Seatwave, the fan-to-fan ticket exchange started by Joe Cohen and seed-funded by Atlas Venture, is sponsoring the River Rat Pack Tour. From the 1st to 8th of June, a collection of nine of the hottest up and coming bands and artists take to the river sailing from Camden to Oxford and playing gigs along the way, both from the barge deck as well as in venue en-route.
The bands will live, sleep and eat on the barges (beats a tour bus!), and will play free shows at venues along the way. Yes, that’s “free as in beer, not freedom.” We also guarantee at least one new talented musician offspring resulting from packing all these young attractive creative people onto a boat in the summer nights’ heat.
The bands taking part are:
Mumford and Sons
SixNationState
Nat Jenkins
Jay Jay Pistolet
Beans On Toast
The Golden Silvers
Naked and the Boys
Derek Meins
Ally Wolf
Here are the tour dates:
1st June – London, Camden - Lock 17 (4pm – 11pm)
4th June – Henley - The Bull (7pm – 12am)
5th June - Reading - The Oakford (7pm – 12AM)
6th June - Goring - Free riverside show
7th June - Abbingdon – The Stocks (7pm – 12AM)
8th June – Oxford - The Cellar. (7pm – 12AM)
There’s a Seatwave blog dedicated to following the bands, a channel on some site called YouTube (that’s decidedly worse than the best video site ever, DailyMotion) and a MySpace for checking out the tunes. It’s free and you have nothing better to do (I know ’cause you’re reading my blog) so go check out a show. It’s F-R-E-E.
