Status Quo and The Damned are set to headline the 21st annual Bulldog Bash, set to take place as usual at the Shakespeare County Raceway, Long Marston, near Stratford On Avon, this year from 9-12 Aug.
Rick Parfitt says of the Quo's appearance at the Biker-fest: "The whole band are looking forward to the Bulldog Bash at Long Marston. Hopefully we'll have a nice hot August day and we can really get the place rocking. I'm going to find some time to have a look at all the bikes and gear too".
The Damned's Captain Sensible offers this very long comment on their appearance, their history and the state of modern pop music: "It's the first time we've been on the same bill as Quo and I'm very much looking forward to it. Whenever they played the Croydon Greyhound in the mid 70s I was there... and it was refreshing to see a band in the bar having a drink with their fans - which the Damned have also been known to do occasionally. In this day and age of X-Factor, Simon Cowell and all these plastic celebrity karaoke shows on TV we have seen our audience figures swelling, which we reckon is a reaction to the lack of decent live bands these days. You just can't beat it - a thrashing drum kit... a cranked up guitar... the front man going beserk blurting out some anti establishment lyric or other. Great stuff indeed - and the UK punk movement as led by the Pistols, the Clash, the Stranglers and ourselves was a pretty wild time when the UK was at the forefront of global musical trends... whether Mike Read or Phil Collins liked it or not! I reckon The Damned deserve medals for our services over the years but I'll settle for the fact that we're still out there having fun onstage up and down the country in 2007 after a wonderful career lasting 30 years so far. And I wouldn't have predicted THAT in 1977... otherwise I might have chosen a better stage name than Captain Sensible I can tell you!"
More acts are expected to be announced shortly. Info and tickets from http://www.bulldogbash.com, press from Word Hard PR.