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Tornado Alleycats

Rockin' up a Storm!

About Me

In August 2006, Jay & Andy (both ex-Salt Flat Trio) teamed up with Howlin' Moondoggies frontman Marco, to form a new rockin’ trio - the Tornado Alleycats. The Alleycats play swingin', traditional rockabilly and hillbilly jazz - and they've been tearing it up everywhere they go. Due to various commitments, the boys are only performing infrequently at present. However, if you dig this style - please check out the High Rollin' Rhythm Kings - you will not be disappointed.
Thanks to everyone who has supported the Alleycats over the past year. Pics below are from our last trip over to Melbourne, where Jay and Andy performed with Hank and Dave from the Jalopy Demons, as "Hank & the Westonairs".
L-R Jay, Stoney (Roadmasters), Dave, Andy, Hank - after the Immortals Club show on Fri
Hank & the Westonaires at the Micawber Tavern on Sun
thanks to everyone who has supplied photos for this page, especially Chrissie and to Ella for the Alleycats video clip, shot at Tamworth (Jan 07).

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 7/3/2006
Band Website: this is it!
Band Members: Marco Agostino - lead vocals & rhythm guitar : Jay McIvor - Doghouse bass & backing vocals : Andy "Jumpin' Jack" Jarvis - lead guitar & backing vocals

Influences: the original sounds of 40s and 50s hillbilly jazz, rockabilly, western swing, traditional country, bebop and rhythm n blues. Especially Jimmy Bryant, Sid King, Lew Williams, Charlie Feathers, Carl Perkins and all the Sun cats, Faron Young, Hank Williams, Bob Wills, Joe Maphis, Mickey Baker, Tiny Grimes, Django Reinhardt... you get the idea? Contemporary faves include Wayne Hancock, Big Sandy and the Starliners.
Sounds Like: Swinging hillbilly jazz and rockabilly. The studio recordings featured on our myspace player are from our debut album - "Rockin' up a Storm". Macy Skipper's "Bop Pills" is taken from our CD - Live at the Mustang Bar, recorded on a hot Saturday night, early this year. If you like what you hear, please let us know! Stay tuned for more Alleycats recordings, in the very near future...
Record Label: Tradkat
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

HIGH ROLLIN RHYTHM KINGS

Well, howdy folks - ain't this a crazy rock n roll rollacoaster! Just a quick one to let y'all know what's a-foot (I think it's that thing on the end of your leg, innit cat?!). Those of you who are cl...
Posted by Tornado Alleycats on Mon, 17 Sep 2007 09:21:00 PST

Last Monday at the Mustang for a while

With the High Rollin' Rhythm Kings currently playing the Mustang on Sat nights, the bar has taken the trio off Mon nights. We won't know what to do with ourselves! The Tornado Alleycats have been play...
Posted by Tornado Alleycats on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 06:59:00 PST

Melbourne does it for us again!

Well, it's been barely 5 months since we rocked it up in Melbourne, with the Alleycats - and after last weekend, I can hardly wait till we do it again!Unfortunately we didn't have a full complement of...
Posted by Tornado Alleycats on Thu, 16 Aug 2007 01:27:00 PST

The High Rollin' Rhythm Kings

To avoid confusion, I thought I'd better explain who The High Rollin' Rhythm Kings are - and why they have gate-crashed the Alleycats myspace. Firstly, the "why"... quite simply because I can't be ars...
Posted by Tornado Alleycats on Tue, 29 May 2007 07:43:00 PST

Tornado hits Melbourne!

The Alleycats have just got back from Melbourne, and although I'm having to prop open my eyelids with toothpicks, I just had to put down a few words to thank all concerned for making us feel so welcom...
Posted by Tornado Alleycats on Mon, 19 Mar 2007 08:36:00 PST

ROCKIN' UP A STORM... NEW CD!

A quick update for everyone who's been waiting for the new Tornado Alleycats studio album... the recording is all finished! Just re-mixing a couple of tracks, but the CD should be ready very soon (we ...
Posted by Tornado Alleycats on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 07:18:00 PST

Live at the Mustang Bar - limited CD

A very limited edition Tornado Alleycats CD, recorded live at the Mustang Bar on Saturday 6th Jan, is now ready and waiting to be snapped up. It features 13 tracks (lucky for some!), at a special pric...
Posted by Tornado Alleycats on Tue, 16 Jan 2007 08:48:00 PST

Tornado hits Tamworth!

howdy cats and kittens... and a Happy New Year from the Alleycats. It's hard to believe the band's been swingin it out for six months - with around 200 gigs and a lot of busking under our belts alread...
Posted by Tornado Alleycats on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 04:23:00 PST

Slim Jim Phantom

Just a quick one to say thanks to everyone who came to the Slim Jim show. It's great to have world class musicians like Darrel Higham hitting the west coast - how often do we miss out, this side of th...
Posted by Tornado Alleycats on Mon, 13 Nov 2006 05:05:00 PST