Next Show!

First I would like to thank everyone who came to the Christmas show at Sachem Library. Hopefully this will become a Vendettas tradition. For those of you that missed the show we rallied a 10 piece version of The Vendettas on stage to play great Rock and Roll Christmas songs as well as our regular show. Pictures and video to come.

For the next bit of news The Vendettas have been invited to help out a group called RTMAS in Riverhead. They are trying to raise money for a no-kill animal shelter. We will be playing a fundraiser for them later this month We are playing two sets starting around 7:00 PM.

The details:

Sat Jan 21, 2012 Riverhead Elks Lodge 1239 E Main St Riverhead NY, $15.00 per person Spaghetti Dinner. You get: salad, spaghetti, meatballs, sauce, Larry's famous clam sauce, bread, dessert, The Vendettas Live, cash bar, raffles and door prizes. Please come join us from 5pm to 10pm to help build our town of Riverhead a new animal shelter

Rock and Roll Christmas Show!

Well, after taking a bit of a break to expand my family by one, The Vendettas are returning to the stage December 4th at the Sachem Library! This will be our biggest show yet with many special guests sharing the stage.

The Program will include Rock and Roll Christmas classics from Elvis, Chuck Berry and The Brian Setzer Orchestra, along with many hit songs from our Rockabilly repertoire.

Start off the holiday season with off The Vendettas' 8 Piece Rock and Roll Christmas Band!

Jay

The Vendettas

photo by Theodore W. Lee

Our Last Hamptons Show of the Summer Season!

Saturday August 6th

CB's Bar and Grill

214 West Montauk Highway

Hampton Bays, New York

Come to Hampton Bays this Saturday to hear your Rockabilly and early Rock and Roll Favorites, Elvis to the Reverend Horton Heat. From the East End's own Rockabilly band, The Vendettas!

If you can't make that show (or one is just not enough) come to Phil's Sports Bar in Wading River, New York for an early show! August 7th at 5:30.

Summer Residency

After two fun shows as CB's of Hampton Bays, The Vendettas will be playing dates there throughout the summer. It is a great crowd, the dancing and singing along kind, so you should come down and join in the fun. The dates are posted on sidebar.

We also had a successful show at the Huntington Public Library. The crowd there was a lot of fun, very enthusiastic. Fios shot the show and interviewed the band afterwords for a show called My Long Island. I have no idea what the footage looks or sounds like ( we don't get final cut) nor do I really remember anything that we said in the interview. Hopefully we were having lucid moment when commenting on the cultural relevance of Rock and Roll and the state of music today. Unfortunately we all live in IO cable land and might not see the show.

We have two more library shows coming up: South Country in Bellport and at the Mastic Moriches Library. These are usually open to all comers, so if the the bars and clubs aren't for you or they are just plain too late, this is a really good alternative.

Vedettas Return to CB's In Hampton Bays!

We had such a great time playing at CB's last month we can't wait to get back there this weekend! We will be doing an afternoon show starting at 3:00PM right after the St. Patrick's Day Parade. Come down for an afternoon of Rock and Roll and Rockabilly favorites from Elvis, Johnny Cash, Stray Cats, Gene Vincent and more! Plus there will be food, dancing and of course refreshing adult beverages!

What would Elvis do?

He would go.

Elvis Tribute Show! New Venues, New Dates!

Hey Everybody

Well the Elvis Show was a success, with somewhere in the ballpark of 40 performers and singers on stage and a tremendous audience (they had to turn people away at the door again this year). The food pantry was able to raise several thousand dollars and got hundreds of donations of canned goods for the needy. Thank you to everyone who came. We would also like to thank Steve Prisco of The Blaggards and The Purple Gang for inviting us again this year. It was great to be a part of the show. As with last years show, we met so many talented and gracious people. It was a pleasure to be there.

We also tried out a new venue, The Fisherman's Rest in Cutchogue. It is right on the main road in town. There is good food there and a great dancing crowd. We are there again next week, check the sidebar for date and time.

The Vendettas also have shows coming up at Phil's restaurant in Wading River, and North shore Public Library in Shoreham NY.

Bonus Show!

We have a late addition to our show schedule: We will be playing a full show at Fatty Beltbuckle's in Rocky point on Wednesday November 25th, the day before Thanksgiving. This hot on the heels of our unscheduled double bill with The Kerry Kearney Band at the same venue.

Following that we will be returning to Matty T's in Deer Park for Rockabilly night on the 28th, the Saturday after Thanksgiving. We will be opening for The Blaggards who are just a great band and a really good bunch of guys. We met them last year at the Elvis show. It will be a great show, the bar is the only place where you can wear a cowboy hat or a pompadour and fit right in.

Speaking of The Elvis Show, The Vendettas have been invited to play at this years edition. The show will be ont Saturday, January 30th, 2010 at Hennesey’s Bar & Grill, located on Jericho Turnpike in Huntington Station. More details to come.

