But while the two men are riding into the country, where they are going to dinner, they are attacked in the dark of the forest by a band of thieves, who strip them of everything, including most of their clothes.

Everywhere there are little touches of humor, and the leader of the on-stage band of musicians is an ebullient comedian who plays all sorts of odd instruments with winning warmth.

The five basic steps are found equally well whether we are talking about an earthquake, a submarine using sonar to locate its foe, or a band playing in a rock concert.

BrE: The Clash are a well-known band ; AmE: The Clash is a well-known band.

Proper nouns that are plural in form take a plural verb in both AmE and BrE ; for example, The Beatles are a well-known band ; The Saints are the champions, with one major exception: largely for historical reasons, in American English, the United States is is almost universal.

* 991 – Battle of Maldon: the English, led by Byrhtnoth, Ealdorman of Essex, are defeated by a band of inland-raiding Vikings near Maldon, Essex.

Although they are generally classified as a cappella metal, the band also includes a drummer, and use amplifiers on some songs to distort the voice to sound more like a real guitar.

Arrangers in pop music recordings often add parts for orchestral or band instruments involving new material such that the arrangers may reasonably be considered co-composers, although for copyright and royalty purposes usually are not.

Big band arrangements are informally called charts.

With a near-infrared J band magnitude of-2. 2, only Betelgeuse (- 2. 9 ) and R Doradus (- 2. 6 ) are brighter.

The plot revolves around a sinister construction corporation's plans to depopulate, destroy and redevelop the Bronx, and a band of rebels who are out to expose the corporation's murderous ways and save their homes.

Belle and Sebastian are an indie pop band formed in Glasgow in January 1996.

Belle and Sebastian are often compared with acts such as The Smiths, The members of the band see this as a landmark event, with Stevie Jackson saying, " This is the biggest thrill of my entire life ".

The “ Pops ” have been Grammy nominated and are the first lower Manhattan all volunteer community band in a century.

Many bands, such as Mayhem and Gorgoroth, are noted for their controversial shows, which have featured impaled animal heads, mock crucifixions, medieval weaponry and band members doused in animal blood.

The Jenerators are a blues-rock band based in Los Angeles, CA featuring Tom Hebenstreit on vocals, electric guitars and keyboards ; Bill Mumy on vocals, acoustic and electric guitars, harmonica, keyboards, and percussion ; Gary Stockdale on vocals and bass ; Miguel Ferrer on vocals, percussion and drums ; David Jolliffe on guitar, percussion and vocals and Chris Ross on drums and percussion.

Sets are generally arranged so they run the length of the hall, with the top or head of the set being the end closest to the band and caller.

Qualified banks borrow from each other within this band, but never above or below, because the central bank will always lend to them at the top of the band, and take deposits at the bottom of the band ; in principle, the capacity to borrow and lend at the extremes of the band are unlimited.

At once the whole band set off at a lope.

With no set standards, there is the tendency to promote to the next highest level when the top of a salary band is reached regardless of performance.

The band is set to begin writing a new record this year.

* ANS ( album ), a box set from the British band Coil

Holly set the template for the standard rock and roll band: two guitars, bass, and drums.

The suite which includes a Scottish pipe band, Irish and Welsh harpists, Galician gaitas, Irish uilleann pipes, the bombardes of Brittany, two vocal soloists and a narrator is set against a background of a classical orchestra and a large choir.

As the primary songwriter for the band, Neil Finn has always set the tone for the band's sound.

Within the realm of popular music and jazz, " drums " usually refers to a drum kit or a set of drums ( with some cymbals ) and " drummer " to the actual band member or person who plays them.

The tour for " Freedom of Choice " featured the band performing in front of large custom light boxes which could be laid on their back to form a second, smaller stage during the second half of the set.

The album's accompanying tour featured the band performing an intensely physical show with treadmills and a large Greek temple set.

The band then set out on a nine-month, 92-date world tour, with an enormous set and a hugely expensive space ship stage with fog machines and a laser display.

A band of " Scythians " set a naval raid against Pontus, in the northern part of modern Turkey.

According to a number of sources, it was Emmylou who forced the band to practice and work up an actual set list.

* 2012 – Alternative rock band The Flaming Lips set a new Guinness World Record for performing the most live shows in different cities over 24 hours.

