A rocking night expected with Wheatus (From The Wiltshire Gazette and Herald)

A rocking night expected with Wheatus

8:37am Tuesday 29th May 2007 in Swindon By Gazette Reporter

Tonight there will be A Little Respect in Lower Stratton for US band Wheatus.

They will play their Erasure hit and other classics at a one-off gig to be held at Area 51 in Hobley Drive.

And despite the band's international reputation there are still some tickets available.

Teenage musician Nathan Gregory managed to secure the gig with the former chart-toppers after spotting an empty date in their current tour diary and contacting their management through music networks.

He originally booked them in for a spot at the Memorial Hall in Wootton Bassett, which turned out to be too small once word of the booking spread.

But the band, currently on a tour of the UK, was happy to squeeze the extra low-key date into their schedule.

Nathan said: "We would still have liked it to be at the Memorial Hall but this is not a bad compromise. There are less than 50 tickets left and it should be a great gig."

Wheatus were catapulted into the mainstream with Teenage Dirtbag, which featured on the soundtrack to US teen movie Loser, became one of the top-selling UK singles of 2001.

Support comes from local bands Jeff Like Usual and Four Forty Nine.

Tickets are priced at £8 on the door, and are available from Brian Taylor Music in Swindon and Wootton Bassett.