Welcome to alt. tickets

  

The Dickies

Brudenell Social Club, Leeds

Saturday 5th August 2023 | Doors at 19:30, Expected finish time: 22:30

Standing

£20.55

inc. booking fee & facility fee

£18.00 face value

Select tickets to display delivery option(s) Tickets Selected

Ticket Total £0.00

You can buy a maximum of 10 tickets for this event

Event Information

Bio:


The Dickies are a delightfully zany and irreverent comedic punk band from Los Angeles, California. The group first formed in the San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles in 1977. The original band members were: Leonard Graves Phillips (lead vocals), Stan Lee (guitar), Bob Davis (guitar/keyboards/saxophone), Bill Remar (bass), and Carlos Cabellero (drums). The Dickies are distinguished by their winningly campy and goofy sense of playful good humour that's a total radical departure from the often snotty and sarcastic humour of your average punk band. They hold the distinction of being the first California punk group to both appear on network television (they pop up as themselves on an episode of the TV comedy series "CPO Sharkey") and be signed to a major record label. Besides such amusingly nutty original songs as "Hideous," "Waterslide," "Manny, Moe and Jack," "You Drive Me Ape (You Big Gorilla)," "Attack of the Mole Men," and "(I'm Stuck in a Pagoda With) Tricia Toyota," the Dickies have done insanely inspired covers of other artists' songs that include Black Sabbath's "Paranoid," "Nights in White Satin" by the Moody Blues (this particular cover was a Top 40 hit on the UK pop charts in 1979), Barry McGuire's "Eve of Destruction," and "Nobody But Me" by the Human Beinz. The band scored a Top 10 British radio hit in 1979 with their wacky rendition of the 70's Saturday morning cartoon TV series theme tune "Banana Splits (Tra La La Song)." Alas, the group has endured their fair share of hardships throughout the years: Bob Davis committed suicide after breaking up with his girlfriend in June, 1981 while replacement drummer Jonathan Melvoin died of a heroin overdose on July 12, 1996 in New York City. The group did the marvellously madcap theme songs for the movies "Killer Klowns from Outer Space" and "The Spirit of '76." The Dickies are still touring and performing on stage to this very day, although only Leonard Graves Phillips and Stan Lee remain from the original line-up.


Venue Address:

Brudenell Social Club
33 Queens Road
Leeds
LS6 1NY


Venue Information:

The Brudenell is a few doors down from the Royal Park Pub, which is situated on the cross roads of Queens Road and Royal Park Road.

Disability information:

Disabled Info:Please contact the venue for further information on 0113 275 2411

Age restriction: 14+ accompanied with an adult or 16+ without an adult

2023-08-05 19:30:00 2023-08-05 22:30:00 Europe/London The Dickies The Dickies at Brudenell Social Club - Event added by alt. tickets http://www.alttickets.com Brudenell Social Club, Leeds, alt. tickets customerenquiries@alttickets.com

Get the latest gigs and events straight to your inbox

Sign up