CASTELL ROC 2020 presents:
The Mighty SKID ROW / Hollowstar & Collateral – Friday 14th August
LA VOIX / The Dolly Show & Richard Morton – Saturday 15th August
‘TWIST UP!’ – SI CRANSTOUN BAND with support from Navarones – Sunday 16th August
&
RUSSELL WATSON – Sunday 23rd August
all performing at CHEPSTOW CASTLE (as of part of the Castell Roc 2020 Festival)
SKID ROW / HOLLOWSTAR & COLLATERAL
Skid Row along with support from Hollowstar and Collateral will rock Chepstow Castle on Friday 14th August.
Rock fans will enjoy an evening, all the way from the USA from The Mighty ‘SKID ROW’, along with support from’ Hollowstar’ and ‘Collateral’, a night not to be missed!
Skid Row…..The first rebellion started in 1986.
New Jersey kids, punk and metal attitude, determined to conquer the world. All for one, banded together with single-minded purpose. The battlefield was the stage, the
songs their arsenal in an us-against-them musical coup d’état.
Top Ten singles. Gold and multi-platinum sales. No. 1 on the Billboard album chart. The world was theirs, the rebellion won, until there was nothing left to fight for — so
they fought each other. Following an ill-advised South American tour in 1996, the band was finished.
But the core camaraderie never died.
“When we put the band back together, we needed to reintroduce Skid Row as relevant without relying too much on past success,” explains bassist Rachel Bolan.
“We wrote songs and hit the road. We sunk our heart and soul into it, letting people know we weren’t doing it for lack of anything better to do.”
Snake Sabo continues, “We seem to be at our best when we’re faced with adversity.
It’s us against the world again — and by us I mean the band and the fans who stick with us and carry the Skid Row torch without fail.”
Now, Skid Row is gearing up to record the final installment of the United World Rebellion trilogy.
Recording new songs means capturing the signature Skid Row energy for drummer Rob Hammersmith. “That sound and energy is what resonates with people and
knocks them on their ass! We have a lot of great ideas to work with, so we’re all really excited about this new music.”
As the energy for the new album and tour is reaching fever pitch, enter ZP Theart. “I’ve been a mad fan of this band since I was a teenager, and to now be a member
of Skid Row, is beyond any sense of my imagination!” “We’ll be hitting the studio to get started on some new material and I’m beyond excited to say the least.
This is a whole new deck of cards and there’s gonna be no holding back!” Theart adds.
Classic dual-guitar teams are a key component of great songs — K.K. Downing and Glenn Tipton. Scott Gorham and Brian Robertson. Dave Murray and Adrian Smith.
Add Snake and Scotti Hill to that list. “Playing as a team for over thirty years, our styles are still as unique as our personalities — as unique as our band,” Scotti says.
“Combine them together on United World Rebellion – Chapter Three and you have the Skid Row guitar sound.”
That sound is rambunctious exuberance. They got older, but Skid Row never really grew up. United World Rebellion – Chapter Three is still the youth gone wild, their
musical spark still burning gasoline.
“I will always be that 16-year-old kid in front of the mirror, pretending to be Ace Frehley or Michael Schenker,” Snake admits. “It’s still about writing a great song
with your friends, praying it connects with someone. That has never left me. That willfulness will always exist, and there’s so much left to say!”
And so the rebellion continues.
For more information on SKID ROW, please visit the following website / social media links below:
Website – https://www.skidrow.com/
Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/OfficialSkidRow/
Twitter – https://twitter.com/OfficialSkidRow
Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/officialskidrow/
You Tube Channel – https://www.youtube.com/user/SkidsTV/featured
LA VOIX
La Voix is the UK’s FUNNIEST RED HEAD and you’ll be in for a treat on Saturday 15th August!
With AMAZING live vocals, La Voix can impersonate and perform some of the biggest divas from around the globe….Shirley Bassey, Judy Garland, Liza Minnelli, Cher & Many More!
For the last 10 years La Voix has performed around the Globe.
La Voix was a Semi- Finalist on Britain’s Got Talent and in 2016 had a cameo role in Ab Fab The Movie.
