IF you like your rock’n’roll mad, bad and dangerous to know, you’ll be no doubt already slapping a bucket of pomade into your quiff for the visit of The Caezars to Weymouth later this month.

The rockabilly foursome, who appear to have inherited the unusual genetic make-up of Gene Vincent, The Hives, Dr Feelgood and The Cramps, will be at the Queen’s to help celebrate the King Street music venue’s first birthday on Saturday, October 29.

Having toured this summer with music press dahlings The Vaccines and supported Imelda May, big things are expected of The Caezars next year. And with their raw sound, an attitude stroppier than Carlos Tevez on a bad day and authentic 50s gear, who’d try to stop them?

If these London-based fairground bruisers don’t feature on the soundtrack of the next Tarantino movie, I’ll eat my pork pie hat.

Those of you with this new-fangled internet thing, go to dorsetecho.co.uk/leisure/ music and hear The Caezars’ take on Plan B’s She Said. Go on, off you go now. Okay, come back.

WATCH THE CAEZARS HERE

Now then, if your choice in tonsorial pro-ducts is more Harmony hair spray than Brylcreem, you will obviously be down the front for the Guns’n’Roses Experience at Finns in Weymouth on Friday, October 21 (Admission is £6).

Now officially the number one GnR tribute in Europe, the band has toured the continent and the Middle East taking with them only Axl’s kilt and Slash’s stovepipe hat. Oh, and some top musicianship too. In fact, they’re that hot they’re the only tribute band to be officially endorsed by Marshall amps.

Moving on, when successful bands break up, the fall-out can be worse than a marital split (viz: The Beatles, Bucks Fizz, Spandau Ballet) with legal arguments over who keeps the name, the toaster and the royalties going on for decades.

So it’s good to hear that Paul Weller and Bruce Foxton have patched up their differences, albeit through family bereavements.

When Weller wound up The Jam at the height of their powers in the early 1980s, Foxton, pictured below left, agreed to stand in with Stiff Little Fingers and stayed with them for 15 years before reuniting with former rhythm partner Rick Buckler to form From The Jam with guitarist Russell Hastings.

Buckler has now moved on and his place behind the kit has been taken by former Big Country drummer Mark Brzezicki, who is not only a top tub thumper but an absolute match-winner in Scrabble.

From The Jam will tear through The Jam’s back catalogue, including top tunes such as Eton Rifles, Going Underground, In the City and so many more, at the Electric Palace in Bridport on Friday, October 28 with support from the splendidly-named Dennis Hopper’s Choppers. (Tickets £20 from 01308 424901).

And finally, keep November 18 clear in your diary for the first Spencer Bates Memorial Weekend.

Organiser Grant Day, guitarist with the Amy Mayes Band, has asked bands who are playing that night to donate their fee for the gig to a trust fund which will be split between the Motor Neurone Disease Association and the family of the former Balance of Power drummer who died aged 49 in August after a long battle with the disease.

Not surprisingly, Grant has been inundated with offers from artists and venues keen to take part in this marvellous event and if you want to get involved contact Grant via the Spencer Bates Memorial Weekend page on Facebook or email me at gigs@dorsetecho.co.uk and I’ll pass the message on.