Bad Dobby News

What a Weekend...

28/03/2011

.. three days of pure fun! Friday night saw us back in Bozeat at The Red Lion - John & Kerry sure have done themselves proud, the place looks great. Saturday had us back in Blisworth at The Walnut Tree - another great venue we love doing... a great crowd and some very interesting dancing! Sunday afternoon we set off to Northampton to see the Saints hammer Wasps and we entertained the crowd after the match in the Rodber Suite... Thanks to everyone that came along over the weekend - we've had a great one and only wish we always had the energy to do a 3 day gig weekender every weekend. Stay glued to see some pic we'll upload here of our Saints Setlist being signed by Bruce Reihana as well. BD x

First Base MK

21/03/2011

Great gig at First Base Sports Bar in Milton Keynes. It's great to have another venue in our list where we can really have some fun. From the get go the crowd were dancing and singing... Screaming out at the end - which we always like... :)
Fingers crossed to everyone that came along - we'll be back soon.. by the looks of our calendar though it could be 2012 before we do.

Keep posted though to check when we're back there - or get yourselves on Facebook to our page to stay up to date with gig postings.

Ding dong the bells are gonna chime!

16/02/2011

Huge congratulations to Rich & Liz on their engagement! They got engaged on Valentine's Day, how romantic! Now, how much for a good wedding band?....

Last Minute Gig

21/01/2011

Tonight at Fat Cats Northampton.

Lets see you all there to start the weekend early... it's Friday and even though you don't need a reason to celebrate - come out and celebrate with us... x

Snow go...

22/12/2010

I'm afraid our last Christmas gig has had to be pulled tonight due to adverse weather. Apologies if you were planning on making it down tonight and hopefully you can catch us again soon.

Happy Christmas
BD x

Tonight Cancelled

17/12/2010

It's with great shame we've had to cancel the Cardigan Arms tonight. We've had a technical issue which is unsolvable in the short timescales.

Apologies if you were planning on coming down tonight, we'll be up and running shortly and back out entertaining you guys.

BD x

Bad Dobby finally get to First Base!

03/12/2010

The sports bar that is... you dirty people...
We've managed to get a gig on the 19th March next year. So if you have any friends over in MK then send them a message to stick that date in their diary.

likewise if you know anyone on Facebook that lives in MK then send our page onto them and they can keep in contact with us there.

Bad Dobby hope to be at First Base with you all on March 19th!!!

More Power!

02/12/2010

It's great news in the BD camp... finally after years of searching, another HK Actor rig has been found to compliment our sound... with all the power we feed through these things it's now nice to be able to really move some air at the bottom end... ;o)

The extra subs will be brought out at the larger of our venues and for special events. We can now boast a total for our FOH of 2.4kW.. fingers crossed for the larger venues we'll be able to raise that to 3.2kW - but we'll update you if that happens.

Hope to see you at a gig soon
BD

Bad Dobby roundup

10/11/2010

Well it's been a while since we've posted on here, so let's give you a round up of what's been happening in the Dobby land.

Since you last heard from us in September the Dobby boys have been ever busy rewriting the list of material we want to get learnt for the new year, we're not going to tell you what they are now. But if you have any ideas of songs you'd like to hear us do - don't hesitate to write them on an email to us and let us know.

September saw us at the following venues, The Everard Arms in Corby (a great night we had! A new venue for us in Monks Park WMC, again a great response. We spent Guinness's 251st Birthday at O'Neill's in Northampton. The Cardigan Arms in Moulton and lastly a tremendous night was had at The Wheatsheaf in Rushden. So we had a busy September.

October saw us at O'Neill's again for another great night, The Walnut Tree Inn (we can never explain what an absolutely fantastic night we have here). Another new venue at Kingscliffe Ex Servicemans club and finally we spent Halloween in Brackley at The Red Lion - where once again we had a stonking night - dressed up (see the pics & vids on Facebook) they were so busy people couldn't get in the pub..!

November (although not over) has seen us at another new venue, The Harlequin in Kettering & a new venue but old friends in the owners at The Pioneer in Northampton.

As for the rest of the year - we're steadily booking out for 2011 and while working on some great new songs for BD the Green Day tribute is also coming along leaps and bounds and exciting things are in the pipeline for 2011... so stay glued.

Hope to see you all soon at a venue near you... BD

No News is Good News

24/09/2010

You've not heard from us in a while here... Bad Dobby as well as playing all the gigs we can have also been practising for a newly formed Green Day tribute act...

If you've ever been to a BD gig and heard some of the Green Day stuff we do - you'll know that we get an immense kick out of those songs - feedback we've received after gigs on this music led us to think about starting a tribute - so we got hold of Neil a good friend of ours to step in on Bass while Rich picked up a guitar to take the Billie Joe role on, Terry stays on Guitar as does John on Drums.

The Band is called Greener Day and things are already in the pipeline for the future. We've been sorting through music and albums trying to get a good mix for the first couple of months so we're ready - while we gig and learn more songs.

If you want to find out more about Greener Day and how/when you can come and watch us then you can choose below for a few links.

OUR WEBSITE!
OUR FACEBOOK PAGE!
OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL!
OUR TWITTER PAGE!

Our next gig is at The Lilacs in Isham on the 15th October. We hope to see as many of you Dobby fans there as possible.

