2013 is the year of the micro-brewery and Re-Branded are very happy to announce that we will be playing not only the Half Moon Beer Festi thaat the Pheasantry Beer Festival this year on Friday 21st June. We love beer festivals this year !

The Pheasantry is a new mico-brewery in East Markham.

Click here for directions:

http://www.pheasantrybrewery.co.uk/location

Please have a look at their site here :

http://www.pheasantrybrewery.co.uk/news

The Beer Festival & Family Weekend is running as follows:

Thursday 20 June - Sunday 23 June

20+ beers and 6 ciders
Live Music · Barbecue · Souvenir Glass 
Kid’s Activities · Large Beer Garden

£2 Entry · CAMRA members free · Kids free

Thu 20 June (6pm - 11pm), Fri 21 (12pm - 11pm)
Sat 22 (12pm - 11pm), Sun 23 (12pm - 4pm)

If you are a CAMRA member then it's even better as "CAMRA members are entitled to 20p off every pint of our beer upon showing their membership card."

Hope you can join us - we are looking forward to playing & having some fun

It was a really good night for us in Willingham by Stow last night (though Sam could've done with a shandy!). Thankyou to Dorothy and her family for making us welcome and we hope you all had as good a night as we did. When I was a boy I'm sure 70 year old ladies were much older than Dorothy - maybe 70 is the new 50? 

We should also take some time thank Lincoln City Radio/BBC Radio Lincolnshire top DJ Mr Dave Bussey for sorting out the stage lighting for us. A big thankyou to him - it made a big difference for us.

Re-Branded are very happy to confirm that we will be playing at the Half Moon Beer Festival in Willingham by Stow on Saturday 17th August. The festival will be running from Thursday night through to Sunday. It's a really great place to go for Phil's own Grafters Real Ale. Live entertainment each night - see the link below for the Half Moon - why not come and join us, sample some great beers and have a good time?

I've added a few pics from last night - hope you like them. 

We look forward to adding some more dates to our upcoming gig list soon.



http://www.graftersmoonlight.co.uk/

We're fresh back from the Lincoln 10K - we have been lucky enough to have another dry & sunny day.  Well done to all the runners taking part (there were quite a few dancers again this year).  Thankyou to everyone who gave us a wave or a thumbs up - we hope you all got back and have recovered.

It doesn't seem 1 year since we last played at the Lincoln 10K and we've only just posted the pictures!

This will be our 5th time there - Melvyn Prior will be back compering and offering support to runners.  The Radio Lincolnshire team are always well organized and we'd like to thank them for looking after us well with plenty of hot tea/coffee between songs.

We look forward to playing some new songs for the first time - hopefully the weather will pick up and there will be plenty of supporters out to help them on their way.  If you're running we will see you at about 3K so you should plenty of energy left for the rest of the race (we often see people stop for a brief dance).  

I expect we'll get there in plenty of time and Billy usually gets our bacon butties for us before the event starts (thanks) - though we don't recommend this as a pre-race meal for runners...  

The Lincoln 10K will be held on Sunday 7th April this year.

See this link for details:

http://lincoln10k.co.uk/

Good luck to all the runners

Good news to start 2013 - Re-Branded welcomed Mick Hoppo back on board this year after he took the last half of 2012 off. He finally relented after 6 months of nagging and dusted the ol' Ibanez down to rejoin us. 

To get us all back in the swing of things we kicked off playing The Great Australian Breakfast on Sunday 27th January. This was the 22nd year the event has been held and was opened by the Mayor of Lincoln and compered by our favourite Radio Lincolnshire DJ Melvyn Prior (we'll be seeing him again shortly at the Lincoln 10K). All the proceeds from the event were split between St Barnabas Hospice, Children In Need and the Nomad Trust. The event was very well attended - it was amazing to see just how much hard work was put into it by all the volunteers and organizers. We'd love to play there again & hope to see you there next year - it's a good family morning with local brass bands, jugglers, stiltsmen and even a didgeridoo player. 

You can see a selection of pics on this site:

http://www.thisislincolnshire.co.uk/pictures/Great-Australian-Breakfast-Lincoln-2013/pictures-17978177-detail/pictures.html#axzz2N2891SlR

Unfortunately I think the photographer must've had too many sausages & bacon and left by the time we played although I've added a long distance shot I found posted.

Our next outing this year was again at short notice when our friends in "The North" were unable to play at the White Swan in Market Rasen on 2nd March. We played and had a great time. Thankyou to everyone who came down - hope you enjoyed it as much as we did. Thanks also to Nicky (from The North) who joined us for 2 songs in the second set. Thanks also to Tina who let us play til just after curfew. See photos for a few pics from the night. Hope to see you all there again in August.

You can also see The North on http://www.thenorthmusic.co.uk/

We're just starting to take bookings for the rest of the year - currently booked for:

7th April Lincoln 10k
13th April Willingham by Stow
22nd June Worksop Ambassador rooms
10th August Market Rasen White Swan 

but will be adding more dates throughout the year. Hope to see you there!