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POLECATS

The Polecats began life in the late 1970’s as The Cult Heroes, playing youth clubs in the Mill Hill area of north London with Tim Polecat and Boz Boorer on guitar, Phil Bloomberg on bass and Chris Hawkes on drums.

Boz and Phil shared vocals at the time. With a change of Drummer from Chris to Neil Rooney and with Tim now on Vocals, the Polecats were born. The band released their first single “Rockabilly Guy” on Nervous Records and were soon signed to major record label, Phonogram.

With the release of their first album “Polecats are Go” in 1981, they established themselves as one of the most exiting rockin’ bands around. The album was followed by UK top 30 hit singles, “John I’m only dancing”, a re-recording of “Rockabilly Guy” and “Jeepster”.

In Early 1982, The Polecats released the hit single “Make a Circuit with me” and replaced Neil Rooney with Poorboys drummer, John Buck. After a brief “lay off” between 1985 and 1988, The Polecats have continued to gig throughout the world playing regularly in Europe, Japan and the USA.

During the early 90’s they released 2 albums for Japanese label Vinyl Japan, “Won’t Die” and “Nine”.And in 1994 the now rare “White Devils”, inspired by a name given to the band in Japan, was released.

The US/UK top 30 single “Make a Circuit” was used and part of the promo for Disney movie “Wall-E” and in the US sit-com “Glory Daze”

2025 saw the release of the “Crepe Soul” EP on 10” vinyl and CD

BLACK KAT BOPPERS

Hot Boppin, Groovin’ 4 piece group playing rockin, roots music with a Guitar, Double Bass & stand up Drums

Black Kat Boppers hail from down on the South Coast Water Way in Southampton and are 4 fellas who love to play hard boppin’, jump up, rockin’ blues, dance music.

“With The Black Kat Boppers you get to immerse yourselves in that rockin’ feelin’. Think of us as ‘rockin the blues’ if you must, cos that’s the way we roll!” – Roy Phillips

Black Kat Boppers formed In Dec 2009 after some chance meetings, speculative phone calls and a little bit of fate. A shared love for rockin’ roots music was clear and they haven’t looked back since. There’s been triumphant performances at Glastonbury, Port Eliot, Bestival & Hyde Park (with Blur & The Specials). They’ve rocked Notting Hill Carnival, Rockabilly Rave & Latitude, not to mention performing a memorable set with Florence and The Machine at Bob Geldof’s 60th birthday party. They’ve been joined on stage by Damon Albarn as well as working with him in the studio and have regularly had Clash legend Paul Simonon playing with the band. Paul Simonon, who has been a great support to them, also appears on their debut album “Boppin Atcha” and has done the sleeve artwork. The album is released on Foot Tapping records in September 2013.

Right across the board people seem to be lovin’ it – young, old, stupid, clever, hippies, punks, students, drop outs, mums, dads, drunks, weirdos, ravers, strippers, rockers, mods… Everybody loves that raw sound!!!

Gaz Mayall declared “I’ve seen hundreds of rock n roll bands and The Black Kat Boppers are right at the very top!!”.

“When I first saw The Black Kat Boppers I was sat on a hill at a festival and could hear this music in a tent that literally grabbed me by the lapels and dragged me in” – Paul Simonon (The Clash/Gorillaz)

“Wow those boys can really play” – Damon Albarn (Blur/Gorillaz)