UpDaTE:

4th Christmas Bash for the Deestracks!!!!

TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE FOR BELVEDERE 22ND DECEMBER!!!

Tickets now available at £3 advance £4 on door for the Distractions final hometown gig of the 'Diet Tour' at the Belvedere Club, Bishop Auckland.
Doors open at 7:30pm with chucky out before midnight.
Tickets are first come first seved..
Divnt miss this gig....
........ it'll be as crackers as a satchell of clarts...dig?

 

UpDate – 10th Sep 2007
(well .... 8th August Gaz wrote it, Admin to Lazy to upload it, sorry)

Grand Hotel

Friday 6th July
We would all like to thank eveybody who turned out for the Grand gig.fantastic night...Rock n Roll with pass the parcel..........thanks Mrs Miller for a moment of genius!!

Whamfest 21st July
Blimey...rain..........and rain................and rain.....and clarts..........some great bandstho.....loved The Zoo..........class act.........more rain.........more clarts......a great laff!!!!

Sat 4th August
The Distractions would like to thank Uncle Michael ' Ruddy' Rudd for the pleasuring of playing his birthday bash down at the Belvedere Club. Smashin bunch of friendly people. Particularly Michael...top man!!! Top singer!!!.......We've never seem so many people at he Belver....and at a party !........how many friends does this fella have?!!!

Sunday 5th August
Stu Hindmarch 50 40th a mean.tee hee..........lovely afternoon.really top bunch of folk......really friendly....who were all up for it......we had a top laff on stage with Stu's mates. Big thank you to you all!

UpDate – 27th June 2007

The Distractions are about to embark on ‘I Predict a Diet Tour’ Starting Sunday July 1st at Coundon, Durham Ox and finishing at the Belvedere in Bishop Auckland Sat 22nd December. We have been working on new material both covers and original stuff.
One gig to look out for is The Grand Hotel Friday 6th July with acoustic support from Joe Miller
We are really looking forward to seeing you at some of the gigs lined up….your support is highly appreciated.

Please check out our newly added song list on the site…any recommendations are appreciated as we are always looking forward to arguing over new material!!
Best wishes
GaZ M.

 

We'rE Up aNd AwaY

I've just had a beautiful chille.

Smithy's had a more beautiful wee lassie called Millie.......

Foddy's got a fatha called Billy

And Leigh is on vacation in Caerphilly

we are rehearsing ..and now gigging......(praise be).....and we are ganna be playing shortly...so much so that we got in touch with Harvey Goldsmith regarding our "I Predict a Diet" Tour and he said "Fuck off you fat skinny balding hairy twats, Why would I want to tour manage this carry on?".........so I said "Get up...stand uuppppp, strut your funky stuff y'all".....

He hung up.

See you at the gigs, with your sombrero's and your wigs....love GaZy

LATEST news.......JaN To end of ApRiL

We are busy as owt....doing nowt.......we have stopped gigging for the time
being due to mental illness, medical operations,
broken fingers, having children, making things out of treewood in
prison,eviction and basically get sick of being in a band........

Even more latest news May 07'

We finally decided to get going again cos we love each other so much and
have started to discuss rehearsing .but.....
when tony got trapped in a sash window and broke his mit..........
It looks like we shall rehearse in May and play somewhere in Bish
soon.watch this space...or don't bother
...its up to you really.........

Big up your massive (hehehe - WebMaster!)...............Gary M.

 

Bishop Auckland FC Stadium Christmas Fundraiser – Belvedere club – Bishop Auckland 22nd December .

Tickets are now on sale for the above…available from the club and myself (Gaz 0785 4030 246) priced at £6 with support from a young Bishop Auckland based band – The Bad Apples. A buffet dinner is also included in the price. Get your tickets early as they are going pretty quick already. 7.30pm – 11.30 pm. Give your support to our hometown team and help get them back up there where they belong!.

Hope to see you there..best wishes
Gaz

The Castle Hotel Bishop Auckland 3rd November.

A big thanks to everyone who attended the gig. All the band were ecstatic with the turn out…so a big thanks personally from me!!!

Smithy had a great time on his 40th birthday….and managed to play with 9 pints swilling about inside him. Well done Tony for managing to stay standing.!!! Also a big thanks to Richie for the quality tunes in-between sets. Best DJ in town for me bar none! Finally a big thanks to Andy Ditchfield for wrestling with the bands sound from behind the desk…not easy for a band a shade quieter than The Who.
Best wishes
Gaz

(Thanks for the Thanks - Andy!)

25TH OCT 2006
The Distractions to play at The Castle Hotel, Bishop Auckland, Friday, November 3rd. Support by Joe Miller (solo) - This will be a joint birthday celebration of band members Gary and Tony...Tony being lucky enough to reach 40 years??......Get yourselves down....it'll be a top Night!!!!!
See you all there!!!2