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HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Jan 032012

Hi Guys,

Happy New Year to you all and welcome to 2012. We hope you all had a good Christmas and New Year and have a great year ahead.

This Christmas was nice for us as we all spent time with families and close friends eating and drinking far too much. And thankfully none of us woke up to a lump of coal on Christmas day, as Santa looked kindly on us all and we got some very cool new toys to play with. On New Years Eve everyone went out and partied very hard which lead to us all sleeping for the majority of New Years day (not together of course).

Also, we hope you guys all managed to download the Live pre-production version of Heaven. So many of you did and we have been bombarded with messages to add it to our Live show. I am sure it will find its way into our set very soon.

So, what can you expect from SUMMERS this year?

We will be touring so we can get to meet more of your guys. Not just in the UK, we aim to take the Summers show to the USA and Europe.
We’re also in talks with more festival organisers.
Our album ‘364’ WILL get released this year. We promise…
We will finish off the writing phase for the second Summers album and start to record it.
A new photo shoot and even more Free Stuff will be uploaded for you guys.

Thank you all for your support in 2011. You made it an amazing year for us and we have a good feeling about 2012, and with you guys backing us, it’s destined to be a wicked year.

Summers

XxXxX

Xmas giveaway

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Dec 212011

Hi Guys,

We can’t believe another week has passed. As some of you know we trekked up to London town on Wednesday to watch 3 of our favourite bands. We were on a high for the entire show. It is a rarity to see 3 rock giants in one show, and we’re pleased to say we were there and bought the t-shirt (then Ricky lost it).

Steel Panther opened the show and were a great support act as they really got the crowd going (and many people considered them the best band of the night). Motley Crüe had an awesome stage show, which included the drums on a roller coaster, and Def Leppard just churned out hit after hit and had everyone on there feet singing along.

The best thing about seeing great bands is that it inspires us to get in the studio and write. So we decided to spend Sunday doing just that. It was a very productive day (surprising we know) and we are racking up a nice little catalogue of songs for the second album.

Now, we have never done this before BUT, as you guys have been SO good to us throughout 2011 with all your continued support, we wanted to do something to say thank you. So we have decided to upload a pre-production version of a song called ‘Heaven’ which is available to all our registered members to download for FREE.

It was done and dusted within a few hours this weekend but as it’s a Live acoustic version with warts and all, it will only be featured until Monday 26^th December (Boxing day). Then, as they say on those amazing adverts “we will destroy the plates, so you will own a limited edition coin” (or something like that). Well we won’t do any destroying, well not intentionally anyway… but we won’t upload the song again. In fact, we could have found a better statement to use but Popey really liked it and wouldn’t let us take it out. Drummers hey… J

Before we wrap up, as mentioned before, you can now check out our interview with La Estadea and see what Crash & Jase have to say.

And finally, we would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Try not to eat and drink too much…cough…yer right…who are we kiddin’… Popey’s got a bottle of Jack Daniels sauce to put on his turkey so he can combine drinking and eating at the same time. Game plan or what! Fingers crossed our next blog will tell you that Ricky got some Christmas presents too. However at the moment, rumours are floating around the North Pole that he has been a bad lad this year…tut tut. If only everyone could be as well behaved and angelic as Crash & Jase…Lol.

Have a good one dudes and dudets!

Summers

XxXxX

Summers Pics + Panther + Motley + Leppard = SWEET!!

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Dec 132011

Howdy Folks,

Here are some photos from the gig at The Brook with Tyketto We would also like to say a huge thank you to the sell out crowd at The Talking Heads on Friday. You made sooo much noise we could not actually hear Popey…Result!!! lol.

This week we are doing a Spanish interview with La Estadea (we can’t speak Spanish but I think Ricky can say “Get your coat love you pulled & my house is your house”)…Anyway We’ll post more information once we know when the interview is going to be published.

Now… from the title of the blog you’ll see we’re off to Wembley to watch 3 of our favourite bands on Wednesday night.

So basically, don’t expect any sense out of us for a few days after the show.

There will be some sore heads and heavy memory loss. Just how we like it and if we see you there.. mines a Jack and Coke as always… LOL …

Crash
XxXxX

Fish Sticks!!!

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Nov 212011

Greetings,

I hope everyone has had a splendid weekend. Popey has collected his new Sonar drum kit, which I must say is pretty awesome. So now the lucky b*****d has 2 of Mikkey Dee’s personal drum kits. Pays to have good mates I guess. LOL.. Mikkey is a top dude and it’s always cool when he say’s to you, ”we need to sort a night out lads”. Motorhead had a great show and we got trashed during and afterwards. We all suggested a Strip club to complete the night but Jase & Crash declined…HAHAHAHA

We had a great 8 hour rehearsal yesterday. It was a long day but we cracked on and got a lot done. I’m still finding it hard to hear anything today as we only know how to play SUPER LOUD.