2011 here we come

17/08/2010

We're just over half way through 2010 and we're already taking bookings for 2011.. Venues if you're reading this - Get in early. Otherwise we can't guarantee we'll have your dates available when it comes to booking.

For booking enquiries please contact Richard on 07899 806745 or info@baddobby.com.

Last Minute Gig

10/07/2010

We've just been booked for a gig at O'Neill's in Northampton tonight. We'll kick off about 10:30 to make sure your well and truly oiled ready to dance along... Get yourselves down there tonight and we'll see you there. BD

Rose & Crown tonight!

01/07/2010

We have a last minute confirmation of a booking at the Rose & Crown, Rushden tonight. See you there?!

Wheaty cancelled

25/06/2010

Due to a double booking error by the venue we have been cancelled for tomorrow at the Wheaty. If you're pissed off like we are and fancy a moan ring them!

Fat Cats Northampton

11/06/2010

It's finally happened... a time when a free date for both Fat Cats and us have matched.

We've got the gig on the 9th July at Fat Cats in Northampton (Bridge Street) and we want to make our first appearance there a great one...
Get yourselves onto Facebook and send the event out to all your friends and family and let's see you there.

If you're not a fan of Bad Dobby on Facebook yet, click the link on the left of the page.

Hope to see you all there on the 9th.

Walk In The Park 2010

27/05/2010

Good news.... We've just had WITP festival 2010 confirmed. We'll be there on Friday 2nd July where Walk In The Park 2010 will be stepping back to the fantastic 80’s with an evening performance by the Madness tribute act ‘Complete Madness’ who are accompanied by ‘Bootleg Blondie’ and ’The Jam’d’. We'll be there kicking off the show from around 7pm to get you all warmed up. Tickets are: Adult £10 Child £6 Family £25 + handling and booking fee.
You can get these online HERE

For more info on the event CLICK HERE to go to the website Hope to see you there

Last Minute Gig

23/03/2010

We've just been booked for a gig at O'Neill's in Northampton Friday 26th March. Stepping in for our good friends Boxeddy. We'll be playing from 22:00 til 00:00 but come early in case we can't wait to get started and kick off early. If we don't see you on Friday - why not come down to The Lilacs in Isham on Saturday 27th starting at 21:00 proving to be a popular gig already get there early to get a seat. BD

Glastonbury 2010

26/01/2010

So it's been confirmed that we've been entered for the Emerging Talent competition for the John Peel stage at Glastonbury 2010!

With a big thanks to Darin for signing us up and sorting the admin on this one out...
"Glastonbury Festival and Q are proud to host the sixth annual Emerging Talent Competition. Whether you're a sensitive singer-songwriter or an irate punk rocker it's your chance to take to the stage at the world's greatest music festival. Q and Glastonbury's crack team of experts will whittle the entries down to a shortlist of 150. These will then be judged by an esteemed panel, including Glastonbury's Emily Eavis, Q editor Paul Rees and Radio One's Huw Stephens. 12 finalists will compete for a slot at the Festival in front of all the important ETC judges by playing a 20 minute set at the Pilton Working Men's Club near Glastonbury on 26th, 27th, 28th March. To see our Glastonbury entry - click here.

Jobeky Electric Drums

20/01/2010

Coming Soon!

What a night...

11/01/2010

Not only did we think that at any point on Saturday we could be snowed in... we got to the van to start her up and what do you know... it wouldn't start. After much deliberation on how to get the thing started (we couldn't just jump it that easily before you ask... the battery is in the passenger footwell so we had to get the van out of it's home before we could reach it with leads..)don't worry though... we got it going (eventually) and made our way over to the Red Lion in Brackley, for what would turn out to be, as usual, a great night. We were even fed as Dawn came out with 3 beautiful Ham Sandwiches for us after the gig... (top girl!)
We look forward to seeing everyone in Brackley in April for the next gig.

A big thank you as well to the guys in Camouflage for lending us one of their speakers as a 'just in case' as one of ours has been sounding like it's on its last legs..

Go Go Go

07/01/2010

So this Sat sees the first gig of 2010 underway. Hopefully the snow won't keep us away from Brackley where we'll be bringing the roof tiles down at The Red Lion.

The Red Lion was the pub we spent Halloween '09 at and had a great night and a great reception from the crowd.
If you came to see us at Halloween and fancy coming down on Saturday - don't forget to bring your friends...

To catch up on our current list of gigs for this year check out our gigs page.

See you soon.
BD

Great Start to 2010

02/01/2010

Happy New Year everybody! What a great start we had at Rushden & Diamonds FC on New Year's Eve. Thanks to everybody who came and thanks to all the staff at the club.
We had a great night and what a pleasure to see a couple of hundred people bouncing to our rendition of Auld Lang Syne.
Here's to a great 2010!!

2010 a busy year already

21/12/2009

We're not even into the first week of 2010 yet and already the diary's looking full. We were hoping to get a lot of new venues in this year - but we didn't even have time to approach them before our current venues booked us again.

It's the 21st Dec and we're already at 33 dates.

Hopefully 2010 will be a better year for Live Music, lets hope that no more venues get hit by declining numbers and have to close.

If you're a venue and have some free dates - you can either Email Us here or call Rich on 07899 806 745.

Have a great Christmas
BD

100th Show!!

