MADNESS cover band Nutty Boy revisit the Commercial on Saturday. The place was mobbed the last time they were there, six weeks ago, says landlord Terry Kaye, who will have more staff behind the bar. They play most if not all of the ska band's hits, including One Step Beyond, My Girl, Baggy Trousers, Embarrassment, It Must Be Love and their 1982 number-one House of Fun. Meatloaf cover act Matt Shaw plays his fifth Commercial gig of the year on October 17. It was due to be at Terry's TKO b
WHITBY'S 10ft Tom and the Whiners are back at Cellars on Saturday. They play original material and cover tracks by Bob Marley, Traffic and Paul Weller, among others. The acoustic act are Tom Rice and Dave Shackleton on guitars and vocals, Steve Johns
on on bass and vocals and Luke Pearson on vocals.
VIOLA-playing diva Anni Rossi, who recently opened for the Ting Tings on their UK and US tours, is playing at the Band Room in Farndale on Saturday. Promoter Nigel Burnham says she does "an extraordinary version of Radiohead's Creep" and describes her as "a one-woman whirlwind, the missing link between Joanna Newsom, Frank Zappa and Paganini - only more intense". The support act is 18-year old South Yorkshire singer-songwriter Natasha Johansson. Next at the Band Room is Scandinavian performer Teitur and his band on Saturday November 8. To book, ring 01751 432900 or go to www.thebandroom.co.uk.
PUNTERS will be dancing through the night at the third annual Whitby Soul Weekender, at the Pavilion this week. Northern classics, in-demanders, Motown and rare soul will be played in two rooms from 8pm Friday until 3am Saturday, 9pm Saturday until 6am Sunday, and 1-5pm Saturday and Sunday.
RAY Stubbs' One-Man Blues Band returns to Scarborough on November 8. The gruff Tynesider plays a mixture of boogie, jug-band, ragtime, gospel, delta-country and Chicago blues on a large one-man-band kit. This consists of a foot-operated snare drum and washboard, crash, sock and hi-hat cymbals, a kazoosaphone, bass pedal board, jug, cowbell, bass drum, six- and 12-string guitars, harmonica and vocals. Ray has played all the major blues festivals in the UK and Europe. His gig is at Cellars.
FRENCH guitarist Claude Bourbon will play at the Tap and Spile on Sunday October 19, at 4pm.
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