Check out the sidebar for some recently added dates and venues

Vendettas Return to Rocky Point

The Vendettas will be bringing their Roots Rock and Roll and Rockabilly sound back to Fatty Beltbuckles in Rocky Point this Friday, September 11th at 10:00PM The place has great BBQ and is one of the best places locally that one can go to hear live music. Please support all of the bands that play there, but if you can only come to see one band, well, it should be us.

As we enter the beginning of Fall of 2009 we come up on a year that the Vendettas have been playing as a trio. Although it was a bit of a job to loose Lenny's rhythm guitar (he switched to drums) and Jerry's piano, the band was able to make the adjustment within a few shows. Lenny and Chin did outstanding jobs, changing their rolls, taking up the slack and generally keeping their sense of humor during the transition. In a way it makes total sense as many of the bands that we hold in such high regard and try like hell to emulate were trios too. You can't argue with success, have been playing more, learning the songs that the audience has been requesting and finding Rockabilly fans!

Checking out the hits on our website shows that we have people looking at the site and reading the blog from all over the country and all over the world: Ireland, France, South America and so on.

Sign up for our mailing list on our main page, book us, talk to us. Let us know if you have ideas about venues, songs, or other bands we should know about.

Jaybone

Our Next Show!

The Vendettas

This Friday

10:00 PM

Fatty Beltbuckles

49 Rt. 25A• Rocky Point, NY 631-403-4056 •. FattyBeltBuckles. com

Come for the Pork-Stay for the Rock and Roll

The Vendettas Sell Out!

Our Next Show:  The Chowder Pot

104 3rd St
Greenport, NY 11944-1610

(631) 477-1345

We are celebrating our first sold out show!  Our performance at the Roger's Beach Pavillion was completely sold out of all 130 tickets two weeks before the show date. We were happy to be a part of the Summer concert series sponsored by the Westhampton Free Library and owe a big "Thank You" to Nola Thacker and Leslie Millrod who brought us on board. 

We were also fortunate to have Adam Tese join us for the beach show. We met him at the Elvis Tribute Show last Winter, he is a fine Rock and Roll sax player and a hell of a nice guy. Hopefully we will see him on some of our shows in the future. Speaking of the future, our next show is a new venue for us: The Chowder Pot in Greenport, NY.  I hear the food i

s great and we will find out for sure this

 Saturday, July 18th at 7:00 PM.

Above, left to right: Andrew from The Rebel Dead, Adam Tese with us at the sold out beach show and Pat from 2U

Private Party and Guest Stars

OK "star" is such a subjective term, but we did get to play with some other fine musicians at a private Fourth of July party held by a local brewer.  We had Pat Rotolo, the "Adam Clayton Guy" from the excellent tribute band 2U, and we had Andrew Bollerman the ferocious Long Island Punk band, The Rebel Dead, sitting in on drums, such as they are. Lenny's truncated drum set can be disorienting to other drummers, but Andrew persevered.

     As I have said before, we love playing private parties, we get a crowd that is into the music, that gets what we are doing, and will dance. "How do I get The Vendettas to play my private engagement?" you might ask.  Drop us a line right here, we'll play at you freaking house!

 

The Vendettas

This Friday

10:00 PM

Fatty Beltbuckles

49 Rt. 25A• Rocky Point, NY 631-403-4056 •. FattyBeltBuckles. com

Our Next Show
Saturday, November 22nd
The Artful Dodger, Westhampton Beach NY

Blame it on the economy, or political angst or just the fact that we may be impossible to get along with, but for whichever reason, Joe has decided to take his leave of us. Joe played with The Vendettas for over a year. He is a good guy, a good drummer and we wish him all the best. I think he left because we always stood in front of him when we got our picture taken. I could see how, over time, that might get on one's nerves.

We have continued on, following in the footsteps of some of our heros:The Stray Cats, Reverend Horton Heat, The Paladins, and all the other rock and roll trios. I left out Johnny Burnett because there were technically a quartet. Lenny is back at his old post as our drummer, but he will break out a guitar now and then.



We had a great show at Eastender's Coffee House in Riverhead. We had a special guest sit in with us. My old bandmate from the Hackensack Men, "Teenage" John Englehardt. We haven't played together since... well my wedding in September, but before that it was years. Really.

We are putting together our third semi-annual Christmas Rock and Roll Show. Eastender's in Riverhead will be hosting the show this year. Look forward to all your Christmassy rock and roll favorites. When I say "all" I of course mean some. Plus we'll do secular crap that you love.

Vendettas say "No" to topical analgisics

We Have New Dates!

On October 11th we return to the place where we started, East Ender's Coffee House on Main Street in Riverhead. Come for the great coffee and desserts and great Rockabilly.

Our friends at the Artful Dodger in Westhampton Beach have decided to continue with music into the Fall. You can support live music in our area by going to check out the bands there. Mostly though, you should come to see us. Our next shows there will be October 18th, and November 22.

I like to call the piece you see above "The Essence of Lenny". Photo by Dianne Woodcheke

Blues Fest- Jerry The Dish- Vendettas Get Rooked!

Where do I begin, it has been a while.

