MERRY XMAS

well its been a very busy year 75 gigs and counting, the last few months have been hectic, we did the town christmas lights (shame about the sound but great crowd) recorded ROCKSTAR which will be availiable on casette tape soon, we played with White Coast Rebels of Benidorm Fame, we racked out a great gig at the grapes to a full house, moorlands radio and a very intimate gig last night at the bird in hand, I cant remember all the hands that we have shook ace bands that we have played with and the fun that has gone into our 2nd year as Naked Sunday, we are getting closer as a band and tighter, we have bought back a solid rocker called FIGHTER nd that sums us up we are fighters we are a square peg n a round hole but theres people who love our sound and we are striving for bigger and better next year we have a few new songs in the making, RICH BOYS DONT PLAY ROCK and holding on are favourites, a massive THANK YOU goes out to our friends and family as that is where all our heart and inspiration comes from, I wish you all a MERRY CHRISTMAS you have been great friends lets do it all again in 2014 :) stay sexy stay NAKED

CARZY CRAZY NIGHTS

Well what an insane few months since writing here, we hav been busy, we pllayed in Wales on September 28th taking a coachload of folk up with us, Vinny Kez, Mick,Jefc Chris Mary, Jemma Katy etc to Wales for a gig at The Sandymount after 3 hours drive we arrived and boy did we arrive, we opened the show with a bang and as the room filled out we did nearly 3 hours of kick ass rock n roll, partying and drinking, back again in the new years eve, so a winner, we played Kingswinford again got to hob nob with Sondura as we were supporting them at Moochers with a cool promoter called FRED, we then played again at Base Studios before the haloween duo of THE BIRD IN HAND run by the awesome Di and Phil, and of course BASELINE WITH Frank and his awesome team, we screened House of 1000 corpses whilst playing and had the lovley em and Bob come down, we then played a tribute gig for Graeme Johnson on 6th November he was a singer for Craigs Old Band White Rose, it was a good night and fundraiser that ended in tragedy, of which out of respect i wont go into, as we came home Woody sent us the Reaper and as we prep to record ROCKSTAR we have the townlights and  top secret gig that same day, I love his band because some new tunes we are writing are one again taking a new direcion , onwe which came from Craig humming the other from Lauras bass playing skills and a new one called For a Brother about the bond between humanity and music... il post here soon but for now im going to enjoy my Copies of Ryans gig guide that we got reviewd in and Metal Hammer music mag where our photo appeared in the 250th edition, next up THIS CHRISTMAS coming soon....

dancing ladies,moonies, The Reaper and dare I say it Christmas

well what a week in gigging we played the Grapes on Thursday in Stafford, mainly originals we did The Reaper which craig recorded with a make shift rubbish drum, it was  well recieved gig with great friends who came down, it turned out to be the night di from the bird came and played some bass and we sung Phil from the bird happy birthday, Our new cds were sold with booklets etc andnice thank you notes, next up came Kingswinford at The Cross, how to put this is unreal, we started playing to around 7 very enthusiastic people, suddenly an explosion of people came through the door and the place was packed, we rocked out many originals and covers sometimes playing different songs twice, thn came the ladies...... very exciteable very loveable dancing on stage jont vocal performances, moonies, craig getting snogged and stripped on his drum kit, beers getting knocked over some rap between me and a girl who could have been ms dynamite, laura kept it all balanced and lapped up the fun walking into the crowd rocking her bass a fabulous gig indeed, funnily enough the next day i penned a tune called ROCKSTAR which basically recalls all that weeks chaos and craigs night of fun ;) next up is our Christmas single called This Christmas more of which I will tell you in October but it will raise money for 3 charities close to the bands heart

big love - Martin laura n Craig Naked Sunday

american radio/cds rooftops whatever next

well we sent our cd to Kara in the usa and she kindly took a pic of it, no more an awesome feeling than someone in another country enjoying your tunes, then Rockers dive radio in Brooklyn play The doctor and I miss you our first USA radio play, we then played an awesome gig back in Stafford on the rooftop of the Bird in hand playing mainly our own tunes, the fact people have been buying our cds is so unreal its great getting tagged on facebook knowing they drive in their car listening to what us 3 created and thats why i love our band we just gel... its the friendship the laughs and the fact we are always gigging i just love it WALES NEXT DARLINGS ;)

christmas in july/ wales/moorlands radio and sunday afternoons

ok random gig at the baseline in dudley july less than 24 hours we ent in to headline guitar solo with severed hand check, new songs went over a treat loving Lightning Fighter and played with another cool 3 piece called pencils for pistols, next up the Christmas single... yes after a year break from writing and recording something new we have a new one called This Christmas a song about finding that one person for Christmas, we have recorded it for 3 charitys SHINE which helps those with spinabifida and hydracephalus The Alice charity and for Stephen Sutton who is raising money for cancer, that guy is an inspiration and we have been fortunate enough to have him play tambourine on our single, check Stephens story on facebook for more info, there are some more newbies Hollywood vampire, The Doctor and gettin high which will be out soon, and the Bloxwich where we played the Victori to a big crowd of folk who enjoyed our rockshow gaining new compliments and fans and doing a set largley of our own STANYERLAND is back... and then Moorlands radio giving Hollywood vampire its first radio play..... next up Wales in September woo hoooooooooo

letters from america irish radio play and drum encores ?

