The Kremlinaires

THE KREMLINAIRES MADE THEIR UK DEBUT IN NOV 2003 AT SHILLIBEERS, NORTH LONDON

The audience were advised to get there early, as stiff competition was expected to get the best seats

There was a highly successful evening of soviet swing music, exuberant dancing and serious political discussion.

The band regrets any damage caused to the venue.

On Friday 12th December of that year the band played for a private party of decadent financiers, politicians and intellectuals at The Banqueting House in Whitehall. There was excitement and consternation among the band when former Tory leadership contender Michael Portillo seized the band's Soviet Red Flag and proceeded to wave it around the dance floor in front of his boss Michael Howard.

Order was eventually restored and the band retrieved the flag. Sadly photographic evidence of this shameful display was not obtained.

The band's next gig was at the National Theatre on London's South Bank, on January 3rd 2004

The band regrets the following alarmist piece of black propaganda which was spread by the fascist right-wing press:

NATIONAL CRISIS !

Defence chiefs held crisis talks today after it was announced that the Kremlinaires were due to appear at the National Theatre foyer on 3rd Jan, in spite of fierce opposition from police and Mi6. Thousands of bearded revolutionaries, disheveled Hampstead radicals and wild-eyed Norfolk farmers are expected to gather on the south bank, armed with pitchforks, kalashnikovs, Molotov cocktails and rolled-up copies of the New Internationalist. Whipped up to a high pitch of revolutionary fervour by madcap Marxists the Kremlinaires, they are expected to march on parliament singing the red flag, before dispersing in confusion when they realise that it is after midnight and everyone has gone home. An embarrassed Alexandra Satta, foyer events manager, admitted that booking the band had probably been a mistake- she had been duped by promises of the bands revolutionary approach to Russian Swing music, the humorous and ironic delivery, and thirteen cases of vodka delivered mysteriously to her office.

SHETLAND BURNS!

A night of rioting and unrest followed the appearance of madcap Marxists The Kremlinaires at the Shetland Folk Festival. Trouble started when, at the British Legion, the band hung their red flag next to the Queen's portrait at the back of the stage.

Feelings were inflamed, and after the band's incendiary performance outraged diehard royalists fought running street battles with Marxist converts clad in full Viking regalia and bearing axes and flaming torches. The council offices were burned to the ground following widespread arson, and calm was only restored when the rioters came upon a container load of vodka at the dockside, at which point a consensus was reached. that the Revolution could be resumed at a later date..

Russia's offer to send in peacekeeping troops, conveniently situated in Lerwick Harbour, was urgently and emphatically declined by the Foreign Office.

Shetland was relatively calm today, though trouble is expected to flare up again at the forthcoming council elections; the Communists have promised that, in return for a landslide majority, they will pledge to give Shetland independance from the United Kingdom.

It is not clear whether or not The Kremlinaires will be rebooked at the festival.

Word of the band's success spread, and audiences turned up en masse to see them at Towersey and Malborough Jazz festivals:

Here, at Jagz jazz club, Ascot, the audience warmly applaud a guitar solo:

at Canterbury Festival: a young and enthusiastic crowd vote for an encore:

Other gigs included Sting's Russian theme party, the Twinwood Glen Miller Festival, RAF Lynham, Iford Manor, the Thames Festival, village halls throughout the Midlands, and the Bo Nanafana Soialist Club, Norwich:

Still to come (2011);

24th June (2011); Forest Roots at The Lord Rockwood, Leytonstone, E113NW; doors open 8.30

16th July; Marlborough Jazz Festival; Old Lion Court, 6-8.00


	BAND CD PHOTOS MOVIES REVIEWS GIGS CONTACT HOME		GIGS: "THE PARTY EXPECTS YOU TO PARTY!" -LENIN 24th June (2011); Forest Roots at The Lord Rockwood, 314 Cann Hall Rd,Leytonstone, E113NW; doors open 8.30 16th July; Marlborough Jazz Festival; Old Lion Court, 6-8.00
			THE KREMLINAIRES MADE THEIR UK DEBUT IN NOV 2003 AT SHILLIBEERS, NORTH LONDON The audience were advised to get there early, as stiff competition was expected to get the best seats There was a highly successful evening of soviet swing music, exuberant dancing and serious political discussion. The band regrets any damage caused to the venue. On Friday 12th December of that year the band played for a private party of decadent financiers, politicians and intellectuals at The Banqueting House in Whitehall. There was excitement and consternation among the band when former Tory leadership contender Michael Portillo seized the band's Soviet Red Flag and proceeded to wave it around the dance floor in front of his boss Michael Howard. Order was eventually restored and the band retrieved the flag. Sadly photographic evidence of this shameful display was not obtained. The band's next gig was at the National Theatre on London's South Bank, on January 3rd 2004 The band regrets the following alarmist piece of black propaganda which was spread by the fascist right-wing press: NATIONAL CRISIS ! Defence chiefs held crisis talks today after it was announced that the Kremlinaires were due to appear at the National Theatre foyer on 3rd Jan, in spite of fierce opposition from police and Mi6. Thousands of bearded revolutionaries, disheveled Hampstead radicals and wild-eyed Norfolk farmers are expected to gather on the south bank, armed with pitchforks, kalashnikovs, Molotov cocktails and rolled-up copies of the New Internationalist. Whipped up to a high pitch of revolutionary fervour by madcap Marxists the Kremlinaires, they are expected to march on parliament singing the red flag, before dispersing in confusion when they realise that it is after midnight and everyone has gone home. An embarrassed Alexandra Satta, foyer events manager, admitted that booking the band had probably been a mistake- she had been duped by promises of the bands revolutionary approach to Russian Swing music, the humorous and ironic delivery, and thirteen cases of vodka delivered mysteriously to her office. SHETLAND BURNS! A night of rioting and unrest followed the appearance of madcap Marxists The Kremlinaires at the Shetland Folk Festival. Trouble started when, at the British Legion, the band hung their red flag next to the Queen's portrait at the back of the stage. Feelings were inflamed, and after the band's incendiary performance outraged diehard royalists fought running street battles with Marxist converts clad in full Viking regalia and bearing axes and flaming torches. The council offices were burned to the ground following widespread arson, and calm was only restored when the rioters came upon a container load of vodka at the dockside, at which point a consensus was reached. that the Revolution could be resumed at a later date.. Russia's offer to send in peacekeeping troops, conveniently situated in Lerwick Harbour, was urgently and emphatically declined by the Foreign Office. Shetland was relatively calm today, though trouble is expected to flare up again at the forthcoming council elections; the Communists have promised that, in return for a landslide majority, they will pledge to give Shetland independance from the United Kingdom. It is not clear whether or not The Kremlinaires will be rebooked at the festival. Word of the band's success spread, and audiences turned up en masse to see them at Towersey and Malborough Jazz festivals: Here, at Jagz jazz club, Ascot, the audience warmly applaud a guitar solo: at Canterbury Festival: a young and enthusiastic crowd vote for an encore: Other gigs included Sting's Russian theme party, the Twinwood Glen Miller Festival, RAF Lynham, Iford Manor, the Thames Festival, village halls throughout the Midlands, and the Bo Nanafana Soialist Club, Norwich: Still to come (2011); 24th June (2011); Forest Roots at The Lord Rockwood, Leytonstone, E113NW; doors open 8.30 16th July; Marlborough Jazz Festival; Old Lion Court, 6-8.00