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DEVIATION STREET
Third Fridays

Deviation Street is London’s hot hang-out for desperate rock’n’rollers. You’ll see & hear the best new garage and trashy rock’n’roll bands we can find.

In addition resident DJ Phil Istine & guests are on hand with the vintage vinyl, spinning 45s of garage, beat, rock’n’roll, & other assorted trash.

@ The Alley Cat
4 Denmark Street, London, WC2H 8LP
Tube: Tottenham Court Road. 8pm-3am

Friday November 15th

LIVE:

THE ROMLEYS

http://www.facebook.com/theromleys

Kinksian Krunch from Liverpudlian boys, who have just released their debut 7” of blistering beatness on Heavy Soul Records (The Strypes, The Kumari, DC Fontana). Shindig! says "classic British R&B feistiness...it’s the pre-war spirit of ale houses and loose women that inform the songs as much as rich harmonies and mop tops". 6 Music love them and so should you!

THE FRANKLYS

https://www.facebook.com/thefranklys

Just back from their first US jaunt, London’s four ladies from international climes are the hottest prospect on the rock’n’roll scene right now. The Grapevine Music said "If 50's rock'n'roll met 70's punk and had a lovechild, it would be The Franklys." Check out the video for ‘My Love’ for a quick taste.

MODERN WAVES

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100006198072061

Dandy Marc, Lady Danger, Disco Pete, and Jonnyboy are Modern Waves, an alternative garage rock'n'roll revelator. New kids on the block, but turning heads already.They love the Alley Cat and it loves them! Proud to have them back for another show.

MARK & THE CLOUDS

https://www.facebook.com/markandtheclouds

Opening the show for us is another new London conglomerate, headed by Marco of Instant Flight fame. Freewheelin’ classic rock’n’roll inspired by the greats of the 60s and 70s, they play with passion and have the songs to back it up.

In addition resident DJ Phil Istine & guest DJ Chubby Dekker (Timebox Radio Show) will be on hand with the vintage vinyl, spinning 45s of garage, beat, rock’n’roll, & other assorted trash.

£4.50 in advance from http://www.wegottickets.com/event/245774, or £6 on the door

FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/events/168675016664345

November's headliners The Romleys new press shot...

And The Franklys look like...

DEVIATION STREET
Friday December 20th

Christmas party! Phil Istine’s (actual) birthday!! Four top bands and one amazing guest DJ!!! Seriously, those that make it in are in for a treat...

Deviation Street is London’s hot hang-out for desperate rock’n’rollers. You’ll see & hear the best new garage and trashy rock’n’roll bands we can find.

In addition resident DJ Phil Istine & guest DJ Andy Roseaman (Brighton garage royalty. The Hideaway/Stack Sick/The Big Itch etc.) will be on hand with the vintage vinyl, spinning 45s of garage, beat, rock’n’roll, & other assorted trash.

LIVE BANDS:
THE 45s
The band thousands of you are talking about! High octane Rhythm & Blues by four souls from Carlisle. The 45s metaphorically step straight from a 1950’s time machine, sent from Mississippi and crash landing in Cumbria. The group come vocally and visually inspired by the sentiment and character of the early rock'n'roll/beat era. Harnessing their songwriting talent with an explosive repertoire of classic sounds and lyrics, the band pass an admirable nod to Chuck Berry, Muddy Waters and Bo Diddley, together with the outrageous guitar of hero Wilko Johnson. Debut single is out on Heavy Soul Records just in time for this show! 
https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-45s-Carlisle/333649880010475

CAT BLACK
Cat Black are a London Rock'n' Roll Band (capital letters intentional!), creating original and retrospective sounds (Stones, Flamin' Groovies, Stooges), and specialising in EXPLOSIVE live shows. With the help of vocal trio The Giddi Mama's, Cat Black's sound is unmistakable!
https://www.facebook.com/cat.black.band

THE NOVEMBER FIVE
"The November Five combine the driving sneer of Earl Brutus, some of the atmospherics of the Arcade Fire if they weren't twig-stroking Canadians, and some very British bombast - in The November Five's hands, guitars do, very much, squall." The Quietus
Our old mates are back to tear roofs off. Be prepared. Oh, and the debut album "If You're Satisfied You Are Dead" is now out!
https://www.facebook.com/thenovemberfive

STASH
Outsider punk rock blues. Londoners now, but from all over the world in the past. High octane, fast paced whirlwind songs to give us lift off! 
https://www.facebook.com/STASHthis

@ The Alley Cat
4 Denmark Street, London, WC2H 8LP
Tube: Tottenham Court Road
8pm-3am, £4.50 in advance from http://www.wegottickets.com/event/249725, or £6 on the door

FACEBOOK EVENT: https://www.facebook.com/events/595791770458180/

2014 flyer...