With a chosen band, Jehu set forth with all speed to Jezreel, where Jehoram was recovering from his wound from the Battle of Ramoth-Gilead.

The set features the entire album recorded in its original running order during a tour of England by Lee in early 2003 in which he was backed by the band Baby Lemonade and string and horn ensembles.

The band set another attendance record, with an audience of 76, 229 at their Pontiac Silverdome concert on 30 April.

Along with the fellow Washington, D. C. hardcore band Bad Brains and California band Black Flag, Minor Threat set the standard for many hardcore punk bands in the 1980s and 1990s.

When " Out of Step " was rerecorded for the LP Out of Step, MacKaye inserted a spoken section explaining, " This is not a set of rules ..." An ideological door had already been opened, however, and by 1982, some straight-edge punks, such as followers of the band SS Decontrol, were swatting beers out of people's hands at clubs.

The band reunited with Neil in 1997, after their current manager, Allen Kovac, and Neil's manager, Bert Stein, set up a meeting between Neil, Lee, and Sixx.

In addition to performing a set featuring material from Saints of Los Angeles, the band also celebrated the 20th anniversary of Dr. Feelgood by performing the album in its entirety on each night of the tour and re-releasing the album as a special 20th anniversary deluxe edition.

The cover of the Ramones ' 1976 debut album, featuring a shot of the band by Punk photographer Roberta Bayley, set forth the basic elements of a style that was soon widely emulated by rock musicians both punk and nonpunk.

However, in 1908 with the Scottish and Irish unions refusing to be involved, the Anglo-Welsh side only sported red jerseys with a thick white band on their jerseys on tour to Australia and New Zealand.

Monk Montgomery was the first bass player to tour with the Fender bass guitar, with Lionel Hampton's postwar big band.

After touring for Celebrity Skin finished, Auf der Maur left the band to tour with The Smashing Pumpkins ; Hole's touring drummer Samantha Maloney left soon after.

Finn and Hester decided to form a new band during the Split Enz farewell tour, Enz with a Bang, during November and December 1984.

After the tour, Finn fired Seymour from the band.

Crowded House were mid way through a US tour when Paul Hester quit the band on 15 April 1994.

The band sold recordings of the shows on the Intriguer tour on USB flash drives and made individual live tracks available for free download.

In his teens, he played drums and sang back-up with a local band called The Teen Tones, which later went on to tour with such acts as Bobby Darin and Gene Vincent.

The band followed with a well received East Coast tour.

This lineup assembled for this tour contained East Bay Ray, Peligro, Greer, and bassist Greg Reeves replacing Flouride, who was taking " personal time off " from the band.

The core band that coalesced around this album and tour — rhythm guitarist Alomar, bassist George Murray, and drummer Dennis Davis — would continue as a stable unit for the remainder of the 1970s.

Tin Machine's first world tour was a commercial success, but there was growing reluctance — among fans and critics alike — to accept Bowie's presentation as merely a band member.

The band did a Balkan tour, dubbed " Balkans AssassiNation Tour ", in October 2007 alongside Krisiun, Incantation and Inactive Messiah.

On January 6, 2009, Deicide posted a blog on their official Myspace page saying they had signed a worldwide record deal with Century Media, with Ralph Santolla returning to the band for a European tour.

In the early 1990s, Deicide was on tour in Europe with Gorefest, a Dutch death metal band.

The album's tour featured the band performing seven songs in front of a 12-foot high rear-projection screen with synchronized video, an image recreated using blue screen effects in the album's accompanying music videos.

This caused the band to abandon the plans for a " Shout " video LP, as well as their tour for the album.

The band performed on part of the 1996 Lollapalooza tour in the rotating Mystery Spot, with a setlist largely composed of material from their heyday between 1978 and 1982.

The band also played at the Wembley Arena for eight straight sold-out nights during the tour as well, another record at that time.

The band embarked on their last world tour to date to promote the LP.

The album's release was followed by news that there would be no tour to promote the LP, that drummer Bevan was now playing drums for Black Sabbath and that bassist Kelly Groucutt had left the band.

Mik Kaminski, Kelly Groucutt and Hugh McDowell joined the band for the first tour in 1991.