************************************ * - C L E E S H A Y U P D A T E - * ************************************ Newsletter #1 Date unknown... - - - - - - - - - - INSIDE THIS NEWSLETTER... Tom - Chris - Fears grow over smaller gear not going to plan. Getting to the foot of the problem Jeff - Tat - Looks like real drums are here to stay. Same coloured socks? Just not an option. - - - - - - - - - - JEFF'S DRUMS ARE HERE TO STAY? Looks like Jeff the drummer has finally come to terms with having real drums for good after repeatedly trying out new and fangelled options on the electronic front. Things came to a head when drums came through headsets instead of speakers on tour in Rhyl North Wales on the 'We like big gear' tour. Tat who was spaced out by the whole damn thing was rushed to a nearby hospital where he was detained for treatment to his head but nothing was found to be amiss, he later confessed to having been spaced out for over eleven years. Earlier drum machines have also had their problems with bass drums coming through the cymbal port, and the snare drum through the bass drum port.Requests from other musicians to play a solo on the electronic drums have been met with "... a do what you bleeding like with `em mate!", attitude by drummer Jeff. Looks like modern drums are a thing of the past...or are they? Convincing talk from other bands may fuel more speculation but for now its just plain old real drums. "You can`t beat them", says Tat. Funny I thought that was the whole idea of them! Tour dates are to be announced early in the spring.and will be published with more news about CLEESHAY. - - - - - - - - - - DISTURBING NEWS... Fears are now growing that Tom our bass player has been giving hints that the big gear is here to stay despite rifts internally on who has to carry the monsters in and out of venues.Tom insists that it cannot be easily replaced by smaller gear producing the same quality of sound. This is not a view shared by guitarist Tat. The suggestion of everybody going through one Vox-AC30 was thrown out of negotiations last week and are not likely to return at the next or any other meeting. Although Tom has pulled muscles in the past this has not got him to change his mind in getting smaller gear. An idea put forward by Chris, the keyboard player, to convert two zimmer frames by welding them together with a variable speed motor on the back could be considered an option and could be in service within two weeks with the help of Jeff the welding drummer boy. Thoughts of blending five guitars into one also hit the meeting but thats another story. - - - - - - - - - - POWER FAILURE - WHO DO WE BLAME? Lynch mobs were waiting for the bingo caller to come out of the club in which Cleeshay were topping the bill last weekend when a dodgy wall plug crashed out and blew the power out in the middle of the groups` act. Members of the band were livid as most of the gear is electric and could have caused big problems. Tat a self made drummer sat in and did a twenty second solo on Jeff's drums which sent the crowd into a frenzy with many shouting, 'more.. more.. more!' All this for the same fee - What a show! However an interview with Tat later revealed that he was walking past the drum kit to see what was going on and tripped over a loose cable thus falling into the drum kit, the resulting noise being mistaken for a drum solo. While Tat was working out front, the lads behind the scenes were frantically trying to get served at the bar, oh! and trying to find the problem, which turned out to be the bingo machine plug. The fault was rectified and the lads were soon back in action. - - - - - - - - - - NEW MATERIAL FROM CHARTS? Lots of the songs come from the charts and lots are from old charts we try to mix it the best we can says Jeff and the boys are relearning some old stuff for there forth coming tour. Will this be the year that Cleeshay make it to the top of the rock`n`roll mountain? Recent poles from the public say yes, but the lads have been here before many times. - - - - - - - - - - TRAVEL SEEMS GOOD SO WHY HANGE IT! Concerns about the travel home Cleeshay use have been scuffled by the group stating that their travel home is great. Plenty of seating is at hand and where else can you get salt and vinegar at two o`clock in the morning? The highly disguised motor home is just an ordinary builders van to Joe Public but inside its a TARDIS. - - - - - - - - - - TAT YOU SOXY DEVIL... Nothing will sway Tat to abolish his trademark of wearing odd socks on stage and recent attempts by the bass player also failed at a Liverpool venue (actualy The Adelphi Hotel) where he was told not to be too visual on stage with his odd socks as it may upset the clientele. So completely against his nature, Tat did have shoes on but underneath he had the odd socks on. Nobody detected the odd socks except when he went into 'Twisting the Night Away' and started strutting his stuff, then, they became visable but nothing was said. On other occasions girls have been trying to rip them off (Tats` socks that is) and sometimes succeeded only to be stopped at the door by his wife with a threatening 'Give 'em back or I’ll make you wash `em!' 'Don`t under estimate me or the wife mate!' That was Tats message to many of his fans trying to get a piece of him. Defiant members of the group also stressed that they would give the same treatment in the same situation. Tom the bass player once had his cowboy hat wrenched off his head in the middle of a number, this left him fuming and his hair a complete mess. The calling for super glue to be used in future was an option but not really viable. Tom`s statement after the show was 'I know I`ve superglued my false tooth after someone tried to take it home but I`m not, I repeat, I am not going to superglue my hat on!' Jeff lost some sticks once but they were thrown back at the force he lost them. A spokesman for the group commented 'It`s about time these girls realised that the lads are not just sex objects but also serious musicians!' - - - - - - - - - - KEYBOARD PLAYERS HAVE BIG FEET? 'Lots of people have huge feet or is it just keyboard players? Ask Tat...', said Chris, on keys. Many feuds have blown up on stage after wires have been dislodged and clean pulled out of their sockets after Chris has shuffeld about. 'If I could tie them around his neck I would, but it would only make things worse and anyway he`s a good musician...', stated Tat and continued to say 'I once found a pair of those giant clown joke shoes in a dressing room and I was having a laugh about them but they turned out to be Chris’s. I could not believe it at the time,but he told me that he never falls over and he doesn`t need skis when on the piste.' I suppose it could also be said that he never falls over when he`s on the piiiss!!! - - - - - - - - - -