For Every Door that Closes...Blah Blah Blah

Well , as many of you know, Fatty Beltbuckles, a venue where we have played monthly for almost a year has closed down. It would have been nice if we had gotten a phone call about the impending lock up so we could have posted the cancellation of our show earlier than an hour before our show but whatever. The bottom line is George supported us and gave us work even when we weren't drawing so well. Now that my initial rage has subsided I can say I wish him luck in his new joint. It is always sad when a local business goes under.

The good news is we have TWO new venues! The Fisherman's Rest in Cutchogue and Phil's Sports Bar in Wading River. The Fisherman's Rest has been a great place for us, they have music every week and the crowd is a music crowd, they dance they sing and get involved. We have a lot of fun playing there.

Phil's will be a return to my roots in a way. Some of the very first gigs I ever played were there with The Hackensack Men back when it was Judges Hotel. I was 19 then, that was a looong time ago.

Thanks for coming to see us, and we hope to see you at these new rooms.

The Vendettas

Show Cancelled

The Fatty Beltbuckles show in Rocky Point is Cancelled. The room is closed.

We apologize to our friends who were planning to see us tonight or went there before you got this message.

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

Halloween Gig is Cancelled!

Sorry folks, due to unforeseen circumstances at Darin's of Miller Place the Halloween show has been canceled. We apologize for any inconvenience.

A Lot of Catching Up! and Halloween Show!

Our Halloween Show

We will be making our last appearance at Darin's of Miller Place this Saturday, Halloween Night! The venue has decided not to continue with music. Rest assure we will do our best to rock the house so they remember we were there. We will be doing our usual Rockabilly favorites plus a selection of Halloween songs that you won't want to miss. Get there by 9:30 to catch the whole show!

We haven't posted for a while so let me sum up: We had a great time and a great show playing with the excellent Buzzards at Matty T's. It cool to play for a real Rockabilly crowd and we are looking forward to playing there again with The Blaggards. See the sidebar for details.

Our standing gig at Fatty Beltbuckles keeps chugging along. The owner George has been great to us, he is a real fan of the music and a supporter of live music general. It would be nice to see some more folks at Fatty's but that's just me.

We crossed paths with Sax player extraordinaire Adam Tese once again as he helped us out at the South Country Library show. Hopefully we will be seeing him again.

Our Next Show!

Matty T's

356 Commack Rd

Deer Park, NY 11729-5523

(631) 667-6868

Join us for our first time at Roy Wilson's Rockabilly Night

The Vendetta's played our last show at the Chowder Pot in Greenport NY for the season. It was a great day. There was a ton of people there for the Maritime Festival and the band was joined onstage by the Peconic War Pipes for an inpromtue rendition of "Amazing Grace" which really couldn't have been more... interesting. Still they were good sports and we had a good time with them.

We also unveiled our Spy medley for the first time. I, as a general rule am opposed to the medley as a whole - however this genre seemed to lend itself to that format very well. It got a great response from the audience, come and hear it for yourself.

This Saturday, September 26th we will be appearing at Matty T's Road House for Rockabilly Night. We have been waiting to perform there since Lenny and I played at the Elvis Tribute this past Winter.

We are psyched to be playing there as well as to be playing with The Buzzards. We will be back at Matty T's at the end of November with The Blaggards.

We hope you will join us for our first show there!

Jaybone

The Vendettas