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There is no Eric Burdon but John Steel who has been around from day one and Mickey Gallagher who took over from Alan Price in 1965 are, and Pete Barton does a great job with the vocals!

Expect all the hits...Boom Boom, Don't let me be misunderstood, We've gotta get out of this place, Baby let me take you home, Dimples, I'm cryin', Talkin' about you, Bring it on home to me, It's my life, and of course The House of the Rising Sun.

No matter how far forward music goes, it's always great to look back, and this you can do at the Pavilion with the Animals and Friends

* ON 9th APRIL 2008 ALBERT BROKE HIS RIGHT ARM AND WHILST IT WAS THOUGHT HE WOULD BE OK FOR OUR SHOW ON THE 25th MAY, WE NOW KNOW THAT HE WON'T BE........

Obviously everyone is sorry that this has happened, but we have been able to re-schedule the show for FRIDAY 14th NOVEMBER

If you purchased tickets for the May sell-out show, you can retain them for November, or if you prefer a refund, please return your tickets (BY NO LATER THAN 31st MAY) to the Hailsham Pavilion, George Street, Hailsham BN27 1AE

Telephone 01323 841414

Further information on Albert Lee and Hogan's Heroes website

The Strawbs electric show at the Pavilion will feature Dave Cousins, Dave Lambert, Chas Cronk, John Hawken and Rod Coombes.

This was the line-up that completed the band’s move from folk to pop to prog rock in 1974 with the album Hero and Heroine, which followed the success of the singles Lay Down and Part of the Union that had reached twelve and two in the charts in 1972-73.

In their five-piece incarnation, two very different styles emerge. Cousins supplies the folk element, while Lambert provides the rock - the long hair, power chords, and the occasional Pete Townshend-style leap into the air.

On the face it, the combination shouldn’t work - there is no obvious musical connection, for example, between Witchwood, Cousins’s tale of a bosky ramble in winter time, and the lovelorn, up tempo Heartbreaker, written by Lambert - but somehow it does.

Their voices are very different, but they share a common passion for the music which is clear in complex pieces like Autumn, Ghosts and The River/Down By The Sea when lead vocals are alternated.

THIS IS THE LAST SCHEDULED SPYBOY SHOW BEFORE THE SUMMER BREAK - WE'LL BE BACK AGAIN IN OCTOBER

This is our opening show of the Autumn Season and it is a delight to have Anna Esslemont and the new Uiscedwr (pronounced "ish-ka-dooer") Big Band at the Pavilion.

Three years ago Anna was diagnosed with Aplastic Anaemia, a rare disorder where bone marrow does not produce sufficient blood cells.

Her ongoing treatment has progressed well, but her illness has limited live appearances and delayed the release of their second album.

Many of you will remember our "Silent Auction for Anna and the Aplastic Anaemia Trust" and know that her treatment included a bone marrow transplant in 2006.

Since then she has worked tirelessly to fundraise for the Trust and to raise awareness of the importance of blood and bone marrow donation.

Now comes the Uiscedwr Big Band with Anna's soulmate Cormac Byrne, (bodhran/percussion) who you will have seen alongside Seth Lakeman on many occasions, Dylan Bible and Nick Waldock; Neil Yates formely of Edward II and the Michael McGoldrick Band (trumpet/flugelhorn) and Karen Tweed, possibly the finest exponent of the piano accordion and one of the busiest and most sought-after musicians in folk and world music.

The Uiscedwr Big Band made its debut at this year's Celtic Connections Festival and the hot new arrangements of Uiscedwr's funked-up folk, scat, jazz, Latin, blues, and Yiddish music is guaranteed to get you dancing in the aisles.

To make this night even more special Ric Sanders of Fairport Convention along with Vo Fletcher and Michael Gregory is set to open the show.

Ric joined Fairport Convention in 1985 and before that he spent time with Michael Garrick, The Albion Band and the legendary jazz-rock group Soft Machine.

In addition to “Fairport”, he has appeared with a remarkably diverse roster of artists including Rick Wakeman, The Strawbs, Jethro Tull, Robert Plant, and Roy Harper.

Vo Fletcher has recorded and performed with such notable artists as Nigel Kennedy, Dave Swarbrick, and Donovan, whilst Michael Gregory first sat behind the drum kit with Ric as a fellow member of The Albion Band, then went on to work with John Tam’s Home Service, John Kirkpatrick, Martin Simpson and Maddy Prior.

Songs, rhymes, music and comedy rarely come in the same package, but it all comes to the Pavilion on Sunday 19th October when Richard Digance stops by.

The evergreen comedy and folk entertainer is touring again and he says, "the support is as wonderful as ever, and I’m so pleased everyone is enjoying the new songs."

“I’ve made a huge effort to break the show into new material in the first half and golden oldies in the second. It seems to work.”

Richard was one of the great entertainers of the '70's and trod the folk club boards with the likes of Billy Connolly and Jasper Carrot.

