And...we're back!

Jay and Lenny at the Bolton Center for the Elvis Birthday Concert with The Long Island Hornets.

Photos by Jim Marchese

Hiya Hiya Hiya Kids,

The Vendettas have mostly been laying low during the cruel winter, mostly due to Chin's house arrest. We do however, have some good news to report.

We have a brand new venue on the books, this month we will be making our first appearance at CB's in Hampton Bays, and then again in March right after the St. Patrick's Day Parade.

We also have some great library shows coming up. Check out all of the new dates on the sidebar on the right.

If you visit our website, you will see that it has been totally redesigned by our creative dept. (Chin, a lot of extra time on his hand) to be interactive. It is an inside look at what The Vendettas World Corporate Headquarters looks like.

Lenny and I were invited by NYRMA to participate in Gene vs. Eddie Rockabilly show, and we just played at the sold out Elvis Birthday Tribute at the Bolton Center. This was our third year playing the show and as always it was a great time. Lots of really talented people who donate their time for Rock Can Roll, a local food bank. This time we played onstage with The Long Island Hornets. They are a great band, check them out as soon as you get a chance.

We have spent this winter learning a bunch of new songs and even writing a few of our own. We will be breaking some of these out at our next show.

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

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.

Happy New Year, From The Vendettas

The start of the new year marks the third anniversary for The Vendettas. Our first show with Lenny, Chin and Jaybone and Jerry "the Dish" in lineup was a Christmas party at a friend's house. We played every song we knew plus some rock and roll Christmas classics. We were nervous, but we had fun. So much so that we kept on going.

Last month we revisited the holiday rock, busted out the Santa hats and turned up the Fender amps. We even got our newest member to don the headgear and add his voice the "harmonies" Elvis's "Santa Claus is Back in Town". Of course we want to thank the people who came down to see our Christmas Extravaganza and the Westhampton Beach Library, and the library for taking a chance on having a Rock and Roll band, which I think was a first for them.

We also want to thank all the folks who have supported us this last year including Lindsey from East Ender's Coffee house, the first place to actually hire us, The Birchwood in Southampton and Westhampton Bowling, who have invited us back for two more dates.

In 2008 we will explore new venues, meet more people who dig rockabilly and rock and roll, and maybe we will all chip in and get a body for Chin's upright bass.

Jaybone

Vendettas Rock Westhampton Library !

Saturday Dec. 8th The Vendettas will appear at The Westhampton Free Library for a free Holiday Rock and Roll Show at 7:00pm. The Library is on Library Avenue in Westhampton Beach, the phone number is 288-3335. We are led to believe there will be snacks, and we don't have to play quietly.

The band has also secured two more dates at the Westhampton Lanes bowling alley. Our last show there was a success and our stay has been extended. Thanks to Matt for posting on that show and to Andrew from The De'villes for coming down to hear us. Check out The De'villes, if you get a chance they're a great band.

See You Tonight!
Jaybone

Our Next Show

Our next live appearance will be at Westhampton Bowl on Nov. 23, the Friday after Thanksgiving. We will hit at 8:00 pm.

We are all pretty psyched to play there, it is a new venue for us and the management seem open to trying something new for them. I think the bowling alley suits us, it has a cool retro vibe (it has been there a long time) it's got a bar and a dance floor, food, and of course bowling. We are trying to cultivate a venue, albeit a non traditional one, and Westhampton Bowling could be ideal. If we can get in on a regular basis and grow a little following in town, it would be good for all involved. It could be good for other bands too.

Our set will include rockabilly and rock and roll songs that we always play, some new stuff and we will be breaking out some Rock and Roll Christmas favorites.

Westhampton Lanes are located at 87 Sunset Ave.