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CMEAS has booking opportunities at many British clubs and Arts Council funded venues.
Pubs are the backbone of live music in Britain. Almost every British band of note started in the national pub circuit. CMEAS books and promotes gigs at some of the friendliest, busiest, best ale & food serving jewels of musical iniquity the Isles can offer

Started in 2004, CMEAS is partnering with several local school districts to provide interactive musical workshops with local schools. This program is set to be a significant part of our UK events.
In addition to pub, club, and workshop events, CMEAS has teamed up with a private record label based in Devon that does superb 24 track live recording at the Palladium Club. CMEAS offers a full show recording as part of the UK events.
If you are a band at home with a solid gig base and want to play abroad, there will probably be a bands abroad that want to play your gigs too. CMEAS can facilitate such international (or national) gig swaps.
Starting in 2005, CMEAS will be creating a video record of the tour so that bands have both a sound and visual record of their trip, and hopefully a work of art that they can use on return to their native countries.
Plans in the works include a recording and site seeing tour in Costa Rica, blues and roots festivals in Romania, a weekend trip to Rio de Janeiro, the International Film Festival in Prague, a tour of Dutch cities, a tour of French vineyard parties, and an island hopping tour of the US and UK Virgin Islands. Slide Show of UK Oct. 2006
FEATURED TOUR REVIEW: UK OCT. 2006
Big Baby Ernie Kalvin Koolidge Laura Younger Featured Review Article 2006 Tour Schedule
Click here for Big Baby Ernie's website
Click here for Kalvin Koolidge's website
Laura Younger's website
Blues Bunny - Independent Music Review
Links to Feedback from other Events:
The Morning After: Patriot MC, Crumlin S. Wales. Thanks Sootie!! Photo courtesy of Austin Murray

From: Jonathan Clancy
Sent: 26 October 2006 00:12
To: CMEAS
Subject: Thank You

Hey Ben,

what can I say buddy? Thank you so much for having us over and showing us around your beautiful country. It was the absolute pinnacle of my musical career. That is of course until we come back. I'm already going through musical withdrawl.

You have completely changed our band forever, and I can't thank you enough. I hope your gig went well last night. I wish I could have seen you guys play, so we'll have to set something like that up for next time. Anyway, keep in touch. And hopefully we can also set up a US east cost tour with BBE and some others.

talk to you soon.

Cheers,

Jonny [Bass player - Kalvin Koolidge]

From: Jonathan Clancy
Sent: 6 November 2006
To: CMEAS
Subject: Thank You

what's up Benny!

Just got back from Jersey with BBE. crazy night.

gGreat show, great after party. We were kicked out of our hotel around 7am for breaking into other rooms via jumping from balcony to balcony and getting in the back door. We would have been cool but Conner decided to attack Austin which caused quite a ruccus. the cops came, we ended up bribing our way out of it by paying the hotel $225.00.

Then we all slept at this girls house and had a BBQ later in the day. Those guys really know how to have a good time.

Anyway just wanted to check in. Hope all is going well out there. I've been looking into clubs we'd like to play for our next trip, and also want to get started on putting together that US east coast CMEAS tour. Can't wait to see you in august. Talk to you soon bud.

Jonny

From: Ernie DeLuise
Sent: 26 October 2006 21:03
To: Ben Ruth Subject: Cheers!

Dearest Ben,

I don't know where to start, but thanks so much for everything. You've given us all the time of our lives. I'm sad that we didn't get the chance for a proper goodbye. I'm no good at goodbyes anyway. We'll just have to pick up where we left off when next we meet. You've been successful at linking us and KK together. They'll be joining us on stage in a week or two in our home town. And they've invited us to play at one of their shows in NYC on the 25th of Nov. Which is great. I know that linking musicians from around the world, is part of CMEAS's mission statement, so it should make you happy to know that you've done what you've set out to do.

Thanks so much again and please be as frequently in touch as you possibly can.

Cheers!

Love, Your Friend for life,

Ernie [lead singer - Big Baby Ernie]

Uh yeah, I think that's how it happened.

It's starting to come back to me now. I remember something about food and cops and clumps of hair being ripped out of poor Austin's head. Klavin Koolidge kicked ass at McIntyre's Pub...for a minute there I thought I was back in the UK.

And we washed it all down with a Massive Pants Party. If only Ben were there in his obscenely tight gray underwear.

-Ernie

Cheers Ben, Thanks again for the tour. I also would like to team up with you for a tour bus race in the Dakar Rally.

I think you have the best chance of winning. I'll be your co-piolet.

love ya mate, Bryan "Schmoezie" Brosen

Laura Younger Performs at Riff's in Swindon (voted Britain's Best Music Pub 2005-6)
McAlpine Hotel, Isle of Arran, Scottish Highlands
Mr. Stephen Knight, landlord of the Bassett's Arms (the smallest bar in Wiltshire) with Laura and Big Baby Ernie's Manager, Austin
Back of the Minibus - to prove a couple of environmentally friendly points of information
Refuelling the Minibus at a local supermarket
Our Retreat in the Country
Bishap Methodist Church, Blackpool where 7 schools met for workshop
The Last Supper: The Aspinall Arms, Mitton, Whalley, England. Best Lamb Henry in the Land!
Photos coutesy of Austin Murray
Gandhi's UK Tour, Nov. 2006 (pix/vid pending)
Tour in East Anglia UK, 2006
Wabash Cannonball UK Tour Sept. 2006 (pix pending)
Holland Tour June 2006 (over 2500 pix and several videos pending!)
Click here for movie clip of CMEAS 2005 UK Oct. Tour
UK Oct. Tour 2004
 
 

 

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