Au Revoir Richard, thanks for the memories!

BarraCoodas' website to popular!!!

Dan Waters becomes a BarraCooda!

One man on the job!!!!

Richard and Tony separate - latest news

Welly wins award in guitar competiton

Mansion House gig cancelled

Richard Clarke's lottery windfall!!!

Bryan Adams u-turn scandal!!!!

Welly ego malfunction!!!

Tony and Richard - the true story!!

List of places we're playing in 2008

RICHARD CLARKE

After seriously injuring his arm in an accident at work, Richard has reluctantly had to uqit the band, as he feels his arm is not up to the stress of playing live regularly. The band will miss him and wish him all the best in the future.

WEBSITE OFFLINE

Apologies to anyone trying to get onto our website at the end of last month, the problem we had was that we had nearly 4,000 visitors last month, which exceeded our bandwidth and caused the site to crash, sorry!

DAN JOINS THE BAND

Due to Richard's injury we now have a new bass player, and we are delighted to welcome former Full Tilt Boogie bassman Dan Waters to the fold. He's thrown away his glittery shirt, and is currently learning to fart horribly and generally become down-market enough to fit in with the rest of the band.

RICHARD INJURES HAND
Our bass player Richard has hurt his hand and will be unable to play for several weeks, our former bass player Scott Coleman has agreed to stand in for Richard in spite of the fact that he hates us!

PEN AND QUILL, TAUNTON

Apologies to the Pen and Quill for being unable to play there due to Richard's accident.

RICHARD AND TONY SPLIT UP

Bassist Richard Clarke and drummer Tony Benwell are no longer a couple, this is due to Richard moving in with Welly. Welly has been dieting recently and Richard has found his newly-toned and trim shape just too hard to resist..

NEW CD ON THE WAY

We've booked studio time in September, so the new CD will hopefully be out just after that.

SIINNERS CLOSES

Sadly, Skinners in Newquay has closed, we have no idea when or if it will re=open, but we hope to be back if it does, thanks to everyone who has seen us there in the past, and if anyone knows any alternative places we can play in the area, please get in touch and tell us!

c.ONE MAN ON THE JOB!

Tony, our drummer was hospitalised last week, due to an embarrassing medical condition, and the band were honoured with the presence of Somerset rock legends Four Men On The Job's drummer John Innes, who had taken a break from his composting job, to stand in for us.thanks to him, and his entourage of adoring fans.

ROYAL STANDARD, Shaldon

Now under new and very competent management, live music is still on, some new dates for us on the calendar page.

WELLY WINS POLL

Shaun Kelly, our lead guitarist and choreographer was recently voted the south-west's top left-handed specky guitar player over 40 (Ivybridge and Ermington category), in a little-known and completely fictional competition. We now await the results of the Southway cross-dressing midget drumming awards with great excitement.

THE ST GEORGE, UFFCULME

The BarraCoodas have managed to blag their way into a new venue. We;re playing the St George in Uffculme on Saturday May 5th, so it's on with the satnav and try to find it, hope some other people can as well!

CLARKE/BENWELL SPLIT - THE TRUE STORY

Richard and Tony's fairytale romance has hit a rocky patch after the couple had a blazing, booze-fuelled row over Ton'y's infatuation with Mike from El-Cojones. Richard's failure to deal with his jealousy issues and Tony;s obvious preference for the more full-figured man could spell disaster for the future of their relationship, and is a worrying turn of events for Mike as well, as he has only rarely shown any interest in same-sex relationships!

DECEMBER DRUMMING CRISIS UPDATE

We played two gigs this week without Tony, we were deeply privileged and honoured to have Exeter-based drumming legend and Jesus lookalike Gary Evans playing with us. On a serious note we'd like to thank him, his agent, and his backroom staff, and look forward to playing with him in the future. Top man!

RICHARD WINS THE LOTTERY!

Richard Clarke has won an obscene amount of money on the Lithuanian State Lottery, but will continue in the band. Together with Tony, Richard is planning to spend some of his win on decorating their recently-purchased rural lovenest. Richard has decided to waive his right to anonimity and when asked if he was concerned about begging letters and stalking, Richard said he intended to carry on doing both.

