Current News – As at 22nd December 2011

Three great performances at major festivals in August, where we really delivered at the Cambridge Rock Festival, Rythm Festival and Merton Abbey Mills. One great consequence of these performances is that expert and well known Publicist, James.H.Soars  http://jameshsoars.com/ picked up the promotion of Dark Angel, which had a complete launch to UK and some European press and radio over September – November. This has lead to many high street reviews and extensive radio play across the UK and Europe.

Thanks to all who came to our geat launch of the new limited edition DVD, Centre stage, at the Boom Boom Club Sutton FC on the 23rd October.  A great night and one of Roadhouse’s best ever performances. Special thanks to ace promoter Pete Feenstra…..

We have now completed our Xmas special gigs at the Bulls Head Barnes and the Bullingdon Oxford. and they were brilliant!

A slight set back is the news that we will not be on the main stage this year at the Skegness Festival in January. We have had a great run of 8 years of big stage performances there so its only fair that other bands get the chance. We know a lot of you go to Skegeness primarily to see our big stage performance, so our apologies, but you still have good opportunities to catch up with the band at the festival.

As per tradition we will play introductory set before running the jam on the Saturday afternoon and then will play a 90 minute set on the JAKS stage on Sunday evening at 20.00. We’d love to see all our friends at both of these sessions where we will hopefully be performing new material, which will be heard for the first time. So pop by say hello. Your support as ever would be wonderful.

The Sunday night sessions are a new thing, so it would be great to see support for the JAKS stage on this occassion

Keep the Faith

Gary

Overview:

Roadhouse are one of the UK’s most established, big stage Blues/Rock acts. A collaboration between experienced Blues/Rock musicians and much younger, talented female vocalists, Roadhouse are generally regarded as generating  some of the best original material in the UK. Lead by iconic song writer, singer, guitar player Gary Boner; 2010 saw the Band go from strength to strength.

Roadhouse are signed to Blues Matters/Cross Border records and their current CD, Dark Angel (widely regarded as their best) is on general release

Achievements:

- Over 2,000 live shows, including many high profile festival appearances

- Appearances at Glastonbury 2010, 8 appearances at the Blues Rock Weekend Skegness, 7 appearances at the National R&B Festival Colne, 2 at the National Blues Festival Burnley and numerous festivals across Belgium, The Netherlands, Ireland and France. This includes playing to nearly 10,000 people at the Antwerp festival with Dr Feelgood and John Hammond in 2005

- The release of 11 critically accalimed CD’s, that have achieved play (frequently full rotation) on over 100 radio stations in more than 20 different countries

- Live appearance (3 tracks) on the Paul Jones Show, BBC2 in 2004 

- Roadhouse have opened for and in somecases played higher on the bill, than some major artists including:

Walter Trout, Joe Bonamassa, The Animals, The Yardbirds, Dr Feelgood, Nine Below Zero, The Hamsters, Wilco Johnson,  Mick Taylor (of the Rolling Stones),  Pat Travers and others too many to mention

History:

Roadhouse was formed in 1991 by Gary Boner and Robert.A.Roberts (past member) ably assisted throughout by the driving bass of Bill Hobley and the the powerful drumming of Roger Hunt. Seizing on an eclectic mix of influences from Lynyrd Skynyrd to Creedence Clearwater Revival, the band has developed a sound all of its own. It’s basically ‘Southern Gothic Americana’ with a splash of added South London. In the words of a recent Blues Matters review: “They veer towards the rocky side of the Blues, but are clearly Blues based and play in a punchy style with musicianship of the highest quality”.

In 2004 the Band released a CD , heralded by many critics as the best UK Blues Rock release of the year. No Place To Hide achieved an overwhelmingly positive reaction. “The whole CD is a wonderful and varied collection of songs played to the highest standard by a group of fine musicians. It deserves to take the band on to a higher level. I strongly recommend it” – Blues Matters! Magazine review.

Roadhouse Are:

Gary Boner – Guitar & Vocals

Bill Hobley – Bass

Roger Hunt – Drums

Danny Gwilym – Guitar

Mandie.G – Vocals

And their amazing pool of incredible female vocalists):

- Samantha Richards – Vocals

- Suzie.D – Vocals 

- Rachel Clark – Vocals

- Kelly Marie Hobbs – Vocals

 Contact: 07855-257728