DEVIATION STREET
Friday January 17th

Deviation Street is London’s hot hang-out for desperate rock’n’rollers. You’ll see & hear the best new garage and trashy rock’n’roll bands we can find.

In addition resident DJ Phil Istine & guest DJ Mole (The Higher State) will be on hand with the vintage vinyl, spinning 45s of garage, beat, rock’n’roll, & other assorted trash.

LIVE:
RUBBER LEGS
take half a pound of Graverobbers and splatter a Phobic or two onto the plate and you’re staring at a feast of Rubber Legs...
https://www.facebook.com/theegraverobbers
https://www.facebook.com/thephobics

THE LADYKILLERS
Luke, Jim, Joey, Shaun and Rob. AKA London’s intense, furious, and intelligent retro garage rock’n’rollers. New single ‘Repeat’ is on, er, repeat in the SBD office.
https://www.facebook.com/ladykillersuk

BUBBLEGUM SCREW
Take a bit of Max’s Kansas City New York sleaze and mix it with the primeval brutality of Iggy & the Stooges, the seedy glamour of 1970’s glitter trash and the caveman stomp of 60s garage rock, and you’ve got a group that’s on a take-no-prisoners rock ‘n’ roll mission. Welcome to Bubblegum Screw, London’s hottest glam punk ‘n’ roll band.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Bubblegum-Screw/128037558045

BLACK DAM
Swamp rock, powerful three-piece. Ex members of Pussycat and The Johnsons, Mansun, and Juke Joint Snipers.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Black-Dam/1401865573393702

@ The Alley Cat
4 Denmark Street, London, WC2H 8LP
Tube: Tottenham Court Road
8pm-3am, £4 in advance from http://www.wegottickets.com/event/254670, or £7 on the door

FACEBOOK EVENT

DEVIATION STREET
Friday February 21st

Deviation Street is London’s hot hang-out for desperate rock’n’rollers. You’ll see & hear the best new garage and trashy rock’n’roll bands we can find.

In addition resident DJ Phil Istine & guest DJ Neil ‘Sick’ Smith (Stay Sick) will be on hand with the vintage vinyl, spinning 45s of garage, beat, rock’n’roll, & other assorted trash.

LIVE:
THE BEATPACK
Originally formed from the ashes of two small-town garage bands, The Beatpack initially peddled their primal wares from 1987 to 1991, terrorising audiences with their distinctive brand of violent rhythm & blues, intense hessian-sack-clad live shows and acres of hair. Recording an EP, a 45 and an LP for Germany's Screaming Apple Records, aided and abetted by Billy Childish on production duties, the group burned out in a blaze of glory and its members scattered to the four winds.

Fast forward 20 years and the 'Pack are back. Reunited in order to complete their mission to bring hip-shakin', feedback-screeching, blues-wailing garage-punk R&B to the masses, and featuring original members Simon Harvey (lead guitar), William Bourton Esq. (bass guitar) and Hugh Dellar (screaming and harmonica) alongside new boy Adrian Smith on rhythm and the inimitable Ian O'Sullivan on drums. Their first recordings since 1991 unleash the dynamism and tremolo-laden suspense of ‘I'm Walkin’’ (with its echoes of Oz ’60s punkers The Masters Apprentices and Dutch tongue-tied long haired R&B merchants Q65) along with the crunchy garage of ‘Hey Senorita’ (‘Farmer John’ meets ‘125’ with lashes of timeless testosterone fuelled teen abandon).
https://www.facebook.com/groups/beatpack

