Remember What's Important

Clive, the singer of our tribute band, has just uploaded a video to his YouTube Channel in memory of his friend Chris.

Chris passed away in 2005.

We echo his thoughts at this time of year; remember those who we have lost and cherish those that we take with us into the New Year.

This is the YouTube page link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fUcJYFS4D4

Johnny Cash Tribute Charity Show Sell-Out?

Almost a sell out!

This is great news for our efforts to raise £10,000 for Acorns Children's Hospice.

The picture on the right [click to enlarge] is a snapshot of the Malvern Forum Theatre's online booking page for the Johnny Cash Roadshow's Charity Benefit Concert on 15th January 2009. As you can see, there are only a handful of tickets left; ten normal tickets (in green) and seven concession tickets (in black).

Get your tickets quick before it's too late!!!

Visit the Malvern Theatres website to discover more about this wonderful venue.

This snapshot was taken today (31st December 2008) at 11:58am on the Malvern Forum Theatre's booking page:

http://www.malvern-tickets.co.uk/frmSelectSeats.aspx?perfid=180533

A Merry Christmas Song!

Clive John has written his very first Christmas song entitled “If You Are Listening”.

We've put it up on our YouTube Channel for you to watch.

Hope you like it. This video, the songs first public performance, was taken at our Johnny Cash Tribute Band Christmas Show on 20th December.

Signing off now for a few days to be with family and friends.

Merry Christmas & A Happy New Year from Clive & The Johnny Cash Roadshow!

£2429.82 And Rising!

Our Johnny Cash Roadshow Christmas Show audience gave us a wonderful £134.00 to go towards our £10,000 target for Acorns. Thank you to everyone who donated at the show at the Artrix Theatre in Bromsgrove.

The total raised so far is now a fantastic £2429.82!

If you would like to donate then please pop over to our Just Giving webpage and donate online quickly and securely.

www.justgiving.com/acornsjohnnycashroadshow

Thank you.

Ben Wants To Live

Have you heard of Ben (BENNANTYLAD) on YouTube? A lot of people are discovering how good this young guy is.

We came across Ben's videos a few months ago and were really impressed by his performances, which just keep getting better and better.

We wanted to give him the opportunity to perform in front of an audience and so invited him to sing at our Johnny Cash Tribute Band Christmas Show on 20th December 2008 at the Artrix Theatre in Bromsgrove.

We have just uploaded the video of his superb performance of John Denver's song “I Want to Live” to our YouTube Channel and added it to our Top 10 To Watch playlist.

Well done Ben! Merry Christmas to you and your parents.

Thank You & A Merry Christmas!

Thank you to everyone who came to our Johnny Cash Roadshow Christmas show at the Artrix Theatre in Bromsgrove last night.

It was a fantastic night made extremely easy to pull off due to the wonderful and professional team of staff at the theatre under the guidance of duty managers Nick and Dawn. Thank you, in particular, to Chris for making everything work to technical perfection, Tom for the wonderful lighting, and Rob, Dave & Ash for the sound. Dave and Ash are from MixdupMusic (MUM).

Thank you also to all of our kind audience members who gave money to our goal of raising £10,000 for Acorns. (To help us hit our target, which will contribute to providing care for life-limited children, please donate on our Just Giving web page).

This is starting to sound like an Oscars acceptance speech ;-) There are a lot of people involved in making a show happen and thank yous need to be said.

A BIG thank you to Robert Page, our director, for his guidance and coaching. It's hard work but great fun working with him.

A massive thank you to Ivan, Karen, and John, for all of their hard work behind the scenes - they keep the wheels on the tour bus rolling.

We'd also like to thank our Mums, Dads, dogs, pizza delivery guy… okay, Oscars moment over!

Merry Christmas from us all!

Help Us Raise £10,000 for Acorns

Acorns is our official charity and we want to raise £10,000 for this essential charity that provides much needed care to life-limited children and support for their families throughout the Midlands.

We are hoping to reach this target to coincide with the Johnny Cash Roadshow Grand Charity Benefit Concert at the Malvern Forum Theatre on Thursday 15th January 2009.

We have set up a Just Giving webpage to make it as easy to donate as possible. The Just Giving widget above shows our progress so far and by clicking the “DONATE!” button on the widget will take you straight to our donation page.

www.justgiving.com/acornsjohnnycashroadshow

We would like to say a big thank you to our very generous audience members, and to our Malvern Show sponsors, for getting us off to a fabulous start - £2,053.00 so far!

The Just Giving website offers a quick and simple way for people to raise money for their charity whilst also adding gift aid to the donation.

To put a scale on things - £10,000 pays for just over two days of running costs for one Hospice! Could you spare a pound or £2?

It's In Your Inbox!

We have sent out the latest Clive John / Johnny Cash Roadshow Newsletter to all of our lovely fans who signed up to receive it.

It should be in your InBox now. If it isn't then please check your spam folder as it may have slipped into there. Look for a subject line of “Clive John / Johnny Cash Roadshow Newsletter”.

John's Choice

John Hartley, from JEH studios, handles all of our online presence, design, and imaging. We'd be lost without him!

He has uploaded his favourites from the selection of photos that he took at our show at the Ludlow Assembly Rooms (27th September 2008) to his Flickr account. Take a look at them in his Johnny Cash Roadshow Ludlow Assembly Rooms Set.

Thanks John

Jim's Christmas

The Johnny Cash Roadshow always look forward to watching Jim's videos (jimmymac30) on YouTube and his latest one, I Pray On Christmas (a Harry Connick Jnr. cover), definitely hits the spot yet again.

It's only the beginning of December but, after hearing this song, we're certainly getting into the mood for Christmas - thanks Jim!

We've added it to our Johnny Cash Roadshow Top 10 To Watch playlist.

How do you rate it? Add a comment to this post to let us know.

I Guess They Do!

Earlier today we uploaded one of Johnny Cash's great little numbers, Guess Things Happen That Way, to our Johnny Cash Roadshow YouTube Channel.

We love performing this song in our tribute to Johnny and it always goes down so well with the audience.

Let us know what you think by commenting and rating the video on it's YouTube page - we always appreciate comments about our performances.

In A Whisper Update II

Clive John's unplugged version of “In A Whisper” has held on to the number 1 slot in the British & Irish Top 10 HotDisc chart for a third week.

Listen to “In A Whisper” Unplugged on the music player at MixdupStore.

This track is available to buy as an MP3 download exclusively at the MixdupStore - get your copy by clicking here.