Brilliant Surrey-based rock covers Broken Switch helped avert a disaster at a windy Surrey Half Marathon this month when part of a giant old oak tree smashed across the route just before the race got underway.

We're playing The Manor in Tooting on Friday the 10th of August - check out the poster here!

Come on down and see us at work.

Did the Beatles ever have a gig postponed halfway through because they were playing on top of a hill and it started to rain sideways?

No, thought not*.

Broken Switch have.

The venue was Ranmore near Dorking overlooking Denbies Wine Estate, which nestles in the Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. And the event was the Bacchus marathon 2017.

Yep, we’ve all now played Eel Pie Island, the tiny boaty, hippie community on a small crop of land in the middle of a not particularly wide part of the River Thames in Twickenham.

The big difference, apart from the maybe 50-year gap between our gig and the Stones’ last one there is that there’s now a bridge across from the mainland. Keith and co had to push their gear over in a boat. We had to push our drum kit, full PA with giant speakers, amps, guitars, keyboard and a couple of harmonicas over a steep footbridge then along the short winding path to the venue, the Twickenham Rowing Club boathouse. Buy boy it’s worth it; what a fantastic crowd and amazing, historic venue.

On Bank Holiday Sunday, May 1, if you were thinking about staying in your room with the door shut, light off and not coming anywhere near Epsom - think again.