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It’s Time To Plug In & Turn On Again!

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Hello everyone! Dave (bass) from Mama here.

As we pass the one year anniversary of the UK first going into lockdown, we here at Mama HQ thought we should bring you up to speed with all things relating to the band. Our last live performance was at The Core Theatre in Solihull and we never dreamed that it would be over a year before we would all get together again.

Like most people the start of being in lockdown was a novelty. It was perfect for doing all those jobs around the house you had been meaning to do. Alternatively, listening to all those albums you hadn’t played in ages. However, eventually the attraction of Zoom meetings wears off and our natural instincts began to kick in. We needed to do something musical.

Our current gig list

All our shows for 2020 and the start of 2021 were postponed and we have been trying hard to re-arrange them for late 2021 or 2022. Some shows we moved forward a year and we have had to move them again, so our gig sheet has been flexible to say the least. We decided this was a good time to review the set list and we have been individually rehearsing several new Genesis numbers to add to the set.

One of the big disappointments for us was that we did not have an opportunity to play live any of the songs from the album we released in January 2020. “Worlds of Yesterday” was released by Mama under the name Moonshot and we had hoped to slip into our set the odd song from the album. We will probably play some of those songs when we get back on the road.

Speaking of being back playing live, all being well our first show should be on the 21st August 2021 at Alhambra Live in Morecombe – we can’t wait to be back on stage! Tickets here.

See our latest gig list here.

As well as rehearsing new, old and very old Genesis songs at home, we have been writing some new original music which may see the light of day as another Moonshot album. John Wilkinson, John Comish and myself have been working together remotely on some new Moonshot songs and when we can eventually meet up we will set about recording them for a possible release.

Onwards & upwards!

The band and crew are really looking forward to meeting up with you all at our shows later this year and next year. We are aiming to return to some of our favourite venues including The Atkinson in Southport, Heswell Hall on the Wirral, The Floral Pavillion in New Brighton and The Green Room in Kinross amongst others.  In the meantime I need to get back to those albums I haven’t heard in a while. Now, where did I put my vinyl copy of “Smallcreep’s Day”?

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Photos from Heswall Hall shows

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At the weekend, Mama performed two shows at Heswall Hall on The Wirral. Both shows were sold out and we had a cracking audience, which really made for a great show all round.

On top of that, Moonshot also debuted their brand new album on the Saturday night which went down really well!

Friend of the band, Peter Lovatt was kind enough to shoot some photos for us at both shows. Check them out below!

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Dance on a Volcano – a Breakdown

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Here at Mama HQ, we’ve been enjoying our traditional Summer break – you know…. rain, rain, rain and more rain!

As you know, we don’t generally put shows into the diary for the Summer months but that doesn’t mean we stop working altogether. Far from it. Often we are discussing the set list and how we can change it in the future or maybe ideas on how we can improve our show and add things to it to make it even more spectacular. Often, we get involved in other musical projects because each member of the band has such projects going on.

But today, we wanted to share a cool video we found on YouTube. Whilst this video wasn’t produced by Mama, it does a really great job of illustrating in great detail, just how much work goes into each track we perform live. We figured some of you would really enjoy seeing what goes into a Genesis track and hence, getting an insight into the musical genius of Genesis music.

If only Rick Beato would produce these videos for all Genesis tracks – it would certainly make our lives so much easier! How about it Rick?  🙂

Want to check out some more cool videos from Rick Beato? Head over to his YouTube channel here: www.youtube.com

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Mama at The Lowry, Salford (2019)

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The whole show, for your pleasure!

We’ve never done this before…. Posted a video of an entire show in one go! So, we hope you enjoy our set at The Lowry. make sure you switch the video to full HD quality, if it’s not by default.

Special thanks to everyone who turned out to see us. Thanks for also bearing with the emergency services who were rather busy closing all roads leading to the venue. We know it was a lot harder to reach the venue than it should have been, so it’s great that so many of you made it to the show.