17/12/2009

What a night NYE 2009 will be - not only will we be ringing in the new year - Bad Dobby will be playing their 100th show! We hope you'll be there to help us celebrate both occasions. If you would like to join us - tickets are £15 and the night includes Live music, Buffet and if we can swing it some silly games... contact Rushden & Diamonds on 01933 650345 to get your tickets.
We hope to see you there.

Where were we last night?

31/10/2009

Thank you and sorry to all those that turned up at the Crown & Anchor, Wellingborough last night to see us. We arrived ourselves and were told we were not expected, even though it was in the diary and they had the posters.
Your guess is as good as ours as to why they didn't just let us play anyway so we're all a bit miffed, it sounds like quite a few of you came over to see us.
Once again, our apologies but it was out of our hands. If you fancy having a moan, phone the pub and we'll see if we can make them realise what a good night they missed out on!
On the plus side, we nipped down to the Ock 'n' Doe instead and saw a Neil Diamond tribute which was.... um, entertaining...

Congratulations Lucy & Nath!

02/10/2009

Huge congratulations from Tel, Rich & John to Nath and Lucy on becoming engaged!

Live and Direct...

14/08/2009

... Well that's it, it's done. Many people will think us odd! Imagine the scene, your at your local pub at which you've noticed Bad Dobby are playing tonight. In the corner, tucked away are Bad Dobby all set up - but yet you can't help notice that they seem to be convulsing all in sync! Before you all rush over to beat us away from our instruments in the fear that we are being electrocuted, let me warn you that we're all soundchecking...

It's been a while coming but Bad Dobby are pleased to announce that Elder has now joined us in taking instruments direct.
He's done away with his acoustic kit in favour of a Roland digital set.
This means that we now have no backline and no acoustic instruments (apart from a guitar) on stage.

What it means to you... well, we should be able to play exactly the same at any venue and at any level... plus the fact that we have a digital drum kit and no backline means we can fit in where other bands can't!

Check out our next gig to see the result of this change, hopefully you'll like it as much as us.

Sunnyside back!

14/08/2009

Well after a while of manager changes we are pleased to announce that The Sunnyside have been back in contact with us and want us back in September.
So as you will see from the gigs page we'll be there on the 18th September 09.

Christmas Residency

11/08/2009

Although no one likes to admit it – Christmas is steadily approaching! One thing to look forward to when having to spend all that money is that Bad Dobby are pleased to announce, on the strength of Elders party, they and Blue Star Productions will be providing the entertainment for this years Christmas parties booked at Rushden & Diamonds Football Club. So far we have four dates that have full Christmas parties (see below) – but if you would like to book your Christmas party at the ground there are still dates available all you have to do is click here to be taken straight to Rushden & Diamonds website for further details & how to book – don’t forget to mention you heard it from Bad Dobby.

Saturday 12th December
Friday 18th December

Free Shipping from 16th - 19th July

16/07/2009

When you order at least 2 items from our TShirt shop between the 16th - 19th July you'll be able to claim for free Shipping on them

Take advantage of this offer now and get yourselves over to the TShirt page and Dobbify yourself for the next gig...

Remember we want to see you in your Dobby shirt - take a photo of yourself and send it in to us. We'll even stick it on the site.

Drumfest 2009

12/07/2009

Ready to rock again, this time for Drumfest so back to Brum again at what seemed an ungodly hour (11am) we managed to take a quick look around the stands noticing that it was A LOT NOISIER THANK YESTERDAY!!! as you could tell everyone it seemed was playing a drum.
We took time out to speak to Roland about the possibilities of expanding our ever growing direct sound by purchasing a Roland TD-20 drum kit, this means at last we'd be able to turn Elder down while he plays....! Of course Rich and Tel had to have a go to "test" them out.

The Windmill

11/07/2009

…So after literally jetting back home from Birmingham (Guitarfest) to pick up the van it was straight to Rushden for a gig at The Windmill. Plenty of time for us nowadays seeing as though our set up is a finely tuned machine ?.

I think we took The Windmill by surprise as the first set would have challenged the energiser bunny to get them going – but in true Dobby style we got them up and dancing and by the end the whole dance-floor was full.

Big thanks to the “Girls who are going to see Green Day” they were recommended to come and see us by other Dobby fans. They thoroughly enjoyed the night and left some cracking feedback for us.

Guitarfest 2009

11/07/2009

As always, if there's a music event going on Bad Dobby like to be involved.
This weekends starts with an axe wielding scream as Guitarfest 2009 kicks off at the NIA in Birmingham.

Terry & Rich signed up straight away to get their fill of new kit and some famous faces...
After a VERY VERY late night on the Friday in Derby it was crack of the sparrows as far as we were concerned and we hot footed it down to Brum for about mid-day.

We made good time and managed to find a space (that turned out to be easier than actually getting in!)
We eventually made it in and made our way around the event - it was a little smaller than first imagined, but still we took the time to check out the wealth of guitars and basses on display and made many promises about lottery wins and next purchases...

After making our way around the show - we had a look in the live music area.
A whole host of people were playing that day - so we took a little time out to listen to some of the guys... While we were there we managed to catch The Stone Gods performing some of their tracks from the new album "Silver Spoons & Broken Bones" unfortunately their drummer was unable to make the event so instead of pull out they performed a rip roaring acoustic set.

