SOME CRACKING GIGS AHEAD AS VERBAL WARNING PLAY LAST 13 SHOWS OF 2026!
We can't believe how quickly 2026 has gone – but with the end of the year firmly in sight, Verbal Warning still have 13 gigs to go – and some absolute crackers too.
Don't forget on Saturday, 21st, we will be the outdoor live music for the Stapleford Christmas Lights Switch On.
We will be playing two 25-minute sets on Derby Road car park either side of a big fireworks display and the lights being switched on.
It is an early gig – 6pm start (full details at the bottom of this newsletter).
Please come down and cheer/sing/heckle. We promise two or three punky festive tunes for the occasion!
The weekend after, and literally a few yards up the road from there, we will be the first live band in the newly refurbished Old Cross pub which reopens this coming week.
It is a late gig. We will be onstage at 10pm on Friday, 27th November and it's a compact room so get your spot early.
The night before the lights switch on (Friday, 20th November) we will be playing bang in the centre of Nottingham with our first ever gig at the Mousetrap Social opposite the Theatre Royal – 9pm start.
On Thursday 26th November we will be playing on a fantastic punk bill at the always magnificent Billy Bootleggers dive bar in Nottingham city centre.
Tickets are a bargain £10 for a five-band bill - £2 a band! Buy yours HERE
Mad Badgers will headline and along with us we have Steam Kittens, Bad Axe and Rumbrave.
The gig will start at 7pm and if we can make this work there will be regular punk nights there for you.
That is the start of three gigs in three nights for us that weekend – see www.verbalwarninguk.com
Don't forget – if you want to see in the New Year with us, we will be playing Presley's Club in Kirk Hallam on 31st December.
Tickets are on sale behind the bar there now, priced £6.50 and it's first come, first served.
As far as 2027 goes, gigs are now coming in thick and fast – we have 27 already confirmed – see www.verbalwarninguk.com
So if you are a venue or promoter and want to book us then please contact lomas.john@gmail.com as soon as possible cheers.
See you at one or all of the last 13 gigs of another great year!
STAPLEFORD XMAS LIGHTS DETAILS
Stapleford Christmas Lights Switch On 2026 will take place on Saturday 21 November from 1pm to 7pm.
The Christmas market on Victoria Street and children's fairground rides on Medivet car park will both start at 1pm to kick off the festive afternoon!
Derby Road Car Park
Santa's Grotto
Time Event
4:35pm Fairfield Spencer Academy Choir
5:00pm Salvation Army Brass Band
5:20pm Victorian Period Prestidigitation
6:00pm Verbal Warning Set 1
6:30pm Firework Display
6:35pm Verbal Warning Set 2
The Christmas Lights Switch On is at the Walter Parker VC Memorial Square by the Christmas Tree at 5:30pm.
Santa's Grotto will take place at the Stapleford & Bramcote Conservative Club.
PS . . . . . . . . . .
For any of you who can remember the early 1980s and the original Verbal Warning line up here is a newly resurfaced pix of the boys in their prime as we head towards the 46th anniversary of the first VW gig next month!
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