THE MYND SET
Filling a space that has long been empty in the British music scene, The Mynd Set are the era-bending, genre-defying purveyors of psychedelic freakbeat not seen since the heady days of Swinging London. Rising from the ashes of The Petty Hoodlums, a band that had earned infamy for their enthusiastic covers of beat classics, inadvertently inventing their own unique 'Heavy Mod' genre.
https://www.facebook.com/themyndset

SHE USES
A mighty Garage Rock’n’Roll three-piece from London, with influences ranging from Robert Johnson to Pond and beyond.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/SHE-USES/165800123613328

THE DYING SHAMES
Brand new London six-piece playing their debut show. Too early to draw too many conclusions, but spiky garage, glam licks and some classic Stones groove come out from the first demos. In other words, a right hoot!
https://www.facebook.com/dyingshames

@ The Alley Cat
4 Denmark Street, London, WC2H 8LP
Tube: Tottenham Court Road
8.30pm-3am, £4 in advance from http://www.wegottickets.com/event/257612, or £7 on the door

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DEVIATION STREET
Friday March 21st

Deviation Street is London’s hot hang-out for desperate rock’n’rollers. You’ll see & hear the best new garage and trashy rock’n’roll bands we can find.

In addition resident DJ Phil Istine & guest DJ John The Revelator will be on hand with the vintage vinyl, spinning 45s of garage, beat, rock’n’roll, & other assorted trash.

LIVE:
BRAIN WASHINGTON
10,000 man hours - 10,000 lbs of psychedelic rock'n'soul, greasy garage grind and fuzzzzzzzzzed-out bubblegum noise pleasure! Debut single ‘L.S.D’ was described as sounding "like some raw ‘n’ atonal freaked ‘n’ f**ked -up heads-down wig-flipped brew, cooked up by a shit-faced coming together of Hawkwind, MC5 and the Buttholes with the eternally-admired Mummies".
https://www.facebook.com/brainwashington666

THE ROMLEYS
Merseyside trio growing stronger and more popular by the day. Shindig! said "The Romleys are probably not known to you, but they should be. Singer-guitarist Garry Eager has a warm yet strong voice that brings to mind Roger Daltrey, and the dry humour and storytelling nous we associate with Ray Davies. The ramshackle skiffling spirit of the songs even made me think that Edgar Jones’ The Stairs might have been on stereo, alongside the Fab Four and The La’s. Labelling these men as ’60s revivalists would be foolish, as it’s the pre-war spirit of ale houses and loose women that inform the songs as much as rich harmonies and mop tops".
https://www.facebook.com/theromleys

OF ARROWE HILL
"The Most Haunted Group in England". of Arrowe Hill are an English rock group, formed in London in 1999. The group has had an eclectic musical output over six albums, spanning psychedelia, acid folk, country blues and lo-fi. “Shaping up as Punk Floyd” said Gadfly Adolescence. We tried booking them in 2006(!) but was scuppered at the last minute. Now we can right that wrong...
https://www.facebook.com/pages/of-Arrowe-Hill/237350516280497

JETTYSON
Brand new garage punk rock London trio, fronted by Lucie, the sassiest girl in this hemisphere. Expect an unquiet beginning to proceedings...
https://www.facebook.com/JettysonUK


@ The Alley Cat
4 Denmark Street, London, WC2H 8LP
Tube: Tottenham Court Road
8pm-3am, £4 in advance from http://www.wegottickets.com/event/262231, or £7 on the door

DEVIATION STREET
Friday April 18th

Deviation Street is London’s hot hang-out for desperate rock’n’rollers. You’ll see & hear the best new garage and trashy rock’n’roll bands we can find.

In addition resident DJ Phil Istine & guest DJ Spencer Evoy (MFC Chicken) will be on hand with the vintage vinyl, spinning 45s of garage, beat, rock’n’roll, & other assorted trash.

LIVE:
LOVE L.U.V.
Garage pop stompers! Female-fronted London quartet with hooks aplenty. ‘You Do Something’ b/w ‘Lily Anne’ is the debut double A-side single, released on limited 7" vinyl on April 7th.
https://www.facebook.com/loveluvband

POSH DOGS
bluesy high energy rock’n’roll from these new, mysterious boys. Trust us, they’ll be more than good to have you drooling.