Jennifer Batten was next - someone that if you passed in the street you wouldn't think could set the neck alight like she can... with a whole host of wizardry strapped and glued to her guitar she carries a whole set of songs on her own - only backed by video and backing track. Jennifer will be mostly known as Michael Jackson's guitarist for most live tours starting with "Bad".

Next up and our last of the day was Glenn Hughes ex voice of Deep Purple and astonishing to see him stretch that voice live...!

Derby Delight

10/07/2009

A relaxing Friday drive as some of you will know is the M1 on a Friday afternoon! So you can imagine our joy at having the drive to Derby ahead of us in what could possibly be grid-locked traffic!
Luckily enough the traffic gods were on our side and we were only kept a short while on the A14.

We made it to Derby in good time - still cutting it very fine for the start of the event, so we were hurridly trying to set up the kit for the start of the party.

It was a bond themed charity night so hopefully they'll be some shakin and stirring going on later when we get going. As soon as the meal and fund raising had finished we were go! We started the intro going and waited for the ever prominent Dobby countdown.. Then we were off, it took to the first verse of the first song and they were up... the dancefloor was steadily getting busier and busier with every note.
So we kept it going, no slow songs for us tonight it was straight through most of our dancy stuff.
Of course we left some of the more energetic stuff to the end.

It was a great night though and we've received nothing but good feedback from the guys that had us.
Thanks again for the lunch we had, it was just what we needed before and after a gig.

What a Weekend...!

06/07/2009

Saturday saw us piling into Wootton Recreation ground for our first Walk In The Park festival. We were on at 13:15 so we arrived around 12 o'clock and had a quick set up and wander round to say hello. We managed to get on stage a little earlier than planned which helped as we managed to fit in a bit more talking and more songs.
Video was taken (thanks Craig) so you'll shortly see this online - keep checking our YouTube channel.
Photos we've noticed have already been uploaded to our Facebook Page.
If you were at Walk In The Park and you've taken some photos or video - you can either upload them to Facebook on our Fan Page or you can send them to us via email.

We met up with the band Anyone Out There a great bunch of lads who have only been going for around 6 mnths. We especially liked the banners their fans had brought with them!

After Sat daytime in Northampton and after Terry and Rich had finished doing some shameless plugging of Bad Dobby around Wootton Recreational ground it was a mad dash to get over to Irthlingborough for Elders Birthday party. Bad Dobby were of course playing and kindly supported (shameless plug time!) with a disco from Blue Star Productions. I'm sure if you look carefully at the Pictures page you'll find some pictures from the night.

Sunday saw us over at Wellingborough for Party In The Park. Starting at 15:25 for ½ hr.
Although most of us woke up thinking the day was about to be ruined by the weather (big grey cloud and rain), as soon as we got to Croyland Park the Sun shone and the temperature soared!.
Just before we were about to start, Elder had a lovely surprise when Ian & Rachael from Connect FM announced his Birthday and got the entirety of Croyland park singing Happy Birthday! Being the shy boy he is - he couldn't run away quick enough to get back behind his drums, pictures again will be on the gallery page shortly.

All in all we've had a great weekend. Thanks to everyone that came to both events to support us - you're always welcome and we hope to see you and all your friends again.
A big Happy Birthday to Elder as well for yesterday - here's hoping you had a great day.

Gonna get ourselves....

30/06/2009

.... Gonna get ourselves, gonna get ourselves connected. Another quick trip to Connect FM last weekend. This time we had Rachael all to ourselves as Sharpey was away on holiday. So with our recognition of Band of the Week - we got ourselves over to Connect FM to advertise not only us again but this time for the Party In The Park which is steadily approaching over this weekend.

Its the 9th annual free live music event at Croyland Park, Party In The Park will be running on Sunday 5th July 2009.

Croyland Park will open its gates at 12noon on Sunday for wall to wall live music.

Don't forget to get down to Croyland Park early to secure your place by the stage for what promises to be a truly unforgettable free day's entertainment for all the family.

Bad Dobby get Connected

25/04/2009

The night after our biggest ever crowd, we had another first, our debut radio appearance. It was on Connect FM's "Band of the Week" feature and we travelled over to Peterborough to meet Sharpey & Rachel (I know, you thought one Sharpey was enough!). They made us feel really welcome and we had an absolute blast.

You can listen to a recording of the interview by clicking it on the media player on the left of the site and hear what a great time we had.

Thanks again to Sharpey and Rachel and we hope to see them again!

A "grand" time at Big Bang

24/04/2009

Our biggest audience ever, over 1000 people in the Big Top at Santapod's Big Bang event! What an amazing day we had. Big thanks to Jo for the hospitality and to all the guys on sound and lights for the brilliant job they did to make us sound and look good.

For the first time we had a trailer backstage to chill out in and it wasn't until we finished that we realised how relaxed we had been considering we were going to be playing to the most people we'd ever played to!

Richard valiantly battled through being really sick over the weekend so well done Rich on even getting there, let alone singing and playing for the night.

The crowd were great too, singing, shouting, jumping and not mauling Terry when he took his life in his hands and jumped up and down with them during Chelsea Dagger (HUGE thanks to TJ for being an imposing, yet not obtrusive force to be reckoned with should anybody try to get out of line, amazing guy).

