Get down and dirty with our 1st gig of the year at Walton Hall, Warrington. With Clint Boon spinning the tunes – Saturday January 29th 2011

Back from our Christmas break [which wasn’t really a break] and a new hometown show to announce.  We’re slotting gigs in-between recording sessions for the debut album, and this will be our first of the year.  It’s a potential cracker of a night, hope you can join us! Doors Open at 7pm Midnight Mafia 7:30 [...]

Next Up for ‘the 66′ – Clint Boon Vs Mani, and many more – Dec 2nd in Prestwich

Hmm… I like Clint Boon, but I also like Mani? but who is best? Well, there’s only one way to find out…. FIGHT!!!! No don’t worry, we haven’t gone into organising ‘celebrity fight club’, but we are on the bill for this fantastic pre-Christmas bash.   The night is being run by Longfield Live, here’s [...]

REVIEW – Warrington Music Festival 2010 [the quickening]

Firstly, thank you to everyone that was in attendance for our headline show!  It was truly a wonderful sight to see the Warrington masses (around 300 of you) being zapped by the 66 super-strobe.  It was a truly great atmosphere created by one-and-all. A massive thanks to the organisers; sound engineers, lighting, roadies, and everyone [...]

MANCHESTER… it’s been a while. MOHO LIVE… it’s been a while. THE 66 return fully loaded for a FREE headline show…August 21st

‘The 66 return to Manchester to headline the Summer of Love Part 3’  Since our last Moho show many things have happened.  Machines have been built; labels and forces have joined together creating bigger machines; virtual gigs; live and studio recordings are all waiting to be systematically released, thus causing maximum mainstream disruption and eruptions [...]

Return to the motherland… the 66 @ Warrington Music Festival, Saturday July 17th & the evolution of Craig Harman

On July 17th the 66 dust off their equipment and return to the live arena with a spectacular headline show for Warrington Music Festival. It’s a cracking line-up and with its new location outside the ‘Barley Mow’ pub, on Fish Market Square this years festival is going to be bigger and better than previous years. [...]

Jim Morrison is not dead; he is alive and coming to Warrington. Who would have thought it? He’s bringing mushrooms as well. The Doors are Alive!

Contrary to popular belief Jim Morrison did not die in a bath tub in France, he was merely resting himself for the April 30th super-show with the 66.  When Mike Bee guitarist and tunesmith of ‘the 66’ was 12years old, he and his friends watched ‘the doors’ film by Oliver Stone.  From that moment on [...]

Next Stop: RAC (rent a crowd) Presents… at Ruby Lounge, Manchester, March 20th

Following our gig at FAC251 [thank you to everything who attended.)  March 20th will see our 2nd gig of 2010 at the Ruby Lounge, Manchester.  This night contains enough explosives to reach the sky and back, a cosmic boomerang.  We hope you can join us! We are buzzing to be playing our first show at [...]

the 66 @ FAC251 – 1st gig of 2010 March 5th

The 2010 gigging spree is about to begin, and it starts of with a fully primed corker of a gig! 20 years since the birth of Madchester, the building that started it all and ultimately destroyed it all…. FAC251: Head office of Factory Communications… Built by Tony Wilson, designed by Ben Kelly & Peter Saville, [...]

SINGLE RELEASE – The world is in your hands Mr GENGHIS KHAN, it’s off to the studio we go, and we’re going Old School Bubba….

As the madness of ITC weekend is tagged, bagged and filed for later use, it’s time to get back to the serious issue of recording our debut single. Things can be serious, but fun, and topped with 10 layers of Rum…. We’ve held out on a release for the past 2 years as we didn’t [...]

ITC GIG REVIEW – the 66 @ moon under water / for manchester radio online

THAT, was one hell of a night! MRO put together a Cracking set up, 3d graphics, top sound, 27000 listeners, top bands, and a massive post gig rumfest. A review of our gig has just appeared on Manchester Musics ITC blog review. “THE 66, I also probably know something approaching equally as well. It’s always [...]

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