Category: Shows

A few days after the heady highs of the marvellous Playing On The Farm gig in July, our keyboard player Bill Giles was taken ill and hospitalised.

It is still early days in terms of the long term recovery process, and so it is currently impossible to know at this time when Bill will re-join us on stage. We appreciate this will come as a shock to many of our loyal fans. We wish to stress that Bill is doing well and making progress.

Our brother Bill’s current situation is deeply concerning for all of us in the Dudes, but we are pleased to announce that our good friend Andrew Tsonchev has kindly agreed to step in and keep the piano seat warm until such times as Bill can make a return. He will be playing keys at all our upcoming gigs for the time being. Some of you will have seen Andrew play with us at the Streatham gig in June.

We are most grateful to Andrew Tsonchev for stepping in like this at short notice and allowing us to continue with the Dudes at this current time. Andrew is an excellent musician and we know you will all give him a warm welcome at our upcoming shows.

To be very clear – our gigs will go ahead as planned.

We are sure you will all join us in sending Good Lovin’ to Bill and wishing him a speedy recovery. 

Well well well, it goes to show you never do well. A hurriedly put together show and a new venue for us and you took us to the stratosphere with a fantastic turn out of over 300 deadheads celebrating the best music in the world. The split between Americans travelling over and loyal UK heads was about even with everyone treating everyone else with much respect and family values. The way the UK Dead scene is coming together here 60 years after the first gig in San Fransico for our favourite band is just incredible.
There is lots of media on the web, on facebook, in blogs and even a podcast recorded just for this event so poke around and I’n sure you’ll find the fun.
It was a hot sultry Friday night in South London and the atmosphere was as good as it gets with fine support from the Bog Sky Orchestra playing a great acoustic set before we took the stage area for one of the highlights of our career… so far!

Thank you to everyone making the effort to come and celebrate the Grateful Dead.

With Bobby Weir coming over to London bringing his Wolfpack along to play with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, (21st June) we have been fortunate enough to bag a venue to play a welcome and pre-party show for all the travelling deadheads looking for great music and a place to hang out the day before.
The Crown And Sceptre pub has made itself available and we’ll be playing from 7.00 – 11.00 with the live music starting at 5.00 pm with our good friends, Big Sky Orchestra as support.

Its going to be a fabulous event not to be missed by any UK or Worldwide Deadheads looking to say How Do You Do to as many friends and family as possible.
Tickets are limited to 200 inside the venue, but there is a chance to hear from outside with seating and ample parking for all.
get your tickets by visiting our shows page.

For any Americans coming over for the week, we will be playing our regular show at the Fiddlers Elbow the week before so make sure you get a double dose of the UK Dead scene while you’re here

Thank you to everyone who came out to see us recently in September, Fiddlers Elbow, Hare and Hounds, Hebden Bridge Trades and finally 229 London. It sure was a busy time for us with so many new friends jumping on the bus.
Here’s a couple of shots of guests Rob and Skip from the Dark Star Orchestra who called in at the 229 show

2025 dates

Fri 10 Jan Fiddlers

Fri 07 Mar Fiddlers

Fri 21 Mar Greystones, Sheffield

Sat 22 Mar Hare & Hounds

Fri 11 Apr Fiddlers

Fri 13 Jun Fiddlers

Sat 12 Jul Cirencester

Fri 12 Sep Fiddlers

Sat 13 Sep Con Club, Lewes

Fri 19 Sep Hare & Hounds

Sat 27 Sep Hebden Bridge

Fri 07 Nov Fiddlers

Fri 12 Dec Fiddlers

We sure hope that you can put at least some of these into your diary now. Links and details to follow in the new year

As we approach our 9th anniversary and continue our busiest year to date, and who knows, we may look to tour properly to celebrate our 10fh next year, we want to thank everyone for the wonderful support we continue to feel. We really can’t do what we do unless you do what you do, dancing and hollering and singing at all our shows. We are getting the idea to move into some larger venues soon to give y’all more dancing room but for now let’s just show you what we have coming up this year. The full current list reads:   Sat Jul 13 2024                  Playing on the Farm III, nr Cirencester, Glos Sat Aug 3 2024                 Summer of Love (SoL) Party, nr Hawkhurst, Kent Fri Sep 13 2024                 Fiddler’s Elbow, Camden Town, London Fri Sep 20 2024                Hare & Hounds, Kings Heath, Birmingham Sat Sep 21 2024               Trades Club, Hebden Bridge, W Yorks Weds Sep 25 2024 229 Club, Great Portland St, London (DSO pre-show!) Fri Nov 8 2024                   Fiddler’s Elbow, Camden Town, London Fri Nov 15 2024                 Portland Arms, Cambridge, Cambs   Save those dates!  Links for tickets when available are posted on the Shows page of our website.     Please note that ticket numbers for Playing on the Farm are limited and only available online.  Early bird tickets are now sold out.  No tickets will be available at the gate.  So do book early to avoid disappointment.   Meanwhile we’ve recently posted to our YouTube channel video of the full show at Hebden Bridge last August – multi-camera film and 2-track soundboard.  You can find it and our other videos at:  https://www.youtube.com/@gratefuldudes6378   As ever, many thanks to Peter for his wonderful artwork, please support him by buying a poster from him at our shows. A new merch order will be coming in time for June but we have hats and ssshshshirts available at all times at our online shop and also at out shows, so let your freak flag fly and wear it with pride!

Many thanks to Peter Williams for the art. You can buy prints at the shows

Further to the 2024 London dates already announced, we have a number of fixtures elsewhere – Birmingham, Guildford, Cirencester, Hebden Bridge and Cambridge. 

The current full list of confirmed shows from now through 2024 reads:

Fri Nov 10 2023          Fiddler’s Elbow, Camden Town, London

Fri Jan 12 2024           Fiddler’s Elbow, Camden Town, London

Fri Mar 8 2024            Fiddler’s Elbow, Camden Town, London

Fri Mar 15 2024          Hare & Hounds, Kings Heath, Birmingham

Fri Apr 12 2024           Fiddler’s Elbow, Camden Town, London

Fri Jun 14 2024           Fiddler’s Elbow, Camden Town, London

Sat Jun 15 2024         The Boiler Room, Guildford, Surrey

Sat Jul 13 2024           Playing on the Farm III, nr Cirencester, Glos

Sat Aug 3 2024         Summer of Love (SoL) Party, near Hawkhurst, Kent

Fri Sep 13 2024          Fiddler’s Elbow, Camden Town, London

Fri Sep 20 2024         Hare & Hounds, Kings Heath, Birmingham

Sat Sep 21 2024        Trades Club, Hebden Bridge, W Yorks

Fri Nov 8 2024            Fiddler’s Elbow, Camden Town, London

Fri Nov 15 2024         Portland Arms, Cambridge, Cambs

Save those dates!  Links for tickets when available are posted on the Shows page.  We regret that, for 2024, we have had to increase the standard online ticket price for the Fiddler’s Elbow gigs from £13 to £15.  However, the price of £13 is maintained for Under 25’s.

Please note that ticket numbers for Playing on the Farm are limited and only available online.  Early bird prices are being offered for the first batch.  No tickets will be available at the gate.