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Gig guide updated and archived (06/07 gigs here). Special gig on 12th July at the Tiki Bar featuring guest drummer Al Kash from the USA. Al was recently heard on Instrumental Asylum's Reverb Rehab revisiting his drumming on "Seasons of Change". Al played on the original '70s version on Blackfeather's At the Mountains of Madness album. (See the New York diary for details on the Al Kash connection). Note: The "Denis Close Fan Club" need not despair - the ever reliable Denis will also be in attendance at the Tiki bar so we'll have rhythm aplenty! 22 June 2008 Gig guide updated. Had a great time in Mildura - blast from the past for Ben with plenty of opportunity for catching up with old friends. Also had a ball on the Bobby Flynn gigs - what a nice bunch of people. Hope the rest of their tour was a success and that Slugger and the Crew kept everyone in line & on time! Thanks to all for looking after us and making us welcome. More news and rants soon! 19 April 2008 New reviews of Reverb Rehab in The Sunday Age (Melbourne) and Nova Magazine and a listing in Rhythms Magazine's "Best of 2007"! Bunch of gigs for Ben Rogers' Instrumental Asylum supporting Bobby Flynn and an Easter visit to Mildura. Check "Gig Guide" for details. 15 Febuary 2008 Latest review of Reverb Rehab from the USA in Music Web Express (www.mwe3.com - scroll down page to CD reviews). This one is accompanied by an interview with Ben Rogers. 15 January 2008 Happy New Year from all of us at Blazz HQ. Hope your festive season was silly but safe. We've had a coupla great Christmas presents with a great review in "Big Beat of the 50s" and Billy Pinnell (Roots Reviewer for JB Mag) listing Reverb Rehab as his top release of 2007! We've also updated the Instrumental Asylum profile and added details of a new Blazz project: Vipers Dream 12 January 2008 More reviews from Pipeline Magazine (UK) and 2Good4Words (Australia) here. How exciting! 5 December 2007 Had an fabbo time at Queenscliff Music Festival today. Beautiful weather, great vibe, good crowd just looking to enjoy music - who could ask for anything more? Our merchandise manager, Jack Rogers, took some photos from his vantage point on the stage. Check them out here. Congrats to the organisers and those who made it easy for us to be in the right place at the right time. 25 November 2007 CD launch was fab! We had an absolute ball and hopefully so did all you punters who made it such fun for us. You certainly looked and sounded happy (so happy you could hardly stand up - you know who you are!) We have a little bit of footage from the night (here) - humungous thanks to David Barker for a mighty effort in jollying it up for us and Peter Geermans for recording it on the night. Reviews for reverb rehab are starting to appear. So far we've had very favourable write-ups in JB Mag (Australia), dB Magazine (Adelaide, Australia), New Gandy Dancer (UK), Reverb Central (Santa Cruz, CA, USA). Check them out here. 19 November 2007 CD launch for reverb rehab announced. The launch wil take place at the Lomond Hotel, 225 Nicholson St, Brunswick East at 9pm on Saturday 27th October. Special guests on the night will include sonic siren Jaz from the Dice Age. 10 October 2007 reverb rehab (the "difficult second album" from Ben Rogers' Instrumental Asylum) is now ready for release! Check out a few tracks and buy it direct here. 13 August 2007 Another review for Welcome to the Instrumental Asylum from Phil Dirt of Reverb Central. Most exciting news is that the second album is ready to press and is scheduled for release in October! Get ready for 17 tracks of Reverb Rehab. Had a hoot back in March playing 3 gigs at the Apollo Bay Music Festival - thanks to the organisers and venues involved. Blazz discovers the world of MySpace and hooks up with all types of surf/spy/garage inhabitants from around the globe. For example check out Gulag Tunes from Moscow, Maremotos from Brazil and The Twinkle Arrows from Japan (but only after you've visited us of course, http://www.myspace.com/benrogers39instrumentalasylum) 23 July 2007 Happy New year from all of us here at Blazz HQ. We've been very busy over the festive season but in between champagnes have begun recording the "difficult second album" for the Ben Rogers' Instrumental Asylum. The Asylum has also commissioned some images by photographer and artist, Maciej Karolczak. These can be viewed via the Rogue's Gallery or directly here. Keep an eye out for this man's work in the future - we think he's great! In a further bid for fame and fortune we've put Kangaroux - the movie up on www.youtube.com. Tell 100 of your close personal friends! 7 January 2007 Another new review for Welcome to the Instrumental Asylum in the "20th Century Guitar" (New York, USA). 31 October 2006 New review for Welcome to the Instrumental Asylum in the "Big Beat of the 50s" (Australia). 14 September 2006 NY road diary posted. 6 September 2006 26 August 2006
On Sat 31 July 2006 Ben Rogers' Instrumental Asylum entertained the punters in the front bar of the Greyhound Hotel in St Kilda. This is one of the remaining true Australian inner suburban pubs - no stage for the band, pool tables, a regular clientele and a great atmosphere. In a break from tradition the band featured a guest vocalist - Jaz (from the Dice Age), belting out some Big Momma Thornton, Wanda Jackson and even a Detroit Cobras cover.
Press Releases18th January 2006 -- CD Launch Poster 23th November 2005 -- Welcome to the Instrumental Asylum |
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