The new Ramones musical Gabba Gabba Hey! is to make its U.K.
debut in London next month, it has been announced.Gabba Gabba Hey! features 18 Ramones songs and has been musically directed by former band member Tommy Ramone.
The show will begin its run on July 31 at Koko in Camden, London, and will conclude on August 5, with Tommy Ramone appearing in a house band led by former Clash guitarist Nick Sheppard.
Among the songs performed in the musical, which has already toured Australia, Germany, and Switzerland, are Blitzkrieg Bop Beat On The Brat, and Sheena Is A Punk Rocker.
The show s writer, director and producer Michael Hermann, told the British trade magazine Music Week he hopes Gabba Gabba Hey!
will be a great success in the U.K.
He describes it as a timely antidote to the recent spate of bloated, over-produced back catalog shows that are about as rock n roll as Hugh Grant performing James Blunt on the [cheesy U.
K. talent show] Stars In Their Eyes Christmas special. Green Day have been credited with saving the life of a young fan, after she found a live hand grenade in her garden in the Britsh town of Halifax.
Ten homes in the city were evacuated yesterday and a 100-yard exclusion zone was installed around the area where the explosive was discovered.
Ruby Wilson, 12, found the device while clearing leaves from the garden. She identified the grenade from her Green Day T-shirt for the band s American Idiot album.
An army disposal unit was dispatched to the scene of the incident, after Ruby picked up the grenade and showed it to her father.
She explained: I saw what looked like a round metal object and realized it looked like a hand grenade. My dad told me to put it down carefully on the ground.
But I wasn t very worried because I thought it was too old to be dangerous.
Her dad, Johnny Wilson commented: We were surprised when we found out it was live because the police told us in most cases they are not. We were shocked that it had been just outside our house and was capable of exploding.
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