** EXTRA DATE ADDED DUE TO DEMAND **
We’ll be back to play some Christmas songs at our local ‘Forest Arts’ New Milton on
Friday 06 Dec 2024
AND
Saturday 07 Dec 2024
Tickets The Dodge Brothers | Forest Arts Centre (forest-arts.co.uk)
A hybrid of blues, rockabilly, country, jugband and skiffle from Mike Hammond, Mark Kermode, Aly Hirji & Alex Hammond since 1954
** EXTRA DATE ADDED DUE TO DEMAND **
We’ll be back to play some Christmas songs at our local ‘Forest Arts’ New Milton on
Friday 06 Dec 2024
AND
Saturday 07 Dec 2024
Tickets The Dodge Brothers | Forest Arts Centre (forest-arts.co.uk)
We’ll be playing the legendary Wedgewood Rooms in Portsmouth again on
29 Sept 2024
tickets now on sale THE DODGE BROTHERS at The Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth on 29 Sep 2024 (wedgewood-rooms.co.uk)
We’re coming back to Belfast’s Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival on
05 May 2024
Tickets on sale now The Dodge Brothers (ticketsolve.com)
Here’s the new video for our first Christmas single ‘I Can’t Wait For Christmas’…
Here’s the new video for our third Christmas single ‘It’s Christmas! Don’t Shoot Santa’…
The last of our four Christmas singles TRIM YOUR (CHRISTMAS) TREE is due out on 06 DECEMBER 2023 but is available NOW to pre-save on Spotify & pre-order or iTunes & Amazon now, follow this link…
The third (of four) Christmas singles IT’S CHRISTMAS! DON’T SHOOT SANTA is due out on 24 NOV 2023 but is available NOW to pre-save on Spotify & pre-order or iTunes & Amazon now, follow this link…
The second (of four) Christmas singles CHRISTMAS IN HEAVEN is due out on 13 NOV 2023 but is available NOW to pre-save on Spotify & pre-order or iTunes & Amazon now, follow this link…
Our first (of four) Christmas singles I CAN’T WAIT FOR CHRISTMAS is due out on 01 NOV 2023 but is available NOW to pre-save on Spotify & pre-order or iTunes & Amazon now, follow this link…
The Dodge Brothers will release four new Christmas singles for 2023.
The singles will be released on the following dates:
I Can’t Wait For Christmas 01 Nov 2023
(iTunes pre-order/Spotify pre-save 23 Oct)
Christmas in Heaven 13 Nov 2023
(iTunes pre-order/Spotify pre-save 01 Nov)
It’s Christmas! Don’t Shoot Santa 24 Nov 2023
(iTunes pre-order/Spotify pre-save 13 Nov)
Trim Your (Christmas) Tree 06 Dec 2023
(iTunes pre-order/Spotify pre-save 24 Nov)
The tracks were recorded by Will Davies at River Recording Studio Southampton.
The covers have been designed by Sarah Sumeray.
The Dodge Brothers are returning to Tromsø, Norway in January 2023 for Tromsø International Film Festival
We will be playing to the silent film CITY GIRL (with Neil Brand) on Thursday 19th January and playing The Festival Closing Party on Saturday21st January.
The ticket sales for TIFF 2023 will open on Monday 9th January 2023.
Wednesday 1st March 2023
at Bridgwater Arts Centre, Somerset.
7:00pm Doors Open
8:00pm The Dodge Brothers Set One
8:45pm Intermission
9:00pm The Dodge Brothers Set Two
10:00pm End
Saturday 11th February 2023
at Bridgwater Arts Centre, Somerset.
Anyone in the surrounding areas come along…
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Exeter, Bristol, Bath, Taunton, Glastonbury, Weston-Super-Mare, etc
6:30pm Doors Open
7:30pm The Dodge Brothers Set One
8:15pm Intermission
8:45pm The Dodge Brothers Set Two
9:40pm CD Signing
The Dodge Brothers were delighted to welcome punk icon Tom Robinson to the stage at their last Pizza Express Live gig in London on 20th September 2022.
Tom joined the band for their encore to play a special version of ‘I Fought The Law’ (which was played twice!)
photo by Mark Tipping
Like an unstoppable Rock and Roll locomomotive, The Dodge Brothers are on their way to Scotland to play a few exclusive gigs. Now a Dodge Brothers gig is never run-of-the-mill; on 19th March, in collaboration Neil Brand, they will perform the Scottish premiere of their new live musical accompaniment for F.W. Murnau’s ‘lyrical and ravishingly beautiful’ silent movie City Girl.
