The Sensational Vulcan Creedlers

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>January 31st 2009 - The Vulcan Creedlers a recently formed middle-aged rock-covers band is backstage on the brink of its debut gig. How on earth had they got into this predicament? Why hadn't they made their midlife challenges more manageable?</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>What follows is a faltering five-year rise through birthday parties wedding-band slots working men's clubs with the occasional bonus of a corporate event. Whilst they were never able to utter the rock'n'roll dream welcome of Hello Wembley The Creedlers did somehow manage to play at London's Earls Court. There was even a European Tour if one gig in Gdansk counts as a tour.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>As the band suffers the slings and arrows of outrageous misfortune this engaging tale of life on stage and on the road rattles along to a beat more punk than Pavarotti. Playing to audiences of one to one thousand centre stage is Mike Stand with his anxieties paranoias and unshakeable determination to finally conquer that crucial live performance of his late father's favourite song.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>The Creedlers' story is a humorous honest touching and often surreal flirtation with mid-life crisis and how to survive it.</span></p>