You can see some videos here
You can see some pictures here and here

Laying Down...

19/04/2009

BD have laid down 3 tracks for a demo, as you can see and hear on the media player on the left of the site. We fancied a change of scenery so took ourselves off to the amazing Far Heath studios (www.farheath.com) where Angus did a brilliant job in the tiny amount of time we gave him.

We can't wait to visit Far Heath again and lay down some more tracks so watch this space!

Pictures of the day can be found here

What a night!

14/04/2009

Saturday saw us playing the Thunderball at Santapod. What a night it turned out to be! Although there was no racing during the day, spirits were still high in the evening and everybody still wanted to party. Silly hats and glow sticks were the order of the day and take it from us they looked brilliant from on stage. The Fruit Salads that we were giving out/hurling into the audience seemed very popular too (and not just with the kids!) Thanks to everyone that came and chatted to us, danced, clapped, cheered and generally made it a fantastic night. See you at Big Bang in a couple of weeks!

Have a 'Thunder'ball of a time...

01/04/2009

... Well we said we'd try and get a date back at Santa Pod in the future.
Who knew it would be so quick to come. We have been asked to play on the Fuelers Bar stage for the Thunderball Easter event on Saturday April the 11th.

We'll be on stage at 9pm if you want to come and join us you'll find more details here.

Another Great Night...

28/02/2009

...... was had at the Rover, everyone was up for some energetic jumping - good clapping actions on My Chem Romance! Keep that energy up Rover. We'll see you on the 8th May for some more Dobby style entertainment. Thanks again to Sadie, Mike - Alfie and John his son who stepped up to do the interval set - you can check out the vid below. Thanks also to Glen from Hedra Helix for stepping up to the challenge of singing Teenage Kicks... Hopefully Rover - you'll have Hedra Helix coming your way soon.

Thanks again. BD

15% off Bad Dobby Tees

18/02/2009

Who says we don't like to help out in the credit crunch?!
Simply enter the voucher code BABYBLOOM in the checkout when you buy your Bad Dobby T-Shirts and you will get 15% off your order until 1st March, hooray!

Click here to buy your Bad Dobby T-Shirts

Tonight Cancelled

12/02/2009

Sorry all, tonight at the Rose & Crown, Rushden is cancelled by mutual agreement due to the snowy & freezing weather.
Although saying that, the "horrible" weather did instigate a great snowball fight outside Terry's house. Pictures to follow I'm sure...
PICS ARE HERE

2009 dates announced...

16/01/2009

Already Bad Dobby have been inundated with dates for 2009 - if you take a look at the gigs page you'll already see we have a whopping 27 dates in and it's only the third week of Jan!

This year we want to make a memorable one - so watch out for more Dobby merchandise coming your way.

Along with extra Dobby stuff is probably the more important issue ... new music! We're busy in the studio learning away at least 2 songs a week to bring out in 09 (a hint, take a look at the music page to see.

We hope to see some new faces in 09, get your friends to come along to a gig - get them up and dancing and get the word of Bad Dobby spread... Let's make live music what it is, a good laugh!

Bad Dobby Dig The Gardener's

14/01/2009

Another new venue for us on Sunday was the Gardener's Arms in Northampton. What a great place, huge thanks to Glen from Hedrahelix who put in the good word for us. We already have some rebookings so keep an eye on the gigs page and see when we're playing there again.

BD see 2009 in!

02/01/2009

Bad Dobby saw 2009 in in style at the Windmill Club in Rushden. Great fun was had by all and there was an abundance of Bad Dobby santa hats bouncing around, plus glow sticks and glow bracelets, all thanks to Jerry & Lorna from Armada Embroidery. A great rocked up version of Auld Lang Syne had the whole place jumping at midnight. As you can see from the gallery photos we dressed for the occasion, although the jackets were lost for the second half, it was a bit warm up there!
Thanks to everybody that came, we had great fun and we hope to see you again soon in 2009!

BD

What great new venues!

21/12/2008

The last few weeks have seen us at The George in Wilby and The Rover in Northampton. What brilliant new venues these have been for us! Big thanks must go to Glen at The George and to Sadie and Mike at The Rover for looking after us so well and being so friendly. This makes a huge difference to us and we really appreciate it.

Festive fun at The Rover

21/12/2008

Armada Embroidery came up trumps again for Bad Dobby. Huge thanks to Jerry and Lorna for turning up at The Rover on Friday with some Santa hats embroidered with the Bad Dobby logo and to top it all they even flashed! It was fantastic to see the crowd jumping up and down wearing Bad Dobby Santa hats. Click here to visit Armada Embroidery, it's our pleasure to promote them in any way we can.

Recent gigs

29/11/2008

So the gigs are nearly over for 2008, with November seeing us bid farewell to a great live music night at The Rose & Crown on Thursday nights and another on Sunday nights at The Romany a real pity for live music. It's important now more than ever to come out and support either your local music venue or your favourite band (us!).

With that said, Bad Dobby are always glad to see you at our gigs and if you're looking for a fun packed Nov & Dec then head to the gigs page and come and have a laugh with us. If you're up for a joyous New Year then Bad Dobby are pleased to announce that we're playing Rushdens Windmill Club - come and join us for an evening of great music and great laughs.

On another note, if you've been to Bad Dobby gig and have pictures or video the you can either send them to us on media@baddobby.com or, if you have a FaceBook account you can upload them directly to our fan page.

