Gents will bring back manners

By David Sue

MIND YOUR Ps & Qs: SR Gents

Issue 2.
Jan 2009.
A little bit of gentlemenly sophistication and a soupcon of Parisian style.
Welcome to the New Year.
A shivering gentlemen’s h.q. brings you the warmest greetings for the New Year. Over the festive period, we have not been busy little bees, but two of us have been intrepid explorers, and Sir Garington has managed to get out of bed and visit the fridge via the cocktail cabinet. Mr Julien has returned from Paris with one of these new fangled mobile telephone things. Sadly it does everything else except phone as he has no credit on the blooming thing…that’s technology for you!

We have finally managed to finish the blockbuster that is our new video. Whilst it hasn’t taken as long as the Flaming Lips ‘Christmas on Mars’, it did require a little help from Mr Lucas to finish it. With any luck, if you click on this link it will take you there…..

The mixing for our new E.P. is going along at snails pace. This is due to Sir Garington being unable to find his way past the severely depleted cocktail cabinet and actually drive that mixing desk.

Lord Perecles is gearing up for a bit of moonlighting on Mr Barrabus’s new recording, with the trumpet tootling taking place over the next week or so. We can only hope that there will be plenty of buttered crumpets on offer to keep him in the manner to which he would like to become accustomed.

Later in the month we shall be leaving the love and warmth (and pool table with one dead cushion) of Blueprint, washing the cobwebs and road salt off the trusty Bentley and heading out to a town near you (or maybe not if you don’t live near these towns...)
Hopefully see you down at one of these.
Merci
SR Gents xx

Dates for your moleskine diary.
Catch SRGents at:
Trades Club in Hebden Bridge. 23rd January
The Lamplighter in Cheadle. 30th January
The Primrose in Leeds. 6th February
Underground Live in Ashton under Line. 21st February

Issue 1. Nov. 2008.
SRGents.
Performing original tunes and arrangements of classic songs, with sophistication and Parisian style.

Welcome to the first edition of the SRGents newsletter!
The 7th November saw the gentlemen making their Welsh debut at Aberlesquewyth, hosted by the delectable Miss Rosie Cotton at the Runway club (RAFA), Aberystwyth. Mr. Garinton polished the Bentley and Messrs Pericles and Julien loaded the trunk. They were joined on their journey over Snowdonia by the rather wonderful Louis Barrabas, who complained not one bit at being forced to endure Garington's mixed tape of '80's classics and tales of the time he met Sir Joe Strummer!

Joining the gents and Mr B. in their musical meanderings were Aber favourites, Quercus Burlesque and The Drip Dry Man. The very appreciative patrons, bedecked in all their finery, were also treated to some fire juggling, a magician and the divine Miss Pixie Crane who, in homage to Marlene Deitrich, performed in her native German.

Back in more familiar surroundings, the gentlemen played their first Manchester gig in a while, on 14th November at the Northern Quarters popular Joe's Bar. It was nice to see so many familiar faces and get reacquainted with old friends. Hats off to Sir Paddy for another wonderful night! The gentlemen hope to make their return before the year is out.The gentlemen have also found time in their busy schedules to return to the rehearsal, studio and have added a new song to their repertoire as well as a new arrangement of a Johnny Cash classic.

After 2 years at the MySpace helm, Sir Garington has relinquished his role to the very capable Sir Julien, so that he may concentrate on producing his cinematic offerings for your delectation. Sir Julien's valet, Charles is currently at home in France due to a family bereavement. Our thoughts are with him.

Sir Pericles continues to manage the pages of Facebook, under the non de Plume of Henri Gibson, whilst continuing to progress in the world of academia and move abode with Mademoiselle. Ginger.

In other news from Gentlemen HQ, Sir Garington and his beau are off to see Mr. Nicholas Cave, for a good dose of Duende on the 25th November!

Dates for your moleskin diary.
Catch SRGents at:

Stamps Bar and later at Stamps Too, Crosby…………………………….23rd November.
Milan's Coffee House, Harrogate……………………………………………28th November.
The Whim Wham Club @ Charlies Nightclub, Manchester……………5th December.
The Peacock Lounge, Huddersfield………………………………………….13th December.

We have just trawled the web and found this nugget of a review.

SR Gents

​Volum​e 1

A royal​ treat​,​ shimm​ying throu​gh langu​ages and passi​on,​ the grung​e and the longi​ng combi​ne makin​g a mix to warm the heart​,​ the lust and the ardou​r evoke​ lovin​g and emoti​ve lyric​ism,​ which​ drift​s out to the audie​nce,​ and can only induc​e raptu​re.​ For a first​ singl​e this is well beyon​d impre​ssive​ and spark​s excit​ement​ of even more to come.​ Stemm​ing from Manch​ester​,​ they prove​ even furth​er what a diver​se city of sound​s this is. Track​ one being​ fuell​ed with lust and jibe,​ then flipp​ing the coin onto '​L'​efflu​ve'​,​ a frenc​hed,​ rhyth​mical​ly blues​ tune,​ that just makes​ you wish you were bilin​gual and with the sense​ and Roman​tiscm​ of the Paris​ian.
​Katie​ Swind​ley

the gents in sandman

We're a bit chuffed with it.

we've only gone and got the first review on the new website 'myspacereviewer'
here it is, follow the link and ignore toms phishing warning and enjoy.this link here

merci xx

After discussing, planning and generally bickering about it for a while, we have a website - dum dum dum!

It is our little gentlemanly corner of the world wide web, on which we'll have some bits and bobs regarding us three, and some of the people and places we have encountered on our travels.

We are planning on having a links section which will take you to other gentlemanly corners of the web, which hopefully will illuminate you in the ways of the gentleman.

There is no music player on it yet, but we are currently working our little socks off to bring one to you, in the meantime there are links on the homepage taking you to places where we have some tunes up on the ol' t'interweb.

Any suggestions to the website will be gratefully received, thought about, and maybe even put into practice if our web monkey can suss it out...

Oh yeah, nearly forgot, we can be found at srgents.com

Hope to see you on the other side

sr gents xx

i fought the law

Coming Down

House by the sea

Edinburgh Fringe Festival

If at the New Islington Festival

Madame at the New Islington Festival

Peri wanted to be Bruce Willis...

just a little ole blog explaining about the tunes we put up on the myspace player.

All the mixes and recordings are done by us gentlemen.  They are not in their 100% finished state, with some minor tweaks still needed before we pass them on for mastering.  The tracks that are available for purchase, either by download or in physical form, have been tweaked and mastered for your aural pleasure.

 

merci xx