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10th May 2008
An interview filmed with the
band during their recent run of shows in France can be found
HERE.
The site, www.rock-interviews.com
also features a chat with The Stranglers, Status Quo
and New Model Army amongst others.
6th May 2008
PLEASE NOTE THAT THE LONDON ASTORIA 2 SHOW WITH DR FEELGOOD, ON SAT 10th MAY, IS AN EARLY ONE.
The Rods will be ON STAGE at 7pm, so those out there with tickets who, quite reasonably, would expect to get another couple of pints in at The Royal George, be warned....
24th April 2008
A new book chronicling the history of
Eddie and the Hot Rods is to be published next month.
"Do Anything You Wanna Do"
(what else!) written by Steve Crancher, will be launched on
May 3rd at Waterstones book shop
(Royals branch) in Southend on Sea. Original members, Barrie Masters
(who still fronts the band), guitarist Dave Higgs and drummer
Steve Nichol will all be there to sign copies of the
book between 12pm and 1pm.
If you miss them at Waterstones, you can always grab a copy that evening when
the band play The Riga Music Bar
in Westcliff-On-Sea. It is also available from Amazon.
17th March 2008
DATE CHANGE - Sorry folks...due to a diary mix up, our 100 Club gig on April 11/18th (depending on whose websit you read!) has been postponed. Chas and Dave will still be bashing 'em out though - highly recommended!
6th February 2008
TOUR NEWS: This year will see
Eddie and the Hot Rods tour in France
and Sweden, as well as the
USA.
The dates are now up on the Gig List.
The July/August American tour
may change shape a little in the next couple of weeks but we will get all the
details posted as soon as they are confirmed.
The Swedish tour in March is now
in place and we are very much looking forward to the first dates there for many
years.
We have also added some photos by Dr Feelgood webmistress Gabi Schwanke, taken at the Skegness Rock and Blues Festival in January (which was 'kin excellent fun - thanks to all).
22nd January 2008
LATE NOTICE GIG IN STOCKTON-ON-TEES
- and it's a beer festival! Friday
Feb 8th at The
Arc in Stockton. We will be on stage at about 8pm. More details
of the Stockton Beer Festival on the Cleveland
C.A.M.R.A website.
1st January 2008
A very Happy New Year
to you all...and thank you to everyone at the Wild
at Heart club in Berlin
for making it pretty damn good so far...
If you have got a eye/ear for such things, we hear that there is quite a sale
of Eddie & the Hot Rods vinyl and memorabilia happening on ebay at the moment
- ebay seller ID is barracuda_uk.
We do know the seller and both he and his stuff are genuine!
Hopefully, if you CLICK
HERE, it will take you right to the good stuff...
One other thing - YES, we are playing at the Rock
and Blues Festival in Skegness
this year on Friday 25th and Saturday
26th (special set). There has been some confusion in the past
and we seem to have fallen off the advertising for this year as well...
13th November 2007
The ITV documentary, 'Do Anything You Wanna Do...', presented by Barrie Masters and screened on 30th October 2007 is now available on the Downloads and Photos page.
5th November 2007
Gideon Coe will be featuring sessions from the band on his BBC 6 Music show, tonight 5th Nov, between 22.00 and 1.00 GMT.
You can listen on digital radio and TV etc etc, or online HERE
28th October 2007
Eddie and the Hot Rods are appearing in a TV documentary with
recent download chart hit band KOOPA,
due to be screened in the Anglia ITV region at
7.30 pm on Tuesday 30th October.
The programme discusses the different ways that The Rods in 1977 and Koopa,
30 years later in 2007, went about establishing a fanbase and getting their
music heard.
27th October 2007
There are some new photos on the Downloads and Photos page. Wolfie took some great shots at the Cambridge Rock Festival with our special guest, Danny Kustow out of The Tom Robinson Band.
10th September 2007
Due to mysterious circumstances, the gig at The Attic, Rushden
on Sat 15th Sept will have to be re-arranged for another day. Sorry about that... 8th August 2007
It is available free on Sky 0199, Worldspace and on the internet. The Hot Rods set is the only one to be streamed live that day and kicks off as they hit the stage at 8:50pm GMT.
Please visit the Radio Caroline website for details of their schedule and a history of this groundbreaking station and it's DJs.
26th July 2007
The Brightlingsea Festival
is upon us: 27/28/29
July - the weather looks to be set fine and it's all taking place in
a great setting on the Essex coast, very close to Clacton and...oh yeah... it's
FREEEEEEE!!!!
There's loads of good stuff happening (check their website)
The Rods should be on the main stage at 8.30pm.
29th June 2007
The Tunbridge Wells Forum date has been moved from Friday 20th July, to Wed 25th July
For information about tickets etc, please go to The
Forum website.
5th June 2007
LATE NOTICE GIG IN SOUTH SHIELDS!!! - SATURDAY
9TH JUNE
at THE AMPHITHEATRE,
Sea Road, South Shields, Tyne and Wear NE33 2LD
8th May 2007
Sat May 12th - London, Mean Fiddler
- with Dr Feelgood (special guest Little Bob)
Just a quick reminder that this gig is an early kick-off (10pm finish), due
to a club night later. The doors will be at 6.30pm
and the Hot Rods will be on stage at around 7pm.