Vendettas at the Artful Dodger-photo by Diane Woodcheke

Our Next Show: Aug 31 The Artful Dodger, Westhampton Beach

Firstly and most importantly those of you who come to see us on a regular basis will no doubt have notice the absence of "Teen Dream" Jerry "The Dish" Silverstein. Jerry has taken a well deserved sabbatical to do what he does best, scrimshaw. Jerry will be continuing to work in his songwriters workshop and look for him to make the occasional surprise appearance with the band. Once a Vendetta...

We made our second appearance at the Riverhead Blues Festival, we had a great time and would like to thank everyone who came to see us and who helped us get booked. It is great to be a part of it.

Now then, last year we got wind of some complaints that "some of the bands" were not playing blues at the blues festival. While it is true that our music is sort of the bridge between Blues, Country, and Rock and Roll, we played a bunch of blues too to show respect for the theme of the festival. So imagine my surprise when as we were loading in, the band on the main stage was playing Peter Gabriel's "In Your Eyes". No t that it is not a great song, not that the band playing g it didn't do a great job playing it (it was Jim Moran, I think) but is it Blues? Not frigging remotely. We got flack about playing Bo Diddly at a blues festival (not from anyone affiliated organization) and somehow the Genesis guy gets in there and that is OK?

Vendettas rock Megan Dascoli's wedding. photo by some dude

Lastly and to me, regrettably we will no longer be playing the Manorville venue. In the words of Spinal Tap's David St Hubbins, "we shant work together again". It is really too bad, I thought that we had found a home, the crowd was really receptive and it was exciting to play for a group who knew the music. Unfortunately there was a problem with the management, money not payed, terms of agreements left vague. It is one of the few places in the area that feature live music every week, so I guess they can make the rules. Musicians beware.

Our show this weekend features original recipe drummer Charles Woodcheke. Like I said, once a Vendetta... This is Charles during his pirate phase.

The Vendettas at The Blues Fest - New Shows Just Added

The Vendettas will make their second appearance at The Riverhead Blues Festival, Saturday at 2:30 in Club 91.

Thanks to "The Core" who came down to our new room, The Artful Dodger, which is in the back of Magic's Pub on Main St. in Westhampton Beach. Things went so well there we have been asked back. Our next show will be Saturday July 26th at 10:00. Look for special guest and former full time member Charles Woodcheke on Drums, filling in for Joe. Charles will be back with us at the Dodger Sunday August 31st. You can see Charles at his regular gig with his excellent band Highway 49.

The Maples is another new venue for us. Frank Lattore of The King Bee's sat in with us for our first show, he is always a pleasure to play with. He added great blues harp and slide guitar to our Rockabilly sound. It was great to meet an new and very receptive crowd, we had a great time. The Vendettas will be back (and hopefully joined by Frank) at The Maples Saturday July 19th after our second appearance at The Riverhead Blues Festival. We are booked at The Maples over the next several months.

We will be at the Longwood Public Library on August 1st. It may seem strange but actually it is the third library we have played. Come and see if we can vibrate the books off the shelves.

Jaybone

Vendettas Expand Thier Range With Independance Day Tour!

Choices Benefit at St. Joe's

Coming off of two great although at least one really challenging show. Our appearance at the the
"Choices" benefit was marred only by lack of the appearance of either of the promised light or sound technicians. Luckily for us the security office was sympathetic and there happened to be a sound engineer in the audience who, rose to the occasion and popped into the control booth.
It was for a great cause and the audience could not have been more appreciative or patient. It was great to play in the beautiful theater at St. Joseph's College.

We also did a private show for The North Fork Community Theater, with the cast and crew of their recent production of Gypsy. They were great to work with and we had a good time

playing for them.

Vendettas in the arbor for NFCT

Coming up: We just added a show at Magic's Pub on Main St. in Westhampton Beach. In what seems like an impossibly small place for a band hides a separate bar in the back of the building. The spot is very cool and we hope we will be joined by some of the friends we made during our stint at Westhampton Bowl.

Return of "The Dish"!

After "being away" for almost two months Jerry "The Dish" Silverstein will make his triumphant return to the stage at our last schedualed appearance at Westhampton Bowl, this Friday February 15th at 9:00 PM. Our attorneys have advised us to say as little as possible regarding the Dish's whereabouts for the last two months so let's just call it a "vacation" and leave it at that.

Our last show at "the Bowl" as we like to call it was a great success and we would like to thank all who came down including two members of the great band "Collarbone": singer Alex Mckenna and drummer Dave Elliot. If Lorin were there we could have had a full reunion. Also in attendence were staff members of the Westhampton Free Library and some people who were bowling and just wandered in to see what all the noise was about. We thank all who came.

I recently saw a group called the Church Boys at the Vail Levitt Music Hall in Riverhead New York. Chris the bass player in an original memeber of The Vendettas and has joined us on stage several times in the last year. His new band is a lot of fun, playing mostly originals plus some great garage rock classics. Check them out if you can and check out the music hall which will be showcasing bands every third Thursday. We need places like this that are opened to bands and support original music. Try to support it by visiting when you get the opportunity.

Please join us Friday for an evening of rockabilly and rock and roll. We try to make the shows different so we will be adding in some songs we have never played and the bowling alley before.