5 Dec – Bang Bang!, Bayou Billabong, Ivor S K

Bang Bang!

Clayton Doley's Bayou Billabong

Ivor S K

“Bang! Bang! are a fierce cocktail of vintage rock ‘n’ roll, roots and pure attitude. Shaking up the scene with a shot of unapologetic feminine power, Bang! Bang! is led by the magnetic femme fatale and vocalist Katerina, on the upright & electric bass is Shawn Supra, over on guitar is Michael Johnston and behind the drums is Dean Robert and together they deliver a sound that’s impossible to ignore. With 40+ years of combined stage experience, they’ve worked with artists like Wanda Jackson, Wayne Hancock, Sierra Ferrell, and Beck. Each member brings their own energy, creating a force that’s as unstoppable as it is captivating. Whether you’re into gritty rockabilly, sultry blues, surf rock or high-octane rock ‘n’ roll, Bang! Bang! unleashes a sound that’s as timeless as it is electrifying – guaranteed to make you move.”

The most unique and sophisticated voice in contemporary retro soul today, Clayton Doley is a giant of the Australian Blues Scene, cutting his teeth with legendary Sydney band, The Mighty Reapers and going on to form his own bands The Hands, The Organ Donors, and The Flashy Dashbacks. Over the last fifteen years Clayton has played with a who’s who of international artists such as Christone ‘Kingfish’ Ingram, Joe Bonamassa, Walter ‘Wolfman’ Washington, Harry Manx, Steve Cropper & Donald ‘Duck’ Dunn (Booker T & the M.G.’s, Blues Brothers), David Garibaldi (Tower Of Power), Jimmy Barnes, The Divinyls, Hubert Sumlin, Mojo Buford, Louisiana Red, Guitar Shorty, Renee Geyer, The Mighty Reapers, Eugene Hideaway Bridges – to name a few. His current project Clayton Doley’s Bayou Billabong, featuring Sydney Jazz and Blues royalty captures the essence of the New Orleans Blues piano tradition while fusing contemporary Australiana and Americana with all the might and power of a 4-piece horn section, the ‘Hi-Fi-Doley-T Horns’.
Clayton has been invited to play some of the biggest festivals in the world such as Montreal International Jazz Festival, Byron Bay Blues Festival, Toronto Jazz Festival, Tremblant International Blues Festival, and Manly Jazz Festival

Ivor is an acoustic blues guitarist, singer and songwriter living the dream, walking in the footsteps of the American Blues Giants. Moving to New Orleans he has thrust himself into the daily life in the Deep South, absorbing all that this rich blues heritage has to offer. For six years now he has been playing in the revered rooms of New Orleans, the jumpin’ jukes of the Delta, and the seaside shacks of the gulf, setting himself to conquer the blues heartlands of the States of Louisiana and Mississippi. “Ivor Simpson Kennedy re-interprets Delta Blues so faith-fully you’d swear he was a muddy footed native….In a drawl that sounds like his throat is clotted with Mississippi mud….S.K. floats through originals that sound like they were excavated from underneath the porch of some stilt house in the alluvial bottomlands….please, keep ‘em coming.” – Grant Britt, No Depression, The Journal of Roots Music, UK.