A
great night was had by all at our last gig on 26th December
at The Railway Hotel, Evesham.
Playing some of our favourites and throwing in
some new tunes and tracks for good measure, the night
went down neatly with all concerned, and we had a great
time too!
What a night it was for all of you with even the slightest
thought of getting onto that dance floor - and we love
it when you do!
Tony, our drummer, helped us get right to the centre of
your christmas spirits and soon the floor was packed out
with, lets face it, quite "lively" boogying!
Now we know what it takes to get you ALL up there - we're
going to do it again!
Check out our up and coming gig dates for another boogying
session with some true rock'n'roll classics to get those
feet onto the dance floor!
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January 31st Torque play thei debut gig. Billed locally
as one of the most anticipated gigs in years, the band plays
to a sell out crowd in the Railway Hotel, Evesham, and breaks
various unofficial records! Bussiest, loudest, most professional,
fun, enigmatic show they've seen in a long time.
Spotted by the owner of a new recording studio and asked after
the show to come in and be ginea pigs for recordinng. The result
- a quality demo CD for very little cash!
A
2 month break follows due to holidays, illnesses and the
like giving the lads valuable time to polish the show
anb go out and about finding venues and falling upon some
very useful contacts in unusual places! Least of all a
Mr Gary Charman.
Gary's car was in for repairs at the garage (where Torque
was born)! and the conversation turned to music.... This
was unheard of! Gary is the frontman for Classic Rock
UK, and extremely talented tribute band, and as luck would
have it needed a band to play an opening slot for them
at Marr's Bar, Worcester. Torque win over the engineer
at sound check and a storming one hour set ensues leaving
the crowd baying for more! - They will be back!
Various gigs come and go with ever growing confidence,
the boys were enjoying this - then May 29th arrives.
The show was going to be the biggest yet, plugged the
previous month by AC/DC tribute Hells Bells, Torque arrive
at Stanton Village Club with big plans - a live recording!
A big sound set up was brought in by Gary Charman who
had also volunteered to do the sound as he was "very
impressed with what you guys have done in such a short
space of time" - a great bloke and true friend of
the band by now.
The show blisters at full pace from start to finish leaving
the sell out crowd ellated. Comments from people afterwards...
"Why haven't you played here before?"
"You lot know what you're up, to don't you
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"Not many bands can pull off songs like those
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The recording turned out okay too!
Months pass and the gigs roll in thick and fast,
including a trip to Newcastle Under Lyme! This
was another big show, the TA base.
One of their senior staff was retiring and the
band was booked by a friend of Toby's who happened
to be based there "yes they want a rock band"
were the words.
As the band arrive they are treated as VIPs. Nothing
they ask for is too much trouble - although when
asked what the large sheet of MDF was centre stage
for, the response was "if you jump around
too much you'll find out!" - Still, it was
a great show.
That's pretty much it. There's been loads of gigs
all over the place since and a new update of the
highs (and lows) will be added soon along with
plans for the future and anything else we can
think of.
See you soon, keep an eye out for pictures that
are on the way, they'll show Torque in a true
light!
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