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News: The Delta Riggs Announce Debut EP & Free Download New Single 'Soul Train'
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on March 9 2010
When asked to write a blurb to attract the attention of blogs and tastemakers, you're put in the awkward position of trying to make your subject sound "cool" yet grab the reader’s attention with as much information in as few words as possible.
Unfortunately neither are my forte so I'm just going to do it like this. The band are called THE DELTA RIGGS, they play rhythm and blues inspired rock and roll. Kind of like the bands your parents liked. They're about to release their debut EP on March 26th simply titled "The Delta Riggs EP" and a 7" companion single called "Soul Train". Today we are giving you "Soul Train" for free thanks to their own label Rah Rah Radio (that's me!).
All of the songs were written on a Farm so the band decided to shoot a video for "Soul Train" up there with some friends.
Other than that there's not much else to say. Listen to the song, you'll like it. Go see them play, you'll like them even more. Tell a friend, we'll like you. Tell more friends, we'll like you even more.
Thu 11th Mar - Old Manly Boat Shed, Sydney Sat 13th Mar - Oxford Arts Factory, Sydney Fri 14th Mar - Secret Garden Festival, Camden Sat 20th Mar - Oxford Tavern, Wollongong Thu 1st Apr - Hotel Gearin, Blue Mountains (Residency) Sat 3rd Apr - Park Hotel, Bathurst Thu 15th Apr - Hotel Gearin, Blue Mountains (Residency) Fri 16th Apr - World Bar, Sydney Thu 22nd Apr - Hotel Gearin, Blue Mountains (Residency) Thu 29th Apr - Hotel Gearin, Blue Mountains (Residency)
We played an amazing festival called T in the Park in Scotland, which was a year and a half ago now, but that was really amazing in terms of being, by far, the biggest crowd we've played infront of, I think it was- we played in the dance tent, and it was the middle of the day, so it wasn't night time craziness, but they packed like 20,000 people into this tent, and it was totally round, it was just the best kind of crowd to be playing infront of, we were really suprised and weren't expecting to get such a big reception, particually in Scotland. We only really had played a handful of shows in Glasgow and hadn't really played anywhere else, so yeah, that's definitely up there.
Ideal Lineup? We kind of actually had this discussion when we first started playing together, before we even did any shows as Cut Copy, we made up these phoney band names and played a few shows at this pub, sort of on the wrong side of the tracks and a bit run down, you could ring up like the night before and get a gig the next day, so it wasn't really like, you know.. anything amazing. But we booked in, I think a couple of times under false names, just to make sure we could actually play our instruments and do everything before we actually put Cut Copy up on the stage, and I think in that year we sort of had this imaginary- it wasn't like a festival it was kind of the idea of billing this gig where it was us headlining with Sonic Youth, and then Daft Punk would be like the warm up DJs, and that was like our ultimate show, ever! And then we've actually played with Daft Punk at the end of last year so we just feel like we've maybe partly lived that dream a little bit, even though they obviously weren't the warm up DJs for us, but yeah, we've ticked off one of those things at least. All we've got to do now is play with Sonic Youth!
