Status Quo and The Damned for Bulldog Bash

Bulldog Bash, which takes place at Shakespeare County Raceway, Long Marston, near Stratford On Avon, Warwickshire from Thursday 9th to Sunday 12th August has confirmed Status Quo and The Damned as the headline acts for this year's 21st Bash.

Commenting on their sole UK festival appearance in 2007, Rick Parfitt says "The whole band are looking forward to the Bulldog Bash at Long Marston. Hopefully we'll have a nice hot August day and we can really get the place rocking. I'm going to find some time to have a look at all the bikes and gear too."

Captain Sensible comments "It's the first time we've been on the same bill as Quo and I'm very much looking forward to it. Whenever they played the Croydon Greyhound in the mid 70s I was there.... and it was refreshing to see a band in the bar having a drink with their fans - which the Damned have also been known to do occasionally. In this day and age of X-Factor, Simon Cowell and all these plastic celebrity karaoke shows on TV we have seen our audience figures swelling, which we reckon is a reaction to the lack of decent live bands these days. You just can't beat it - a thrashing drum kit.... a cranked up guitar.... the front man going beserk blurting out some anti establishment lyric or other. Great stuff indeed - and the UK punk movement as led by the Pistols, the Clash, the Stranglers and ourselves was a pretty wild time when the UK was at the forefront of global musical trends.... whether Mike Read or Phil Collins liked it or not! I reckon The Damned deserve medals for our services over the years but I'll settle for the fact that we're still out there having fun onstage up and down the country in 2007 after a wonderful career lasting 30 years so far. And I wouldn't have predicted THAT in 1977.... otherwise I might have chosen a better stage name than Captain Sensible I can tell you!"

Also confirmed for this year are The Sensational Alex Harvey Band, The Wurzels, Hells Bells, Union Avenue, and Who's next?, with other acts currently being finalised.

Tickets are available to buy online, priced £45 (until June 30th and £50 after July 1st) - click here to buy.

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