HALFMOON SAVED "IT'S THE STONED WOT WON IT" Claims a jubilant and typically modest Sir Mick

Brewery agrees Half a Moon's better than none Even as the Rollin Stoned were taking to the stage at the Halfmoon last Thursday for what had been feared and billed "Maybe the Last Time?" the good news was breaking to a mightily relieved audience and staff alike. It wasn't "All Over Now" and they were now present, not at a wake, but celebration. We are so pleased to be able to run this story, The Rollin Stoned do after all feature an 'Afterlife of Brian', so rather specialize in resurrections. However, not withstanding Sir Mick Jaguar's typically overstated boast, credit must be given in large part to others. So our congratulations and thanks to all those who took up the gauntlet and campaigned so tirelessly to save this as a live music venue. In particular we are indebted to Carrie Davies, who as booking manager back in the early days of the band's life, introduced it to the venue and helped establish ‘The Stoned’ as fixture and fitting. As much as anything, her return galvanised this campaign and now, in her new role as a partner in the venture, heralds what we hope will be a very bright and exiting future. And for all you disgruntled gastro pub fans, they will be introducing food, so every body wins..... just so long as they don't mix up the Set list and Menus,....."And what would madam like for Start me Ups"..... "And how would sir like his "Rock and Roll" (Posted - 10th, january 2010) Full press release

REMEMBERING DENNIS

The Rollin Stoned lost a good friend and invaluable support in Dennis Weymouth when he lost his battle with illness. See a tribute to Dennis by Charlie

COULD YOU BE
LOOKING AT LONDON'S
WORST NIGHTMAYOR ?

Splitting Hairs

   As Londoner's consider life beyond our Ken, we have learned of an intriguing scenario that is being mooted on the Capital's streets. It has been suggested that a similarity exists between London Mayor Boris Johnson and Rollin Stoned's guitarist Byron Jones and the fact that at no time have they ever been seen together in the same place is more than mere coincidence.
    To the febrile minded who are our bastions against the great conspiracies that threaten our daily lives, the evidence clearly stacks up to a hill of beans, but are they just fermenting hot air?
    Of course the two share common initials and as anyone who reads detective fiction well knows, people who adopt an alias invariably use their owns initials (not to mention that Boris Johnson is an anagram of 'Rob Johnson Is', possibly an allusion to being the reincarnation of the great blues legend. Ed) (Thanks for that Ed).
    Then there's the distinctive matching golden 'barnets', even if Boris does look like he's wearing Byron's hair inside out. Add to that you have the birds and the booze, a tendency to get in over their heads, not being very popular in Liverpool and of course both heavily influenced by the Blues. It is true that Byron has a well earned reputation as a dapper dandy whereas Boris would not look out of place in the pages of the Dandy, but then if you were having to dash in and out of telephone kiosks in order to perform quick change costumes at the drop of a crisis on the streets of London, you might look a tad less than well shevelled. (Posted - 27-05-08)

Well all Wright Mathew ....
.... and thank you kindly
Radio 2 presenter's tribute act

   As listeners to BBC Radio 2 on Friday, Jan 4th, would know, the singeing sensation Byron Jones may have been experiencing in his ears would not, for once, be the fault of the thermostat on his wig permer. Rather, he had become a hot topic of conversation on that evenings edition of Mathew Wright's ''Weekender" programme .
   During the broadcast Mathew recounted having been at a party held in honour of Seth Lakeman's father in 2007 and had seen a band called The Rollin Stoned (shucks does he mean Us? Ed) he went to say how much he enjoyed the show, in particular, the celestial re-incarnation of Brian Jones, it was, he said "..the highlight of my life" (This remark did lead Bill Wymandy to ponder "what must his lowlights have been like" but the that's Bill for you, a carbuncle on the face of misery).
   This generous endorsement could easily have escaped our attention entirely - obviously living in the 60's, we can only tune in to the Light Programme and on occasion, if the atmospherics are right, Radio Luxembourg, - were it not for a tip off from a friend of the band, Tim Ewbank , to whom we are much indebted. His journalists antennae for relevant material has no doubt been well developed in compiling facts for his many excellent celebrity biographies.
   As we kick off a New Year and the dishing out season for honours and gongs, it seems somehow appropriate for the band to receive this modest token of recognition and it will serve us fine until Her Majesty decide to pull her finger out on our behalf. (Posted - 17-01-08)

With apologies to the late Douglas Adams, the next update to the “Hitch Hiker’s Guide to The Galaxy” should surely come with the following revision to it’s entry for the third planet from the Sun. “Earth, mostly harmful, but at least gave the universe the ‘Les Paul’ thanks to an earthman of the same name deciding to nail some guitar strings on to an old log and plug it into the mains, so inventing Rock’n’Roll”
This allowed an awful lot of, otherwise useless, long haired young life-forms to create very loud noises and so attract vast crowds and accumulate a lot of money.... not to mention a lot of sleep over requests from attractive young girls...... irrespective of how unattractive they themselves might be. This makes Les Paul the most influential Earthman of the 20th century and cooler than an Ice Popsicle from one of the moons of Pluto.
In tribute to Les Paul – Musician, songwriter, inventor. June 9, 1915 – August 13, 2009

   So who better to answer their cry for help and climb on board than the The Rollin Stoned's very own timber shivering, ringed eared, rum snorting powder monkey, Keith Retched. Pictured here in danger of loosing his head to some rather shapely shipmates. (Posted - 17-01-08)

'A BIGGER BANG' On His Head

Retched's Medical Bulletin latest,"He's not out of the woods yet but is definitely out of his tree"...... Chief surgeon confirms as 'Gibbon's Decline Fall' once again threatens to disrupt a Rollin'Stoned tour after the 'Gibbon' in question, aka Keith Retched, came to grief while succeeding in demonstrating to a sceptical fellow band member that climbing a Coconut palm was as easy as falling off a log. (Posted - 12-06-06)

'THE TIMES' ON OUR SIDE

The odd mangled gear change apart, faultless was the verdict of Times rock reviewer David Sinclair "......... the period detail of the musical equipment; the overall sound, particularly of the older numbers, was probably more “authentic” than the Stones themselves would be inclined to muster at this stage" -
To read the full review go to REVIEWS  Times review  (Posted - 09-01-07)