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The Polecats + The Kopy Katz
August 25 @ 7:30 pm - 10:45 pm
£20
THE POLECATS + The Kopy Katz
7:30pm Bank Holiday Sunday, 25th August, Bedford Esquires
The Polecats began life in the late 1970’s as The Cult Heroes, playing youth clubs in the Mill Hill area of north London with Tim Polecat and Boz Boorer on guitar, Phil Bloomberg on bass and Chris Hawkes on drums. Boz and Phil shared vocals at the time.With a change of Drummer from Chris to Neil Rooney and with Tim now on Vocals, the Polecats were born.
The band released their first single “Rockabilly Guy” on Nervous Records and were soon signed to major record label, Phonogram.
With the release of their first album “Polecats are Go” in 1981, they established themselves as one of the most exiting rockin’ bands around.
The album was followed by UK top 30 hit singles, “John I’m only dancing”, a re-recording of “Rockabilly Guy” and “Jeepster”.
In Early 1982, The Polecats released the hit single “Make a Circuit with me” and replaced Neil Rooney with Poorboys drummer, John Buck.
After a brief “lay off” between 1985 and 1988, The Polecats have continued to gig throughout the world playing regularly in Europe, Japan and the USA.
During the early 90’s they released 2 albums for Japanese label Vinyl Japan, “Won’t Die” and “Nine”.
And in 1994 the now rare “White Devils”, inspired by a name given to the band in Japan, was released.
The US/UK top 30 single “Make a Circuit” was used and part of the promo for Disney movie “Wall-E” and in the US sit-com “Glory Daze”
Tim now lives in Palm Springs and Boz spends most of his time at hi studio in Portugal, but both keep close ties with Mill Hill.
Tim and Phil wrote the score for the 2010 movie “Isle of Dogs”, which also features a role for John Buck.
Now in their 47rd year, The Polecats are rockin’ strong.
The line up, unchanged since 1982, featuring Boz Boorer, Phil Bloomberg, John Buck and Tim Polecat, still perform their UK chart hits “Rockabilly Guy”, John I’m only dancing”, Jeepster” and “Make a circuit with me” along with tracks from their 4 studio albums and new CD EP Crepe Soul.
Guest support comes The Kopy Katz.
They Kopy Katz are a wild, high-octane live 3-piece band (guitar, drums & double bass) that play originals and cover songs by The Stray Cats plus classic 1950’s rockers and they even apply their own unique rockabilly sound to songs by T.Rex, Rolling Stones, Billy Idol & others for something a little different. They never fail to get any crowd rockin’.
They recently supported The Stray Cats legend, Slim Jim Phantom, on his UK tour as well as supporting other rockabilly legends Restless and Darrel Higham and The Enforcers.
Tickets priced £20 are on sale from Friday 21st June from Seetickets online and in person (booking fee free) from Slide Record Shop and Bedford Esquires