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Couldn't get tickets for Glastonbury? Well, never fear, it's nearly time for.......BLOKESTOCK!! The smallest festival on the planet!! Just two artistes, but pure class, so you don't have to sit through all the old crap you've also had to pay to to see because the promoter's shoved 'em on the bill before the main acts you've paid your money!! Laydeeez & gen'lemen, for your delectation. BLOKESTOCK features JACKIE LEVEN and MICHAEL WESTON-KING and a host of...well, err.. no-one else actually... OF COURSE you already know about 'em, but here's some information anyway... MICHAEL WESTON KING.................. Between the early early 80’s and 1991 Michael Weston King recorded two singles and one album for Probe Records as a solo artiste, and two albums and two singles for BMG, with the country rock band Gary Hall and The Stormkeepers, with whom he toured for four years. In 1991 Michael formed The Good Sons, a fine Alt. Country band whose debut album, 'Singing The Glory Down' featured a guest appearance by Townes Van Zandt on Michael’s song “Riding On The Range”. Townes later cut his own version of the song with Nashville bluegrass band The Calvins. In 1999 Michael’s his debut solo album, 'God Shaped Hole'. was released and that year he toured extensively, opening for Ron Sexsmith, Steve Forbert and Nick Cave, followed by tours in 2000 (and 2005 ) with former Byrd / Flying Burrito Brother Chris Hillman, whilst 2001 saw him touring with Jackie Leven and Andy White on 'An Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman' tour. After Jackie Leven produced Michael’s album ‘A Decent Man’ (guests included former Icicle Works front man, Ian McNabb), it seemed logical to form The Decent Men, (which included Jackie), and in 2004 the band appeared at Glastonbury Festival. Michael ‘s last two albums, “A New Kind Of Loneliness” and the new release “Crawling Through The U.S.A’ have both deservedly received rave reviews. JACKIE LEVEN..... Jackie Leven made his first album 'Control', in the late 1960s under the pseudonym John St Field . Jackie formed Doll By Doll in 1978. A unique and powerful live act, the band released four albums between 1979 and 1982, blending LSD visions, folk, blues, Celtic, psychedelic and punk influences, with Jackie as main songwriter. After Doll by Doll disintegrated in 1983, Jackie embarked on his solo career, but a vicious and unprovoked assault in the street during the recording of his first solo album in 1984 left him unable to speak for nearly two years, and he slid into heroin addiction. Despite this, he managed to collaborate with fellow ex-Doll by Dolls Joe Shaw and David Macintosh plus ex Sex Pistol Glen Matlock to release the single "Big Tears" under the name "Concrete Bulletproof Invisible". The record was a Melody Maker single of the week in 1988. Jackie eventually cured himself of his addiction and in 1994 his solo career started in earnest with the release of the album 'The Mystery of Love is Greater than the Mystery of Death', which earned much critical praise. Since then he has been extremely prolific, releasing another 15 official albums, including a joint album with crime writer Ian Rankin (“Rebus” etc.) 'Jackie Leven Said', featuring the keyboards of Michael Cosgrave. BLOKESTOCK is at The R.M.A. Tavern, Cromwell Road, Eastney on Tuesday 9th June 2009 - Doors 8 pm Tickets are just £8 - blimey, compare THAT to a Glastonbury ticket!!!! You can pay on the door, get your tickets in advance from The R.M.A. Tavern, or Saraband in Goldsmith Avenue, Southsea (next to the petrol station), or via our website www.barkingspider.abelgratis.com, so need to search e-bay for a dodgy ticket tout..... The Barking Spider will be there - all the way from Ireland, arriving the day of the BLOKESTOCK Festival and back next day! How could The Barking Spider miss a Festival of the magnitude of BLOKESTOCK??? See you! (Jimmy...)