La Voix still travels with her show featuring Live Singing, Live Musicians, Hilarious Comedy and the most amazing dresses!
Receiving 5 star reviews, Celebrity Endorsement and sell out audiences.
2017 saw La Voix take on a new challenge of presenting her own Live Chat show, where La Voix interviews live on stage some of the biggest UK Stars. From Christopher Biggins to Jennifer Saunders.
For more information on LA VOIX, please visit the following website / social media links below:
Website – https://lavoix.co.uk/
Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/Lavoixfanpage/
Twitter – https://twitter.com/lavoixtheshow
Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/lavoixtheshow/?hl=en
You Tube Links – La Voix on Britain’s Got Talent – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLBYWqe7sNk and La Voix at London’s Pride Festival – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zBbIJp6WRA
‘TWIST UP! – The SI CRANSTOUN BAND”
On stage on Sunday 16th August, we have the sensational Si Cransoun “King of Vintage” meets The Navarones “Legends of Ska”.
If you love SKA, CLASSIC SOUL, ROCKIN, R&B, then this is a night you will not want to miss….
Never before has this come together as the sensational Si Cranstoun doing what he loves best, setting control from the Golden Era, but also giving us a ‘blast from the past’ with some songs from his Dualers days,
of which we all know and love, such as ‘Kiss on The Lips’ & more – plus support from the incredible ‘Navarones’ as you’ve never heard them before!
If you’re a Si Cranstoun fan, Dualers fan, Navarones fan, or love them all, then you will not want to miss this ‘once in a lifetime event’ as we bring you an unforgettable, utterly brilliant ‘Twist Up’ night.
TICKETS – Standing – £18.50 / Seated – £19.50
For more information on SI CRANSOUN, please visit the following website / social media links below:
Website – https://www.sicranstoun.com/
Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/SiCranstounOfficial
Twitter – https://twitter.com/sicranstoun
Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/sicranstoun/
You Tube Channel – https://www.youtube.com/user/SiCranstoun
RUSSELL WATSON
Russell Watson ‘The Voice’ completes the line-up for Castell Roc 2020.
Having performed with some of the greatest singers in the world at some of the greatest venues, we are delighted that Russell will be taking to the stage at Chepstow Castle.
Never in his wildest dreams could Russell Watson have imagined he would someday, be hailed as one of the world’s most popular classical singers. He was described once by the New York Times, as a performer “who sings like Pavarotti and entertains the audience like Frank Sinatra”, the accolades kept coming but his was not a conventional route to stardom.
Russell left school at the age of sixteen with no qualifications and spent the first eight years of his working life in a factory making nuts and bolts. His desire to escape the monotony of the shop floor led him to clubland where he spent nine years treading the boards, learning his trade and entertaining audiences nightly. He spent his evenings performing and his days honing his vocal skills. Russell has trained with some of the UK’s leading vocal coaches, namely, David Dubrey (RNCM), William Hayward (RCM) and Patrick Mcguigan. In the USA Seth Riggs and more recently Kate Gavaghan, Estill vocal coach.
Since the year 2000, he has released eleven studio albums. His debut album ‘The Voice’ raced up the UK charts and held the number one spot for a world record 52 weeks. At the same time, Russell held the number one spot in the USA, making him the first British male artiste to attain a simultaneous transatlantic number one. ‘The Voice’ subsequently became the first and only album by a UK classical artiste to achieve 1,000,000 sales!
His second studio album ‘Encore’ soon followed, respectively replacing the voice at the top spot. It became an even greater success selling almost two million copies worldwide and held the UK top spot for 36 weeks. During this period Russell was rewarded with various awards including, four Classical Brits.
His career has seen him perform for some of the world’s leading figures. From Presidents to Popes and Emperors to Queens. The list includes, HM The Queen, HRH The Duke of Edinburgh (to whom he is an ambassador for the Dukes Fellowship Charity), HRH Prince Charles (where he is an ambassador for the Prince’s Trust), the late Pope John Paul II who requested a private audience with Russell at the Vatican, former US presidents Bill Clinton, George W Bush and Barak Obama. The Emperor of Japan, the president of Uzbekistan and the king of Malaysia.