Facebook Dobby

22/09/2008

Just thought we'd update you on the Facebook fan page.
Updates have been frantically happening on the old FB Fan Page.

If you still haven't managed to check it out then CLICK HERE if you're a member of Facebook you can become a fan - if not you'll need to sign up.

We hope to see you on there.

If you're a member you're able to post pictures and video's of any gig you've come to and you could always comment on our wall about your night with the Dobbies!

Barely finding time to breathe...

29/06/2008

Well the Dobbies got a sweat on last night, opening for our good friends (including ourselves!) Time To Breathe at the Fulbourn Center in Cambridge. It was hot up on stage and no sooner had we finished and changed our shirts then it was time to get cracking again, albeit at a slightly slower tempo. Thanks to the Fulbourn Center, John for inviting us and the rest of Time To Breathe for the support. We're certainly feeling the effects of the spent energy today!

26th June Cancelled...

23/06/2008

... Unfortunately due to the Euro 2008 Semi Finals our gig at The Rose & Crown has had to be moved to later in the year.
Apologies to any non football fans that were planning on attending - please keep an eye on our gigs page for updates.
BD

Whoa there...

07/06/2008

... Played at The Shire Horse at the weekend, what a great little pub this is. Beautiful garden as well.
The Evening started off well, and we learned we even had a reunion in the next room that wanted to come through and have a listen (what a crowd!) If any of you are reading this - make sure you send through some of those photos - and as your members of Facebook check out our Facebook fan page, you can upload your gig photos there.

We's also like to say thanks to Caron and the bar staff for their hospitality, we look forward to seeing you in October at the next gig.

BD

Red Lion gig announced

29/05/2008

NEW GIG ANNOUNCED!
We're back in Bozeat on the 13th June at The Red Lion.
We hope to see all the faces from the last time we were there. For more info check out the gigs page here

Golden Horse a non-starter

26/05/2008

Regretfully, the Golden Horse have ceased all their live music so our gigs booked for the 7th Sept and 2nd Nov have been cancelled. Keep watching this space for replacement gigs, we don't want to be sitting at home twiddling our thumbs!

The Ev's

24/05/2008

What an experience we had here at The Everard Arms in Corby.
Not only was the sound equipment supplied by the venue, there was plenty of parking right by the door which, get this, was right next to the stage! an absolute pleasure.
which reminds me, a big thanks from BD to Will for the sound.

The audience! - well, if we could take you all to every one of our gigs, we would! what a group you were.
From Eileen, showing the youngsters how it's done up at the front to everyone waving their hands at the back and not to mention Rich's fan Aide who had expressed an interest in sharing a cell with him!!

The Bad Dobby badge stock took a hammering as we gave out handfulls, look out for them on the bar staff who each got one.
Well we hope that we'll see you all soon back at The Ev's and if you saw us this time - tell your friends about Bad Dobby so your all ready for the next gig.
BD

The Sun always shines...

16/05/2008

We had great fun at the sun last night! A little bit rushed to set up and we ended up just setting up and getting straight down to it. Some great feedback was received by everyone on the night and we even managed to carry on through some forgotten song parts...

One of the encores had our Tel taking a wander out into the garden and taking a quick 5 mins off as he left the guitar playing up to two members of the crowd. There was a record broken at The Sun, most encores asked for, you guys kept shouting for more, it was great. Hopefully we can come back and play some more tunes for you in the near future.

What a great crowd you all were - we hope to see you again soon back at The Sun.
Don't forget we're out tonight at The Foundry Tavern (The Foundrymens Arms), St James.
BD

Gigs Update

24/04/2008

Hi all, just to update you on BD's busy schedule...
Our Calendar now looks like this: -
May 2008
10th May - The Venue (Raven Hotel), Corby
16th May - The Sun, Hardingstone
17th May - The Foundry Tavern, Northampton
24th May - The Everard Arms, Corby

June 2008
7th June - The Shire Horse, Corby

July 2008
4th July - Private Party

August 2008
30th August - Private Party

September 2008
7th Sept - The Golden Horse, Northampton
14th Sept - The Romany, Northampton

October 2008
31st Oct - Private Party

November 2008
2nd Nov - The Golden Horse, Northampton
16th Nov - The Romany, Northampton

We hope to see you at as many of these as possible - as usual bring your friends and introduce them to the Dobby way of Live Music.
BD

June gig moved...

11/04/2008

June 29th at The Woughton Centre, MK, has been moved to later in the year. A very busy time for us so the Woughton Centre gig on the 29th June has had to be moved towards the end of the year.

As soon as we have a new date we will be updating our calendar so stay tuned.

Rose & Crown, Rushden...

10/04/2008

... Great fun was had by all at the Rose & Crown in Rushden last night. Didn't take many songs to get you all into the swing. But by the end of Basket Case you were all there.

Thanks and good luck have to go to Simone who was there - dancing like mad in front of us... What we all have to say is good luck with your singing - We were lucky to hear a few of Simones songs WOW, does she have talent. So from Bad Dobby - good luck in your music, hope to see you playing soon.

Anyway a busy week for us - If you fancy coming down we are at The Windmill Club celebrating it's relaunch and revamp on Saturday night (12th) and then over to Milton Keynes on Sunday at The Woughton Centre (13th).

