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- Playing exclusively at Joe Maguire’s
Pub every night of the festival, the internationally acclaimed Red
Hot Poker Dots will be taking the bull, the horns, and everyone
else along for the ride of a lifetime. Don’t miss this superb
outfit in action as Lil’O’Dette mounts her double bass and yodels
her heart out while Ray and the boys keep the hillbilly chicken-sniffin’
rhythms chugging like a train full of coal. Original songs.
Interesting people. A great night out. Thank you for being there.
See
www.redhotpokerdots.com
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- The sensational RED HOT POKER DOTS make a welcome return to
the Tamworth Country Music Festival with their fifth Australian
release, the limited edition CD “Country Bubble”. Winners of the
Best Australian Country Band Award at Tamworth in 2004 and 2005,
these hillbilly hell raisers present a ‘fine-tuned’ performance
due largely to years of relentless touring throughout the USA,
Europe and their beloved homeland. The Red Hot Poker Dots play
exclusively at Joe Maguires Pub nightly throughout the festival.
Entry is free and every night promises to be a unique experience.
Visit
www.redhotpokerdots.com for further details about the
band.
- PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE for RED HOT POKER DOTS
TAMWORTH COUNTRY MUSIC FESTIVAL JANUARY 2006
Friday 20th JOE MAGUIRES PUB 8:30pm-11:30pm
Saturday 21st JOE MAGUIRES PUB 8:30pm-11:30pm
Sunday 22nd JOE MAGUIRES PUB 8:30pm-11:30pm
Monday 23rd JOE MAGUIRES PUB 5:15pm-8:15pm
Tuesday 24th JOE MAGUIRES PUB 8:30pm-11:30pm
Wednesday 25th JOE MAGUIRES PUB 5:15pm-8:15pm
Thursday 26th JOE MAGUIRES PUB 8:30pm-11:30pm
Friday 27th JOE MAGUIRES PUB 5:15pm-8:15pm
Saturday 28th JOE MAGUIRES PUB 8:30pm-11:30pm
Sunday 29th JOE MAGUIRES PUB 5:15pm-8:15pm
- The Re-mains
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- Get ready for an old school
entertainment experience from two of the hardest working
independent bands in Australia – The Red Hot Poker Dots and The
Re-mains. Along with Glenny Rae Virus in some support slots, you
would be hard pressed to find any act with more runs on the board
or gigs under their belt.
Taking a leaf out of the days of hall dances and traveling side
shows The Poker Dots and The Re-mains are joining forces and
hitting the road to show one and all that great music and
outrageous fun are not something from a forgotten era. Beginning
in Melbourne and finishing in Maitland, the chosen route will take
in towns that often miss out as other touring acts stick to the
big cities. It’s a method that both bands have taken to heart in
their line of work having crisscrossed the country many times on
back-roads and dirt tracks not to mention freeways and air-routes.
The Red Hot Poker Dots are without question one of the most
individual and entertaining bands this country has to offer. These
“Twistabilly Country Boppers” (their words) put on a show that is
as visual as it is musical. The diminutive Lil’ O’Dette fronts the
band putting forth the argument that it is possible to play the
double bass, sing, yodel, while standing on the instrument and
executing ballerina poses at the same time. Her trusty side-kick
Ray Dee Ator belts out tune after tune whilst strumming up a storm
on his old guitars.
Billy Bob Roobarb (or Rooboy) specializes in left-handed chicken
scratchin slidin’ action on his Dobro and Flying V guitars while
Blind Dawg Walker whacks the daylights out of a tiny drum-kit
adorned with various percussive toys. Together they sing about
love gone horribly wrong, eating pies filled with pony and the
politics of one horse towns. The Red Hot Poker Dots have just
returned from their third tour of the USA where they are steadily
building a serious reputation for their always engrossing and
extremely funny shows.
The Re-mains are renown for their top-class songs, searing
musicianship and explosive live performances that seemingly find
no cause to stop. They have only just finished an extensive
national tour over four months long before heading out on this
jamboree with their great mates, the Poker Dots. Led by the
unstoppable Mick Daley on lead vocals and a couple of frightened
acoustic guitars the Re-mains are a Country Rock ‘n’ Roll
powerhouse. Shaun Butcher is the only rock ‘n’ roll banjo player
in the known world and over on stage right, he assumes the role of
a straw-chewin’ Keith Richards. Over on stage-left, Leigh Ivin
whips a couple of steel guitars into a two-step frenzy not
normally associated with the instrument before unleashing a
torrent of rock ‘n’ roll guitar on the unsuspecting. Up the back,
the silent giant A.M. Ward powers the band along on a vintage
drum-kit once owned by the Easybeats while completing the engine
room is Sam “the pup” Martin on electric and double bass. He is
also the mastermind of this almighty tour.
