RICHARD LLOYD GROUP
Richard Lloyd is a legendary electric guitarist, singer/songwriter, and founding member of Television, a band that rose to fame with their 1977 debut release, Marquee Moon, widely regarded as one of greatest albums in rock and roll history and perhaps the most defining and highly influential release of the 1970’s New York rock scene.
Lloyd embarked on a solo career after Television disbanded, releasing seven solo albums and working as a guitarist, session musician, and band member with Matthew Sweet, John Doe, Rocket from the Tombs, and more. Released in October 2017, Lloyd’s book, Everything Is Combustible: Television, CBGB’s and Five Decades of Rock and Roll: The Memoirs of an Alchemical Guitarist establishes Lloyd as a masterful storyteller, and a humorous, insightful writer with an acerbic, razor-sharp wit.
Backing Richard Lloyd for his spring 2018 tour are second guitarist David Leonard, whom Lloyd has worked with for over three decades, drummer Kevin Tooley, who has toured with Paul Young, China Crisis, Midge Ure, Katrina, English Beat, Certain General, and bassist Tom Currier, a veteran of many tours with Dave Davies of The Kinks and eight albums over quarter century with The Jigsaw Seen.
THE DUMMY UPS
THE DUMMY UPS have been performing in the area for three years. Various ‘dummies’ have in the past been members of SHAKE IT RECORDS recording artists, THE CUSTOMS, founding members of NEW ROSE RECORDS recording artists, THE AUBURNAIRES, as well as THE COLE BROTHERS, and BLOODSHOT RECORDS recording artists, BARRENCE WHITFIELD & THE SAVAGES and numerous other bands and projects. They have also done session and/or production work with bands scattered throughout the morally impoverished yet culturally rich Ohio River Valley, as well as various hillbilly and race music combos on either side of the
Mason-Dixon Line.
In their illustrious past, they have- in various bands - performed in venues such as CBGBs (nyc), METRO (chi) and an assortment of dumps and dives all over this great land. In one band or another, various Dummy Ups have been fortunate to have been ‘on the bill’ with or opened for JAMES BROWN, THE RAMONES, THE ROMANTICS, THE CRAMPS, NRBQ, JOHNNY WINTER,
IGGY POP, & BLUE OYSTER CULT among others.
Founding member, James Cole’s original compositions – including “LONG GONE” and others – are published via BUG Music/Nashville/BMG (BMI) and have been covered by scores of bands throughout the U.S. and Europe including such notables as THE LYRES, THE CHESTERFIELD KINGS, and Stockholm’s very own THE BOTTLEUPS, not to mention THE DEVIL DOGS and YO LO TENGO. CINCINNATI MAGAZINE (Nov. 2010) cites “LONG GONE” as the greatest rock and roll song to ‘come out’ of Cincinnati since 1970!
