The boxes are back!!

Any of you that saw us at Towersey this year will know that we have reintroduced melodeons in the majestic form of Mr Simon Care and Mr Saul Rose - box players of the highest quality and fine gentlemen they are too. We had a fab time at Towersey and we're looking forward to developing the whap sound with new material and a new album.
Bringing Saul and Simon in means that we say goodbye to Tom Fairbairn who leaves us for pastures new and we all wish him well.
We are now planning our appearances for the near future and one of our many aims is to organise some local events here in Northumberland. We will be posting details on the web site which is currently being revamped and will be re-launched soon.

Youngest fan?

On Mike Harding's Radio 2 prog a few weeks back he played the title track from "Relentless" for someone's 3 year old son who cannot resist dancing around to it. Is he our youngest fan we wonder? If you know better please let us know. Incidentally, I did hear a tale a few years ago of a very young person who burst into tears everytime the opening bars of "HT Polka" were played. Anyone out there have a whap-related anecdote that will amuse and delight us? Please e-mail us with your stories and we'll publish the best ones and send some prizes out. (We'll check in the loft and see what merchandise we've got left

Competition Winners

Many apologies for not getting round to announcing the winner of the last competition. We had some chortlesome entries for suggestions of future competetions and have decided that 3 of them will be used for this purpose . So, the winners are as follows
Sandy Liveaid for his suggestion of anagrams of band members names - the best one chosen by the band. (There's something suspicious about Sandy's name but I can't put my finger on it -Ed)
Penny Allen for "other best ways of work avoidence" Again , we''ll choose the best one
Tracey Rose for "how many words can you make out of "Whapweasel" (keep it clean please)
Congratulations to all our winners. We'll be sending an email to you with details of what you have won.

Competition

So, for this competition we'll use Sandy's suggestion of making anagrams of band member names. The names to choose from are "Brian Bell", "Heather Bell", "Stuart Finden", "Fiona Littlewood", "Bob Wilson", "Rick Kemp", "Simon Care", "Saul Rose" and "Michael William Tobias Samantha Coleman". As many as you can/want to competition@whapweasel.com

Entries to be in by December 15th 2006