Twisted Wheel apologies, The 12 Bar, in Swindon gig tonight (30/4/11)  has been cancelled due to ill health, the gig will be rescheduled - tickets will still be valid for rescheduled gig

 or can be refunded

Southampton Soul Cellar gig photos 23/4/11

From the quiet backwater of Hemel Hempstead, the lads made their way down to the southcoast for their next gig over the Easter weekend, at the Soul Cellar in Southampton which is just a stones throw away from the Guildhall where they played supporting The Enemy a couple of years ago. A lot has changed since then.

The sun was beaming down, and the attraction of the sea was too strong for some people..... a real holiday atmosphere, with seaweed between the toes, a spot of footie and a couple of St Georges (without a dragon in sight) complete with chain mail turned up at the gig!

With 12 Dirty Bullets supporting, you just knew it was gonna be a belter.

10.30pm and Twisted Wheel took to the stage and the venue turned into a (good natured) riot. 'Shes A Weapon',  'Lucy The Castle', 'One Night on the Street' and all the old classics went down a storm. Newies 'New Boy' and 'UK Blues' had the crowd baying for more. People dancin, on each others shoulders and trying to get Jonny to shake their hands. The lads performed a rip roaring set, 50 mins long & the crowd loved every second of it. Undoubtedly, Twisted Wheel WILL return.

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Twisted Wheel interview with Dunfermline Press 11/04/11

Twisted Wheel rocking and rolling over chart 'dross'

LIAM Gallagher says they are a "breath of fresh air" and Paul Weller is also a big fan, attending their gigs and asking them to play support.

Twisted Wheel are the band in question and singer Jonny Brown has been telling the Press that they are ready to take on the "dross" in the charts and on the radiowaves with their new album.

The Oldham trio - who supported Oasis in front of a 70,000 crowd at Heaton Park in 2009 - are coming PJs in Dunfermline next month and when we spoke to Jonny earlier this week he had just returned home from a jaunt north to play the Liquid Rooms, Edinburgh.

"It's always good for us in Scotland. We seem to do down well when we play there. Get a good crowd. It was our first gig for about three or four months so I'll tell you what, it took it out of me.
"It's so much energy you've got to put into it, it's so fast and furious."
However, Jonny wasn't taking things easy on getting home. He said, "I'm smashing a house to bits at the minute, renovating it in my spare time."

The band are working on a new album due out later in the summer and Jonny's also looking forward to getting out on the road.
"I can't wait. We played Dunfermline before, a couple of years back didn't we?

We're going to rock out. It's about time we got some proper rock n roll back again.

"You get bands like The Vaccines coming along and they say this is punk but that's just pop music. Eventually rock and roll will break through again. It's bound to and our second album will be at the front of it.

"The album will be out about August. We've got all the songs for it but there may be more added. We're still writing songs, still recording demos and experimenting and in late May we'll go in and record the album. It sounds sh** hot man. Full-blown punk rock and roll music."

What was it like to have the backing of rock and roll giants like Weller and Gallagher?
"Yeah, well any band, any band in the world would be privileged to hear a good word from people like that.
"We just appreciate the fact they actually listen to us. There's so many bands that get mentioned to them so the fact they listen to us and they're into it means a lot.
"And then beyond that, supporting them and playing with them is just an honour.
"Also it's great because supporting them they get to play to their crowd, you play to new people with your new rock and roll music so it's works well both ways, I think.

The band have also proved a big hit in Japan. "They're mad for it over there. I think they're dying for some hard core punk rock and roll music just the same as in Scotland or England. They want some furious rock and roll."

Jonny runs through some of the music that influenced him as a youngster. "The Clash, The Jam, even bands like the Small Faces, The Faces, I loved The Animals, Chuck Berry, Johnny Cash, obviously Oasis, Stone Roses, Joy Division, The Undertones, The Buzzcocks.
"I don't get bored with those bands. I listen to those bands every single day. I never get bored with them and I never will either."
It's obvious that the music has to have a message for Jonny.
"Yeah definitely. There's too many songs that are just nonsense. I put the radio on and it's just nonsense.
"It's like people are just writing little jingles. They hope it'll stick in someone's head and they'll make a song out of it.
"It's good to have catchy songs but nobody's thinking and there's no meaning with these bands around today.
"It's just dross. No-one's saying anything, no-one means it, no-one's singing from their heart, no-one's passionate. It's just half-hearted f***** money making s****.
"But you know what I'm not bothered me. I'll just keep writing songs and doing gigs.
"I know that we've got a fan base and no matter how many people are into the populist, popular music there will also be people looking for the stuff we're doing. That keeps us going and we'll keep going and going and eventually we'll break through."

Link to dunfermlinepress.com - Twisted Wheel interview by Gary Fitzpatrick