We filmed this on a pro HD video camera and used but ambient and desk audio mixed together to give it a bit of atmosphere. The full set list looks like this:

First Half

Deep In The Motherlode
Land of Confusion
Carpet Crawlers
Squonk
Behind The Lines
Duchess
Guide Vocal
Turn It On Again
No Son Of Mine
Follow You Follow Me
Domino

Second Half

Mama
Lamb Lies Down on Broadway / Musical Box (outro)
Fading Lights
Home By The Sea / Second Home By The Sea
I Know What I Like
Sledgehammer
In The Cage / Cinema Show / Slippermen / Afterglow
Dance On A Volcano / Los Endos / Suppers Ready (outro)
The Knife

Feel free to leave a comment in the comments section below. We\’d love to get your feedback on our show.

In The Cage Medley – Wigan 2019

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Wigan Rocked!

We just wanted to thank everyone who came to our show in Wigan. Much appreciated! As always, we had a video camera running at that show, so we pulled out In The Cage Medley from that film and posted it here for everyone to enjoy. The video has ambient audio recorded on the night.

Next Show

Our next show is also fairly local to Wigan. We\’ll be at The Lowry in Salford, Sunday 26th May 2019. That\’s less than two weeks off! If you want tickets to see the show, stop by the theatre box office here: www.thelowry.com

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Deep in the Motherlode – Colne 2019

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A Weekend of Genesis Music – Kinross 2019

Today we are publishing a video from our most recent show at Colne Muni. Hope you like the opening track to our show – Deep in the Motherlode!

This weekend, we are once again travelling up to Kinross to do our annual weekend of Genesis at Backstage at the Green Hotel. We always have a superb time performing in Kinross and two nights of shows allows us to relax a bit and have a laugh, take in some local sights and hit the coffee shop by the waters edge. Bliss, you might say!

So, want tickets to the show? Perhaps you want to take in a round of golf at one of the many stunning courses in the area and finish your night off with a Genesis party? Kinross is where you need to be!

Tickets for the shows are available here:

www.mundellmusic.com

2019 marks the year we will be performing two Genesis sets with minimal crossover between the Friday night and Saturday night. No doubt we will also throw in a few surprises along the way too.

Roll on Friday… See you there!  🙂

Dance on a Volcano!

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Video from our first show of 2019 at Romiley Forum, Romiley!

We are dancing, on a volcano, in Romiley. Why anyone would actually want to do that in the literal sense, is beyond us. But nevertheless, we are. Sort of.

Wigan show, now on sale

Also newsworthy… We put our Wigan show on sale today. Already, people are buying tickets. There\’s an early bird discount code available – MAMA17, which will get you two Earth pounds off your tickets. Be warned, there\’s only twenty of these available, on a first come, first served basis. So grab them tickets pronto! Tickets on the door are £21.00.

Wondering about the venue? Well, it\’s practically brand new and state-of-the-art. It\’s called The Edge and it\’s in the town centre, about two minutes walk from the main railway station and three minutes walk from the other station (what do Wiganers call the other station, so they don\’t get confused? I\’m not sure).

The date: Saturday 4th May 2019

The venue: The Edge Venue, Wigan

Tickets (£19.00 – no booking fees): www.eventbrite.co.uk

Hope you enjoy the video!  🙂

Romiley Forum, 16th February 2019!

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Mama will soon be starting their 2019 dates! First up, Romiley Forum on the 16th February 2019. We made the above video at a rehearsal we had a couple of weeks ago, just to give you an idea of the tracks we are working on for 2019. Enjoy!

In the meantime, please feel free to check out our immediate up and coming shows. We\’ve mentioned Romiley, but there\’s also some more to think about:

Saturday 23rd February 2019 – Trinity Arts Centre, Gainsborough

Saturday 9th March 2019 – Colne Muni, Colne

Saturday 20th April 2019 – The Atkinson Theatre, Southport

Plus we\’ve got the first of two whole weekends in Kinross:

29th & 30th March 2019 – Backstage at the Green Hotel

All of these shows are currently onsale and tickets are shifting, so get yours now. You can find links to the box offices on our shows page.

