Music at Reepham10
Below are the current confirmed acts. We will be showcasing up to 20 acts on the day, so watch this space!
Boomtown Rats Garry Roberts and Simon Crowe
The Boomtown Rats began as a hard-hitting, guitar-driven Rhythm and Blues band with a straight up, stripped-down sound. Their first album was considered a classic R'n'B offering - likened to the early Stones and Dr Feelgood. Their debut single 'Looking After Number One' gnawed its way into the UK charts in 1977. This was the first of a succession of Boomtown Rats' hits spanning the next decade.
The hits kept on coming, with 'Mary Of The Fourth Form', 'She's So Modern' and 'Like Clockwork'. Then, in 1978, the band released 'Rat Trap' which shot straight into the Number One slot and remained in the charts for 15 weeks. 'Rat Trap' was the first New Wave Number One. The band's second album 'A Tonic For The Troops' also went to Number One, staying in the album charts for an amazing 47 weeks, and was voted the Number One Album by Melody Maker readers. The Boomtown Rats were now well established.
Of course there was also a little soiree the band played called 'LIVE AID'
1979 saw the massive international Number One 'I Don't Like Mondays' followed by major Top Five hits 'Diamond Smiles', 'Someone's Looking At You' and 'Banana Republic'. The band continued having million selling albums and chart success up to 1986, when singer Bob Geldof left the band to pursue a solo career.
Garry Roberts and Simon Crowe, the driving force behind the Rats sound, have put their powerful alliance together once again to re-ignite and develop the essence of their music as it should be heard, with its driving rhythms and meaty guitar riffs. Their new band with Peter Barton on bass and vocals and Darren Beale on guitar, perform all their classic hits along with 'live' favourites like 'Joey's On The Street again' and the not to be missed 'Neon Heart'.
Reviews
"If you do get the chance to see the Rats anywhere in the next 12 months cancel all other engagements and see them!"
(100 Club, London review)
"...if any live band can create that kind of feeling, surely they must have a certain something?"
(Liverpool review, 2009)
"Still powerful and refreshing..."
(Wakefield review, 2009)
The audience's reactions:
"Exceeded even my wildest expectations". - RB
"Top marks boys, top, top marks." PS. "The final encore blew me away!" JK
Buster James Band
Firm favourite rock 'n' rollers delivering blistering songs and driving guitar. Formed in the late seventies this hard rocking band have been thrilling crowds all over the UK with their own
energetic brand of blues and boogie for two decades. Always capable of delivering live, their line-up contains players who have performed and recorded with artists as diverse as
Steve Marriot, Dire Straits, Dave Stewart, Mungo Jerry, FM and Iron maiden
www.busterjames.com
Watch this space for more acts as they are announced…
If you would like to be considered for a slot at Reepham10 please email info@reephamfestival.co.uk.