The band are renowned for doing these silent movie accompaniments, having witnessed them we can vouch for their brilliance. It truly is a unique experience. Now if you are yearning for some good old blues and rock ‘n roll the boys will be dishing that up on the 20th March in Edinburgh at the Teviot Underground – Ticket links below.
Check out this Afternoon Show podcast in which Mark Kermode and Mike Hammond chat about the band.
City Girl | Hippodrome (hippodromecinema.co.uk)
The Dodge Brothers Tickets, Sun 20 Mar 2022 at 19:00 | Eventbrite
We interviewed the band about their most recent album ‘Drive Train‘ back in 2020.
12 x 20 minutes episodes tell the story of Bob Dylan and The Band’s performances at the two Woody Guthrie tribute concerts staged in Carnegie Hall on 20 January 1968, AND of a controversial song as unknown today as then: Guthrie’s last complete composition, ‘Dear Mrs Roosevelt’. Dylan has never reprised the song, and for the first time since 1948 Mike Hammond performs the full, uncensored version. Why Woody Guthrie wrote ‘Dear Mrs Roosevelt’, and how Bob Dylan rescued it from obscurity twenty years later, reflects the close relationship between ‘people’s music’ and progressive politics in America from the 1930s to the 1960s. No president has been celebrated in song as much as Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and no First Lady has loved folk music like Eleanor Roosevelt – this is as much their story as that of Guthrie, Dylan, and his sidemen.
To listen, click on one of the following links:
PodBean: https://dylanguthrieandroosevelt.podbean.com
Apple/iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/dylan-guthrie-and-roosevelt-the-story-of-a-song/id1473733233
Android/Google Play Music: https://play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/Iangwibvf7jtkqj4hsbs4l5d654
Adrian Smith, Slouching Towards Big Pink Essays on Bob Dylan and The Band, Woody Guthrie, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Takahe, 2020)
The story of ‘Dear Mrs Roosevelt can also be found in Slouching Towards Big Pink, a stylish blend of memoir, travelogue, and scholarship. From the West Midlands to West Saugerties, the Isle of Wight to the New York island, these essays see Adrian Smith fly the flag for folk in ’sixties Coventry, criss-cross America in the footsteps of Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie, ride a fifty-year rollercoaster of Dylan performances, trace the sad story of Bob Dylan and Rick Nelson, and look to The Band for a soundscape of his son’s final illness.
Slouching Towards Big Pink can be ordered via Amazon:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1908837144?pf_rd_r=9GZVWAH0NJE8FVQ8A7AG&pf_rd_p=e632fea2-678f-4848-9a97-bcecda59cb4e
The Dodge Brothers ‘Middle of Nowhere’ from the album DRIVE TRAIN. The U.K. Americana vets hit the road with a surprise in the boot in their latest clip.
Americana rebels The Dodge Brothers are on a mysterious mission to the Middle of Nowhere in their new video.
Filmed in glorious black-and-white Dodge Vision, the road-trip clip for their latest slice of old-school roots-rock finds members of the long-running U.K. quartet cruising the backroads — in a vintage Dodge, of course — with a surprise package in the boot.
Middle of Nowhere — an ode to “wild, wild wanderers out in the wilderness looking for fame, fortune and forgiveness” — comes from their 2018 full-length Drive Train, the combo’s fourth exuberant platter of country blues, rockabilly, jugband and skiffle.
Firmly rooted in these traditions, The Dodge Brothers bring to them a freshness that has feet stomping and hands clapping from California to Cropredy, from the Mississippi to the New Forest. Their songs feature vocal virtuosity and heartfelt harmonies underpinned by joyous guitars, thumping double bass and rattlin’ snare and washboard.
The band features Mike Hammond (lead guitar, lead vocals, banjo), Mark Kermode (bass, harmonica, vocals), Aly Hirji (rhythm guitar, mandolin, vocals) and Alex Hammond (washboard, snare drum, percussion). Their music has an authentically American tang – frontman Mike Hammond was raised in Alabama and his youthful musical travels took him all over the southern and western U.S. – but with a strong British perspective from Culture Show presenter and film critic Mark Kermode.
These guys play with dust in their Levis and the road in their hearts. Check out Middle of Nowhere above, and keep up with The Dodge Brothers via their website, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
Filmed by devillefilm
The Dodge Brothers talk to Sally Taylor on BBC South Today about their new music video ‘Middle of Nowhere’ shot and produced by devillefilm in The New Forest.