THE ELECTRIC EYES
The London three-piece bluesy garage punk newcomers “really belt those tunes out. Ridged and yet soulful. Their set is positive and confident” says Louder Than War.
https://www.facebook.com/THE.ELECTRIC.EYES

THE HOWLING FIENDS
Hackney’s fine power garage trio who don’t take names! Expect an onslaught of crunching guitars and desperate howling!
https://www.facebook.com/TheHowlingfiends

@ The Alley Cat
4 Denmark Street, London, WC2H 8LP
Tube: Tottenham Court Road
8pm-3am, £4 in advance from http://www.wegottickets.com/event/267486, or £7 on the door

DEVIATION STREET
Friday May 16th

Deviation Street is London’s hot hang-out for desperate rock’n’rollers. You’ll see & hear the best new garage and trashy rock’n’roll bands we can find.

In addition resident DJ Phil Istine & guest DJ Alex Embrooks will be on hand with the vintage vinyl, spinning 45s of garage, beat, rock’n’roll, & other assorted trash.

LIVE:
THE VON NITROS
Blazing a trail out of Cambridge The Von Nitros draw on garage, surf and punk influences to make what has been described as "a glorious racket"
Imagine the twisted offspring of Nick Cave, Iggy and The Cramps, mix in an incendiary live sound and performance...dress it in red and black...and you have The Von Nitros....
"Full-on grebo garage a go-go for ghost riders and surf-rockers" - Vive Le Rock magazine
https://www.facebook.com/von.nitros

THE SONIC JEWELS
The Sonic Jewels make explosive garage rock, that’s an unholy amalgam of White Stripes, Black Keys (Thickfreakness era), Cream, Hendrix, Who with hypnotic psychedelic heavy riffing.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Sonic-Jewels/155524781175479

THE DOLDRUMS
The Doldrums are a two piece Blues, Garage Rock, Psyche RnB band from North West London and formed in the summer of 2013. The band are most recognisable for their primal drum beats and rootsy blues riffs. 
https://www.facebook.com/doldrums66

@ The Alley Cat
4 Denmark Street, London, WC2H 8LP
Tube: Tottenham Court Road
8pm-3am, £4 in advance from http://www.wegottickets.com/event/271470, or £7 on the door

DEVIATION STREET

Friday June 20th

Deviation Street is London’s hot hang-out for desperate rock’n’rollers. You’ll see & hear the best new garage and trashy rock’n’roll bands we can find.

In addition resident DJ Phil Istine & guest DJ Bruce Brand (The Masonics) will be on hand with the vintage vinyl, spinning 45s of garage, beat, rock’n’roll, & other assorted trash.

LIVE:

THE BARON FOUR

Wild fuzzed Out Rhythm 'n' Blues! Think The milkshakes, early Beatles, The Kinks. Featuring members of Thee Vicars, The Higher State and Speak & The Spells!

https://www.facebook.com/thebaronfour

PAUL ORWELL & THE NIGHT FALLS

Fred Perry love these guys, Shindig magazine do - and so do we! Beatsters with a nice line in fuzz.

https://www.facebook.com/PAULORWELLOFFICIAL

THE SEE NO EVILS

Leeds garage/psych/powerpop quartet signed to the oh-so-cool Heavy Soul label. Their first show here at Deviation St was ace so we've got them back.

https://www.facebook.com/theseenoevils

BLAMES

New London trio playing underground rock, and hitting all the right notes. Well worth coming early doors for.

https://www.facebook.com/blamesband

@ The Alley Cat

4 Denmark Street, London, WC2H 8LP

Tube: Tottenham Court Road

8pm-3am, £4 in advance from http://www.wegottickets.com/event/276244, or £7 on the door

FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/events/525536010891370

DEVIATION STREET
Friday July 18th

Deviation Street is London’s hot hang-out for desperate rock’n’rollers. You’ll see & hear the best new garage and trashy rock’n’roll bands we can find.

In addition resident DJ Phil Istine & guest DJ Simon Wild (Oh!Gunquit) will be on hand with the vintage vinyl, spinning 45s of garage, beat, rock’n’roll, & other assorted trash.