He served a long apprenticeship before becoming a headline act in his own right and has probably supported more acts than anyone else in the world, including Steve Martin, Robin Williams, Steeleye Span, David Essex, Supertramp, Elkie Brooks, Joan Armatrading, Cat Stevens, Jethro Tull, The Allman Brothers, Cher, Roy Orbison, Tom Jones, Mike Oldfield and The Beach Boys.

But while others have come and gone, Richard remains one of Britain’s most respected and evergreen entertainers.

His career has been acknowledged through numerous awards within both the music and entertainment industries, from a BAFTA nomination as a television entertainer to a Gold Award from The British Academy of Composers and Songwriters in 2003, along with Midge Ure and Sir Cliff Richard.

Essentially, it’s just one man (and a guitar), but one with a pantheon of stories that have been gathered over 30 years or so, beginning with the folk circuit, through to when he started making people laugh as a comedy writer for the BBC; the many many albums featuring his comic and serious music, his first novel, "Run Out In The Country", published in 1983, and his autobiography, "A Wealth of Comedy", published in 1999, running up to present day when amongst other things he can always be seen at Fairport Convention's Cropredy Festival and as a regular contributor to the popular TV show Countdown!

See Richard Digance on You Tube

SHOW OF HANDS with Miranda Sykes

The "Spires and Beams" Tour -a tour of England's historic buildings and churches.

Steve Knightley and Phil Beer (Show of Hands) are widely acknowledged as the finest acoustic roots duo in the UK. Knightley, who writes most of their inspired material and Beer, a dazzling multi instrumentalist, have built up a huge following which has seen them twice sell out the Royal Albert Hall , headline at major festivals from Glastonbury to WOMAD and perform all over the world, from Europe to Australia, America to India.

Miranda Sykes is one of the few female double bass players around, and an accomplished guitarist and vocalist; it is these qualities that have led her to become an essential part and "third member" of the Show of Hands line-up.

Look....and listen to Show of Hands

Roots

Tall Ships Medley

The Blue Cockade

The Writing On The Wall is a collaboration between two eminent and respected traditionalists , Tony Benn, now in his eighty fourth year, is Britain’s longest serving MP.

Famously outspoken and often controversial, he spent 50 years in parliament, many of those on the front benches.

Roy Bailey also has a career stretching over 50 years - as a folk singer - and in that time he has appeared all over the world.

He has been described as one of folk music’s finest carriers of the people’s message and interpreters of both traditional and contemporary song - and he has got an MBE to prove it (Just a minute though! - he returned it - back in 2006 - reason - "For our government's failure to call for an immediate ceasefire in the Lebanon and to our complicity with the USA's policy of supporting Israel's actions in Palestine.")

Voted as the “Best Live Act” at the 2003 BBC Folk Awards, Tony Benn and Roy Bailey present a performance of writings, speeches and songs taken from the words of Socialists, Radicals, Chartists, Suffragettes and Revolutionaries that illustrate nearly 1000 years of campaigning for justice, freedom and equality.

It makes compelling listening......

This show has been re-scheduled from Sunday 25th May

"The Grumpiest of the Grumpy Old Men"

Arthur Smith has become one of comedy's elder statesmen: an Edinburgh Fringe stalwart and a club compere since the early days of the alternative scene, he still uses many of the same gags today.

He's also become a regular on Radios 2 and 4, one of TV's Grumpy Old Men, and a writer whose best-known work is the World Cup play An Evening With Gary Lineker.

A "permanent fixture" at the Edinburgh Fringe, his shows include Arthur Smith Sings Leonard Cohen, and Arthur Smith's Last Hangover, about being forced to go teetotal after he nearly died from pancreatitis. Both were subsequently broadcast on Radio 4, where he is also a frequent guest on such shows as Excess Baggage and Loose Ends. On Radio 2 he has presented the long-running Smith Lectures, linking together clips from other comedians.

As well as the Olivier-nominated An Evening with Gary Lineker, which he co-created with Chris England, Smith's other plays include The Live Bed Show, which starred Caroline Quentin and Paul Merton and ran at the Donmar Warehouse.

In 2005, Smith reportedly turned down a lifetime achievement award from the Perrier Award organisers, but in 2007 an exhibition of art from other comedians that he curated won the panel prize from the Perriers' successors, the if.comedy awards.

On Friday 12th December 2008 in the City Hall, Oslo, The Nobel Peace Prize will be awarded by the Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee in the presence of King Harald V of Norway.

This year there is a movement for Pete Seeger to be awarded this honour and through this website we enthusiastically support the movement.

Should you wish to add your support click here and sign the petition. Thank you.

The Choir have performed all over the world and amongst other things have sung on the soundtrack of Disney's “The Lion King”, performed for Nelson Mandela during his famous visit to London, supported Madonna on stage during Live 8, opened the main stage at Glastonbury and put gospel for the first time on the BBC Proms Map.

Enjoy all their favourites....'O Holy Night'...'Angels from the Realms of Glory'...'Silent Night'...performed in their laid-back black gospel style. There are no jingle bells, but there is a real feeling of celebration and their performance will surely leave you emotionally uplifted, spiritually provoked and physically exhausted!