Sugar Foot Stomp

Wednesday, 30 May 2012

GO GO Little Queenie

Stompin' in Goudhurst for Diamond Jubilee Celebrations
Sat 02 June, 2012

Thursday, 23 February 2012

Black Cotton Club

Check out The Stomp at London's hottest swing night on Saturday 17 March!

Tuesday, 13 December 2011

STOP PRESS !! STOP PRESS!!

Coctails fuel the fire of those loud licking rhythms....

I'll never forget.....

....... that night when Big Smiley tipped me the wink with his good eye as he shook those cocktails like maracas under the big sign that said 'no drinks for the bands.'

This had always been the place for late night honking horns and jive, but when the girl in the red dress started shaking her hips as the first notes blew in the breeze of the ceiling fans, the joint jumped alive to the jig walk with folks shuffling back and forth to the toe-tapping beat.

Even "Pan-Faced" Charlie took a break from answering the familiar double knock at the old wooden door to slide from his high backed stool to take his black and white boots for a ride in the throng.

The loud licking rhythm blasted from the bandstand with enough heat to melt bones

I've never seen the like, before nor since, when those Sugar Foot boys came by with there sleazy jiving ways and the whole place shook to the noise of wild abandon when the stomp came to town.

- Dudley Smith