We have some more great news, not only are we going to be in Classic Rock AOR issue 5, We are now going to have a one page “First Glance” feature in Classic Rock AOR issue 6. Also Headbangers FM (Netherlands) will be interviewing us this Thursday but we will put the links up on facebook so you can tune in and listen.

SHOW UPDATES

Don’t forget to pick up your tickets for our December gigs. We’re kicking off at The Brook on Friday 2^nd and then back at The Talking Heads for the Xmas special with our good friend Jurassic Mark Friday 9^th. If you would like tickets please do not hesitate to contact us.

Have a great week.

Ricky

XxxxX

SUMMERS hang with Motorhead PART II

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Nov 072011

It’s nearly a year since we partied with Mikkey Dee of Motorhead (we’re not worthy… we’re not worthy… sorry) and Steve Conte from Michael Monroe but we’re pleased to say that it’s all about to happen again (minus Mr Conte). The iconic Motorhead are back in the UK. These dudes seriously know how to rock a venue and Popey will be kicking off at the Bristol show as he is finally collecting his new signature Sonar drum kit (Like he needs two), as played by Mikkey Dee himself on the 2010 tour. The rest of SUMMERS will be catching up with Motorhead when they play at The Guildhall in Southampton next week.

Crash and myself are off to London on Wednesday to meet with the lawyers about some pending deals we currently have on the table. However my dear blonde friend has been more occupied in finding out the nearest bars and strip clubs for after the meeting to unwind from a hard days work. So basically… don’t expect any sense from either of us the following day.

Finally… We may be trekking to Manchester this weekend to meet with a potential stakeholder in the band. Obviously I can’t give too much away but as always we’ll keep you updated to the best of our abilities.

Anyway. Happy Monday everyone and enjoy your week!!

Jase
xXxXx

Summers split to cause trouble!

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Oct 312011

Dudes and Dudettes!

We decided to take some downtime this weekend and all parted to cause trouble in different areas of the UK. Crash and Ricky trekked up to Watford with some friends of ours ‘The Buzz Junkies’ and proceeded to drink the bar dry and most likely terrorise anyone in close proximity. Standard stuff really. Popey popped out for a quiet drink and to watch a mates band… BUT if anyone has seen him can you let us know as I think he hit the whiskey around midnight and it usually goes downhill from there. And me …well I did the opposite and chilled the hell out this weekend. I’m having a break from the madness as started training again so trying to be a good boy (let’s see how long that lasts). Crash was NOT happy when I said no to a night out.

This month we’re looking forward to catching up with Motorhead and hopefully repeating the events of last year. We are currently pencilling in a photo-shoot around the middle of the month so we’ll have some brand new shots of us to show you guys. And as you can see, our good friend Bob Gwilliam has spent the majority of his weekend revamping and giving our website a cheeky little spring clean. It is looking great so thanks for your hard work on this Bobbins. We’ll add this to the list of outstanding I.O.U’s we have with you…haha. I think it’s more like a scroll now!!!

Anyway… I’ll be quiet now but have a good week everyone!!

Jase

xXxXx

Summers interview on New York radio

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Oct 242011

WELL…!!

In addition to the updates from last week, we have even more exciting news to tell you all.

Thanks to all of you that have been pushing us and supporting us from all areas of the Globe, your efforts, tweets, likes and comments have gained us interest from various festival organisers in the UK and Europe meaning we will have the opportunity to branch out a lot more during our tours next year. We have been up to our eyeballs in paperwork this week, relating to various deals and exciting new prospects. Whilst the paperwork is a necessary evil – we have been writing new material and working on a fresh new live show which you guys will get to see VERY soon.

Wait…… There’s more……

A guitar manufacturer (for legal reasons cannot be named) have kindly approached us in the form of a sponsorship deal meaning the lads all get to personally design their own hand-built guitars. As you can imagine, we are all very excited about it but there are some worrying ideas being thrown about (mentioning no names…Ricky).

NYC based radio show “The Big Mike Radio Program” will be interviewing us this week. As always, we’ll let you know when the interview will be broadcast so you can all tune in and listen to what we have to say.

SUMMERS have also been featured on the front cover of K*Chele magazine alongside 80’s icon Rick Springfield, and there are discussions taking place with them about possibly sharing the stage with Rick next year in the USA.

As you can see a lot is happening, and there is still more to come which we will mention in later blogs. However, this couldn’t have happened without your continued support. A huge thank you to every Summers fan out there. You simply are the best!!!!

Summers

XxXxX

P.s. Please bear with us while we fix a few technical issues we are having with our Online store. We will be up and running again soon!Summers are also pleased to announce that any fans based in the USA will be able to purchase Official Summers merchandise Online in the very near future…keep checking the website for details of the launch date!