For the Retreat, Resedale and Mallacoota shows, both bands will be
joined by the unstoppably saucy Glenny Rae Virus of the Toes
Sucking Cowgirls fame. She is an expert singer, fiddle player and
accordionist and there is little doubt that her own solo slots
will be extended into the other bands sets as has been the case so
many times before.
All this may sound like too much, but what is really going on is
some serious camaraderie by some of the best mates in the music
business. It’s like a mutual admiration club on safari. All that
is needed is for you to turn up when the Town Hall Party Tour hits
your town. What would a collection of musical show ponies like
this do without you?
Visit these web-sites for more information:
www.re-mains.com
www.redhotpokerdots.com
ph: Sam Martin for other enquiries – 0401 180 749
samthebassplayer@hotmail.com
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U.S.A. June 16th 2005
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- RED HOT POKER DOTS
Jetlagged & Jittery
“…a night
of hillbilly
mayhem with
more honk,
tonk and
yodelling than
grandmas’
shotgun wedding…”
Playsome Records
Melbourne Australia’s Red Hot
Poker Dots
take us out of our own backyards and into
everyone else’s on their catchy new recording
‘Jetlagged & Jittery’.
This long awaited release is thirteen
roadtested songs which culminate in a
thrilling musical journey of fun and
excitement.
From the country numbers, complete
with yodelling, doboro and pedal steel,
to the crooning ballads with genuine honky
tonk piano, the Red Hot Poker
Dots make
you believe that they have indeed gotten away
with it all.
Recorded and produced by Dave McCluney
of Atlantis Recordings in Melbourne, and
mastered by Wez Prictor at The Finishing Post,
‘Jetlagged & Jittery’,
leaves you wanting more
and more.
With touring commitments which will see
the band playing many major festivals both
in Australia and internationally throughout
2005, another full length album planned for
2005, and an ongoing dedication to their
independent status, the Red Hot
Poker Dots
are constant explorers of all things relative to
their passion of great music.
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- RED HOT POKER
DOTS (vic) + DEADWOOD 76
Melbourne's Red Hot Poker Dots have just returned from an
extensive
three month tour of the US of A, and they are champing at the bit
to get
back to playing to their loyal fans - They are playing one Sydney
show
at The Bridge Hotel Rozelle
Their US tour saw them play at many festivals, and venues such as
Jinx
- Savannah Georgia, Echo Lounge - Atlanta, Continental Club -
Austin,
Lounge Lizard - New Orleans, 40 Watt Club - Athens, Cal's Liquor -
Chicago, The Cave - Chapel Hill and CBGB's - New York (to name a
few),
playing both headline acts and supporting the likes of The
Supersuckers.
Expert connoisseur's of Smokin' Twistabilly Country Bop, The Red
Hot
Poker Dots consist of Ray Dee Ator (twanging geetar & vox),
Lil'O'Dette
(slap bullfiddle & vox), Mr Country Dave Moll (lap steel & lead
guitar),
and Blind Dawg Walker (cowbell & swinging percussion).
The Red Hot Poker Dots perform a stage act you won't easily
forget.
They are lively, old-school performers with big musical hearts,
belting
it out with grit and guts, possessing a camaraderie that most
bands only
dream about. These cowboys and cowgal will make you quickly forget
your
troubles and you'll want to shake the dust offa ya boots in no
time.
Embracing song themes such as dogs, Saturday nights, local
cowboys,
urban cowgirls, songs about songs, love going right and love going
wrong, and killin' & drinkin', The Red Hot Poker Dots combine
country,
roots and rockabilly with flair.
Since forming in 1998, The Red Hot Poker Dots have played pretty
much
every juke joint in this land; toured US & Europe in 2003; and are
regular Festival performers (St Kilda Festival, Jackson Street
Festival,
The Gympie Muster, The Festival Of Beers, Adelaide Fringe Festival
etc).
They have been crowd favourites at Tamworth Country Music Festival
for
the past five years.
August will see The Red Hot Poker Dots return to Oz. Catch them
playing
some sizzling sets in a town near you. Stay tuned for their new CD
soon
to be released entitled 'Country Bubble'.
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- The Red Hot Poker Dots are playing on Saturday 18th Sept @
The Bridge Hotel - 9pm. This is a full Red Hot Poker Dots gig -
their last gig on their Australian tour before they head back into
the studio and record a new album.
The Red Hot Poker Dots will also appear at HANK'S HAYRIDE - the
Hank Williams b/day bash playing two songs . Sunday 19th Sept @
8pm .
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- Photo taken by Brian Robson
on 23rd January 2004
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- Tamworth Country Music
- Festival 2003
- Double Bass Lil'O'Dette
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- Lil'O'Dette and Walter Ego.
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- Drums -Walter Ego and Guitar
- Ray Dee Ator
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- Lil'O'Dette
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