Hope you can make it.
BD

New Gig Confirmed

18/02/2008

As our 2008 calendar grows rapidly - we have just confirmed a new gig at The King Billy, Northampton on the 21st March.

Other new dates added to the calendar are:
*CANCELLED* ~~20th April - The Golden Horse, Northampton~~
17th May - The Foundry, Northampton
7th Sept - The Golden Horse, Northampton
2nd Nov - The Golden Horse, Northampton

Hope to see you at this weeks gig, Sat 23rd Feb at The Romany.
BD

Re-visit at The Walnut

09/02/2008

Bad Dobby's return to the Walnut was not un-noticed, from the very beginning we had the whole pub jumping up and down, dancing and singing along.

The Walnut also marked the debut of the new Muse song 'Plug in Baby, which by all accounts for a first play went great. The first set went flying by and before we knew it, we were half way through the second set.. the energy that was still in this room was amazing - we got to the end of the second set and we had screams for more, more and more.

**BD ENCORE ACHIEVEMENT
From The Red Lions endless and unsuccessful attempts by Terry to put Richard off during Chelsea Dagger. Terry managed, this time, to put Richard off. Let's see if Richard can keep his cool for the Romany...**

Back to the news and we had also heard we had the most encore's of any band - which was very encouraging.
A big thanks go to Donald for booking us from the 8 or so songs he heard at Christmas, a big thank you to Steve and the bar-staff for keeping everyone plied with alcohol... all we can say is thanks to everyone at the Walnut and thanks to our loyal Bedford Dobbies who came down, we hope to see all of you again soon.

If you have any pictures or video of the night - email them into us and we'll see if they can go up on the site.

Hope to see you all at The Romany on the 23rd.

BD

Red Lion a roaring success

19/01/2008

Another new venue for Bad Dobby, the Red Lion in Bozeat were our hosts last night. After some initial very annoying technical issues we got into our stride and had a brilliant night. With plenty of messing about, singalongs and jamming, it seems like everybody who was there had a good time. After a birthday request for Metallica, we did an impromptu performance of Enter Sandman for which we commandeered Neil Smith as an honorary Dobby. Well, he had a Dobby t-shirt on already so he didn't look out of place and he did a great job of the vocals for us, thanks Neil. Somehow Richard managed to continue through Chelsea Dagger, even with the concerted efforts of Terry trying to put him off and looking like he was having a fit in front of him.

All in all, we had a great time and look forward to going there again. Thanks to all those that came to see us, especially our regular little Dobby roadshow!

BD

Cracked the Walnut...

28/12/2007

We had a lovely time at The Walnut Inn, Blisworth - apart from a impromptu interval from FW Dob who nearly passed out between songs. Anyway, as they say the show must go on! We stormed through around 9 songs as we warmed up the audience for our friends Time to Breathe and then let them loose - armed with our very own Elder Dobby on the drums they were away for a stonking 2 sets. Even Tel Dobby got up and provided backing vocals. All in all we loved our support slot so much we hope to have our own gig soon at the Walnut so watch this space. **UPDATE** We have just secured a gig at The Walnut Inn on the 9th February. We hope to see you there.

Merry Christmas & a happy new year...

25/12/2007

Bad Dobby wish you all a very merry Christmas. We hope Santa brought you everything you asked for. We hope to see you all in the new Year.

Great Night!

25/11/2007

Thanks all to those that came to the Windmill club - it was a good night and great to see you all enjoying yourselves. A big big thank you to Jim & Darren who without which we'd have had trouble being heard as our speaker seemed not to want to work! Thanks again guys. Secondly a big thank you to the Windmill club, hope to see you again soon. If you have any pictures or video of the night be sure to send them to us so we can put them on the site. Cheers BD

Sunnyside Cancelled

23/11/2007

Unfortunatley due to a change in management the Sunnyside gig on the 15th December '07 has been cancelled - we hope this hasn't affected anyones plans for the evening and hope to have a replacement night arranged soon. BD

Facebook Dobby

17/10/2007

Hello from Bad Dobby, just to let you know, if anyone is a member of Facebook you can search for us as a group and then come and join us - there you can keep up to date with all the usual facebook stuff plus it gives you an easier way to upload your own gig photos/videos and post comments/discussions.

Add us today...

Click Here for Bad Dobby Group on Facebook

Rumours of new material

15/10/2007

It has been rumoured in the Bad Dobby camp that some new songs will be making an appearance at the next show on the 24th November at the Windmill club. Unfortunately we can't divulge the songs... suffice to say they should get the feet a tapping. You'll just have to make sure you're there to see/hear them. BD

The night we nearly killed Rich!

23/09/2007

Well, after a good fun night at the Shark in Harlow, someone decided to run into Richard on the M11 on the way home. Glad to say that both Rich and Liz are fine but the car is probably a gonner! More news as when we get any....

*UPDATE* Well the kit is back in Wellingborough where it belongs, to be tested tomorrow night, fingers crossed.

Pictures of the car can be found here

Duum dum, duum dum, dum dum dum dum...

25/08/2007

.... Thanks to all at The Shark (very unfunny title I know!) What a great crowd you were. The songs went down a treat and some great reactions and feedback were received. We can't wait to get back there on the 22nd September. We didn't manage to get many photos but what we do have will soon be ready to view.