Ok so after some hecticness we are still gigging and rehearsing pushing boundaries and rockin, first thing is first an exert from a lovely lady called Kara who likes us and took the time to write this il keep the rest personal but this is a mega honour from the US |"

Thank you so much for sending me your music. I feel honored that you'd let me hear a recording (I miss you) that you haven't even finished yet. I enjoyed both songs very much and smiled while listening. I hear some influences from some of my favorite bands, yet your music is so original at the same time. I think Sunflowers is my new favorite song. :) I'm glad I stumbled upon your band.

I just happened upon your page one day while looking for new music to listen to. I like to find new music before anyone else I know does. Haha! " then the irish thing afte a mag comparing us to motley gnr bon jovi we get an email saying yo yo yo put us a song over we wanna play it so off that goes again an honour that this music we do is slowly but surely making its way out the uk i love this band to pieces best mates:)

 

and then wow u got it norton bridge guitat solos with peoples vodka drinks more applause nrew originals and whammy the stanley reaps the applause to the point at the end he has a drum encore and the whole pub chants crai craig craig... offski now were going to do some recording bfore what looks to be a busy busy winter ;)

a wacky month

Well what a month or so of gigging been a while since i wrote here, we played on top of a roof at the gate that was in sutton coldfield to so many thousand blasting our our tunes and making the world feel it, it was an awesome adventure joined on sweet hom alabama by a bad monkey, cant remeber if i wrote about keele uni but that was a blast too playing a battle of the bands met some amazing people, we also did the wolseley garden beer festival again packed out on a hot summers day before delivering my father in law his birthday cae with a field of folk singing to him,its been fantastic also played at the bird in hand getting 7 onthe drum kit this time, and then we played at leeds in the wonderful city where we demonstrated our new single I Miss you at its finest what a great adventure staying in a hotel and being friends enjoying the music that we make and thats the most important part of making music a good friendship and a bond we managed to survive each others company for over 48 hours and came out laughing, i love the songs we play and write the doctor being our new live favourite as one of our own its based on random poems i piced together, also summerdrenched as its our summer song and my baby the one i needed tattoing, other than that we go together for a 60th birthday at the sunn inn for my mom and dad and aain the beauy of music was learning tunes they liked before embalming on a full on jam, it has been a great few months, newspaper articles radio play recording gigging , writing and now i may move on to the xmas single which i think is complete :) il ost again soon, on reflection of my 16 years guitar playing who would have thought a 9 pound guitar could start me on such a crazy life changing journey.... rock n role naked sunday the doctor

tour of the midlands

well monday resulted in our rockin tour of the midlands recording again at the old smithy in worcester we did our new song I miss you, the excitement in me for people to hear thi sis beyond belief this tune is our baby ballad it will melt hearts and get fists pumping, it was an awesome day with Woody and me craig laura and her dad all played some finger piano on the awesome beast of a tune, next up we went to Lichfield playing the Feathers it was a good gig our friend Mick came down from BAD MONKEY andthankfully lent me his black beauty the gig went well doing Sunflowers Stars and I miss you as well as a few covers we were well recieved, next up came Rock Zombie a small club in Dudley thats just finding its feet we did a good set although craig may beg to differ it was a little rusty but I had a lot of fun, and then came a beauty a real diamond in the rough The Chindit in Wolverhampton we went the giffard first for a pint something we dont normally do, and then set up playing over a two hour set packed with originals and covers all well recieved 2 encores a crowd whos screams were deafening and i for one was a little embaressed as the noise was that loud it was an awesome gig and one that will not be forgotten, we had fun on the road as a band and got on as a family again its just rock n roll but is been great, we also recieved our live disc from Francis Williams of the Baseline who did a great job of our live disc .

dudley staffs rockin and trip hoppin

well we rocked out at the grapes at the beginning of april a cool little gig which went smooth and was a nicve warm up for the baseline gigs run by the legendary music enthusiast Francis Williams, when someone has passion things work FRANK BELIEVES man he knows what hes doing with his awesome team, we played with From Sabbath to hell, and we got that joint bouncing people were clapping along to our own tunes it was just mega and from it we got a fair few contacts and rebookings awesome times :) then we nailed the Bird in hand stafford new owner with a belief in rock she has drive again shit works.... we had 6 people round craigs drum kit... rocked out our originals solos behind the head it was all happening again rebookings..now were off to The Old Smithy again to record I MISS YOU  I Cant wait cutting a record is like getting a tattoo its a scar of your life and all musicians just want their music heard i believe in rock n roll and i believe in naked sunday we are a team a band and foremost friends we argue we fight we laugh we drink together and play jokes on one another thats what bands do ride out the bad and the good :)