LIVE:
THE TEAMSTERS
North London beatster trio dedicated to The Kinks, Doc Martins, and Hofner guitars. Debut LP due in September.
https://www.facebook.com/TeamstersMusic

THE HACIENDA
Italians who’ve relocated to South London. Excellent but hard to describe...”baggy garage”???
https://www.facebook.com/thehaciendaband

THE KUMARI
The comeback show. New members, still making the heavy garage psych sounds...Third single ‘Until That Day’ has just been released and is available to purchase tonight.
https://www.facebook.com/THEKUMARI

THE PAST TENSE
Three mates playing music together in the classic three-piece style.A blend power-pop, mod, punk, and 60's beat
https://www.facebook.com/thepasttense

@ The Alley Cat
4 Denmark Street, London, WC2H 8LP
Tube: Tottenham Court Road
8pm-3am, £4 in advance from http://www.wegottickets.com/event/280172, or £7 on the door

DEVIATION STREET

Friday August 15th

Deviation Street is London’s hot hang-out for desperate rock’n’rollers. You’ll see & hear the best new garage and trashy rock’n’roll bands we can find.

In addition resident DJ Phil Istine & guest DJ Ben Craven will be on hand with the vintage vinyl, spinning 45s of garage, beat, rock’n’roll, & other assorted trash.

LIVE:

THE GALILEO 7

The Galileo 7 play psych-tinged, garage-flavoured, Medway-tainted power-pop and feature former Prisoner, Solarflare and current Forefather Allan Crockford. ‘False Memory Lane’, the new album, is now out.

https://www.facebook.com/thegalileoseven

THE STABILISERS

A garage punk behemoth. Wowing audiences with their dynamic live shows, reactions have ranged from crazed, inspired dancing to requests for a biscuit. With high powered tunes featuring sabre-sharp lyrics and riffs with more hooks than velcro, you really can't go wrong.

https://www.facebook.com/TheStabilisers

THE DYING SHAMES

London troupe who mix up classic rock’n’roll with garage and punk touches. As Shindig! scribe Hugh Dellar commented on seeing them live: “like The Heartbreakers had started covering Highway 61”. Spot on.

https://www.facebook.com/dyingshames

BRAIN WASHINGTON

10,000 man hours – 10,000 lbs of psychedelic rock’n'soul, greasy garage grind and fuzzzzzzzzzed-out bubblegum noise pleasure! Debut single ‘L.S.D’ was described as sounding “like some raw ‘n’ atonal freaked ‘n’ f**ked -up heads-down wig-flipped brew, cooked up by a shit-faced coming together of Hawkwind, MC5 and the Buttholes with the eternally-admired Mummies”.

https://www.facebook.com/brainwashington666

@ The Alley Cat

4 Denmark Street, London, WC2H 8LP

Tube: Tottenham Court Road

8pm-3am, £4 in advance from http://www.wegottickets.com/event/283343, or £7 on the door

FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/events/1445016962431370

DEVIATION STREET
Friday September 19th

Deviation Street is London’s hot hang-out for desperate rock’n’rollers. You’ll see & hear the best new garage and trashy rock’n’roll bands we can find.

In addition DJs Paul Milne (The Magnetic Mind) + Suzie Greengrass (Hidden Door) will be on hand with the vintage vinyl, spinning 45s of garage, beat, acid rock, & other assorted trash.

LIVE:

WHITE APE

Lean, wiry, brash and catchy: darkly witty surf-punkabilly twangfest from London
https://www.facebook.com/WhiteApeBand

FRIENDS OF LUCA BRASI
5 like minded geezers back in the ring. Old enough to know better, just young enough to be better... and having a ball sonically kicking the bollocks off all & sundry. Stand up, join up and get on the end of that...
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Friends-Of-Luca-Brasi/120937687941699

THE MYND SET
Filling a space that has long been empty in the British music scene, The Mynd Set are the era-bending, genre-defying purveyors of psychedelic freakbeat not seen since the heady days of Swinging London. From Stevenage (like Lewis Hamilton, before he fucked off to Monaco)
https://www.facebook.com/themyndset

BABEZILLA
New boys in class! Matt Willford (guitar), Dave Newington (drums). Hats might be worn.
https://www.facebook.com/thisonesajazzgig

@ The Alley Cat
4 Denmark Street, London, WC2H 8LP
Tube: Tottenham Court Road
8pm-3am, £4 in advance from http://www.wegottickets.com/event/287414, or £7 on the door

FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/events/1518036645095300

DEVIATION STREET
Friday October 17th
The 5th anniversary!