He has an exceptionally strong link with prestigious sporting events. 1999 saw him sing at Manchester United’s Old Trafford to a crowd of 60,000, it was the clubs treble winning season. In the post match report respected sporting journalist Paul Hince wrote of Russell, “You know when you have witnessed something special, when even the cynical hacks in the press box rise to their feet and join the ovation. I swear, even the pigeons on the roof of the stands flapped their wings when he belted out the last invert of Nessun Dorma”. This triggered a series of sports-related performances, from the 1999 Champions league final at the Nou Camp stadium, the rugby union World Cup, England’s FIFA World Cup bid and the rugby league challenge cup final. After a string of appearances at Wembley-stadium, one journalist was quoted as saying “there’s only one person to have appeared more times at Wembley stadium than David Beckham this year, and that’s Russell Watson!”
Among other prestigious appearances was a performance at the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games in 2002, where he sang to a worldwide TV audience of one billion. Buckingham Palace for the Queen’s Coronation Gala Festival in 2013, The BBC Proms in the Park 2002 and 2015, The National Memorial Day Concert, Capitol Hill Washington to a live audience of 350,000 and the opening ceremony of the world games. Russell is the only UK artiste to have appeared on the PBS televised 4th July celebration concert, this saw him sing to a live audience of over 500,000.
Collaborations include Meatloaf, Lionel Richie, Sir Paul McCartney, Lulu, Aled Jones, Alexandra Burke, Shaun Ryder and the late, great Luciano Pavarotti.
His performances in stage shows have also earned him great critical acclaim. He played Parson Nathaniel in Jeff Wayne’s War of the Worlds arena tour. A run of shows in New York City saw him play the role of Karl Oscar in Benny and Björn’s ‘Kristina‘. The New York Times stated, “Watson’s ‘Puccini ready voice was crystal clear“. His collaboration with Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg, meant he fulfilled a lifetime ambition to work alongside the writers of the world’s most successful musical ever, Les Miserables.
On top of all this and unbeknown to most, Russell is the voice behind the iconic Star Trek series Enterprise. Russell sang the first ever vocal soundtrack for Star Trek demonstrating the versatility of his gift once more. His voice was used more recently in December 2014 to wake up The New Horizons Pluto Probe. No other voice in history has been heard further from our planet.
Russell’s eleventh studio album has seen him collaborate with long- time friend Aled Jones. The CD ‘In Harmony’ was the best-selling classical crossover record by a UK artiste of 2018! He continues to sell out venues all over the UK and indeed the world.
A rare talent not to be missed!
For more information on RUSSELL WATSON, please visit the following website / social media links below:
Website – http://russellwatson.com/
Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/RussellWatsonOfficial
Twitter – https://twitter.com/russellthevoice
You Tube Channel – https://www.youtube.com/user/russellwatsontv
Internationally recognised for its relaxed atmosphere and wide variety of shows.
Tickets for the above Castell Roc – August 2020 shows are available from:
‘THE MIGHTY’ SKID ROW / Hallowstar and Collateral
Friday 14th August 2020
CHEPSTOW CASTLE
Box Office No: 01291 627122
Website – http://www.castell-roc.co.uk/shop-2
Doors – 6.30pm / Time: 7.30pm
Tickets – £30.00
LA VOIX / The Dolly Show and Richard Morton
Saturday 15th August 2020
CHEPSTOW CASTLE
Box Office No: 01291 627122
Website – http://www.castell-roc.co.uk/shop-2
Doors – 6.30pm / Time: 7.30pm
Tickets – £19.50
SI CRANSTOUN BAND
Sunday 16th August 2020
CHEPSTOW CASTLE
Box Office No: 01291 627122
Website – http://www.castell-roc.co.uk/shop-2
Doors – 6.30pm / Time: 7.30pm
Tickets – £19.50
RUSSELL WATSON
Sunday 23rd August 2020
CHEPSTOW CASTLE
Box Office No: 01291 627122
Website – http://www.castell-roc.co.uk/shop-2
Doors – 6.30pm / Time: 7.30pm
Tickets – £30.00
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