Sunday afternoon delight at The Horns, Watford.
Get there nice and early, as our previous gig at this great venue was packed out!
Start time approx 4:30pm. Please see venue website for details.
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Putney
This is becoming a regular and favourite haunt of Stanley! Come and join the fun with all of those already in the know, at the Half Moon in Putney.
Start time approx 8pm. Please see venue website for ticket details.
Wokingham
A new one for Stanley. We’re very much looking forward to bringing an evening of Steely Dan tunes to the Wokingham Music Club. See ya there!
Start time approx 8pm. Please see venue website for ticket details.
Stanley goes on tour……..
…well, 3 gigs in a week – that’s just about a ‘tour’ isn’t it?
On Fri 21st Nov we will be driving West on Sunset (aka the M4) to the Wokingham Music Club. This is a new venue for us so we’re very much looking forward to meeting some new Dan-fans – and potential Stan-fans too we hope!
Sun 23rd Nov we’ll be driving East On Sunset…..ok, let’s not push this one any further….over to the riverside music mecca that is the Half Moon Putney. Always a great night at this famous venue, and we can’t wait to go back.
Then the following week on Sun 30th Nov, Stanley comes ‘home’ to the Horns in Watford. It has been quite a while since we played here and as this is our last gig of 2014 it’s bound to be a bit of party.
2014 has been a great year for Stanley Dee so far, so please do come along to one of our forthcoming gigs and join in the fun.
Yes….we’re gonna have a wingding!
Apsley
Back again to the cozy setting of the Oddfellows in Apsley for some Sunday afternoon shenanigans!
Start time approx. 4pm. Please see venue website for details.
Ascot
Looking forward to returning for our third visit of the year to Jagz in Ascot.
It’s a friendly club with a great atmosphere. Come along for a bit of Dining, Dancing, Dan-based shenanigans.
Please check venue’s website for ticket details.
The Joy of Sets
So, there we all were at rehearsal the other night for our forthcoming return to Jagz in Ascot (Fri 10 Oct, as if you needed reminding), and the tricky topic of what to put in the set-list inevitably came up. The more songs we add to the repertoire, the more challenging it becomes when deciding which ones to leave in, and which to leave out.
With Steely Dan not being particularly renowned for troubling the UK charts much over the years, it makes sense that we tend to always include the BIG SMASH HITS! at every gig (you know who you are…yes, I’m looking at you Rikki and friends) and therefore a certain percentage of the set does tend to pick itself. But the rest of it comes down to keeping a healthy balance of new tunes we’ve just added, a mix of tempos, trying to recall which ones we played the last time we were at a particular venue, ones we’ve not played for a while, and so it goes….
It usually kind of works out ok, but I would guess we all have some of our own personal favourites left out from time to time. However, this must be more of a soul-searching conundrum for Don and Walt before they embark on a new tour, as Dan-fans are generally a knowledgeable bunch and obviously will have great hopes of hearing their favourites given an airing. They don’t tour that often (well definitely not in the UK…..hello guys? we’re still here and waiting you know?!) so to wait several years to see ‘em and then they go and miss out ”fill-in-the-blank-as-personally-applicable” ….well that’s going to be disappointing isn’t it? Solution? Come and see Stanley Dee on a regular basis, and if we aren’t playing the ones you want to hear just request them for next time and we’ll do our best to oblige. Although apologies must go to the regular requester of ‘Show Biz Kids’……we will get there eventually, we promise!
In the meantime, check out the link below to see what Steely Dan have been wowing the crowds with on their recent trek across the USA. Some pretty fine tunes included I’m sure you’ll agree:
http://www.setlist.fm/setlists/steely-dan-7bd6be38.html
Hope to see some of you at Jagz, but ’til next time….Toodle-oo!
Farnham
We’re really pleased to have a date confirmed at the wonderful Farnham Maltings.
It’s only our second time here so please come along all you Surrey-based Dan fans – would be great to make some new friends and have a blast!
Start time approx 8pm. Please see venue website for ticket details.
Surrey – Part 2
So, after July’s trip to Redhill we are now very much looking forward to returning to Surrey again for our second gig at the Maltings in Farnham.
Should be a good gig as the venue has a lovely theatre space and we have some expert sound-techy type guys on hand to hopefully help make it a delight for the ears!
It’ll be great to see some familiar faces at the gig, and hopefully meet some new folks who are checking out Stanley Dee for the first time.
The date for your diary is Saturday 20 September - please take a look at the venue’s website for ticket details and start times etc.
See you there!
Ruislip
Great to be back at Tropic after a very enjoyable debut gig for us recently. And nice to be booked so far in advance…..it’s a busy ol’ place is Tropic!
***UPDATED** Start time is 9:30pm. Tickets on sale via the Tropic at Ruislip website.