Local favourite Harveys Best, plus Long Blonde and Harveys Knots of May - a light 3% Mild - low in strength but strong in flavour!  Long Blonde is a light, golden Ale from the Long Man brewery, light and refreshing (ideal for these hot balmy Summer evenings.....) with a clean bitterness -  3.8%.

Review from The Sussex Express, Friday April 5 2013. Review by James Coles.

Kast Off Kinks still class act after 20 years together

The Kast Off Kinks, Lewes Con Club, Friday, March 22

They may be self-proclaimed ‘kast offs’ but the surviving members of The Kinks, who played Lewes Constitutional Club last week, proved themselves to be anything but.

Keeping the sounds of one of the greatest British bands of the 1960s alive, the band of exiles – who themselves have been together for nearly 20 years – regularly play gigs around Europe and never miss the The Kinks’ annual fan club meeting, which has raised thousands of pounds for Leukaemia Research over the years.

A jam packed Lewes Con Club saw an enthusiastic crowd give the band a great welcome, and the receptive foursome on stage rolled back the years for a great night’s entertainment.

Apart from being able to see original stickman Mick Avory behind the drums, the Lewes show had the added bonus of John Dalton on bass.

John, who retired a few years ago (a kast off kast off, so to speak), first played with The Kinks in 1966 before replacing original bassist Pete Quaife in 1969.

Jim Rodford, who actually replaced Dalton in The Kinks, is the usually bass player in The Kast Offs but was unavailable for the Lewes show – so John stepped in.

A born showman, John’s interaction with the crowd was as effortless as his playing.

The only member of the band not to have been a Kink is frontman Dave Clarke, who has a rock ‘n’ roll pedigree of his own having been the vocalist in Noel Redding’s band after the legendary bass player left The Jimi Hendrix Experience.

Completing the line-up is keyboard player and vocalist Ian Gibbons, who played with The Kinks from the late Seventies through to the band’s demise in 1996.

The setlist on the night was made up of both classic hits and album tracks; the gig had something for the casual fan right up to the biggest of Kinks anoraks.

Still a class act and a band not to miss next time they’re in Sussex.

www.sussexexpress.co.uk

In case you've been away on the Moon and didn't hear the other day, the rather well-known Mumford & Sons are planning to hit the road in North America and the UK this summer, and they're bringing some of their famous friends with them AND THEY'RE COMING TO LEWES!

The band has just announced (on 5/2/2013) the details of their 2013 edition of the "Gentlemen of the Road Stopovers" tour, which is essentially a travelling festival.

The outdoor events will take place in "carefully selected and unique" locations across the U.S. and Canada, with one UK stop thrown in for good measure. This year's stops are...

Simcoe, Ontario, CA
Troy, Ohio, USA
Guthrie, Oklahoma, USA
St. Augustine, Florida, USA
Convent Field, Lewes, UK

The dates will feature such acclaimed acts as Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, The Alabama Shakes, The Vaccines and Vampire Weekend.

The line-up for Lewes is...

July 19th - Vampire Weekend
July 20th - Mumford & Sons

with the following guests to join over the weekend: The Vaccines, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, Mystery Jets, Johnny Flynn & The Sussex Wit, Very Best Sound System plus more to be announced.

Tickets went on sale today (8/2/2013) and are probably already sold out but there may be some avialable at the Union Music Store in Lewes next week. See www.gentlemenoftheroad.com or www.unionmusicstore.com for more info.

As you can see, a good time was had by all...

If you weren't there, you missed a good one!

After our FIRST FREE FRIDAY with Voodoo Room most FRIDAY gigs continue to be FREE so tell the world and bring your friends (non-members will be asked to sign-in at the door). 

What's in it for Con Club members?

A. Our new Members Discount Scheme!

Read all about the scheme by clicking here.

MEMBERS DISCOUNT SCHEME LAUNCHED -

COME AND COLLECT YOUR CARD ITS READY AND WAITING FOR YOU!

Read all about the scheme by clicking here.

The new membership year started on 24th June 2012 so if you're thinking of becoming a member of the club, now is the time to apply. The membership rates remain the same as last year:

New Members under 65 the fee is £40 in total (£15 one-off registration fee + £25 subscription).

New Members aged 65 or over the fee is £25.

Download your form by clicking on the 'Find out how to become a member' button. 

Click on above 'Find out how to become a member' button to download forms and fee details

The deadline for renewals was 8pm (closing time) Sunday 8th July 2012.

New Members can apply right now, their application will go before the next monthly Committee meeting on the first Wednesday of every month and their membership will start from the beginning of the new membership year on 24th June 2012.

We've recently introduced a new system to handle our weekly 'What's On' mailings. Its main benefits are that it's more informative, has pictures and is easier for us to manage.

If you click on the posters you'll see the full size versions and if you click on the event titles you'll be taken to the web site to see the full event details. And for those of you who can't view graphics in your emails there's even a link at the top of each email which you can click to view it in your browser.

We're also working hard to optimise our mailing list, correcting typos, weeding out duplicates, deleting non-existent addresses and so on. Every email contains a link to unsubscribe from our list, so if you don't want to recieve any more mailings from us, just click that link and you won't be bothered again. And if you do that but change your mind (as we hope you would), you can always re-subscribe using the simple facility on the web site's home page.

Hope you like it!

We have introduced a ticket reservation system for events that may be over-subscribed. The first of these is Mark Chadwick of the Levellers' gig on 14th October which promises to be a sell-out. You can ask for a number of tickets to be reserved for you and they will be held on the door until 9 pm on the evening of the event. Members do not need to reserve tickets because our commitment is that members will always be admitted.