The Ugly Dog Skiffle Combo

The Lonnie Donegan Official Website Lonnie Donegan MBE, the King Of Skiffle and 'first real British pop superstar' was born on 29 April 1931 and celebrated his 50th year in the music business in 2001. He shot to fame in 1956, when Rock Island Line sold an unprecedented 3 million copies, shooting into the British and American top ten. Britain had never heard anything like it and youngsters were hooked.

Paul Leegan Band - A Lonnie Donegan Tribute The first Lonnie Donegan tribute band. Great, authentic Lonnie Donegan sound. http://www.skiffle50.co.uk 1957 was the year in which the seeds of British popular music were sewn. Budding musicians, who were to dominate the world of popular music in years to come, were badgering their parents to buy them guitars, mandolines and banjo's, make them a tea chest bass or hand over grandma's washboard.

Doghouse Skiffle Group For my money, this is the coolest skiffle band on the circuit today. Not just a great sound but 5 star entertainment live. Ministry of Rock Great website covering rock music ( including skiffle ) from the fifties onwards. Loads of information. The Monuments skiffle / country rock music based on the South Coast of the UK who have recently released an 8-track skiffle album entitled Gone Buskin'.

Billy Goat Gruff Superb bluegrass band from the USA playing original material...and using a washboard. Their CD "Wild and Overgrown" is a must.

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Vince Eager Vince became a household name with over 100 TV appearances on shows such as Six Five Special, Oh Boy and Drumbeat. Vince released 14 singles and 5 albums. Many of today's compilation CD's feature Vince's 1959 - 61 recordings. Vince also played with Lonnie Donegan on his last ever show.

Terry & Gerry As in washboard, battered bull fiddle, unkelele, geetars and a whole stack of brand new hootenanny classics scraped, thumbed, twanged, crooned and yodelled by an up'n'coming combo by name Terry & Gerry.

Railroad Bill The UKs Hottest Skiffle Group!

KC Moaners featuring various instruments including funnel (blue-blowing), kazoo, washboard, ukulele, washtub (gutbucket) bass, tenor guitar, hawaiian guitar, nosewhistle etc.

Kick 'n' Rush Comedy Skiffle Band Skiffle, Comedy, Folk and Rock 'n' Roll with their influences stretching from Lonnie Donnegan and Woody Guthrie through to the Beatles.

The Gutter Bothers One of the most successful skiffle based bands of the last decade or so having recorded soundtracks for 'Gone to the dogs' and an 'only fools and horses' special. Rage Against The Poteen 2/3 piece band from Thames Valley, England working regularly around the pub circuit in Surrey and Berkshire.

The Ugly Dog Skiffle Combo Norfolk based Skiffle and Bluegrass band.

The Quarrymen On Saturday, July 6 1957 John Lennon and his band, the Quarrymen Skiffle Group, played at St. Peter's Church, Rose Queen Garden Fete in Woolton in the suburbs of Liverpool. Later that day he met Paul McCartney and the seeds of the greatest partnership in popular music were sown.

Ode and the Be Bops Swindon's No1 Skiffle Group!

Chas McDevitt One of the few groups to have come through both the jazz club and coffee bar environment, the Chas McDevitt Skiffle Group was the only other British skiffle group, along with Lonnie Donegan, to achieve success in the U.S.A.

The Vipers Info on the legendary Skiffle Outfit who were probably Lonnie Donegan's main competion in the late 1950's.

The London Philharmonic Orchestra "Using a wealth of instruments they have created a show which is a guaranteed good time for one and all! (An eclectic mix of music with influences ranging from Soho coffee bars to the Royal Festival Hall, the Emerald Isle to the Louisiana swamps, the Russian Steppes to Bedrock)."

Get yer Washboards here!!! Carbolic Soap Co. Carbolic Soap Co. is proud to announce that we are the exclusive distributors of these washboards in the UK. Our new range is now in stock at our warehouse in the UK and is available for immediate despatch.

Musical Saw & Theremin Kick off your shoes and make yourself comfortable as you cybersurf through the electromagnetic fields of the theremin and along the vibrating edge of the musical saw!

British Rock 'n' Roll and Skiffle Singles This looks like a pretty comprehensive list to me!

Raucous Records This is the label That Skiffle Revival was released on. Thanks Howard for your support in this project.

RU Rhythm Board? Want to get your hands on some cool washboard gear? Check this out for a whole range of Washboards.

Carole Noakes Music You can get washboards and some other unusual musical instruments here!

Mosam Skiffle Train The Mosam Skiffle Train" consists of five musicians who practically all were caught up in the skiffle rage of the fifties of the last century and now on the edge of the new millennium have again taken up their old passion.

Basin Street Sheiks. New Orleans' Only Premier Jugband. being a crude amalgamation of Skunkbucket LeFunque, Spinal Tap and the Rutles whilst abusing time-honoured traditions of jugband, blues, hokum and gullible audiences.

7th Hamburger Skiffle Festival!

Old Boys Skiffle

Puttin' on the style This website is full of great Rock 'n' Roll resources.

Skiffle.net Skiffle.net developed from the sides of the Hamburg Skiffle Festival and the old Boys Skiffle corporation. Skiffle and relatives handmade music is the topic. The Design is simple, in order to keep the load time short. An important component is the new Skiffle panel. There one can enter or answer questions or contributions directly. Who would like to contribute something, is cordially welcome. To all contributions and naturally also criticism looks forward: Tilman Virgin, net master.

Neva River Rockets Neva River Rockets hillbilly trio was formed in summer 2000. The line up initially was: Kirill Prasalov (lead guitar, vocals), Peter Mironov (upright bass) and Nicholai Potapov (drums). Before NRR its members had played in various jazz and rock bands and that defined the high professional level of the trio from the very start.