Tattoo Money: The Roves + Plastic Gift + Daisy & The Deadheads

The Roves hail from the suburbs of North London. The band play guitar fuelled British rock and roll music. In just under a year (May 2018 – April 2019) The Roves have released two stunning albums – ‘The Roves’ & ‘All Those Freaks’. Their S/T debut album popped out of nowhere in 2018 gleaming with bright jangle pop and classic songwriting moments which won the hearts of anyone who heard it. ‘The Roves’ made number five in the best international albums of 2018 by Hipersonica in Spain. Their latest LP ‘All Those Freaks’ (Meritorio) was released in April 2019 and added a dose of raw folk flare to their spirited 60’s sound. One reviewer recently described the new LP as ‘A treasure of the blessed hell’. It has since gone on to top the Hotel Azizona blog’s albums of the year. The Roves recent single ‘Hey Little Man’ was released on September 14th 2019 via El Rancho. The track is a re recorded version of a track from their latest album and was recorded to tape at Ray Davies’s Konk Studios in London. The single has received praise of the highest indie order from the likes of Bobby Gillespie, Stephen Pastel, John Cavanagh, Alan McGee and Gerry Love who has described it as an “instant classic”. The single caught the ears of Gideon Coe who has played both the A and B side a number of times on his BBC6 Music show plus Adam Walton on BBC Radio Wales who played it on his show a number of times and finally Iggy Pop who opened his ‘Iggy Confidential’ BBC6 Music show (09/01/20) with ‘Hey Little Man’ praising the track as “refreshing and approachable”. You don’t get much better than that! The Roves closed 2019 touring extensively across Europe with Nick Waterhouse and in the UK with YAK and Primal Scream where they were the main support on seven dates of their Maximum Rock ‘n’ Roll tour. Over lockdown they released an EP called ‘The Big Silver’ again on El Rancho to make good on their recent success and received further airplay on BBC Radio Scotland, the lead single ‘Fixing To Burn’ finding its way onto Spotify curated playlists. Finishing touches are currently being made to a new LP recorded at Abbey Road Studios and mixed by Dom Monks (long time collaborator with Big Thief, Ethan Johns, Tom Jones and Paul McCartney) due out this year and the band will be back out on the road to support the new release.

PLASTIC GIFT

Psychedelic sounds bolstered by a wall of blistering guitars, soup killers.

DAISY & THE DEADHEADS

Daisy & The Deadheads are a four piece band from East London Playing original songs and covers, their wonky folk-pop sound is partnered with emlancholic vocals of singer and songwriter daisy tortuga.