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Saturday, December 12, 2009 

Category: Music
News of an interesting Christmas show come mini festival , -  which sees  Nik Turner (ex Hawkwind) teaming up with members of Whimwise and John Le Champignon (ex Ozric Tentacles front man) in the same band, to play a Christmas fundraiser aimed at raising money to enable stocks of wheelchairs to be sent out to Africa for the (largely uncatered for) disabled out there.
 
 
The venue for this benefit event will be, 

Portsmouths  "Wedgewood Rooms"  UK.
 
Address  -  147b Albert Road, Southsea, Portsmouth,  PO40JW, Hampshire, UK.
 
Date  - Tuesday Dec 22nd
 
Time  7-30 till late.
 
Tickets can be booked through the box office of the Wedgewood Rooms (Tel 023 92 863911), or online at www.wedgewood-rooms.co.uk
or follow the direct link www.wedgewood-rooms.co.uk/whatson.asp?ipoint=56&ipointlast=49&ipage=4
 
Price is £10.00 but concessions are available. 
  
     Even without concessions, it's worth bearing in mind that this ten pound price can go a long way to making someones quality of life significantly better.  As, to the African disabled, - having a wheelchair can make all the difference between being a functioning member of society and having to live life as an ostracised outcast.
    In Gambia (where the main impetus of the concert and project organisers work is being directed)  the disabled are often inadequately catered for - in fact in many instances they're not catered for at all - and it's not unusual to find disabled people desperately in need of help , having been  abandoned completely and left immobile - reliant on begging in the streets to survive. 
  It is to these people, the artists and charity making up the Wheels-4-Africa project are trying to address their efforts .
So please help by attending if you can - and contribute to the giving of very special Christmas gift, the enabling of the disabled - by providing independance through mobility.
 
Inner City Units Judge Trev will also appear in the line-up of this specially formed one-off headline African Benefit band,  - together with members of Whimwise (Nick May and Will Hughes -guitar/synth and bass ) , Jaki Windmill and of course the aforementioned Nik Turner and ex Ozrics John "Champignon" Egan . The line up will be completed by a very important additional guest - African percussionist Sidi who comes from Gambia himself.
  This genre busting line-up will play a mixture of Hawkwind songs African rhythms, electronics, avant gard experimentalism, freeform improvisation , full on space rock, plus of course a bit of the inevitable "who knows what"?  :-) guaranteeing an unusual and memorable night.
 
 Before this, there will be a set from the usual lineup of Whimwise and preceeding that, local bands such as Platform 13 will open the show.
  African drum circles will be interspersed, throughout the proceedings, giving renditions of traditional African percussion music in between the main acts. There will also be a raffle - and traditional African food will be on supply too, making this considerably more than just the usual gig! 
 
  So please do come along, have an - off the wall kind of an African Christmas party and contribute to a good cause at the same time. 
 
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Sunday, November 01, 2009 

Aktuelle Stimmung:  am Rocken

www.allgemeine-zeitung.de

21 Bands rocken bei Dorsheim

26.09.2009 - DORSHEIM

"EICH KULT" Festival soll noch europäischer werden

(jsp). "Eich Kult" ist ein in der heimischen Rockszene mittlerweile bekannter Begriff. Bereits zu 9. Mal veranstalteten die Organisatoren, die mittlerweile unter dem Logo "Eich Kult" als Verein eingetragen sind, auf der grünen Wiese ein Festival für Musikfans aus der gesamten Region.

Erstmals rockten die Anhänger der Rockmusik drei Tage lang auf der Dorsheimer Gemarkung. Hunderte von Besuchern zelteten hier und feierten 21 Rock-Bands aus Deutschland, Frankreich, Großbritannien und Tschechien. Insbesondere die Gruppen aus dem östlichen Nachbarland gehören zum festen Stamm der Festivalgruppen, "die zwar vielen Musik-Kennern noch unbekannt, aber eben sehr gut sind", wie Kajo Kominek, Vorsitzender von Eich Kult erläuterte.
In ihren Heimatländern bereits etablierte Gruppen wie "Bleeding Hearts" und "Whimwise" aus England, die Klassik-Symphonic-Rock vom Feinsten zelebrierten, oder die tschechische Formation "The Hrozenband" heizten den Rockfans ordentlich ein. Hier hätten die Fans die Möglichkeit, mit Gleichgesinnten neue musikalische Talente auf ihrer Tour durch Europa erstmals zu erleben, betonte Kominek.


 

Etwas "europäischer" stellt sich der Organisator die Zukunft des Festivals vor. Mehr und mehr sollten sich Rockfans aus dem gesamten Kontinent beim jährlichen "Eich Kult" einfinden und friedlich zusammen feiern, hofft der Organisator.
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Sunday, October 04, 2009 
HI,


We have some new pics of Whimwise Gigs in Germany/Bonn and at Eich-Kult Festival
2009 (ft. Cyndee Lee)

cheers
Hans
(PA NickMay)
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Sunday, August 23, 2009 

Current mood:overworked
Category: Music



 


Cyndee Lee Rule
 
    Whimwise are very excited about a very special guest they've got crossing the Atlantic to come and join them onstage for some upcoming shows. Guesting on her electric viper violin at the next few gigs and performing her own material as well, will be U.S.  violinist -  Cyndee Lee Rule .
 
Cyndee is a well known figure in the world of ambient space-rock and experimental electronic/progressive styles and we can think of no one better qualified to bring to life the string parts in Whimwises curious and quirky tunes . An enthusiastic and active performer, Cyndee has also worked with members from Gong, Hawkwind and The Ozric Tentacles and her latest album features a front cover design personally painted for her by Gongs Daevid Allen.
 
 -  Cyndee will also be playing her own sets before joining Whimwise onstage at most of these events so please do try and attend if possible, - as it's very rare that she's over here in the UK.
 
 
   As it stands the itinerary of dates that Cyndee's going to play with Whimwise goes like this...
 
 
Friday     Aug 28th          -     The Fawcett, 176 Fawcett Rd, Southsea, Portsmouth, PO4ODP.
 
Thurday   Sept 3rd          -     The Beehive,  55 Prospect Hill, Swindon, SN1 3JS .
 
Friday     Sept 11th         -      Bonn Garden Party, Nesselroder Str. 1653227 Bonn Germany
 
Saturday Sept 12th         -      Eich Kult Festival , Bingen, Rheinland-Pfalz , Germany.
 
 
                     
    Be there  -  get whimed out and get seriously bitten by Cyndees viper !!      



                                     Best wishes  from  Whimwise.



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Thursday, July 17, 2008 

Category: Music

The current issue of the nationally distributed UK magazine "Record Collector" is carrying a very positive review of the recent Whimwise set at Londons Astoria 2 (opening for Focus).

The mag' is on your newstand/shelves right now (July)  - W.H.Smiths, Borders etc etc .  - So if anyone wants to have a look at it, we're on page 116.

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Tuesday, December 04, 2007 

Hi

Easiest way for fans in Germany who would like to buy "Whimwise" CD:

 

ENTERPRISE Compact Disc Handelsgesellschaft mbH
Oststrasse 119
40210 Duesseldorf
Germany

 

 

cheers

Hans

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