dancin, pip spittin, thigh slappin, banjo pluckin, foot stompin, stranger starin, finger pointin, chair rockin, corn munchin, dog howlin, timber hawlin, ass pinchin, baccy chewin, saw sharpenin, gun aimin, sign shootin, fish hookin, horn honkin, hog huntin, liquor suppin, cap tappin, head scratchin, eye winkin, face twitchin, belly rubbin, mama huggin, BALLAGROOVIN butts down to the

BAY PORT ERIN
on
NEW YEARS EVE 2010 – 8pm
for the
REDNECK, TRAILER TRASH, HICKS and HILLBILLIES
FANCY DRESS PARTY

With DJ’s Ferile Cheryl and Dancin Doooowayne

for some drinkin, dancin, whoopin and maybe even some neckin, but no cussin !

FREE ENTRY (OF COURSE)

Buggane

Just for Fun – “Hop Tu Naa” and “Mannifest” Song Downloads

Taken to the habit of writing a song for each party we do, well, have done it twice now, first for the “Funky Zoo” party at the Ballagroove / Rotten Planet tent at Mannifest 2010”, enjoyed it so did another for last nights “Death at the Hop (Tu Naa)” party.

For those of you who don’t know “Hop Tu Naa” is our Celtic New Years Eve, represents the coming of “The Dark” (winter) so we all dress up a scary loons, carve evil faces into moots (turnips), sing mad songs and have a party. “Hop Tu Naa” is an old song, with many variants, virtually one for every village on the Island, so why not have another one, its not particularly loyal to the original but so be it.

Hope you like it, Happy ‘Hop Tu Naa’ !

“Hop Tu Naa” by Buggane from the album “Hot Turnip” – Death at the Hop (Tu Naa)

And, seems as I forgot to post it up here at the time, here is the “Funky Zoo” track we did for “Mannifest 2010”

“Funky Zoo” by The Clets – Funky Zoo

“Hop Tu Naa”
Mannifest Festival

FREE – FANCY DRESS – HOP TU NAA PARTY

Ballagroove DJ’s – Voodoo Boogie, Ghoulish Funk, Witchy Soul, Wizardy Boogaloo …. etc

Plus Hot Hop Tu Naa Action

8pm – 12am

FANCY DRESS THEME – Hop Tu Naa – Ghouls / Ghosts / Vampires / Scary Shit

Come and join us for our BIG FANCY DRESS PARTY WITH LOADS OF COOL BANDS on Saturday @ Mannifest !

Fancy Dress theme is ‘FUNKY ZOO’ – NO EXCUSES – its easy £1.99 for an animal mask from the shop in Douglas, a funky shirt and some dancin feet, its all you need, on the other hand you could dress as an octopus, or a sloth, or a monkey – the choice is yours, just dress up like a funky animal and join in the fun

Line up is as follows;
…
12.00 (ha ha, thereabouts) BALLAGROOVE AND ROTTEN PLANET DJ’s

Soundtracks, Childrens Music, Deep Rumbling Dub, Japanese Screamcore, Welsh Psych Folk, Slovakian Minamilist Beats, Transylvanian Jazz Boogie …. you knows it – it’ll be unpredictable

4.30 SAMBAMANN

Top Drawer Manx Samba Band, great way to start the party

5.00 ‘INGIE

One man band bringing the beats to make yo shake yo ass !, expect Dubby stuff thats great to frug to

6.00 CHRIS T-T

Solo musician and Troubadour, he can make you cry, make you think and make you laugh all in the space of one song – he’s a legend

7.20 TRASH 5

Stand well back from the stage, these guys are loud, 60′s tinged garage mayhem – joyous !

8.15 SPACE MONKEY

Everybodies favourite Psych Reggae Freeform Dance band on the Island, if you don’t dance to this you are dead

9.00 FONDA 500

We are soooo excited to be bringing you one of the best bands in Britain, impossible to describe but you will love them and you’ll go out and buy all their albums after you’ve heard them

10.00 BALLAGROOVE DJs

Expect the unexpected … and the expected .. and everything inbetween, we want to make you dance but we don’t play dance music, well we might play a bit, but we might not, who knows

12.00 WOMBLE CONGA (hush hush)

Audio Woks ‘lo-fi Sea Shanty’ mix of Rhysical Phecks ‘Yr Roots’

Quick note …..

The next ballagroove shindig will be at Islands premier (and only proper) music festival in August, we’re sharing a tent with our good friends at ‘Rotten Planet Records’ …. many more details to come soon, we’ve got some of the Islands top acts plus some spectacularly ace UK acts, its going to be ace so get yr tickets soon !!

Check out the festival website at http://www.mannifestlive.com/

Thanks to scottish alison for the lovely haggis present – but as a veggie I cannae eat offal – so, frug like a madman and earn yr supper !!