26/10/2007

Pantastic.co.uk Website is go!

Pantastic's web monkey has finally gone to bed after working none stop for days (well 2!) to launch our new website. He is confident it will soon flourish and become a success launch the band even further round the world.

07/01/2008

Welcome Danny!

Pantastic welcomes Danny as a new guitarist in the band   

14/01/2008

Trouping the colours!

Pantastic would like to say a big thank you to their sponsors John and Kati at Northern Handymen for buying our new uniform T-shirts!   

THANK YOU!!!

The shirts are on sale in the shop in various colours for those of you who want to show your support for the band.

16/01/2008

THANKS EVERYBODY!

Thanks to everybody's hard work over the past year in raising the funds and the generous donations to the group, we have managed to get the Pans tuned by  Pan-making legend Tony Charles. This came just in time for the Charity Ball for the Lisa Dixon Centre on the 25th of January at Shotton Old Hall.

20/01/2008

News Pane goes live

This news pane is the latest development on the homepage making it easy for everyone to keep tabs on whats going on with the band. The pane holds 8 items older items will be transferred to the archive. 

E-mail us and you can receive updates from the news pane as they are added to the site.

Steve the webmonkey 

20/01/2008

Pantastic On YouTube.com

Pantastic now has an account on YouTube. Check the Video Gallery Regularly for video's or search YouTube for pantasticsteelband.

23/01/2008

Celebrating St George's Day with music

Pantastic will be helping St George's Church in Hartlepool to celebrate with their St George's Day Fayre on Saturday the 26th of April. Why not join us?

15/03/2008

Gearing up for the summer

Been a while but to update everyone a bit...the gig list is getting longer by the week with 8 confirmed and a couple of possible dates in the pipeline. The band are working really hard on polishing the extended set to make this year our best ever. Its gonna be a great summer for 2008! 

Oh we, practised some Christmas songs on Monday too! Just to keep the hand in for the end of the year. 

Other things that are happening are the Van has had a refit to fit the gear in more easily and now all the band have T-shirts (Danny's arrive last Tuesday). 

Check the gallery as there are a few more peeps in it. ;-)

08/07/2008  **NEW**

Anybody mention Xmas?

Only half way through the summer programme and the band already have two bookings for Xmas! Get those panners practising...

A point of note is that so far this year we have equalled the amount of gigs we did in the whole of 2007. Big pat on the back for us      :-) 

The guestbook is now receiving submissions at gigs themselves with a good ole notepad and pen and these comments are gratefully received and will be uploaded onto the website in coming weeks. They help us a lot as feedback gives us direction to improve. You can still submit your comments via e-mail on the page itself. They come direct to Pantastic.co.uk's inbox and are not public until they are manually uploaded onto the site with your name if you want it or anonymously - or you can state not to upload at all. Our webmonkey gets let out of his cage and uses the Juju magic to get it done.

25/07/2008  

A Big Thank You

Just a note to extend a big thanks to the Silksworth Library Group who have made a generous donation to the bands funds. A few of Pantastic's members were made very welcome at there weekly coffee morning to be presented with the donation. Hopefully we'll see the group again soon to return the gesture.

16/09/2008

Gigs, Gigs, Gigs

With the Summer programme over and the Autumn/Winter programme looking hectic as ever (see the gig list for December's dates), rehearsal for the Christmas set begins in mission mode next Monday (lets see how much the band remember). Also we have been booked for the 2009 Lisa Dixon Centre Charity Ball. The 2008 event was great and 2009's looks to be even bigger. Can't wait!