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Phew! Sultry Stuff - In The Desert You’ll Find Me The Molee Shakes - Debut Album - Review Released this morning, with the launch gig at Norwich Puppet Theatre tonight, we at last get a full draft of The Molee Shakes – and it tastes good.  It is like a long, slow, cold beer on an oppressively humid day.  The duo of Mowenna Farrell and Lee Dickerson bring welcome chills to heat of summer. This is a great album for a go-with-the-flow, tell me a story, laid-back mood, in a let’s not rush about, (it’s too hot for rushing), let’s just rock gently to the swaying rhythms of a lived-in voice telling slow, wild tales, accompanied by the echoing lap-steel guitar laments. The album is beautifully put together.  It sets a distinctive tone and maintains that mood throughout.  This is sustained by sparingly-used percussion.  Drums are lightly deployed, with the delicate touch of Jack Gascoigne bringing music of his own to the melodic scenery. The rhyth...

Yeeeeeehaaaw!   The UFO Rodeo Band Red Rooster Festival 31 st  May 2024 & 1st June 2024   It had been a long night, with rain generating floods in the roads approaching the Red Rooster festival site.  Campers and the MoHo people were getting their collective act together, steeling themselves for an unseasonably cool day ahead and somebody, anybody had to get the show going again.  Who would be first on stage in the big tent on such a dank Friday at noon? Who had been dealt the Joker from the deck?   “Now it’s time to face the music.  Time to find out how the story ends…” Gavin Bowers dramatically introduced his previously rarely-heard singing voice to the half-awake, half-crowd, as the UFO Rodeo Band confidently grasped the nettle and fired the starting pistol for Friday, setting off at a brisk canter, to pour some much-needed, burning Bourbon down Friday's chilly throat .     After their lively opening number, the band ...