Hope to see many of you on the road, partying with us to the music of Genesis!

 

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Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!

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A New (old) Genesis Set List

The band have been hard at work discussing plans for next years shows and the gig list is looking pretty full. We decided to focus a bit more on older Genesis tracks for 2019 because we haven’t made a lot of changes to the set list over the last couple of years, with regards to some of those Genesis classics. We’re hoping to have new tracks ready to go for our very first show of 2019 at The Forum Theatre in Romiley. Mid February suddenly doesn’t seem so far away!

Cancelled Shows? Not So!

In other news, you may have noticed that we had to cancel our March 2019 shows at Backstage at the Green Hotel in Kinross. The reason for this was mildly complex, but first we’d like to apologise to everyone who booked tickets to see these shows. We’d also like to announce that these shows are in fact no longer cancelled and you can once again buy tickets for them!

Confused? Or maybe, Misunderstanding?

Allow us to explain… We really look forward to our shows at Backstage at The Green Hotel in Kinross because there aren’t any shows quite like them anywhere else. This was the reason we booked two weekends in 2019. David (the venue promoter) runs what we consider one of, if not the best venues in the UK, which is why we were extremely reluctant to postpone or cancel.

Until very recently, our gig list was practically set in stone. However, the musicians that make up Mama are also members of several other bands and one of those bands got an amazing opportunity to do a short tour of South America, leaving us without key members. The dates clashed with our March Kinross dates. As Mama is ultimately a semi professional show (in other words, we don’t do this Genesis thing to make money, we do it for the love of Genesis music), it seemed very unfair to our musicians to deny them a lifetime opportunity to do a South American tour. We therefore reluctantly tried to postpone the Kinross shows and when that could not be done, we had to cancel them.

Those pesky South Americans!

Fast forward a couple of weeks and it turns out that the promoter running the South American tour has not been able to finalise the dates that clashed, which means we are once again able to run our weekend of shows in Kinross. Unfortunately for us and for David, we’d already cancelled and informed everyone who had bought a ticket, which incurred costs to the promoter, not to mention disappointment here at Mama HQ and with yourselves, the people who had already bought tickets to see our show. We’re really sorry about that. The good news however, is that we can once again put our Kinross shows back into our diary and they are again available to purchase tickets for. We have advised the South American promoter that we won’t be able to keep switching dates around, so there is no reason why these shows will now not happen.

Once again, we are sorry for cancelling our shows and sorry to the promoter (sorry David). We hope we’ve at least party addressed the disappointment to people who bought tickets, by putting the shows back on sale and we hope to see many of you at our Kinross shows in March 2019 for what promises to be two nights of Genesis (two different sets, with very limited crossover). With the new direction of our 2019 set list, it’s exciting times ahead!

Please continue to support your local promoter (Mundell Music), his venue (The Green Hotel) and Mama, to continue promoting the music of Genesis, live on stage. We love performing our show and meeting all the like minded people who come to celebrate with us. Wishing you a happy, peaceful Christmas and a prosperous New Year!

JV, Dave, John W, James, John C and everyone at Mama HQ.

New Brighton Highlights Film

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New Brighton Rocks!

Just wanted to say thanks to everyone who came to see our show at The Floral Pavilion in New Brighton. What a show it was, largely due to the amazing audience. This venue never lets us down.

To celebrate, we’ve put together a quick highlights video that showcases some of the moments from the show – see above! As often as we can, we run a video camera to provide us with footage to share here on our website and this show was no different. If you would like to see a particular song in full from our New Brighton show, please let us know in the comments below. We’ll try our best to get the footage up on the website as fast as we can.

Vote now fellow Genesis fans!  🙂

And finally, don’t forget we have another show coming up this weekend. Saturday 6th October 2018 sees us return to The Core Theatre in Solihull. This is another great venue for us, so grab your tickets now and let’s get another Genesis party going. Hope to see some of you there.

Mama Genesis Tribute Band at the Core Theatre Solihull

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