About this Event

MJR Live by arrangement with Intertain and Rock Artist Management presents..



EDDIE & THE HOT RODS

+ THE MEMBERS



Friday 14th March @ Sub89 Reading

Doors 7.00pm | Tickets £15adv

18+ show



On sale this Wednesday 9th October 9am from www.sub89.com & all usual outlets!



http://sub89.fatsoma.com/events/96322/

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Eddie and the Hot Rods began life in 1976, when four teenagers from Southend on Sea got together and playing their own style of fast energetic rock and roll / r'n'b, were soon a big hit on the London pubrock scene.



Catching the eyes and ears of the music press and the major record companies, they were soon signed up by the legendary Island Records and went on to have three hit albums and four top forty UK singles including the Top Ten hit 'Do Anything You Wanna Do'. There have been numerous TV appearances worldwide and they have filled almost every major venue in the UK. A success in the USA too, they have toured alongside The Ramones, Tom Petty, The Police, Squeeze and Talking Heads.



Still led by the 'very Rock n Roll' Barrie Masters, for the last 15 years the band have been playing all over the world including France, Belgium, Germany, Spain, Italy, Norway, Sweden, Croatia, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Poland, Japan and Russia, as well as four successful tours of the USA in 2006, 2008, 2009 & 2011. This year (2013) they hope to be back again for a swift run.



They have also found time to record two albums of brand new songs, "Better Late Than Never" in 2004

and the aptly titled, "Been There, Done That..." in 2006. On the video front, there is a full concert DVD,

"Live in London - 2005", recorded at the late London Astoria and the soon to be released DVD of the

legendary 1977 performance at The Rainbow (details to follow soon).



The band is still writing and introducing new songs to the classic set, as can be heard on the recently released "New York:Live" - a recording of their show at Brooklyn's Southpaw venue, during their 2009 tour – and the 2011 studio album “35 Years of Teenage Depression”



Having really enjoyed the 2011 tour of France in the company of Dr Feegood and

Nine Below Zero (followed by a couple of sold out shows in Tokyo, Japan), they did it again in 2012 and then joined up with Status Quo as support on their UK tour, including The BIC Bournemouth, The Brighton Centre, Blackpool Opera House, Cardiff Motorpoint Arena, Birmingham LG Arena and finishing the year at

London’s O2 Arena…Lovely old job!



The Members, formed in the summer of 1977, was among the first to successfully blend reggae rhythms with punk's attitude and aggression. The Sound of the Suburbs, was produced by Steve Lillywhite - later to attain legendary status with U2 and was a British Top Ten Hit selling 250,000 copies in 3 months (it has since sold over a million copies), Their first LP, Live at the Chelsea Nightclub, Was listed as one of the top 20 punk albums by record collector During the 80's the Members toured endlessly across north America experiencing the elation of huge shows in New York and Los Angeles. They hung out with The Ramones and Blondie. They Partied with Iggy Pop in New York, Tom Petty in the Mid West, talked cars and girls with Bruce Springsteen in Asbury Park, were entertained by Mobsters in New York, They travelled 35,000 miles across 50 states of the usa in a Ford econoline living on jack Daniels $20 a day, microwave burrittos and show salads. They have been locked in a Dutch prison cells, fined by highway patrols, refused entry to Canada, threatened by gangsters, intimidated by armed guards, cussed by rednecks, refused service at truck stops, They've been spat at, showered with coins and bottles.



The Members were one of the wittiest and most imaginative guitar bands to emerge in the aftermath of the 1977 punk explosion.

The Members were the new wave's great satirists. They sang not about the 'big issues', but about a series of pathetic characters and trivial, everyday frustrations that anyone could relate to. In doing so, they became a part of a great British pop tradition which dated back to Ray Davies, of The Kinks, and now stretches forward to encompass Mike Skinner, of The Streets. Nicky Tesco once said 'we stand for the social underdog'.

The Members were also noteworthy as one of the first British guitar bands to fully incorporate reggae into their music. Just as blues had been a key influence on white rock in the Sixties, reggae was the alternative genre of choice for the punk generation.

Neil Spencer, writing in NME, said of them in 1978: 'Of the many rock bands co-opting reggae into their act, few do so with as much love and style as the The Members.'

JC says: 'We play English rock with a touch of reggae - and we do it so that people can enjoy themselves'.