THE RISK & MONUMENTAL + DJs in CRAWLEY - SATURDAY 15th NOVEMBER 2025 - GOFFS PARK SOCIAL CLUB
Schedule
Sat Nov 15 2025 at 06:45 pm to 11:59 pm
UTC+00:00Location
Goffs Park Social Club | Crawley, EN
This is the PayPal link to pay for advance tickets online for The Risk and Monumental in Crawley, Saturday 15th November 2025:https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/Gerardjames902
ALL PROFITS FROM TICKET SALES WILL BE DONATED TO RYAN SCOPES AND HIS YOUNG FAMILY IN THESE DIFFICULT TIMES.
Tickets are £10.00 each (Payment by Family & Friends only):
Please remember to use the "Friends & Family" payment option when paying or the payment will be rejected. We always keep ticket prices as low as possible. Since our first event with "Long Tall Shorty" way back in 2009, advance tickets have been a paltry £10.00, as they still are now. We can do this because we don`t charge hidden or silly booking fees and commissions. Advance tickets are £10.00 and £10.00 is all you pay. We regret that we sadly can`t reserve tickets without payment because of previous experiences of a few in the past, when people didn't turn up and pay after reserving tickets. ALL ARE WELCOME!
You can also scan the QR code on the flyer and you can also obtain tickets by contacting the following people below on messenger or personally.
1: Gerard James on facebook/messenger or see him personally at: https://www.facebook.com/gerard.james.73
2: Cheryl Muggeridge on facebook/messenger or see her personally at: https://www.facebook.com/cheryl.muggeridge
3: Darren Scopes on facebook/messenger or see him personally at: https://www.facebook.com/darren.scopes
4: Tony Gilder on facebook/messenger or see him personally at: https://www.facebook.com/tony.gilder.1
5: If all that fails, please contact Karl Powell on facebook/messenger at: https://www.facebook.com/EnglishKarl/
6: On the door*
*Please note. If all tickets are sold before the event date, no tickets will be sold on the door. It won`t be the first time this has happened.
Cheap hotels near the venue where many stay will be published soon.
We can`t believe this is our 16th year and after selling out last years gig with weeks to go with 300 souls enjoying themselves that night we firmly advice you to book tickets in advance, we warned people well in advance last time and many were disappointed when it sold out. Advance tickets are a paltry £10.00 and with cheap Social Club bar prices you can`t really go wrong.
A fantastic night of music is awaiting with Mod/Power Pop Legends from Guernsey, featuring Mark Le Gallez and Colin Leach of The Risk, making their first appearance on the mainland since 2009. At the same time they will also be bringing along a very special guest, so it doesn`t get much more exciting than this. This is something we are very proud of and what an opportunity to see them live in Crawley. It`s also their 40th anniversary and they have just released a new single. At the same time you will also have the chance to see one of the youngest and most talentful bands on the scene, Monumental. Hailing from Essex this band has ignited and intrigued audiences across the country, when you say Youth Explosion, Monumental certainly live up to that. You will be in for a treat.
Originally calling ourselves "Vixen Scooter Club" in the Mod Revival era, it was decided in the spring of 1983 to change our name. Various names were suggested like The Exploding Frogs, Crazy Daisys or even The Cherry Tree Scooter Cub but "The Last Great Act Of Defiance Scooter Club" was decided on and we never looked back. Our original logo/patch was hand made for each member by our old boy Phil Ford with every patch having the members unique number at the bottom. This was Danger Mouse sticking two fingers up at saba-toothed tiger on a union flag background. This idea came from a program at an Animals gig a few Vixen/Defiance went to, Gel suggested to put Danger Mouse in front of the tiger with his two fingers up and the name "The Last Great Act of Defiance Scooter Club" was born. Members came from Crawley, Copthorne, East Grinstead & the surrounding areas. Defiance members sprayed their helmets in agate red and gold had DSC in gold on the back in old English letters and had their number in large yellow on one side.
In 1983 Defiance, as we were now known, went to the Isle of Wight Scooter rally, 13 attended and our numbers in the club increased weekly after this, the final total was 60 plus. This total was many more with our birds, mates and hang-arounds etc. Attending Mod gigs & rallies etc, we soon got a reputation, good or bad, we`ll leave that up to you. Breton caps and studded belts under our suit jackets were two trade marks of DSC, but as they say, all good things come to an end.
In 2006, in a pub in Turners Hill near Crawley, a few original members decided to brush of the ashes of time and get DSC together again and back in business. The now famous and revamped DSC logo is now put on patches, badges, polo shirts, jackets, mugs and scooter banners etc.
In 2009 Gel and Karl decided DSC needed an official reunion, this was held at Copthorne Social Club near Crawley with Mod Revival legends LONG TALL SHORTY. Old and new connected with DSC made this a great event. Since then Defiance SC has had many other very successful events with bands such as: SMALL WORLD (3), THE UNIVERSAL, DC FONTANA, THE LOOP, ECHO GENERATION, CHARLIE COOPER, TOMMY AITKINS, TIME BOMB, SUSPICIONS, THE CONCRETE GODS, THE SCENE, DISTANT ECHO. SQUIRE (2), THE KILLERMETERS (2), THE SHA LA LAS, SLOW TIME MONDAYS, SHAMEFACED, PUNKY REGGAE PARTY, PURPLE HEARTS, THE COLLECTIVE A.K.A. and MAZE etc.
Defiance SC also released a live LP in 2021 with the help of Dizzy at Detour Records featuring THE KILLERMETERS from the 2014 gig, a very unique thing to do for a scooter club and something we are very proud of. Think Dizzy has a few black copies left if interested, the splatter version sold out on pre-order before release.
It`s now been well over 40 years since "The Last Great Act Of Defiance Scooter Club" changed it`s name from "Vixen Scooter Club" and this time Gel has secured The Risk and Monumental. So we both have our work cut out again.
Without you lot and everyone else involved, these events would not exist, you are all legends.
Catch you soon and as said, ALL ARE WELCOME! You are welcome to contact Gel and Karl anytime, if you have any questions.
Karl & Gel (on behalf of “The Last Great Act Of Defiance Scooter Club")