kidderminster

So the 28th March 2013 day before me birthday we went down Kidderminster College to demo a batch of songs that we are hoping to expand upon/record, these were STARS, SATTELITES AND VICES, I MISS YOU , SUMMERDRENCHED AND BLEACHED and THAT KINDA GIRL, we put them together after a few runs through, it was all a bit strange as everything was live so feeling comfy recording took a while but it actually worked out great and whilst the recordings do only show case the song hat was and is the purpose they were intended for, but the strange thing is these recordings worked out a lot better than we thought as you warm to the recordings and start to appreciate them a lot more and enjoy them a lot more, and they have soul lots of it, from it we know which song we record next as a follow up to SUNFLOWERS IN THE RAIN Craig Me n Laura are all mega excited and played fab... Il leave it at that for now but heres a cool vid of us recoring and having fun...we went to the Boars Head as well gig booked in for us :)

good times/songwriting

The good thing about this band is the way things work, we all have a great friendship, its a great 3 piece band who all look out for one another, when it comes to songwriing what used to be a one man slog is now a 3 way effort the cool thing about craig is that he has a great knack of giving the songs a solid structure, he listens for the hooks works us, laura has a great knack at writing key riffs usually these are the hooks that craig listens for, then il supply some guitar n lyrics etc, we come up with tunes all the time its a fun band to be in and a great buzz when we create a new tune i think we all would love to record every song we have written and hopefully we can.

oxleathers mcc gig

we played a charity night at highfields social club on march 16th it was ace and redeemed us, playing two sets mainly consisting of originals we got people involved, from laura jumping off stage dancing with some ladies whilst playing her bass, to guitar solos behind the head, topless frontman, dancing with the stragglers after 12 midnight and a guest  vocalist see video, it was a busy night, and we kept people entertained till 11.45 but a few still wanted more hence the rendition of paradise city, we played, stars, sattelites n vices, stanyerland, summerdrenched and bleached,party rock, i miss you,that kinda girl, sunflowers in the rain, hearts get bruised etc etc it was nice to play some different originals of ours, craig did a kick ass job on drums and looked comfy having all the room :) the bikers were all sound people and we had a fun night as a band making lots of jokes etc, we even did a renditon of jar of hearts and got big applause from people around ...rock on

rock n roll is dirty but it keeps me clean

So we rocked out at Base Stuidios in Feb, and then whammy gig after gig after gig just came in so far we are booked till October bar a few gaps, funnily enough we played Crewe on March 8th 2013 at the Sydney arms a strange place that i dont think have ever had a real band on ever :) we did 2 hours of sweaty exuberant rock n roll, solos behind the head punk rock bass and stadium drums with some smooth vocals, could they get it ? who knows a few did but a great learning curve was choose venues wiseley and know where your sound works, still there were a few who clapped, sung or just eyed up our bass player and enough totty for us as they had booked an 18th birthday party at the same time, its back to our home town of stafford next where we play a charity gig for some bikers i somehow think these guys will rock, also we had a band photo shoot on 2nd March some pics will come soon it was a great day for all you will see our naked sunday catalogue ..... tbc

Well its been a hard years gigging, and a triumphant year for us in more ways than one, first and foremost our drummer Craig joined the band on Januray the 6th 2012, this was the highlight in making Naked Sunday a great 3 piece who managed to create a sound as a band. Secondly came our Kerrang magazine appearance, a major major highlight and something I do belive all 3 of us are proud of, the theres been the gigs,we have been to Leek, Stafford,Stoke on trent, Sutton Colfield, Bilston,Cannock,Hednesford and Nottingham as well as Eccleshall,Worcester,Stourbridge and Rugeley, making a name for ourselves around the Midlands, Its seen radio sessions, outdoor gigs , mini festivals and an all around exhilirating experience of getting around the midlands rocking out, we have booking afetr booking some cancellations along the way, piss ups fun, dancing ladies and all in all general rock n roll.
　
Then we have had the involvement with the MAS records eductaion programme which has really helped us to shape as a band, developing our sound, image etc working us hard and recording at the beautiful Old Smith in Worcester where we have just recorded our single Sunflowers in the rain, which has gained a nice review on http://www.bluesbunny.com/tabid/325/xmmid/1030/xmid/4129/xmview/2/default.aspx so all in all that brings a nice end to the year. As a band we have really gelled together forming a brilliant friendship and generally just rocking out, we have written together ,drank together watched films rocked out and helped each other through good and bad Stafford Castle and the Pit n Pendulum being highlights of the year to me, I can honestly say we have had an awesome year gaining fans and friends, thank you to everyone who has shaped 2012 for Naked Sunday both as fans friends and those helping us develope this monster into the best it can be keep rocking and listen to music of all kinds and we will see you in 2013 starting at The Robin 2.

As of 2013 We rocked the Robin 2 with John Campbell, played Stone to a strange crowd,appeared in Bizarre magazine and have played at Base Studios in Stourbridge meeting the ace Nick J Townsend and recieving BBC airplay on BBC WM radio on February 16th 2013.