Sound Advice: An evening with the Candy Runts (From East London and West Essex Guardian Series)

Sound Advice: An evening with the Candy Runts

10:44am Tuesday 1st March 2011

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HEAVY rock act The Candy Runts headline the Standard Music Venue this Thursday (March 3).

The five piece, who have been building up a loyal fanbase of young headbangers in recent months, will be supported by the band GlamRize plus other acts TBC.

Entry to the gig is £6, or £5 with a band flyer.

Doors open at the venue, in Blackhorse Lane, Walthamstow, at around 8.30pm.

Self-explanatory tribute act Guns 2 Roses play the Standard on Friday (March 4). It costs £9 and doors are from eight.

Then on Saturday (March 5) Pink Floyd Dimension take to the stage. Entry is also £9 and doors open at 8pm.

Intriguing folk group Potiphars Apprentice play a special guest night at Waltham Abbey Folk Club on Monday (March 7).

The band are inspired by the celebrated English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, who sought out and recorded more than 100 traditional folk songs in Essex and the surrounding regions. The PAs aim to revive such songs and bring them back to the public.

The show, at the Royal British Legion HQ in Brooker Road, starts at 8.30pm and costs £5 to attend.

The Water Tower Bucket Boys play the North Star pub in Leytonstone on Thursday (March 3).

This band from Portland, Oregon, have a unique sound which blends bluegrass, country, and punk rock, and which they have toured the world with for the past five years.

Support comes from Man-in-Black-inspired singer-songwriter Jenny Cash.

The show gets going around 8pm and entry is free – although donations for the acts are welcome.

Rachel Eyres and Sally Vinson will be combining their respective masterful fiddle playing and sweet vocal skills to make beautiful music this Thursday (March 3) at the Loughton Club in Station Road.

The show is organised by Loughton Folk Club and starts at 8pm.

Incidentally, Sound Advice can report that the club's fund-raiser for charity the Alzheimer's Society last week raised over £80.

Entry TBC but varies between £2 and £5, with a £1 discount for club members.

Graham Larkbey and the Escape Committee headline Ye Olde Rose and Crown over in Walthamstow this Friday (March 4). Support comes from ace guitarist and pianist Steve Rushton.

It starts around 8.30pm and entry to the gig, at the pub in Hoe Street, is free.

The Battered Saucepan Blues Band perform at the venue on Monday (March 7).

Playing their feel-good mix of blues and rock, the performance kicks off at 8.30pm and is in the main bar.

Entry is free.

Got a gig coming up? Email dbinns@london.newsquest.co.uk

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