Thanks to all at the Woughton Centre

18/08/2007

Just to say thanks to Lynn and the team at The Woughton Centre, MK. Always a pleasure to play on such a big stage (we felt lost to tell you the truth! a huge stage with only us three!?). We are even more pleased to announce that we have secured another gig with The Woughton Centre for the 25th November.

A BIG thanks to the Rose & Crown

17/08/2007

Thanks everyone that attended the Rose & Crown gig last night. The First set was a bit slow but we picked up our pace and stormed through the second set. For only our second gig and our first pub gig I think you'll all agree it went well. Hope to see you all again at another gig, thanks again to Jean and the guys at the Rose & Crown - hope we'll be back there soon. To see pictures from the gig click here

WE WANT YOUR PICS...

15/08/2007

If you are planning on coming to one of our gigs and you're taking your camera or camera phone - we'd love to see your pictures - you can either email them in to us on media@baddobby.com or you can MMS them to us (07899806745) if they're all able to be put on the web you could well see your pics on either our main site or our myspace page. So get sending!

Wear us out!

13/08/2007

Well Bad Dobby have a busy couple of weeks coming up. The 16th sees us at the Rose & Crown in Rushden (a first appearance there), it will also be the second gig for us - Elder has only just back from sunning himself on a beach somewhere (let's just hope he took his Mp3 player with him to listen to the sets!). The 18th sees us in Milton Keynes at the Woughton Centre. Finally the 25th of August sees us at The Shark in Harlow for a Saturday night gig. We'd love to see as many of you there as possible, if you do make your way to any of these remember to send us your photos, either by email or you can MMS them to us.

Bad Dobbys First Gig

28/07/2007

Well that's it all over with the first gig is done, all the nerves have been left behind and we're off... What an amazing response we had from everyone.

We'd all like to thank those who attended, it meant a lot to see so many friends and family and not to mention all the new faces we hope we keep seeing along the way. If you would like to see some photos of the night click here. If you would like to watch some footage of the night click here.

Once again let me thank those who turned up and we hope we've wetted your appetite for more Dobby fun - join us on the 16th at the Rose & Crown.
FW

New Sponsorship Deal

19/07/2007

Bad Dobby are thrilled to announce a collaboration with Commerce Windows for the upcoming gig at The Windmill in Rushden.

Commerce Windows are a Northamptonshire based company, offering a wide range of purpose built double glazed UPVC windows, doors, conservatories and roofline products with styles and designs to suit every budget and every home.
Visit their website at www.commercewindows.co.uk

For details of the gig click here

New gig confirmed

13/07/2007

Just to update you on the fact that we have secured our first gig at the Rose & Crown in Rushden.
The gig is on the 16th August 2007 a busy week for us as we're at the Woughton Centre in MK on the 18th. Check the gig page for more details.

GENESIS TURN US ON AGAIN...!

08/07/2007

Well the 2nd Dobby outing under our belt and I'm sure we're all still recovering from it. Yes Bad Dobby along with Craig (Elder's son) went to see Genesis - Turn it On Again @ Twickenham.
We got there to see the huge crown type backdrop of the stage reaching to almost the height of Twickers, the stage though was tiny compared to what you would imagine they would go out with but we weren't complaining with some hot footing of it we made it down to have a look at the stage and take some pictures, the two drum kits of Chester and Phil looked awesome and let's all give it up for the great Roland, as we noticed they are also using the technology.
Well to contained my rambling of which I could do for hours on this, the music was awesome the lights awesome the sound spectacular - all in all even though the rain tried to dampen our spirits, we loved the night, hopefully we might even be able to put some pictures up soon for you. A great experience and one that I hope Genesis will want to continue with.

Dobby Launch Party - A Great Success

23/06/2007

Well, you'll all be pleased to hear that the official launch of Bad Dobby was a truly hilarious coming together of the Dobbies and Dobettes.
A huge thanks must go to Liz and Tel Dob for hosting the launch and for putting such a lovely spread on.
If you would like to check out the pictures for the night please click here.
It's also a big occasion as it's the first time the Dobettes have made an appearance on the site (little do they know that we have Pink Lady'esq jackets in mind for them with "Dobbettes" emblazoned on the back!!)
With the night being such a huge success we have decided to make it a regular thing, so watch this space for future embarrasing photos and tales of lovely home cooked feasts and flowing alcohol
(Bad Dobby ask that you drink responsibly, i.e. don't waste and/or spill it!)

1st Gig Booked! Woohoo!

23/05/2007

Great news! Bad Dobby have booked their first gig. It is at The Windmill Club in Rushden on 28th July. Click here for full details

1st Gig Offered! Can't Do It!

16/05/2007

Well, Bad Dobby were offered their first gig today. It was at Party in the Park in Wellingborough but unfortunately the whole band are going to see Genesis on the same day at Twickenham so we've had to turn it down. Shame!

1st Dobby Outing

26/04/2007

The first official Dobby outing occurred last night when we went to see the fantastic Porcupine Tree at The Junction in Cambridge. Porcupine Tree are, as is said, the best band you've never heard of. Go and see them, dammit! Buy their albums!

baddobby.com Launched

26/04/2007

Unleashed to the world, Bad Dobby are here! Now the website is live our bid for global recognition is begun.