Deviation Street is London’s hot hang-out for desperate rock’n’rollers. You’ll see & hear the best new garage and trashy rock’n’roll bands we can find.

In addition DJ Phil Istine and guest DJ Eric Baconstrip (King Salami & The Cumberland 3) will be on hand with the vintage vinyl, spinning 45s of garage, beat, punk, & other trash.

LIVE:
THE BEATPACK
A bunch of scruffy mid-60s obsessed miscreants predominantly - but not exclusively - from the south-east of England, and the Hastings area in particular. They peddled a ferocious punk-tinged brand of raw, primal garage R'n'B around the UK and Europe between 1987 and 1991, recording an LP - Could You Walk On Water? - an EP and a 45 for Screaming Apple records, based in Cologne, Germany, along the way. All these recordings were produced by the legendary Billy Childish. They reformed in 2013, and released the “I’m Walkin’” 45 on State Records to much acclaim.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/beatpack

THE TEAMSTERS
Welcome back lads. After their explosive start and a sensational four track EP unanimously welcomed earlier this year, the eagerly awaited debut album has just come out. Shindig! says they have “an innate ability to passionately recreate the bashing sounds of the early beat boom”. For fans of The Masonics, Headcoats, Kaisers, Milkshakes and Hamburg-era Beatles..
https://www.facebook.com/TeamstersMusic

THE HOWLING FIENDS
Hackney three-piece garage rock’n’roll trio, who soon will be known by new name The Beat Inn Spirit. Their second Deviation Street appearance, such did we enjoy the first.
https://www.facebook.com/TheHowlingfiends

THE REMNANTS
The Remnants were left over from disbanded acts The Kleek, The Higharts & Hooligan Choir. The love of The Beatles and 1960's music brought them smashing together to create a band that tried to produce classic 60's music as it should be. They have a great songwriting base too and have some really good danceable tracks that would fit snuggly in-between the classics of yesteryear.
https://www.facebook.com/TheRemnantsmusic

@ The Alley Cat
4 Denmark Street, London, WC2H 8LP
Tube: Tottenham Court Road
8pm-3am, £4 in advance from http://www.wegottickets.com/event/292077, or £7 on the door

FACEBOOK EVENT

DEVIATION STREET

Friday November 21st - the last hurrah!

‘Tis the end of the road for Deviation Street after five years of destroying ear drums and winning hearts. Come join the final four for an extra special night of celebration.

LIVE:

THE FUZILLIS

A five man atomic age raunch and roll combo playing classic Las Vegas grind, one line instr-o-mentals, Link Wray grooves, a smattering of Mr Cash and the odd little vocal tune ...with a twist. If you locked Grady Gaines, Link Wray, James Brown, Nick Curran, Eddie Angel, Sandy Nelson, Spike Jones and Duane Eddy into a room, you might get The Fuzillis.

https://www.facebook.com/thefuzillis

DEDWARDIANS

Rock 'n' Roll from old London town. “Combining a mutual respect for 50’s rock’n’roll, lo-fi garage punk, with a touch of glam, The Dedwardians are punching out some hyper energetic live shows and winning accolades all over the place”

https://www.facebook.com/Dedwardians

THE SUNDAE KUPS

Crazy surf party band from Sarf London. That’s enough to get you wet hopefully.

https://www.facebook.com/sundaekups

ADAM & ELVIS

Reading four-piece combine their love for delectable walls of sound and their naturally primitive punk energy to create something unusual, but rather pleasing on the ears and the troubled souls. Live highlights include supporting 60 legends The Zombies.

https://www.facebook.com/adamandelvis

In addition DJ Phil Istine will be on hand with the vintage vinyl, spinning 45s of garage, beat, & other party trash.

@ The Alley Cat

4 Denmark Street, London, WC2H 8LP

Tube: Tottenham Court Road

8pm-3am, £4 in advance from http://www.wegottickets.com/event/295003,  or £7 on the door

FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/events/273684176164281