CLARKE/BENWELL SENSATION!!!!

In response to many months of speculation amongst fans of The BarraCoodas, drummer Tony Benwell and bass player Richard Clarke wish it to be known that they have been a couple for the last year. The rest of the band accept the situation, and wish thwm along and happy future together.

Tony and Richard will not be suggesting that the band learns any Barbra Streisand records, or become a Communards tribute act, and their domestic arrangements will make no difference whatsoever to the BarraCoodas, probably.

BRYAN ADAMS

In a remarkable show of hypocrisy, and finally proving that they have no artistic integrity whatsoever, the band have decided to bow to audience pressure and learn bloody 'Summer of 69'. We would like to make it clear that this in no way means we have changed our minds about Bryan bastard Adams, or his manky skin and girly rock, and we will only play it when asked, and will look completely miserable while doing it.

This is being done to prove we love you all, even to the point of losing any remains of street-cred we had left, but while we are reluctantly giving way on this point, there is no way on earth we will ever learn anything by Bon Jovi or Europe, so don't even ask.

THE LONDON INN< SOUTH BRENT

South Brent is getting a first visit from The BarraCoodas on October 14th, when we play at The London Inn. Welly has just signed for South Brent's football team (my God they must be desperate), so in a desperate attempt to make up for his pathetic performance on the pitch, he is trying to impress his new-found mates with his guitar playing, so if you're there pretend he's good just for one night!

KINGS ARMS, KINGSTEIGNTON

Sorry to anyone hoping to see us at The Kings Arms in Kingsteignton on 16th June, but we had to cancel the gig. Tony our ageing drummer had a tumble while trying to prove he's young enough to play football and split his head open, losing anything up to one brain cell in the process. He also hurt his ribs and has numerous cuts, bruises and other really painful stuff (he says). Fortunately he's only a drummer, so head injuries are not a particular drawback, and he'll be back in the seat before you know it, which is just as well as we can't find anyone else stupid enough to play with us.

WELLY T-SHIRT NOW AVAILBALE

Finally proving that he has completely lost all touch with reality Shaun Kelly has convinced himself that there is a demand for his own range of merchandise. The first item in this range is a black T-shirt with a heavily-airbrushed picture of Welly on it, above the picture is thte word 'Legend'. Shaun is anticipating huge demand, so get your order in quick, it's a limited edition!! Oh God, make him stop!!!

If the above item goes well, we also have plans to introduce other items which will include Richard Clark's own range of personalised Y-fronts (one size fits all, probably fits 2-3 people), Shaun Benwell's range of personally-designed shell-suits in a range of pastel colours, and the Tony Benwell signature platform boot, (minimum 6in elevation).

VENUES CONFIRMED FOR 2007

Venues which have confirmed bookings for the band in 2008 so far are:

The Brass Monkey, Teignmouth

The Rock Gardens, WSM

The Bridge on Wool, Wadebridge

The Village Inn, Exwick

The Vintage, Wellington

The Pen and Quill, Taunton

The Mansion House, Bridgwater

The Carlyon Arms, St Austell

The New Quay Inn, Teignmouth

The Crawford, Exeter

The Globe, Exeter

The Ship Inn, Crediton

The Lansdowne, Dawlish

The Kings Arms, Kingsteignton

The Royal Standard, Shaldon

The Phoenix, Chard

The Longbrooke, Exeter

The Ferry Boat, Shaldon

NEWCD

We're going to be recording a CD in the next couple of months, e-mail us if there's anything you think we should record for it. Songs we will definitely be putting on it are Rockin In The Free World, Stay With Me, God Save The Queen, Let There Be Rock, and many other little gems.

COMPETITION TIME

Due to the almost total failure of last month's competition, there isn't one this month, but it will be back bigger and better next year, if we can be assed to think of one.

COFFEE AFTER 11pm

As you are probably aware by now, you can't technically buy a coffee after 11pm at many garages. We have discovered many garages don't switch off the machines, so if you plead ignorance and pour one anyway, you still get it, also most places are reluctant to put it through the till, so you get it free!!!!! Tony is beside himself with joy, and you didn't hear it here!!!.

Good luck, thanks for your support, remember it's little people like you who make it all worthwhile