This of course, leaves plenty of time to join the bands afterwards for a Dame
Edna or two in the pub next door...
6th December 2006
BBC Radio 2 - Thirty Years of Punk.Part one was aired on Saturday 2nd December and an edited clip of Barrie and John Lydon, giving their account of the notorious Rods v Sex Pistols 'bust up', can be heard HERE.
The full program can be heard on the BBC listen again website.
20th November 2006
The band were recently asked if they would share their many years of experience
in the business, with the next generation of would be rocknrollers. They were
invited into the Longcroft School and Performing Arts College
in Beverly, to stage a music workshop with a group of pupils interested in making
music. The two hour session was followed up with an afternoon performance by
a 'supergroup' involving the pupils and Rods and then by another show that evening,
to help raise money for the BBC Children in Need event.
The workshop proved to be one of the most enjoyable 'gigs' of the year and the
band would like to thank the pupils and staff at Longcroft for making it so.
The Hull Evening Post website has a written
article and a video
report (launch the Video Console and look for the “Pupils get tips
from HotRods”).
15th Nov 2006
Cherry Red Records have a new on-line shop for classic Hot Rods MP3's including the albums "Do Anything You Wanna Do" and "Gasoline Days". Check it out HERE.
14th Nov 2006
Barrie has just finished recording his contribution to a BBC Radio
2 celebration of the rock/punk scene in 1976. He was interviewed along
with Pete Shelley and John
Lydon last week, to be included in the first episode of the two part
programme due for transmission on December 2nd.
Some new photographs of the Rods on their travels are now on the Downloads
and Photos page of this site. They were taken by our (almost) resident photographer,
Tony Nicholls, during recent gigs at the Le
Mans 24hr race and the 100 Club.
It is also worth mentioning that due to an embarrassing oversight, Tony was
not credited with his work on the latest Hot Rods album, "Been
There, Done That...". He took not only the cover shot, but every other
photo on the sleeve too, so, quite an oversight really...
You can see more of his excellent work by clicking HERE
and visiting his web site. How's that Tony..?
28th Sept 2006
Radio appearances just in...
Barrie will be having a chat with Julia Hankin
of BBC
Radio Newcastle, on Friday 29th September, just
after 3.p.m.
The band will be playing a live acoustic session
on Robert Elms BBC
Radio London show, on Friday 13th October between
2pm and 3pm.
For those not in the broadcast area, click on the links and listen on line,
or on Digital radio and TV.
11th Sept 2006
A bit of a mixed up month...The band should have been in Japan at present but unfortunately, we have been let down badly by the promoter (Emajan - beware UK bands!!). We can only apologise to our friends in Japan who we have had to disappoint, but hopefully we can arrange some dates with a reputable firm early next year.
The knock on effect means that we are also forced to postpone our USA tour, which followed almost immediately!
This is obviously a real blow to our plans for the latter part of 2006 and has left a big hole in our diary, so if you were looking to come along to any of the gigs - sorry, it's really not our fault - but, if you were thinking of booking the band for that period but thought we were unavailable, please get in touch : bookings@eddieandthehotrods.com . We may be able to sort something out.
Anyway - heads up news... The new album Been There, Done That... is now available, as well as the DVD, Live 2005 and thanks to Emajan, we also have a limited number of the live CD, Right for the Night, on sale at gigs and the merchandise section of this site. This was originally intended as a Japan only release on Voiceprint (Japan) but for obvious reasons, it has now (perhaps) become a collectors item!
Next date for the diary is now Sat 23rd September - Durham Punk Festival (01913830745).
30th July 2006
***NEW ALBUM RELEASE DATE***
1st June 2006
The Live 2005 DVD is now available from the Voiceprint shop and will soon be followed by the new studio album, Been There, Done That..., which is in the final stages of production. In addition (should you live in Japan), a limited number of live compilation CD's, Right for the Night, are about to made available. This release - on the Voiceprint Japan label - will contain 14 live tracks, both classic and new, from performances in 2005. Available in all good (Japanese) record shops (and probably ebay, we suspect)...
9th April 2006
The release date for the Live 2005 DVD has now been set for May 29th. It will be available from Voiceprint, the merchandise section on this website and all good record shops blah blah. Barring any unexpected hold-ups, the new album, Been There, Done That... will be released shortly afterwards.
27th March 2006
The band have just returned from Foel Studios in Wales, with a 14 track album in the can. It features 12 brand new songs, including "Why Should I Care" and "Really Happy Now", which some of you may already know from the live show. Also included is a totally balls out version of Steppenwolf's "Born to be Wild". A release date will be announced soon.
15th March 2006
MY SPACE - Eddie and the Hot Rods have now been added to the MySpace myspace.com circus. Check it out HERE.
14th Feburary 2006
The band are due to start recording their brand new album, provisionally entitled 'Been There', in March. Two weeks in a studio on a Welsh hillside, should focus the mind on the twelve new songs (so far) that will make up the second, all new album in as many years. Hopefully, this should be available by the end of May.
The live DVD recorded at the Mean Fiddler has been slightly delayed but should be released soon, so please watch this space for details.
Some new photographs taken by Tony Nicholls at Sheffield's Boardwalk, have now been added.
Graeme Douglas helps out at the 100 Club. Photos by Dave Palmer