Past gigs include (but not limited to!): Coldplay, Muse, Franz Ferdinand, Lost Prophets, Klaxons, Biffy Clyro, Placebo, S*M*A*S*H*, Supergrass, Bluetones, Elbow, Elastica, Super Furry Animals, Catatonia, Babybird, The Automatic, Bloc Party, Editors, Feeder, The Feeling, Sleepy Jackson, Longview, Do Me Bad Things, Nine Black Alps, iForward Russia!, Boykillboy, The Departure, The On-Offs, Breaks Co-op, Mendeed, Enter Shikari, Simple Kid, Graham Coxon, Ocean Colour Scene, Beautiful South, The Subways, The Damned, Spiritualized, The Levellers, The Mission, The Libertines, The Rakes, Boy Kill Boy, The Selecter, Echobelly, Shed 7, Mansun, Teenage Fanclub, Fightstar, The Modern, Sneaker Pimps, Dodgy, The Cranberries, Sleeper, The Ordinary Boys, Gene, Therapy?, My Vitriol, The Cooper Temple Clause, The Music, Electric Soft Parade, Urusei Yatsura, Babes in Toyland, The Boo Radleys, Bad Manners, Anti-Nowhere League, Towers of London, The Rifles, Goldrush, Louie, The Dears, The View, Bromhead's Jacket, The Switches, Sonic Boom Six, Raging Speedhorn, Gallows, The Whip, GoodBooks, Shy Child, Ali Love, The Dead Sixties, Cajun Dance Party, Dan Le Sac vs Scroobious Pip, Glen Tilbrook, Richmond Fontaine, Holy Fuck, Crystal Castles, The UK Subs, Does it Offend You, Yeah?, Lethal Bizzle, Look See Proof, Metronomy, Johnny Foreigner, Glasvegas
TO ALL BANDS WISHING TO PLAY ESQUIRES: IF YOU MESSAGE THIS ACCOUNT YOU WILL BE IGNORED. For gig enquiries, please email Pete@bedfordesquires.co.uk Please include basic band details (where you are from etc) but don't send MP3s or other large files. Just to reiterate, do NOT message us via myspace as we cannot forward these onto the relevant promoters.
Welcome to the BedfordEsquires MySpace page. Since Esquires opened it's doors almost twenty years ago, the dressing rooms have been graced by the likes of Coldplay (twice!), Muse, Franz Ferdinand, The Libertines, Lost Prophets, Travis, Supergrass, The Beautiful South, Graham Coxon, Elbow, Super Furry Animals, Bloc Party, Klaxons, Editors and many more. In recent months Esquires has hosted gigs by many of the hottest new bands, such as Jack Penate, Les Savy Fav, Hadouken!, Los Campesinos, Lightspeed Champion, Art Brut, Joe Lean and the Jing Jong Jang, Late of the Pier, Enter Shikari, Shy Child and Glasvegas.
Esquires is also host to regular club nights. On a Friday you can dance the night away at the Fuzzbox, playing the 'greatest hits of Esquires', and on a Saturday the place to be seen is the Kaleidoscope, playing all the latest alternative tunes from the hit parade. If that isn't enough for you, there are regular 'impromptu' nights catering to all tastes, metal, brit pop, motown & northern soul nights regularly featuring in the listings.
By signing up as one of our mates, we'll endeavour to keep you up to date with everything going on at the club, as well as giving you the opportunity to listen to some tracks by forthcoming artists.
Don't forget to check BedfordEsquires.co.uk for news and reviews from Bedford's Premier Live Music Venue.
For Good Measure: For gig enquiries, please email Pete@bedfordesquires.co.uk We cannot forward your MySpace messages on to the relevant promoters.
RE:ORDER (New Order Tribute Band) + Special Guests Prozac Nation + A Night Of Manchester Music ; from The Smiths to Joy Division to The Stone Roses and beyond ... Esquires, Bedford. Sat. 22nd November. £7 on door. 8pm - midnight then free entry to Alternative Club downstairs.
BLACK PLANET's 1st Anniversary - Fri 5th Sept - @ The Bear, Bedford - FREE ENTRY!
Black Planet @ The Bear is still going strong so please don't miss out our next night as it will be Black Planet's 1st Anniversary with lots of balloons, free food and a permanent wall projected photography exhibition including various artist photographers and a Black Planet retrospect (never know, you might see yourself on that wall) and most and foremost a truly STELLA line-up of GUEST DJ's: NEPHILIMBABE (The Coven, Luton), WANDERLUST, STEPHAN and MR PROZAC (hopefully not playing any Prozac Nation songs in his Set ... LOL !!!!!).
COME AND CELEBRATE WITH US!! FRIDAY 5th SEPTEMBER @ THE BEAR 92 HIGH STREET, BEDFORD 8PM till 1AM FREE ENTRY!
Don’t forget! You can also buy discounted advance tickets for The Last Dance gig on Sat 18th of October (supported by The Ghost of Lemora and Torpedoes) @ Esquires Level 2 at the reduced price of £5 instead of £7 when you attend BLACK PLANET @ The Bear. Please don't hesitate to approach a member of staff or even CyberAndy should you wish to benefit from this special offer. Two quality dark/alternative nights in the same month for a fiver... now that is affordable luxury and dark indulgence that you can't afford to miss!!
Nationwide Mercury Prize have now announced the shortlist for Album of the Year. Who do you think should win from the list below?
ADELE, BRITISH SEA POWER, BURIAL, ELBOW, ESTELLE, LAURA MARLING, NEON NEON, PORTICO QUARTET, RACHEL UNTHANK & THE WINTERSET, RADIOHEAD, ROBERT PLANT & ALISON KRAUSS, THE LAST SHADOW PUPPETS.
Let us know by voting on the poll on our page.
NMP x
This is it folks, The last ever hungry bears is next week with Partyshank vs Glamour for better, We have had some great shows on over the last year Late of the pier, Les Savy Fav, Metronomy, Glasvegas, The Whip, Crystal Castles, Holy Fuck, Hadouken, Does it Offend You Yeah, Lightspeed Champion, Joe Lean, Shy Child, Wild Beasts but its time to move on. But we are not going out without a fight so on Wednesday 6th Aug we will be bringing you
Partyshank Partyshank were recently voted the Number 1 band for 2008 by both Myspace and NME. Loved by Justice and Soulwax currently winning fans world wide.
Partyshank’s debut single ‘Virgin’ is out on August 19th
Glamour for Better Glamour for Better have held onto the Number 1 spot in the MTV2 Chart for the second week running with their forthcoming single ‘Ryan Vs Roundabout’, which is out Now!!!
