Loscoe State Opera
| Dave | Andy | Ben | Styx | Sue | John | Anna |
We're humans and musicians, which makes us doubly prone to life stuff. And yes, we're still gradually putting the site (and the music) back together after the three-year-long Loscoe Soap Opera. We're no celebrities, so no hurry… although we are now on Myspace.
Gig list (cherish and be there, we don't do many!)
- Manor Folk Moot Donongton-Le-Heath Manor House, Manor Road, Donongton-Le-Heath, Leicestershire LE67 2FW : 13 June 2009
- Discount to anyone quoting Loscoe State Opera on application!! For details see the poster (PDF) (or the poster JPG) - or print out and put some up! Also on MySpace We're playing in the evening, but come for the day - promises to be a great new audience for Loscoe - our regulars are welcome too, as always! Enquiries: call Steve on 0771 4085764.
- Derby Beer festival 2009, Darwin suite, Assembly Rooms, Market Place, Derby DE1 3AH : 11 July 2009
- We're playing ALL DAY (well, in the afternoon between 1-4 AND the evening between 9-11) so you get a massive dose of Loscoe!
- Sonic World Festival, Lumb Farm, Ripley, Derbyshire DE5 8HX: 4 September 2009
- By all accounts this will be a great festival - see the links for more details (and spot the Hawkwind connection)! More info to follow.
Gig archive
- In the past: The Red Lion, Wirksworth, Derbyshire : December 2008
- The amazing Loscoe Christmas gig was… amazing!
- In the past: Off the Tracks, 2008
- Well, that was nice, wasn't it?
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In the past: Belper festival 2008, Derbyshire
- Seemed to go down rather well, didn't it?. Video from last year (thanks, video person!)
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In the past: Sheffield Folk Festival 2007
- If you were there, you can see the videos...
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In the past: Stainsby festival 2007(?), Derbyshire
- Lots of you asked where we were this year - we'll be there next year, we hope! Last time: brilliant crowd, very muddy. 'werewolf2' wrote a nice review of us at Stainsby a couple of years ago.
Loscoe news snippets
Loscoe on MySpace!
After a million years of gigging, we've set up a Loscoe State Opera Myspace profile at last! That didn't take too long, did it? Seriously, previous MySpace upload limits and email problems got in the way, and now they're all fixed. Be our friend.
Loscoe State CDs
You can buy our CDs from this website. Go on. You know you want to. Got them all? Buy one as a present for your friends/familiy!
Loscoe State Video
Someone really nice put a whole load of video of us on YouTube, mostly of the Sheffield Folk Festival 2007 (gotta be a fan to watch - sound is a bit muffled), where all but around 30 of the audience vanished after being asked to pay again to see us (big oops, lessons learned we hope)…
10th anniversary CD
Yep, we're going to tackle that difficult 3rd album in 2008... or 2009. And we've been playing for 10 years (flip. How did that happen?). We'll keep you informed on the way…
‘Loscoz not dead’
After losing both our domain name (to some idiotic US 'business' with no use whatsoever for loscoestateopera.com domain apart from mindless greed), and Kev (bass), and Andy's eye trouble (and other stuff) we almost lost the will to live… but not the will to continue playing :-) so yes, things have been difficult, and it's taken a while to get back on our feet… but - despite rumours to the contrary - we're still here! We're working on new material, which will get heard at gigs now our new Bass player John is settled in (watch out for the electric cello!).
Kate was on Kerrang! radio
This was ages ago, but who cares? Kate's other band James Warner Prophecies (myspace.com/thejameswarnerprophecies) played on Kerrang Radio on 26th April (errrr… two years ago, that is) as part of the Ugly Phil Breakfast Show. As well as three of their own live numbers they also performed their specially composed Kerrang jingle Let Satan Make Your Toast.
buy our CDs online
(And that's an order) sample tracks have been restored to our music page, and you can purchase CDs online via Paypal. We're also in New Day Records' catalogue. They distribute all our albums at various festivals and gigs up and down the country.
see Loscoe's first website
Purely for nostalgia - see our first ever web page from around 1999. Yep, the secret of survival is to ummm… survive…
