Dr Feelgood & Eddie & The Hot Rods

DR. FEELGOOD:

Formed on Canvey Island in Essex in the early 1970s Dr. Feelgood remains one of the most popular and exciting live rhythm and blues acts in the world. The raw and uncompromising style of their performance resulted in the album Stupidity that immediately went to the number one position in the U.K. charts.

Dr. Feelgood have also enjoyed global success with a string of hit singles including Roxette, Back in the Night, Milk and Alcohol, Down at the Doctors, She Does it Right, Going Back Home and See You Later Alligator – which gave the group their first gold record.

The last album to feature Lee Brilleaux – Down at the Doctors, was recorded live at the Dr. Feelgood Music Bar on Canvey Island, (now the site of the Oysterfleet Hotel) just two months before he died.

The current line up features the rhythm section Kevin Morris on drums and Phil Mitchell on bass, Steve Walwyn on guitar, and Robert Kane (formerly of the Animals) the most recent addition – joining in 1999.

Julien Temple’s film Oil City Confidential released on 2nd February 2010 tells the story of the bands formative years featuring the Wilko Johnson era.

May 2011 saw the digitally re – mastered re release of Chessmasters originally released in 2000 on EMI Records … the band’s tribute to the Chess label, home to many of the finest blues artists of the 20th century and the first Dr Feelgood album to feature Robert on vocals.

The band continues to tour extensively throughout the World.

For further information please check out the website
www.drfeelgood.org

Eddie and the Hot Rods:

Eddie and the Hotrods are one of a few now legendary UK bands that broke out of the London pubrock scene of the late 1970’s and into mainstream global success. They scored four UK top forty hit singles , ‘Do anything you wanna do’ gave the band a top ten hit in 1977 and gets regular airplay nearly forty years on. They toured alongside bands such as The Ramones, Talking Heads, The Police, their support bands included Squeeze and Ultravox. .They have been listed as one of the top 100 most influential bands in Mojo magazine. The band still tour worldwide and are once again regarded as one of the most exciting live bands .