When ex-members of Red Organ Serpent Sound, Bam Bam & The Calling, The Subtitles, Room 31 & The Free Radicals got together, people said..... "Mmm what have we here?.... a Supergroup?"Maybe....maybe not.... but what we do have is a group of misfits blending Rockabilly, Country, Punk & Blues with a little instant catchiness.With Phillip James Waldorph III on Ludwig drums, Dr Davide "The Destroyer" Duvall on 1964 Mosrite Audition bass guitar, 'The Beast from the East' Johnny Kevonowski on Fender Broadcaster six string, Reno Rodriguez on super-sonic surf guitar & the original cowboy viking to whom 'speed' means freedom of the soul, Mort Van Cleef Dortensen on cow stick & lead vox...Holy Guacamole! Here Comes The Landed Gentry!
PRESS
The would-be supergroup Here Comes The Landed Gentry (a few months have barely passed and already whisperings of things great and small have been passed around) inaugurate with their debut Cellar Bar performance.
Born from the remnants of individual Derry based showstealers, HCTLG are nothing if not show-stoppingly original.
Chancing their hand at playing for pretty much as long as they can, they charge through their set with the gusto of a headlining act.
Marty Doherty on vocals is supported by three others at various intervals - each with their own thing to say and each with their own individual way of getting it across.
There's no over pushing the fact that HCTLG have only been officially around for about 3/4 months. To have achieved half of what's on show here would have been encouraging enough.
Instead with the likes of Johnny Hero and Handbreaker delivered through the hip flask interludes, we're presented with the all round package.
Re-vamped blues doesn't come much funkier than a parade with the Gentry.
Review by Niall Kerr (Mid Ulster Mail)
Most talked about band in town at the minute...(Derry Journal)
Here Comes the Landed Gentry are here to shake and rile us once more. Well aware that youth is no longer on their side, they're a band for well travelled whiskey connoisseurs, not afraid of a sleazy, old-skool sea shanty. With a few low flying Derry accents ricocheting around the venue, they're the Birthday Party, if Nick Cave had been born in Altnagelvin. Unashamedly filthy.BBC Northern Ireland - ATL
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