‘Merry Christmas Everybody’ to ring out at the Memorial Hall

On Saturday 17 December the Marlborough College Memorial Hall will get Slyde…. To the sound of ‘Merry Christmas Everybody’, and probably ‘Skweeze Me Pleeze Me’, ‘Mama Weer All Crazee Now’ and ‘Cum On Feel The Noise’ and numerous other of the old – 1970s – hits by Slade (there were lots of them). Recreated by Slyde, the best known of the Slade tribute bands keeping everyone’s nostalgia rumbling around (or for those old enough anyway…).

Roger Grant, MantonFest impressario is bringing the sound of Slade to Marlborough to add a winter element to Marlborough’s biggest music party and to raise very welcome funds for for the Jubilee Centre’s Warm Space initiative, helping the elderly and those with special needs in Marlborough. Cost of tickets will be £15 so buy a ticket and help the Jubilee Centre help Marlborough.

Slyde, like Slade are from the West Midlands. So say ‘Slade’ with a Wolverhampton accent. Not in a ‘received pronunciation’ BBC style, or with a broad Marlborough lilt and it will come out as ‘Slyde’, so Slyde are bringing the sounds of Slade to life in more ways than one.

And back again (by popular demand) are Barrelhouse. Local blues band but boasting a national and international following, with their own catalogue of great blues tracks as well as favourite covers such as ‘Red Right Hand‘, originally by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds but best known recently from ‘Peaky Blinders’.

A great opportunity to visit the extensively refurbished Memorial Hall at Marlborough College and hear Slyde and Barrelhouse in a hall where the acoustics have been engineered to bring the best out of any performance.

Tickets at £15 are availble online from the MantonFest website, from Sound Knowledge (in Hughenden Yard), Elaine’s Travel (next door but one from Waitrose) or by e-mailing Roger Grant.