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Town or City you live in
Chalk Farm
County/State or Country
London
What instrument(s) do you play; or if you are signing up as a band, what is its line-up?
rhythm guitar, vocals
Describe your status, and/or your band's:
Hobbyist, In a band
What style(s) of music do you play/like?
rock, indie, punk
Please tell us more about you, and/or your band/studio etc (including its name)
Pocket Rocket: Rock, with a pop sensibility and always with an English accent.
Your website/Facebook/Twitter/Linkedin/or other page; or your band's/studio's:
http://onesheet.com/pocketrocketuk/
What do you do for a living?
Drug Addiction Treatment Co-ordinator
When you do finally 'drop', what song would you like played at your funeral?
When The Music's Over - The Doors

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Toby Burton

Children of The Damned - A review of The Damned's 35th Anniversary Gig at The Roundhouse, London

Posted on November 19, 2011 at 7:17am 2 Comments



I’m at the Roundhouse in Chalk Farm for the second time in a month – I was here to see the Horrors in October. I have been gradually drawn to the Roundhouse over the years – ever since I watched ‘The Doors Are Open’, which features footage of one of the two gigs the Doors played here in 1968. I now live a three minute walk away.

I am with two musician friends that I have met in…

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Toby Burton

Better late than never: A review of WU LYF at the Shepherds Bush Empire 26th October 2011

Posted on November 13, 2011 at 3:30pm 0 Comments

(Picture: http://www.musicphotographers.co.uk/live-music-blog/)

 

If Ellery Roberts thumps his chest, heart-side and rapper-style, to pre-empt another lyric, my wife is going to slap him.

To do so though, she will have to swim the raging sea of…

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About my band, Pocket Rocket

Pocket Rocket began life as a studio project for ex-67 singer and guitarist Toby Burton and his drum machine, The Phantom Limb in 1998. Before long, Burton began drafting in musician-friends to back him up live, and by 2000 Pocket Rocket could be seen playing both electric and acoustic sets, with various instrumental support around both London’s rock and chilled-club circuits. The earliest line-up (Pocket Rocket, MarkI) included Toby’s lifelong friend Michael Wilson on bass, Stewart George on saxophone and Jean-Marc Brunerie on drums. Jean-Marc was later replaced by ex-67 drummer Gavin Richards, and Pocket Rocket (MarkII) continued without George, as a three-piece, and reuniting the original 67 line-up. This incarnation was short-lived, and despite another drummer (MarkIII) playing with the band just long enough to record the 'Happiness' CD single, between 2004-2007 Burton, tired of getting drummers up to speed and then losing them, redrafted The Phantom Limb back into the line up (MarkIV).

 

In September 2007, Burton began rebuilding the band (MarkV) drafting in ex-Demented-Are-Go guitarist ‘Lex’ Luther Taylor and ex-Fairground Worker Nigel Edginton-Vigus on drums. This line-up lasted a couple of years before Edginton left to focus on his professional career. Pocket Rocket continued as a 3-piece with another Nigel (Nigel Band) playing drums in this, the MarkVI line-up.

Pocket Rocket disbanded indefinitely at the end of the summer of 2011.

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What Colin Gillman AKA Axevictim has to say about Pocket Rocket:

I have come to know Toby Burton (above left) reasonably well since I was pointed in his general direction by Kenny back when I was having a crisis about what to wear on stage. Toby had recently founded his global social networking site for mature musicians Rock Til You Drop and what with me being a highly opinionated type personage I rapidly found that I was calling Toby up for chats and inviting him to come along and meet with me and the lads in Magic Ship for a drink. Since then I’ve been a supporter of his RTYD gigs which are showcases for the bands that populate Toby’s site. I’ll even go so far as to say that I have managed to persuade the dear fellow to set up a music download site and even a social networking site for music fans. I like Toby. I’d say that I am proud to call him mate. And here’s the thing. When he wasn’t a mate I wasn’t all that bothered about checking out his band Pocket Rocket’s back catalogue. Let’s face it. Most musicians are far to self absorbed and competitive to be thinking about someone else’s band. We’re far too busy thinking about ourselves. However, since adopting the moniker of mate I have begun to listen more to Toby’s songs and to his lyrics (which are odd but quirky odd like Jarvis Cocker might be considered odd) and I have come to love his singing style which is very English provincial (which is also what a lot of his lyrical subject matter is about) and coming from Godalming and wanting desperately to become a punk his music simply oozes small town frustration. The band is another matter entirely. A really great bunch of tight sounding musos with a highly distinctive and original style. All said and done Pocket Rocket are a terrific band that I am delighted to have discovered since joining the RTYD networking site. So, if you like the kind of English quirkyness as described above and want to check out his band’s music you can do so at the RTYD Download site. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

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Thanks Toby, it's great to meet you here mate! Cheers,

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